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Centre for Population Change

Our people

Learn more about our researchers and their expertise.

Dr Jason Hilton

Lecturer in Social Stats & Data Science

Research interests

  • Demographic Forecasting
  • Bayesian Statistics
  • Human Mortality

Accepting applications from PhD students

Email: j.d.hilton@soton.ac.uk

Address: B58, West Highfield Campus, University Road, SO17 1BJ

Dr Joanne Ellison BSc, PhD

Research Fellow

Research interests

  • Fertility projections
  • Demographic forecasting
  • Bayesian demography

Email: j.v.ellison@soton.ac.uk

Address: B58, West Highfield Campus, University Road, SO17 1BJ

Dr Joe Butterick

Research Fellow

Professor Maria Evandrou FAcSS

PROFESSOR OF GERONTOLOGY

Research interests

  • Inequalities in later life, particularly inequalities in the incomes of older people, equity in health and social care, and inequalities amongst ethnic elders in the UK
  • Informal carers, paid employment and resources
  • The retirement prospects of future generations of elders, particularly the building and use of different types of policy tools for modelling income, pensions, health, incapacity, demand and supply of formal and informal care amongst older people in the future

Accepting applications from PhD students

Email: maria.evandrou@soton.ac.uk

Address: B58, West Highfield Campus, University Road, SO17 1BJ

Dr Min Qin

Senior Research Fellow

Research interests

  • Intergenerational exchange
  • Population ageing
  • Later life health and wellbeing

Email: mq1e12@soton.ac.uk

Address: B58, West Highfield Campus, University Road, SO17 1BJ

Professor Nuala Mcgrath

Prof of Epidemiology & Sexual Health

Accepting applications from PhD students

Email: n.mcgrath@soton.ac.uk

Address: Southampton General Hospital, Tremona Road Shirley, SO16 6YD

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

Accepting applications from PhD students

Email: paul.bridgen@soton.ac.uk

Address: B58, West Highfield Campus, University Road, SO17 1BJ

Professor Peter Smith

Professor in Social Statistics

Accepting applications from PhD students

Email: p.w.smith@soton.ac.uk

Address: B39, West Highfield Campus, University Road, SO17 1BJ

Mrs Teresa McGowan

Research Manager

Email: t.mcgowan@soton.ac.uk

Address: B58, West Highfield Campus, University Road, SO17 1BJ

Professor Traute Meyer

Professor of Social Policy

Accepting applications from PhD students

Email: t.meyer@soton.ac.uk

Address: B58, West Highfield Campus, University Road, SO17 1BJ