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Professor Jane Falkingham

Professor Jane Falkingham

VP Engagement and International

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Email: J.C.Falkingham@soton.ac.uk

Tel: +44 23 8059 3399

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Connecting Generations

Researchers:

Professor Jane Falkingham

Professor Peter Smith ,

Professor Ann Berrington ,

Professor Jackie Wahba ,

Professor Maria Evandrou ,

Professor Jakub Bijak ,

Professor Erengul Dodd ,

Mrs Teresa McGowan ,

Professor Corrado Giulietti ,

Professor Athina Vlachantoni ,

Doctor Jason Hilton

Sponsor: ESRC

Connecting generations across geography

Researchers:

Professor Jane Falkingham

Connecting generations through genetics and genealogy

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Professor Jane Falkingham

Work-life balance, employment and caring responsibilities in mid-life

Researchers:

Professor Maria Evandrou ,

Professor Jane Falkingham

Professor Athina Vlachantoni ,

Doctor Min Qin

Modelling kinship and quantifying the connections between generations

Researchers:

Doctor Jason Hilton ,

Professor Jane Falkingham

Professor Jakub Bijak ,

Professor Erengul Dodd ,

Professor Peter Smith

Community resilience and social coherence

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Professor Jane Falkingham

Changing intergenerational relationships: a regional case study

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Professor Jane Falkingham

Social and spatial mobility within and across generations

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Professor Jane Falkingham

Intergenerational Audit: Understanding changing living standards across cohorts

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Professor Jane Falkingham

Intergenerational flows of support in later life

Researchers:

Professor Athina Vlachantoni

Professor Maria Evandrou ,

Professor Jane Falkingham

Doctor Min Qin

Completed projects

Falkingham - CPC Transition Funding

Researchers:

Professor Jane Falkingham

Professor Peter Smith ,

Professor Ann Berrington ,

Professor Jackie Wahba ,

Doctor Paul Bridgen ,

Professor Traute Meyer ,

Professor Maria Evandrou ,

Professor Corrado Giulietti ,

Professor Jakub Bijak ,

Professor Brienna Perelli-Harris ,

Professor Erengul Dodd ,

Doctor Hector Calvo-Pardo ,

Professor Athina Vlachantoni

Sponsor: ESRC

Falkingham ESRC Res-043-25-008/9

Researchers:

Professor Jane Falkingham

Emeritus Professor Jackie Powell

Sponsor: ESRC

Falkingham ESRC Res-043-25-009 Eae

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Professor Jane Falkingham

Emeritus Professor Jackie Powell

Sponsor: ESRC

LSH Demographic Poverty AIDS

Researchers:

Professor Jane Falkingham

Sponsor: ESRC

Falkingham ESRC RES-167-25-0191- Closed MAF

Researchers:

Professor Jane Falkingham

Sponsor: ESRC

Falkingham ESRC RES-167-25-0191

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Professor Jane Falkingham

Sponsor: ESRC

ESRC Falkingham RES-167-25-0191

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Professor Jane Falkingham

Professor Maria Evandrou

Sponsor: ESRC

Falkingham ESRC CPC Grant

Researchers:

Professor Jane Falkingham

Professor Jackie Wahba ,

Professor Jakub Bijak ,

Doctor Paul Bridgen ,

Professor Maria Evandrou ,

Doctor Christian Schluter ,

Professor Athina Vlachantoni ,

Professor Traute Meyer ,

Doctor Elisabeth Schroeder-Butterfill ,

Professor Peter Smith ,

Professor Ann Berrington

Sponsor: ESRC

Falkingham MPI/ESRC Transatlantic Roundtable Event £10,000

Researchers:

Professor Jane Falkingham

Sponsor: ESRC

Falkingham EPSRC The Care Life Cycle

Researchers:

Professor Jane Falkingham

Professor Sally Brailsford ,

Professor Maria Evandrou ,

Professor Athina Vlachantoni ,

Professor Amos Channon ,

Professor Jakub Bijak

Sponsor: EPSRC

Falkingham ESRC CPC ll Grant

Researchers:

