Forthcoming Event
Bringing Mortality Back into our Understanding of Fertility Change
About the Speaker
Professor Vegard Skirbekk, Center for Fertility and Health, Norwegian Institute of Public Health, University of Oslo, Norway.
Vegard Skirbekk is a social scientist specializing in demographic analysis and cohort studies. He has received research grants from ERC, PEW and UNESCO. Skirbekk’s main research focus is on health, productivity, and associated determinants from a multidisciplinary perspective, with an emphasis on the role of changing labor market demands, technological and cultural changes as well as variation in the attitudes, beliefs, and competences of new cohorts. He has published widely on comparative health and cultural studies for countries from all world regions. Skirbekk has worked extensively on causality, global comparative assessments and projection.
Convenor: Professor George W Leeson
Please note that this is a Hybrid event. We welcome colleagues to 66 Banbury Road or on line via Zoom:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81070637073
This event is part of a seminar series:
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...
Event Details
22 January 2026 14:00 - 15:00
Location
Online & 66 Banbury Rd