2026 Short course: Analysing Time to Events
Continuing education
This 2-day course introduces the foundation for understanding how and why certain events do or do not occur, such as when young people leave home, length of employment, or time to first home ownership.The skills learned are widely applicable to demographic, health, and social science and policy…
2026 Short course: Comparing Populations
Continuing education
In this 2-day course, we'll learn skills that help demographers, policymakers, and health and social researchers measure differences between populations, and techniques that allow valid comparisons to be made across populations with differing compositions.Populations can be compared in many ways,…
The Departed: Italian Migration and the American Mafia
Seminar
Massimo Anelli, Paolo Pinotti and Zachary Porreca documented the transplantation of the Sicilian Mafia to the United States in the 1920s, when a large-scale repression campaign in Italy targeted Mafia strongholds and forced many Mafiosi to migrate, and study the resulting short- and long-term…
Capturing and tracking population and health events in the Agincourt Health and Socio-Demographic Surveillance System: a demographic and geographic research platform in rural South Africa.
Seminar
Health and Socio-Demographic Surveillance (HDSS) systems are a response to low levels of vital event registration in areas where data for health planning is critically scarce. HDSS aim to provide high quality longitudinal data on population dynamics of health and social transitions to inform policy…
Dynamics of multidimensional urban poverty and child health outcomes in poor resources settings: evidence from Nigeria
Seminar
Rapid urbanisation in many developing countries is a profound demographic change, which has fundamentally reshaped the spatial distribution of poverty and health inequalities. Although many scholars have examined the impact of poverty on child health outcomes, their measures of poverty are commonly…
Latest Demographic Changes in Latin America and the Caribbean: Pace, Development, and Inequalities
Seminar
Latin America and the Caribbean have experienced rapid demographic change over the past century, marked by sustained fertility decline, improvements in life expectancy, and shifting migration patterns. Although these processes are often described as part of a compressed demographic transition, they…
Rethinking Fertility Ideals: Gender, Mental Health, and Psychological Configurations Across Contexts
Seminar
In many low-fertility societies, fertility debates increasingly centre on gender equality, yet research has produced inconsistent findings on how gender relates to fertility ideals and intentions. Mental health has also become a growing concern and is itself shaped by gender, but it has rarely been…