Staff

Lead researchers

Professor Jane Falkingham

VP Engagement and International
Connect with Jane

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

Other researchers

Professor Jackie Wahba

Professor of Economics
Connect with Jackie

Email: J.Wahba@soton.ac.uk

Professor Jakub Bijak

Professor of Statistical Demography
Connect with Jakub

Email: J.Bijak@soton.ac.uk

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
Connect with Paul

Email: Paul.Bridgen@soton.ac.uk

Professor Maria Evandrou FAcSS

PROFESSOR OF GERONTOLOGY
Research interests
  • ESRC: Centre for Population Change (CPC): I am Co-Director of ESRC Centre for Population Change. My collaborative work focuses on a) Increasing longevity and the changing life course, and b) Understanding intergenerational relations & exchange. For more information, please visit the CPC website.
  • ESRC CPC - Connecting Generations: I am also Co-Director of the ESRC CPC-Connecting Generations research programme. The research will investigate areas such as changing intergenerational relationships; intergenerational flows of support in later life; and work-life balance, employment and caring responsibilities in mid-life. More information on the Connecting Generations research programme here.
Connect with Maria

Email: maria.evandrou@soton.ac.uk

Dr Christian Schluter

Reader
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Email: C.Schluter@soton.ac.uk

Professor Athina Vlachantoni

Professor of Gerontology & Social Policy
Research interests
  • Informal care provision and receipt
  • Unmet need for social care
  • Pension protection
Connect with Athina

Email: A.Vlachantoni@soton.ac.uk

Professor Traute Meyer

Professor of Social Policy
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Email: T.Meyer@soton.ac.uk

Dr Elisabeth Schroeder-Butterfill

Head of Department
Research interests
  • Care in later life
  • Long-term care
  • Older people's social and support networks
Connect with Elisabeth

Email: E.Schroeder-Butterfill@soton.ac.uk

Professor Peter Smith

Professor in Social Statistics
Connect with Peter

Email: P.W.Smith@soton.ac.uk

Professor Ann Berrington

Professor-Demography&Social Statistics
Connect with Ann

Email: A.Berrington@soton.ac.uk

Research outputs

Crisis and control: Russia’s dramatic fertility decline and efforts to increase it
Brienna Perelli-Harris & Olga Isupova, 2013
Type: bookChapter
The migration pathways of UK graduates
Joanna Sage, Maria Evandrou & Jane Falkingham, 2013
Type: conference
Review of the rolling census approach: and other survey-based options
2013
Type: workingPaper
The transition to living alone and psychological distress in later life
Juliet Stone, Maria Evandrou & Jane Falkingham, 2013, Age and Ageing, 42(3), 366-372
DOI: 10.1093/ageing/aft006
Type: article
With or without you: partnership context of first conceptions and births in Hungary
2013
Type: workingPaper
Household members' migration and the education of children ‘left behind’: empirical findings from Tajikistan and reflections for research practice
Rachel Bennett, David Clifford & Jane Falkingham, 2013, Population, Space and Place, 19(1), 1-14
DOI: 10.1002/psp.1698
Type: article
Informal care, health and mortality
Athina Vlachantoni, Maria Evandrou, Jane Falkingham & James Robards, 2013, Maturitas, 74(2), 114-118
DOI: 10.1016/j.maturitas.2012.10.013
Type: article