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Image shows article excerpt from Changing Populations article 'Rising demand for public health funerals' with image showing Manor park cemetery and crematorium has two chapels, one for burial services and one for cremation services in manor park, east london. Credit: istock.com/Abdul Shakoor. Intro text reads: New research by CPC-CG members Dr Stephanie Thiehoff, Teresa McGowan and Professor Jane Falkingham CBE has found that tackling deprivation among older populations could reduce the need for funerals provided by the public purse. In collaboration with the BBC, using freedom of information requests from both Councils and NHS Trusts, the study found that publicly funded funerals are more common for men over the age of 60 compared to females and those who are younger when they die. The findings show that the total number of public health funerals (PHFs) rose sharply from 4,760 in the financial year 2014/15 to 7,020 in 2020/21.

📺You may have also missed coverage of our work with BBC South News on rising public health #funeral rates, with findings suggesting that reducing deprivation among #olderpeople could lower the need.

Catch up in section 3 of the latest #ChangingPopulations
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Image shows excerpt from Changing Populations article 'Financial preparedness in later life' with image showing Asian Chinese senior man and woman counting expenses and managing finances together at home. Credit: istock.com/hxyume Intro text reads: Further research by CPC-CG and CRA members Professor Athina Vlachantoni, Professor Yuanyuan Yin (Winchester School of Art), Dr Saddaf Naaz Akhtar and Dr Špela Močnik is examining financial preparedness for later life among individuals from the Chinese community in the UK. The findings reveal a lack of trust in the government and pensions systems, leading to an emphasis on personal savings, self-reliance, and family support for financial security in later life. The research team used a mixed-methods approach to investigate pension arrangements and retirement planning attitudes using data from the UK Household Longitudinal Survey (2010 – 2023), photovoice method and focus groups.

The latest #ChangingPopulations also features a report on later life financial preparedness among individuals from the UK's Chinese community, revealing preferences for #personalsavings, self-reliance & family support for later-life #financialsecurity

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Image shows excerpt from Changing Populations article 'Ethnic pension gaps in the UK' with image showing older Asian Indian woman sitting writing in a journal or notebook, UK. Credit: istock.com/PaulMaguire. Intro text reads: CPC-CG and CRA members Professor Athina Vlachantoni, Professor Jane Falkingham and Professor Maria Evandrou highlight how the ethnic pension gap in the UK leaves minority ethnic communities worse off in retirement than their white British counterparts, with women facing greater disadvantages than men. In an article published in The Conversation, the authors explain the issue in more detail and explore potential policy solutions: "There’s an ethnic pension gap in the UK that leaves people from particular minority ethnic communities worse off in retirement than their white British counterparts. The gap can be measured in several ways – for example, by comparing the pension amount between ethnic communities or measuring the proportion of working-age people...

Away for the summer and missed the latest #ChangingPopulations magazine?

If so, you missed the article on UK ethnic #pension gaps leaving minority ethnic communities worse off in #retirement, with women more disadvantaged - head to section 8 to read more.

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Image shows excerpt from Changing Populations newsletter article 'Concerns many young people unable to form the families they would like' with image of business people and office workers walking next to Lloyds building in the City of London during lunch time. Credit: istock.com/IR_Stone. Intro text reads: This year’s World Population Day theme brings attention to worldwide declining fertility rates. While public discourse often centres on fears of population collapse, the primary concern is that many young people are unable to form the families they would like. Observed each year on 11 July, World Population Day in 2025 focused on the theme ‘Empowering young people to create the families they want in a fair and hopeful world’. The recent United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA)’s State of World Population report highlights a widespread lack of reproductive agency, particularly among young people, many of whom cannot have the children they want. This year's World Population Day called attention to this issue, focusing on the largest-ever generation of young people and the importance of ensuring they have the rights and resources to shape their futures.

For this year's #WorldPopulationDay, we reported on some of our research which provides a detailed picture of how #economic, #social and #policy factors interact to shape #fertility and #family choices.