Professor Jane Falkingham

Doctor Paul Bridgen ,

Professor Maria Evandrou ,

Professor Jakub Bijak ,

Professor Ann Berrington ,

Professor Jackie Wahba ,

Doctor Christian Schluter ,

Professor Athina Vlachantoni ,

Professor Brienna Perelli-Harris ,

Professor Peter Smith ,

Professor Traute Meyer ,

Doctor Hector Calvo-Pardo

Sponsor: ESRC

Neonational Mortality in Developing Countries: An Analysis of Trends and Determinants

Researchers:

Professor Jane Falkingham

Professor Sarah Neal

Sponsor: ESRC

Falkingham. Assessing the impact of internal labour migration on international support, health and income of China and South Africa

Researchers:

Professor Jane Falkingham

Professor Jackie Wahba ,

Professor Maria Evandrou ,

Professor Vicky Hosegood ,

Professor Athina Vlachantoni ,

Professor Sabu Padmadas

Sponsor: ESRC

Falkingham/McGowan - ESRC Research Centres: Demographic change in the era of Brexit: what does local industry need to know?

Researchers:

Professor Jane Falkingham

Mrs Teresa McGowan

Sponsor: ESRC

Falkingham ESRC Knowledge Exchange bid

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Professor Jane Falkingham

Sponsor: ESRC

Falkingham CPC ESRC - Review of longitudinal studies

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Professor Jane Falkingham

Sponsor: ESRC

University of Southampton ESRC Doctoral Training Centre DTG 2011

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Professor Jane Falkingham

Falkingham Hewlett Foundation grant through LSHTM

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Professor Jane Falkingham

Sponsor: The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation

EDULINK : PopTRCD (Ghana) - Falkingham

Researchers:

Professor Jane Falkingham

Professor Zoe Matthews ,

Professor Amos Channon

Sponsor: African, Caribbean and Pacific Group of States

Falkingham Re Ageing Wellcome Hbd

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Professor Jane Falkingham

Sponsor: Wellcome Trust

Falkingham UNICEF Lesotho Child Poverty Study [CLOSED]

Researchers:

Professor Jane Falkingham

Professor Amos Channon

Sponsor: UNICEF

Work-life, employment and care - MOP

Researchers:

Professor Athina Vlachantoni ,

Professor Maria Evandrou ,

Professor Jane Falkingham

(Fellowship H Jin) The causal effects of caregiving on the spousal carer's health, life satisfaction, and employment

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Professor Jane Falkingham

Sponsor: ESRC

Understanding Recent Fertility Trends in the UK and Improving Methodologies for Fertility Forecasting

Researchers:

Professor Ann Berrington

Professor Jane Falkingham

Professor Jakub Bijak ,

Professor Erengul Dodd

Sponsor: ESRC

Replication of Rural Decentralised off-grid Electricity Generation through Technology and Business Innovation

Researchers:

Professor AbuBakr Bahaj

Professor Patrick James ,

Professor Jane Falkingham

Professor Zoe Matthews

Sponsor: EPSRC

Transforming the Engineering of Cities to Deliver Societal and Planetary Wellbeing

Researchers:

Professor AbuBakr Bahaj

Professor Patrick James ,

Professor Jane Falkingham

Sponsor: EPSRC

Madise ESRC Poverty and sexual and reproductive health

Researchers:

Professor Jane Falkingham

Professor Zoe Matthews ,

Professor Sabu Padmadas ,

Professor Amos Channon

Sponsor: ESRC

ESRC Enhancing Undergraduate Quantitative Methods in Social Sciences through Curriculum Change

Researchers:

Professor Amos Channon

Professor Jane Falkingham

Professor Pauline Leonard ,

Doctor Craig Webber

Sponsor: ESRC

ESRC Increasing Researcher Use of Large Scale Social Surveys in the Social Sciences through Teaching and Support

Researchers:

