Project overview

The Connecting Generations (CG) Centre aims to increase our understanding of the connections and inequalities between and within generations so that policy measures and resources can be efficiently and fairly allocated.

Staff

Lead researchers

Professor Jane Falkingham

VP Engagement and International
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Other researchers

Professor Peter Smith

Professor in Social Statistics
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Professor Ann Berrington

Professor-Demography&Social Statistics
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Professor Jackie Wahba

Professor of Economics
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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.
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Professor Jakub Bijak

Professor of Statistical Demography
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Professor Erengul Dodd

Professor of Actuarial Math & Statistics
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Mrs Teresa McGowan

Research Manager
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Professor Corrado Giulietti PhD

Head of School

Research interests

  • Labour Economics
  • Development Economics
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Professor Athina Vlachantoni

Professor of Gerontology & Social Policy

Research interests

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

Associate Professor

Research interests

  • Demographic Forecasting
  • Bayesian Statistics
  • Human Mortality
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Collaborating research institutes, centres and groups

Research outputs

Sleep problems and new occurrence of chronic conditions during the COVID-19 pandemic in the UK
Jane Falkingham, Maria Evandrou, Athina Vlachantoni & Min Qin, 2022, International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 19(23)
DOI: 10.3390/ijerph192315664
Type: article
At the junctures of healthcare: a qualitative study of primary and specialist service use by polish migrants in England
Giuseppe Troccoli, Chris Moreh, Derek P Mcghee & Athina Vlachantoni, 2022, BMC Health Services Research, 22(1316), 1-12
DOI: 10.1186/s12913-022-08666-z
Type: article
Investigating the application of generalized additive models to discrete-time event history analysis for birth events
Joanne Ellison, Ann Berrington, Erengul Dodd & Jonathan Forster, 2022, Demographic Research, 47, 647-694
DOI: 10.4054/DemRes.2022.47.22
Type: article
Typologies of intergenerational relations in urban and rural China
Ning Wang, Maria Evandrou, Jane Falkingham & Maodi Xu, 2022, Journal of Applied Gerontology
DOI: 10.1177/07334648221133811
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