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Image shows excerpt from the Changing Populations newsletter story 'Digital Gender Gaps dashboard updates' with an image showing an Indian woman using a smart phone in Kerala, India. Credit: istock.com/powerofforever. Article intro text reads: CG member Professor Ridhi Kashyap discusses how her team have updated their Digital Gender Gaps dashboard to include subnational estimates of internet use and mobile phone ownership by gender. "The spread of the internet and mobile phones has been one of the most significant technological revolutions of the 21st century. Digital technologies have become integral to many aspects of our lives and have brought wide-ranging benefits to many, including greater information, better connectivity and access to services in more cost-efficient ways. These benefits are particularly noticeable for marginalised populations who may otherwise lack access to resources or networks through other means.

In section 10 of #ChangingPopulations, @ridhikashyap.bsky.social discusses Digital Gender Gaps dashboard updates and the importance of digital #genderequality - women who own mobile phones and use internet are more empowered with their health & decision-making

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Image shows excerpt from Changing Populations newsletter for the story 'Conference activities' with the image showing corporate crowd networking during a business event in a contemporary office setting. Credit: istock.com/jacoblund Article intro text reads:CPC and CG researchers have been highly active this year, contributing to international conferences throughout spring and summer. Here is just a small selection of their activities. In July, CPC-CG supported the 29th Annual Postgraduate Population Studies Conference (PopFest) at the University of Southampton. Organised by PhD students Parth Pandya (University of St Andrews), Izzi Carter (LSE), Clara Girault and Sai Joshi (University of Southampton), the event featured keynote talks from Professor Jane Falkingham and Dr Antonino Polizzi. Delegates joined from across the international population studies community. Lekshmi Prasannan Reeba (LSE) won the poster prize for her work on women’s empowerment and fertility intentions in India.

In the new #ChangingPopulations, catch up on CPC-CG members' conference activities and get links to our webinar videos (sections 11, 13)

And find out about our upcoming events in section 2. Next stops: @rgsibg.bsky.social and @bspsuk.bsky.social conferences 🥳

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Image shows excerpt from Changing Populations newsletter story 'Housing and demographic challenges' with image showing new build homes under construction in a housing development, UK. Credit: istock.com/PaulMaguire Intro text reads: CPC-CG Director Professor Jane Falkingham has been working with Business South to share demographic research that provides critical context for future housing policies locally, nationally and globally. In March, Professor Falkingham participated in the MIPIM Global Urban Festival in Cannes representing the UK's Central South region. She was a panellist at the Housing Matters! event, highlighting the urgent need to address housing challenges in an increasingly urbanised world. Housing Matters! brings together investors, developers, local authorities, associations, and urban experts to explore the latest trends in supply and demand, solutions for affordable housing and new housing models, as well as to share visions for the innovative housing of tomorrow.

In the new #ChangingPopulations, read about how CPC-CG Director @janefalkingham.bsky.social has been working with Business South to share #demographic research - providing critical context for future #housing policies locally, nationally & globally (section 6)

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Image shows excerpt from the Changing Populations newsletter story 'Working from home isn't significantly changing where people live' with an image showing Birmingham, United Kingdom, High view over the city from the public terrace at the top of the library including a square around the war memorial. People are visible in the square and street below. Credit: istock.com/holgs. Intro text reads: Hopes that working from home would help struggling UK regions attract high-skilled workers are not being realised, according to the findings of a study led by CPC-CG members Professor Jackie Wahba OBE and Dr David McCollum. Working from home has surged since the Covid-19 pandemic, especially among older, high-skilled professionals in and around London and other major cities. However, a report and series of policy briefings by a team of researchers reveal this hasn’t significantly changed where people live, or helped spread talent more evenly across the country. Led by Professor Wahba of the University of Southampton and Dr McCollum of the University of St Andrews, the project was conducted in collaboration with colleagues from the University of Birmingham, De Montfort University, and University of the Arts London.

🏢Hopes that #workingfromhome would help struggling UK regions attract high-skilled workers not being realised, and it's not significantly changing where people live.

