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Centre for Demographic Science to launch with £10m from Leverhulme Trust

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Oxford University is to launch a new Centre for Demographic Science with £10 million funding from the Leverhulme Trust. The Trust today made the announcement as part of their annual Leverhulme Research Centre awards.

Large group of people seen from above gathered together in the shape of a pie chart

The centre, led by Professor Melinda Mills, Professoral Fellow in the Department of Sociology at Nuffield College, will take an unconventional approach, uniting researchers not only from demography but also from sociology, criminology, economics, statistics, molecular genetics, biology, history, marketing and business, to bring ‘science’ into demography.

Read more (University of Oxford website)

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