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Hilary 2026 Seminar Series: Understanding More About Demographic Change

Demography is the study of human populations. Such study involves the measurement of the demographic components: fertility, mortality and migration in well-defined populations. Having measured these components, demographers have at their disposal tools—both more and less sophisticated—to enable them to predict the development of these components in time and space and thereby predict the movements and structural developments of populations. To be able to do this accurately is hugely important in an increasingly complex world, where human attitudes, values and expectations relating to their own demographic behaviour as well external factors affecting this behaviour can change dramatically from one generation to the next, or even from year to year. As the science of demography becomes more important—witnessed by the fact that global ageing has high political attention—and the demographic methods have become more complex and moved into other disciplines such as mathematics, anthropology, and geography, for example, understanding more about demography change is as important as measuring it accurately.

This seminar series will explore aspects of this heightened understanding of demographic change from populations over time and around the world.

Convenor: Professor George W Leeson
Type: Seminar Series
Timing: Thursdays at 2pm
Web Address: https://www.ageing.ox.ac.uk/events/view/591
Organising department: Oxford Institute of Ageing

Talks:

Thursday 22 January 2025

Bringing Mortality Back into our Understanding of Fertility Change
Date: 22 January 2026, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker : Professor Vegard Skirbekk (University of Oslo)
Venue: 66 Banbury Road (Wolsey Hall), 66 Banbury Road OX2 6PR
Organisers: TBA
Host: Professor George Leeson (Fellow of the Galton Institute, Senior Research Fellow, Kellogg College)

Thursday 29 January 2025

Dynamic Models of Demographic Change: Ageing, Care Needs, and Social Connectivity
Date: 29 January 2026, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker : Mohamed Ismail (Oxford Institute of Population Ageing)
Venue: 66 Banbury Road (Wolsey Hall), 66 Banbury Road OX2 6PR
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 12 February 2025

Citizenship and Mobility of the Poor: Managing Internal Migration in 19th Century Sweden
Date: 12 February 2026, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker : Assoc. Professor Sara Kalm (University of Lund)
Venue: 66 Banbury Road (Wolsey Hall), 66 Banbury Road OX2 6PR
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 19 February 2025

Care and Caring Among Ageing Migrant Workers in Two Informal Settlements in Harare
Date: 19 February 2026, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker : Dr Ignatius Gutsa (University of Zimbabwe)
Venue: 66 Banbury Road (Wolsey Hall), 66 Banbury Road OX2 6PR
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 26 February 2025

Understanding the Drivers of Low Fertility in the Asia-Pacific Region
Date: 26 February 2026, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker : Professor Stuart Gietel-Basten (Hong Kong University)
Venue: 66 Banbury Road (Wolsey Hall), 66 Banbury Road OX2 6PR
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 5 March 2025

Transnational Care
Date: 5 March 2026, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker : Professor Tanja Bastia (University of Manchester)
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 12 March 2025

The Emergence of Very Low Fertility Regimes in Latin America
Date: 12 March 2026, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker : Professor Wanda Cabella (Universidad de la República, Uruguay)
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Editor: Nana Nanitashvili