Read the full story in section 4 of the latest #ChangingPopulations @city-redi.bsky.social

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Image shows excerpt from Changing Populations article 'Pension change compensation for ‘Waspi’ women' with an image of three friends laughing at the Waspi demonstration on International Women's Day at Parliament Square, Westminster, London on March 8, 2023. Credit: istock.com/Callingcurlew23 Article intro text reads: CPC-CG and CRA members Professor Athina Vlachantoni, Yifan Ge and Professor Jane Falkingham have been exploring the implications of changes to women's state pension age, arguing that denying compensation could be a missed opportunity for meaningful reform. The research team have co-authored a timely and thought- provoking article for The Conversation with a focus on how state pension changes have affected the ‘Waspi’ generation. Here, they explain: "Governments around the world have addressed the challenge of increasing life expectancy and declining birth rates by raising the pension age. The UK is no exception. The challenge this creates for governments is the thorny dual issue of rising care costs for the ageing population while fewer taxpayers support the economy.

📑 Yifan also contributed to the article in #ChangingPopulations on how state #pension changes have affected the #WASPI generation, arguing that denying compensation could be a missed opportunity for gender equality reform- see section 7 @cra-soton.bsky.social

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Image shows PhD student Yifan Ge with an article about her PhD journey, with the intro: Yifan Ge is a PhD student funded by Administrative Data Research UK (ADR UK) and the South Coast Doctoral Training Partnership (SCDTP), based in the Department of Gerontology at the University of Southampton. Her research aims to use linked administrative data and survey datasets to identify the subgroups of women most affected by the recent increases in the UK State Pension Age. Yifan’s PhD project is supervised by Professor Athina Vlachantoni and Professor Jane Falkingham. Here, she shares insights into her research so far. "My interest in research on welfare and pension systems began during a module called Wicked Problems: Clumsy Solutions – Leadership in Healthcare while I was pursuing my bachelor's degree at the University of Manchester. At that time, the world was grappling with the Covid-19 pandemic. Beyond the scheduled curriculum, the lecturer, Dr Lawrence Benson, also introduced updated knowledge and practical experiences from the healthcare industry. Older people faced significant challenges during this period. I was fortunate to have had an insightful discussion with Dr Benson about the pension systems in the UK and China, which are among the most critical factors influencing quality of life and health status. Following that, I obtained my master’s degree from the University of Nottingham Ningbo China, which allowed me to deepen my skills in data analysis and complete a dissertation on the health impacts of delayed retirement in China.

Also under the #ChangingPopulations spotlight is PhD student Yifan Ge

In section 12, she tells us about her PhD journey, sharing insights into her research identifying the subgroups of women most affected by recent increases in the UK #StatePension age 🔦

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Connecting Generations Co-Director and Director of the Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science, Professor Melinda Mills MBE, has been awarded a prestigious Honorary Doctorate from the European University Institute (EUI) in Florence, Italy. Image shows Mills receiving the award at the ceremony. This distinction recognises her pioneering work across the social sciences, particularly in the areas of family inequality, fertility, methodological innovation, and her trailblazing contributions to sociogenomics, which bridges genetics and the social sciences.

CPC-CG member Professor Jackie Wahba OBE has recently been elected as a Trustee of the Academy of Social Sciences’ Council, as well as appointed as a Founding Fellow of the Royal Economic Society. As one of five new Trustees of the Academy of Social Sciences’ Council, Jackie joins 15 existing Council members who are collectively responsible for the governance of the Academy. Image shows Wahba next to her quote for the Academy of Social Sciences which reads: “I’m delighted to be elected as a Trustee of the Academy of Social Sciences. I look forward to supporting its mission to champion social science and its impact across society.”

CPC member Dr Emily Barker was part of a team that won first place at a recent three-week national hackathon on responsible AI for social good. Emily, with Ali Shakiba, William Hughes and Sanzhar Korganbayev from the University of Southampton’s Optoelectronics Research Centre, worked on 'Epiblink', a novel solution targeting photosensitive epilepsy. The idea is around glasses that help to reduce/stop photosensitive epileptic seizures (and indirectly migraines). Image shows Emily Barker receiving the award at the event.

