Population at LSE
Researchers in population (POP) studies at LSE bring a range of disciplinary and methodological approaches to bear on population research.
LSE has a long-standing interest in population studies. An MSc in Demography was instituted at LSE in 1965, and LSE continues to provide demographic training at MSc and PhD level. The , a small independent research group, was founded in 1936. Since World War II it has been housed at LSE, and publishes the journal, Population Studies. LSE also houses the British Society for Population Studies.
The PhD programme in Demography (Social/Formal) is currently located within the department of Methodology.
Current researchers in population studies at LSE bring a range of disciplinary and methodological approaches to bear on population research. They are based across departments at the LSE to include Social Policy, International Development, Gender, Sociology, Economic History, Methodology and Psychological and Behavioural Sciences. Geographical focus is also diverse, encompassing developed, developing and transitional countries. Population researchers include those with training in anthropology, economics, biology, physics, sociology and statistics.
Department of Social Policy
PhD topics for supervision: Fertility; Education; Policy; China.
Department of International Development
PhD topics for supervision: Sexual and Reproductive Health; International Development.
Dr Emilie Courtin
Department of Health Policy
PhD topics for supervision: Social determinants of health and ageing over the life course, early life circumstances and health/ageing over the life course, biomarkers of health and ageing, health effects of social interventions and policies over the life course.
Dr Neil Cummins
Department of Economic History
PhD topics for supervision: Historical Demography; Fertility, Mortality Topics, Social Mobility, Inequality, and other Labour and Demographic Economic Topics of Historical Nature using Big Data.
Department of Social Policy
No PhD supervision accepted at the moment.
Department of International Development
PhD topics for supervision: lifecourse and women's health in LMICs, ageing, reproductive health, biometrics and biomarkers, interaction between conflict and health.
Emeritus Professor Michael Murphy
Department of Social Policy
No PhD supervision accepted at the moment.
Department of Social Policy
No PhD supervision accepted at the moment.
Department of Social Policy
PhD topics for supervision: Migration, disability, ethnicity, child development.
Department of Sociology
PhD topics for supervision: political economy of health - in particular, work on political institutions (e.g., democracy), economic rules (e.g., trade), and social security or social protection. Work that was looking at health inequalities historically.
Department of Economic History
PhD topics for supervision: Historical demography; History of population health; Child health; Demographic transition.
Department of Social Policy
PhD topics for supervision: applied micro economist whose research focuses on the areas of gender, child development, and human capital
Department of Gender Studies
PhD topics for supervision: Projects that explore, develop or apply feminist and critical approaches.
Claire Calvel
Department of Methodology
Izzi Carter
Department of Methodology
Qi Cui
Department of Methodology
Midanna de Almada
Department of Methodology
Mary-Alice Doyle
Department of Social Policy
Nick Fitzhenry
Department of Economic History
Hampton Gaddy
PhD student, Department of Economic HistoryResearch interests: historical mortality; the 1918 influenza epidemic; the demographic impacts of crises
Email: h.g.gaddy@lse.ac.uk
Ivilina Hristova
Department of Social Policy
Rosanna Le Voir
Department of Methodology
Lekshmi Prasannan Reeba
Department of Methodology
Sally Sonia Simmons
Department of Social Policy
Sonali Silva
Department of Methodology
Haile Zola
European Institute
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Dr Diego Alburez-Gutierrez
Beyond excess mortality: the demographic life of a Mayan community after a war of massacres
Dr Antonella Bancalari
Public infrastructure and health in low- and middle-income countries.
Dr Paul Bouanchaud
Male sex work in China: understanding the HIV risk environments of Shenzhen’s migrant money boys
Dr Grace Chang
Essays on adolescents' time allocation and development
Victoria Donnaloja
What is it to become a citizen? The perspective of immigrants and natives
Katy Footman
Department of Social Policy
Dr Eleri Jones
Care-seeking for birth in urban India
Michaela Šedovič
Department of Social Policy
Dijana Spasenoska
Department of Social Policy
Dr Joe Strong
Department of International Development
Milagros (Milo) Vandemoortele
Department of Social Policy