Professor Amos Channon

Professor Jane Falkingham

Professor Pauline Leonard ,

Professor Athina Vlachantoni

Sponsor: ESRC

Family Demography and Health in Low and Middle-Income Countries

Researchers:

Professor Vicky Hosegood

Professor Jane Falkingham

Professor Maria Evandrou ,

Professor Sabu Padmadas

Sponsor: ESRC

Wahba ESRC Migration and the Reshaping of Consumption Patterns

Researchers:

Professor Jackie Wahba

Professor Jane Falkingham

Sponsor: ESRC

Understanding resilience in later life in a low resource setting

Researchers:

Professor Maria Evandrou

Professor Jane Falkingham

Sponsor: ESRC

Vlachantoni ESRC DFID Social protection and poverty alleviation

Researchers:

Professor Athina Vlachantoni

Professor Jane Falkingham

Professor Maria Evandrou

Sponsor: ESRC

Pension Protection for minority ethnic groups in Britain: determinants, prospects and policy implications.

Researchers:

Professor Athina Vlachantoni

Professor Jane Falkingham

Sponsor: ESRC

Evandrou - ESRC GCRF Global Ageing and Long-term Care Network (GALNet)

Researchers:

Professor Maria Evandrou

Professor Jane Falkingham

Professor Athina Vlachantoni

Sponsor: ESRC

Griffiths - EPSRC Per Challenge: Enhancing the take up of training and CPD for PER

Researchers:

Professor Mark Spearing

Professor Jane Falkingham

Sponsor: EPSRC

Sustainability Strategic Plan

Researchers:

Professor AbuBakr Bahaj

Professor Ian Williams ,

Professor Jane Falkingham

Professor Simon Kemp ,

Professor John Holloway ,

Professor Craig Hutton

Pioneers Project

Researchers:

Doctor Pritipuspa Mishra

Professor Ajit Nayak ,

Doctor Bindi Shah ,

Professor Jane Falkingham

Professor Sabu Padmadas

EDULINK : STARND - Social Sciences - Madise

Researchers:

Professor Jane Falkingham

Professor Zoe Matthews ,

Professor Amos Channon

Sponsor: African, Caribbean and Pacific Group of States

Matthews Poverty and Maternal Health in Ghana

Researchers:

Professor Zoe Matthews

Professor Jane Falkingham

Sponsor: ESRC

Padmadas Coping with the Urban Environment? Gender Disadvantage, Social Inequalities and Wellbeing of Economic Migrants in China

Researchers:

Professor Sabu Padmadas

Professor Jane Falkingham

Sponsor: ESRC

Biography

Jane Falkingham is Professor of Demography & International Social Policy and Vice President (International & Global Engagement) at the University of Southampton. She is also the Director of the ESRC Centre for Population Change (CPC), whose remit is to ‘improve understanding of the drivers and consequences of population change both nationally and globally’. Jane pursues a multi-disciplinary research agenda, located at the interface between population studies and social policy and spanning both developed and developing countries. She has published more than 200 books, journal articles and book chapters, and supervised 30 PhD students to successful completion.

Jane has a long history of service to the Social Science community both in the UK and internationally. From 2017 to March 2022, she was a Member of ESRC Council and chaired the ESRC Grant Delivery Group. She was also the Chair ESRC Covid-19 Rapid Response funding panel and is currently a member of the ADRUK Steering Board. Jane was President of the British Society for Population Studies (2015-2017) and President of the European Association for Population Studies (2018-2020) and is currently Chair of the European Population Information Centre, Population Europe. Jane was elected as a Fellow of the UK Academy of Social Sciences in 2011 and the Royal Society of Arts in 2016. In October 2015 she was awarded the Order of the British Empire (OBE) for her services to Social Sciences, receiving the honour from Prince William at a ceremony at Buckingham Palace.

Prizes

CBE (2022)
2020 ESRC Impact Prize - with Centre for Population Change (2020)
CBE (2022)
2020 ESRC Impact Prize - with Centre for Population Change (2020)

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