Image shows excerpt from the Changing Populations story: QuantMig recognised by the European Commission as a Horizon 2020 Success Story Professor Jakub Bijak’s EU-funded QuantMig project has been recognised by the European Commission's Research and Innovation services as a Horizon 2020 success story for research that demonstrates exceptional innovation, visibility, and societal benefit. Migration has become a central topic of European policy discussions, particularly following the refugee crisis of 2015. The QuantMig project, launched in 2020, aimed to move beyond traditional forecasting models by embracing uncertainty as a core element of migration analysis. Instead of trying to predict exact migration numbers, the team focused on mapping possible scenarios and identifying risks, thus equipping policymakers with better tools for preparing for unexpected events.

Head to section 12 of the new #ChangingPopulations to read about just some of our researchers' achievements and awards over the last six months in our Researcher Spotlight 🔦🔦

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Changing Populations Welcome to issue 16 of Changing Populations.

📰 OUT NOW - Issue 16 of our newsletter #ChangingPopulations

A handy round-up of our activities from 2025 so far, including all things #demography, #population #ageing, #pensions, #fertility, #family, #geography, #economics, #socialpolicy and more...

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Changing Populations Welcome to issue 15 of Changing Populations.

To round off this week's #MeetTheTeam Tuesday...

Take a deeper look at the #demography and #population- based activities that @janefalkingham.bsky.social oversees @cpc-cg.bsky.social by reading the latest issue of our newsletter magazine #ChangingPopulations 🗞️🗞️
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Image shows Dr Haiyu Jin sitting in her office. Headline reads 'PhD journeys'. Article intro text reads: Dr Haiyu Jin is a Research Fellow at the University of Southampton with a background in long-term care, intergenerational support, and the effects of caregiving on unpaid carers. Haiyu works with Professor Maria Evandrou, Professor Athina Vlachantoni and Professor Jane Falkingham on the Connecting Generations project 'Intergenerational flows of support in later life'. Here she tells us about her research career so far. "My interest in research started during an undergraduate module on causal inference methods while I was studying Social Security at Zhejiang University in China. In this module, we focused on critically reviewing high-quality peer-reviewed papers, identifying issues like endogeneity, and suggesting alternative solutions. Every time I discovered an endogeneity problem or came up with a possible solution, I felt a strong sense of accomplishment.

🌟 And rounding off our Researcher spotlight in this issue of #ChangingPopulations, we have Dr Haiyu Jin.

🗨️ She shares her #PhD journey and research background in long-term #care, which has led to her current role in the Connecting Generations project team.

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Image shows the article in the Changing Populations newsletter. The headline reads Collaborative Group on Nowcasting Populations (CGNP)'. There is a picture of people watching a presentation in a workshop accompanying the article. Article intro text reads: In January, CPC hosted a workshop on Nowcasting Populations at the Solent Sky Museum as part of the Collaborative Group on Nowcasting Populations (CGNP) programme, funded by the University of Oxford's Van Houten Fund. The CGNP initiative is led by Dr Andrea Aparicio Castro and the Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science's Nowcasting Populations (NowPop) team, which drives innovation in near real- time population estimation at the University of Oxford. They are collaborating with teams led by CPC-CG members Professor Jakub Bijak and Dr Jason Hilton at the University of Southampton, CPC Associate Professor Arkadiusz Wiśniowski at the University of Manchester’s Department of Social Statistics, and Professor Francisco Rowe, Dr Elisabetta Pietrostefani and Dr Carmen Cabrera-Arnau at the University of Liverpool’s Geographic Data Science Lab. The aim is to advance knowledge of nowcasting populations, mobility, and migration by integrating Bayesian and other methodologies with digital trace and traditional data sources.

🔖 Find out more in #ChangingPopulations about a collaborative group aiming to advance knowledge of nowcasting #populations, mobility & #migration using #Bayesian and other methodologies with digital trace and traditional data sources @oxforddemsci.bsky.social

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Image shows Professor Elspeth Graham holding her Royal Scottish Geographical Society (RSGS) Coppock Research Medal. Headline reads 'Professor Elspeth Graham awarded RSGS Coppock Research Medal'. Article intro reads: Congratulations to CPC-CG member Professor Elspeth Graham who has been awarded the 2024 Royal Scottish Geographical Society (RSGS) Coppock Research Medal. First awarded in 1931, the Coppock Research Medal is the highest research-specific award for an outstanding contribution to geographical knowledge through research and publication. An Emeritus Professor in Geography at the University of St Andrews, Professor Graham is also a founding member of CPC. She is currently a co-investigator on the Connecting Generations project 'Community resilience and social coherence' which explores how intergenerational connection is experienced in the community at the local level.

