Department of Social Statistics and Demography

In the UK, we exchange knowledge with government agencies such as the Department for Work and Pensions and the ONS. Around the world, we work with global organisations including:

• the World Health Organisation
• the United Nations Population Fund
• the Department for International Development
• the United Nations

Advisory roles

We sit on leading scientific and advisory boards in the UK and Europe such as:

Understanding Society and the National Cohort Studies (UK)

• the executive board of the European Statistical Advisory Committee (EU)
• the Research Institute for Official and Survey Statistics (Germany)
• Advisory Committee on Statistical Methods (Italy)
• the Advisory Panel on Consumer Prices (UK)

We work closely with the ONS on research such as:

• consumer price index methods
• population size estimation (particularly in the population census)
• quality of administrative data
• discontinuity estimation for surveys

Our statisticians and demographers advise them on national population projections, and fertility, mortality and migration estimates. Some of our experts are members of their National Population Projections Expert Advisory Group.

Our global health experts advise key non-governmental organisations and national governments to create policy-relevant research and support the translation of new evidence into practice. They work closely with a number of UN bodies including WHO and UNFP and are members of the UN's 'Every Woman, Every Child, Every Adolescent' strategy Adolescent Working Group.

Initiatives we lead

Our department leads major international and national initiatives including:

• ESRC National Centre for Research Methods
• ESRC Centre for Population Change
• Horizon 2020-funded project QuantMig, a group of international universities addressing migration

We have seats on funding panels such as the ESRC Grant Assessment Panels and the European Research Council grant panel.

Editorial boards

We sit on the editorial boards of leading journals for example:

• Demographic Research
• European Journal of Population
• Journal of Survey Statistics and Methodology
• Journal of the Royal Statistical Society A, B, and C

We also review for countless journals in disciplines such as epidemiology, sociology, health, and statistics.

Whatever your background, we'll help you:

• flourish in your career
• enrich your learning
• gain an in-depth understanding of global politics