Professor Jane Falkingham

Professor Jane Falkingham

VP Engagement and International

Connect with Jane

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

Tel: +44 23 8059 3399

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Connecting Generations

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Sponsor: ESRC

Connecting generations across geography

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Connecting generations through genetics and genealogy

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

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Modelling kinship and quantifying the connections between generations

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Community resilience and social coherence

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Changing intergenerational relationships: a regional case study

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Social and spatial mobility within and across generations

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Intergenerational Audit: Understanding changing living standards across cohorts

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

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Intergenerational flows of support in later life

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Falkingham - CPC Transition Funding

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Falkingham ESRC Res-043-25-008/9

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Falkingham ESRC Res-043-25-009 Eae

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LSH Demographic Poverty AIDS

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

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Falkingham ESRC RES-167-25-0191

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ESRC Falkingham RES-167-25-0191

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Falkingham ESRC CPC Grant

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Falkingham MPI/ESRC Transatlantic Roundtable Event £10,000

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Falkingham EPSRC The Care Life Cycle

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Falkingham ESRC CPC ll Grant

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

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

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

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Falkingham ESRC Knowledge Exchange bid

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Falkingham CPC ESRC - Review of longitudinal studies

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University of Southampton ESRC Doctoral Training Centre DTG 2011

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Falkingham Hewlett Foundation grant through LSHTM

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Sponsor: The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation

EDULINK : PopTRCD (Ghana) - Falkingham

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Sponsor: African, Caribbean and Pacific Group of States

Falkingham Re Ageing Wellcome Hbd

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Sponsor: Wellcome Trust

Falkingham UNICEF Lesotho Child Poverty Study [CLOSED]

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Sponsor: UNICEF

Work-life, employment and care - MOP

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

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Sponsor: ESRC

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

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Transforming the Engineering of Cities to Deliver Societal and Planetary Wellbeing

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Madise ESRC Poverty and sexual and reproductive health

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ESRC Enhancing Undergraduate Quantitative Methods in Social Sciences through Curriculum Change

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

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Family Demography and Health in Low and Middle-Income Countries

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Wahba ESRC Migration and the Reshaping of Consumption Patterns

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Understanding resilience in later life in a low resource setting

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Vlachantoni ESRC DFID Social protection and poverty alleviation

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

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

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

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Sustainability Strategic Plan

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Pioneers Project

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EDULINK : STARND - Social Sciences - Madise

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Sponsor: African, Caribbean and Pacific Group of States

Matthews Poverty and Maternal Health in Ghana

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

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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)

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