👏👏 Also in the #ChangingPopulations researcher spotlight (section 14), we congratulate CPC founding member Professor Elspeth Graham @phrg-standrews.bsky.social who has been awarded the 2024 Royal Scottish Geographical Society Coppock Research Medal.

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Image shows Professor Melinda Mills MBE speaking at the Demographic Science Summit. Headline reads: Celebrating five years of the Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science. Article intro text reads: In October, Connecting Generations partners at the Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science (LCDS) hosted the inaugural Demographic Science Summit to celebrate five years of disrupting and realigning demography for the benefit of populations around the world. The Demographic Science Summit welcomed experts across science, business and government to share in the achievements of LCDS over its first five years, including establishing the Demographic Science Unit, and discussing its exciting future.

🧑‍🏫 Catch up on the @oxforddemsci.bsky.social inaugural #Demographic Science Summit which welcomed experts across science, business and government to share in the achievements of LCDS over its first five years.

Read more in section 14 of #ChangingPopulations ⤵️

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Image shows Professor Jane Falkingham CBE sitting at an office desk. Headline reads 'Professor Jane Falkingham CBE announced as REF 2029 main panel chair for social sciences'. Article intro text reads: CPC-CG Director Professor Jane Falkingham CBE has been announced as the Chair of Main Panel C: Social Sciences for the Research Excellence Framework (REF) 2029. The REF is the UK’s system for assessing the quality of research in UK higher education institutions. It is a process of expert review, carried out by sub-panels focused on subject-based units of assessment (UoAs), under the guidance of overarching main panels and advisory panels. The REF outcomes are used to inform the allocation of around £2 billion per year of public funding for universities’ research. It first took place in 2014 and then in 2021. The next exercise is planned for 2029. The main panels provide leadership and guidance to the sub- panels that undertake the REF assessment.

💫To round off our #ChangingPopulations launch week, we celebrate our researchers 💫- page 14.

First up, we tell you more about CPC-CG Director Professor Jane Falkingham's appointment as @ref2029.bsky.social main panel chair for #socialsciences.

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Image shows a group of four people in office attire standing in a group discussing post it notes they have stuck to a wall during an interactive meeting. Headline reads: Tackling housing and ageing challenges through play. Article intro text reads: CPC-CG member Professor Alasdair Rutherford is leading a team who are revolutionising housing and ageing planning through innovative ‘serious’ games. The games are designed to build collaboration across housing, health, and social care sectors to address the challenges posed by an ageing population and inadequate housing infrastructure in the UK. Founders Professor Vikki McCall and Professor Alasdair Rutherford from the University of Stirling lead Socialudo, a social enterprise set up to use serious play to help organisations with strategic and creative thinking and embedding evidence into their practice.

On page 13 of #ChangingPopulations see how ‘serious games’ are being used to tackle #ageing & #housing challenges

This innovative approach helps organisations think strategically and creatively while embedding evidence into their practice @altecon.bsky.social

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Image shows refugees standing in line for being served breakfast in Souda refugee camp in Chios Town on Chios Island in Greece. Headline reads 'A guide to migration scenarios: New book and database. Article intro text reads: CPC-CG member Professor Jakub Bijak has published a new book 'From uncertainty to policy: A guide to migration scenarios'. The book is available freely online and offers a practical and interdisciplinary proposal for determining quantitative scenarios of future migration. It focuses on complexity and uncertainty as two defining challenges of contemporary migration and explores how scenario building can be used to inform and underpin effective migration policy and practice. In December, Population Europe held an event to launch the book and showcase the QuantMig research project from which the book results. A distinguished panel of migration experts and practitioners discussed the developments, perspectives and challenges of forward-looking migration studies.

Discover freely available tools for migration complexity & uncertainty on p.11 of #ChangingPopulations.

A new book and database based on QuantMig research offer practical interdisciplinary ways to determine future #migration scenarios for policy and practice.

