Staff

Lead researcher

Professor Jane Falkingham

VP Engagement and International
Connect with Jane

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

Other researchers

Professor Peter Smith

Professor in Social Statistics
Connect with Peter

Email: P.W.Smith@soton.ac.uk

Professor Ann Berrington

Professor-Demography&Social Statistics
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Email: A.Berrington@soton.ac.uk

Professor Jackie Wahba

Professor of Economics
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Email: J.Wahba@soton.ac.uk

Dr Paul Bridgen

Associate Professor

Research interests

  • The impact of the environmental crisis on welfare states
  • Eco-social policy developments - theory and empirical evaluations
  • Energy/fuel poverty in the UK and EU
Connect with Paul

Email: Paul.Bridgen@soton.ac.uk

Professor Traute Meyer

Professor of Social Policy
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Email: T.Meyer@soton.ac.uk

Professor Maria Evandrou FAcSS

PROFESSOR OF GERONTOLOGY

Research interests

  • ESRC: Centre for Population Change (CPC): I am Co-Director of ESRC Centre for Population Change. My collaborative work focuses on a) Increasing longevity and the changing life course, and b) Understanding intergenerational relations & exchange. For more information, please visit the CPC website.
  • ESRC CPC - Connecting Generations: I am also Co-Director of the ESRC CPC-Connecting Generations research programme. The research will investigate areas such as changing intergenerational relationships; intergenerational flows of support in later life; and work-life balance, employment and caring responsibilities in mid-life. More information on the Connecting Generations research programme here.
Connect with Maria

Email: maria.evandrou@soton.ac.uk

Professor Corrado Giulietti PhD

Head of School

Research interests

  • Labour Economics
  • Development Economics
Connect with Corrado

Email: c.giulietti@soton.ac.uk

Professor Jakub Bijak

Professor of Statistical Demography
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Email: J.Bijak@soton.ac.uk

Professor Brienna Perelli-Harris

Professor of Demography
Connect with Brienna

Email: B.G.Perelli-Harris@soton.ac.uk

Professor Erengul Dodd

Professor of Actuarial Math & Statistics
Connect with Erengul

Email: E.Dodd@soton.ac.uk

Dr Hector Calvo-Pardo

Reader
Connect with Hector

Email: H.F.Calvo-Pardo@soton.ac.uk

Professor Athina Vlachantoni

Professor of Gerontology & Social Policy

Research interests

  • Informal care provision and receipt
  • Unmet need for social care
  • Pension protection
Connect with Athina

Email: A.Vlachantoni@soton.ac.uk

Collaborating research institutes, centres and groups

Centre for Population Change

We examine the impact of population change on people, communities and government.

Applied Economics

The Applied Economics group produces innovative research that furthers and deepens our understanding of economic behaviour and global economic challenges, that informs and influences economic policy.

Family and Social Demography

Our department is recognised for its use of quantitative and qualitative methods to study social processes and family change.

Macroeconomics

Macroeconomics at Southampton spans a variety of research directions, and emphasises building models of aggregate behaviour by adding up the behaviour of individual economic agents.

Research outputs

Typologies of intergenerational relations in urban and rural China
Ning Wang, Maria Evandrou, Jane Falkingham & Maodi Xu, 2022, Journal of Applied Gerontology
DOI: 10.1177/07334648221133811
Type: article
Women's economic empowerment in sub-Saharan Africa: evidence from cross-national population data
Eunice Mueni Williams, Heini Vaisanen & Sabu Padmadas, 2022, Demographic Research, 47(15), 415-452
DOI: 10.4054/DemRes.2022.47.15
Type: article
Protocol: evaluation of an optimised couples-focused intervention to increase testing for HIV in rural KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, the Igugu Lethu (‘Our treasure’) cohort study
Nuala Mcgrath, Nathi Ngcobo, Zhixin Feng, Phillip Joseph, Pumla Dladla, Thulani Ngubane, Victoria Hosegood, Kate Morton, Heidi van Rooyen & Alastair Van Heerden, 2022, BMC Public Health, 22(1)
DOI: 10.1186/s12889-022-13894-3
Type: article
Forecasting: theory and practice
Fotios Petropoulos, Daniele Apiletti, Vassilios Assimakopoulos, Mohamed Zied Babai, Devon K. Barrow, Souhaib Ben Taieb, Christoph Bergmeir, Ricardo J. Bessa, Jakub Bijak, John E. Boylan, Jethro Browell, Claudio Carnevale, Jennifer L. Castle, Pasquale Cirillo, Michael P. Clements, Clara Cordeiro, Fernando Luiz Cyrino Oliveira, Shari De Baets, Alexander Dokumentov, Joanne Ellison, Piotr Fiszeder, Philip Hans Franses, David T. Frazier, Michael Gilliland, M. Sinan Gönül, Paul Goodwin, Luigi Grossi, Yael Grushka-Cockayne, Mariangela Guidolin, Massimo Guidolin, Ulrich Gunter, Xiaojia Guo, Renato Guseo, Nigel Harvey, David F. Hendry, Ross Hollyman, Tim Januschowski, Jooyoung Jeon, Victor Richmond R. Jose, Yanfei Kang, Anne B. Koehler, Stephan Kolassa, Nikolaos Kourentzes, Sonia Leva, Feng Li, Konstantia Litsiou, Spyros Makridakis, Gael M. Martin, Andrew B. Martinez, Sheik Meeran, Theodore Modis, Konstantinos Nikolopoulos, Dilek Önkal, Alessia Paccagnini, Anastasios Panagiotelis, Ioannis Panapakidis, Jose M. Pavía, Manuela Pedio, Diego J. Pedregal, Pierre Pinson, Patrícia Ramos, David E. Rapach, J. James Reade, Bahman Rostami-Tabar, Michał Rubaszek, Georgios Sermpinis, Han Lin Shang, Evangelos Spiliotis, Aris A. Syntetos, Priyanga Dilini Talagala, Thiyanga S. Talagala, Len Tashman, Dimitrios Thomakos, Thordis Thorarinsdottir, Ezio Todini, Juan Ramón Trapero Arenas, Xiaoqian Wang, Robert L. Winkler, Alisa Yusupova & Florian Ziel, 2022, International Journal of Forecasting, 38(3), 705-871
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijforecast.2021.11.001
Type: review
Terror headlines and voting
Armine Ghazaryan, Corrado Giulietti & Jackline Wahba, 2022, Economics Letters, 216
DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2022.110562
Type: article