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Staff

Lead researcher

Professor Jane Falkingham

VP Engagement and International
Other researchers

Professor Peter Smith

Professor in Social Statistics

Professor Ann Berrington

Professor-Demography&Social Statistics

Professor Jackie Wahba

Professor of Economics

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

Professor Traute Meyer

Professor of Social Policy

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

Professor Corrado Giulietti PhD

Head of School

Research interests

  • Labour Economics
  • Development Economics

Professor Jakub Bijak

Professor of Statistical Demography

Professor Brienna Perelli-Harris

Professor of Demography

Professor Erengul Dodd

Professor of Actuarial Math & Statistics

Dr Hector Calvo-Pardo

Reader

Professor Athina Vlachantoni

Professor of Gerontology & Social Policy

Research interests

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

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

Perinatal health among migrant women: A longitudinal register study in Finland 2000-17
Heini Vaisanen,
Hanna Remes,
& Pekka Martikainen
, 2022 , SSM - Population Health , 20
DOI: 10.1016/j.ssmph.2022.101298
Type: article
On the use of household expenditure surveys to monitor mismanaged plastic waste from food packaging in low- and middle-income countries
Jim Wright,
Simon Damkjaer,
Heini Vaisanen,
Quaranchie Adama-Tettey,
Mawuli Dzodzomenyo,
A.G. Hill,
L.G. Okotto,
Joseph Okotto-Okotto,
& Peter Shaw
, 2022 , Environmental Research Letters , 17 (12)
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/aca623
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
From conflict zones to Europe: Syrian and Afghan refugees' journeys, stories, and strategies
Souhila Belabbas,
Jakub Bijak,
Ariana Modirrousta-Galian,
& Sarah Nurse
, 2022 , Social Inclusion , 10 (4) , 211–221
DOI: 10.17645/si.v10i4.5731
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
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