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Image shows people sitting at desks and working on laptops in an open plan office. Headline reads: New tool to explore and visualise Europe's inequalities. Article intro text reads: CG Co-Director Professor Melinda Mills MBE recently launched the Mapineq Link tool for exploring and analysing regional distribution of socioeconomic inequalities. Mapineq Link comprises three components: a database that includes various indicators from multiple sources, an interactive web dashboard that makes the database accessible to a broad audience, and an Application Programming Interface (API) that allows users to access and retrieve data from the database. Through the dashboard, journalists, policymakers, researchers, data scientists, and other users can access information to explore data spatially and uncover correlations between indicators. Researchers from the University of Groningen, in collaboration with the University of Oxford, have collaborated with other European universities to develop the new tool as part of the EU- funded Mapineq project, which studies educational, socioeconomic, and health inequalities across the life course.

New resources and tools for scholars, practitioners, and policymakers in the latest #ChangingPopulations 👇

See how you can use Mapineq Link, a new tool for exploring and analysing #Europe's socioeconomic #inequalities, by @melindacmills.bsky.social - p.12

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Image shows people walking down a street in the UK wearing facemasks during the pandemic, with the headline 'Ethnic groups faced more Covid bereavement'. Article intro text reads: Research by CPC-CG member Professor Nissa Finney has found that ethnic groups in Scotland were over two times more likely to experience the death of someone close to them during Covid-19 than the white population. The report, entitled Racism, belonging and Covid’s legacy of ethnic inequalities in Scotland drew on data collected by the Evidence for Equality National Survey (EVENS) and was authored by Professor Finney from the School of Geography and Sustainable Development at the University of St Andrews. The report has, for the first time, collated data to show the ethnic inequalities in experiences of bereavement during the Covid-19 crisis. The EVENS data was collected between February and October 2021 to document the experiences of ethnic and religious minorities in Britain during the Covid-19 pandemic.

In #ChangingPopulations, read about a report that has, for the first time, collated data on ethnic inequalities in #Covid19 bereavement

It also finds that, in Scotland, racism is becoming normalised, affecting 80% of ethnic minorities during their lives - p.9

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Image shows older couple walking down a shopping street in a coastal town, with the headline 'Ageing places face growing demographic divides'. Intro text reads: CPC-CG member Dr David McCollum has been exploring population sustainability and geographical inequalities amid the challenges of an ageing population. Dr McCollum's research has found that there is a growing demographic divide across the UK. Inequalities between wealthier and poorer regions are widening, with remote working and migration patterns reinforcing rather than reducing these disparities. In the UK context, the population ageing process started earliest in Scotland and has been the focus of Scottish policy attention for almost two decades. The most recent Census showed that Scotland’s population is at a record high of almost 5.5 million. However, its population is rapidly ageing, it is fully reliant on migration for demographic stability, and almost a third of its local authorities are already experiencing decline. Scotland’s experiences of, and responses to demographic challenges can therefore provide lessons for other parts of the UK which are expected to follow a similar trajectory.

UK #demographic divides are deepening.

In #ChangingPopulations, discover how #inequalities between wealthier and poorer regions are widening, with #remoteworking and #migration reinforcing, not reducing, these disparities – page 10 @phrg-standrews.bsky.social

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Image shows an excerpt from the Changing Populations magazine showing the Further reading section from one of the articles, including the event recording video 'Economic growth and the challenge of demographics | Resolution Foundation' and the following links: Population change in the UK and lessons for Labour’s five missions (CPC-CG Factsheet) Population sustainability and geographical inequalities in the context of an ageing population (CPC-CG Policy Briefing 76) The changing meaning of old age (CPC-CG Policy Briefing 31) Who uses childcare in the UK and how much does it cost? (CPC-CG Policy Briefing 73) Intending to remain childless: Are concerns about climate change and overpopulation the cause? (CPC-CG Policy Briefing 72) Understanding fertility trends in Britain: Do fertility intentions differ across England, Wales and Scotland? (CPC-CG Working Paper 105) Genetics and reproductive behaviour: A review (Human Evolutionary Demography)

#ChangingPopulations offers more than just articles

Check out the 'further reading' sections linking to reports, briefings & journal articles, and interactive content like media interviews, podcasts and event recordings 📺

Be sure to explore ⤵️ #population

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Image shows cars sitting in a traffic jam on a busy road, with the headline 'Air pollution linked to mental illness'. The article intro text reads: CPC member Dr Mary Abed Al Ahad has led a ground-breaking study linking cumulative exposure to air pollution with an increased risk of hospital admissions for both mental/behavioural and physical illnesses. The study team from the School of Geography and Sustainable Development at the University of St Andrews, led by Dr Abed Al Ahad with CG member Dr Urška Demšar, Professor Frank Sullivan, and CG Co-Director Professor Hill Kulu, reviewed published data from across 16 years on the health effects of long term exposure to ambient air pollution. Previous research has tended to emphasise deaths rather than hospital admissions, and physical, rather than mental, ill health. The team have concluded that stricter environmental restrictions are needed to curb the impact on secondary care.

🌫️We also cover research led by @maryabedalahad.bsky.social @phrg-standrews.bsky.social linking long-term air #pollution exposure to an increased risk of #hospitaladmissions for mental/behavioural and physical #illnesses.

See page 8 of #ChangingPopulations 🗞️🗞️

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Image shows three adults with their young children at a summer fair. Two of the adults are holding their children, while one adult has her hand on her child's shoulders. The children have their faces painted and all are smiling and laughing. The headline reads: Linking genetics, health and life outcomes. The intro text reads: Groundbreaking research by CG Co-Director Professor Melinda Mills MBE and her colleagues examines the connections between genetics, health, and life outcomes, showing the role of our DNA in reproductive health, longevity, career aspirations, and socioeconomic mobility. Two recent studies published in Nature Aging and Nature Human Behaviour provide valuable knowledge about how genetic factors interact with environmental and social influences to shape our lives.

In our latest #ChangingPopulations newsletter magazine, learn about findings from two recently published studies that reveal the connections between #genetics, health, and life outcomes, by @melindacmills.bsky.social @oxforddemsci.bsky.social - see page 7.

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Image shows builder in high-vis clothing and hard hat at work on a building site, standing among building equipment and at the bottom of a crane, with the headline 'Population change scanning for RIBA Horizons 2034'. Article intro text reads: CPC-CG members Professor Jane Falkingham CBE, Professor Maria Evandrou and Professor Nissa Finney have contributed their expertise to the RIBA Horizons 2034 horizon-scanning programme. The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) Horizons 2034 Population Change theme examines how design professionals can address levels of change at the urban scale while supporting social cohesion for diverse and intergenerational communities. As we have already seen in this issue of Changing Populations, changes in births, deaths and patterns of migration are reshaping populations, influencing the size and shape of people’s families and the makeup of the communities within which they live. These trends are already affecting the design of the built environment.

🧱🏘️ In the new #ChangingPopulations, you can also read about how our members are contributing their expertise to projects like RIBA #Horizons2034, conducting #population change scans on how #demographic trends could affect #builtenvironment design - page 6.

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Image shows a lots of people sitting outside cafes and on benches in a city riverside setting, with the headline over it 'Historic changes in population dynamics'. Article intro text reads: The UK is experiencing profound shifts in population trends, with birth rates reaching record lows, migration playing a critical role in sustaining growth, and an ageing demographic reshaping societal structures. CPC and CG members have been analysing and discussing the underlying causes, global comparisons, and potential long-term implications of these trends. Here we summarise some of their contributions in the media during the last few months. Population estimates and migration trends In October, CPC-CG members shared insights on the Office for National Statistics (ONS) population estimates for the UK, England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland: mid-2023. The ONS estimates the UK population at mid-2023 as 68.3 million (68,265,209), an increase of 1.0% since mid-2022. The population grew faster in England and in Wales (both 1.0%) than in Scotland (0.8%) or Northern Ireland (0.5%). However, Scotland's 0.8% increase is the biggest jump in one year that Scotland has seen since 1946-47.

🌐As we mark European Day of #Demography today, read our report in #ChangingPopulations on shifting #population trends: record-low #birthrates, #migration for growth, impacts of an #ageing #demographic, and our members' insights – p5. @populationeu.bsky.social

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