Department of Population Studies
Head of Department: Ian Timaeus
Department Research Degree Co-ordinator: Basia Zaba
Department Administrator: Carolyn Hartley
Tel: +44-20-7299-4800 Fax: +44-20-7299 4637
The Department of Population Studies (PSD) lies within the Faculty of Epidemiology & Population Health of the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine. PSD is engaged in the measurement and explanation of population trends and in the evaluation of attempts to modify them. With 25 academic and academic-related staff, PSD represents the largest research group in Britain concerned with demography, reproductive health research, and related disciplines. The Department is active in research both on Britain, Europe and other developed countries, and in research on the developing world, where it has a regional focus on sub-Saharan Africa and South-East Asia.
PSD has strong programmes of research in the demography of ageing, reproductive and sexual health, and the demographic impact of the AIDS epidemic in Africa and mathematical modelling of the AIDS epidemic. Other fields of research in which the Department is active include family demography, medical demography, global health, health inequalities, the burden of disease, and the indirect estimation of fertility and mortality in developing countries. The Department also hosts CeLSIUS - the support team for academic users of the ONS Longitudinal Study. PSD adopts a multidisciplinary approach to its activities. The staff combine expertise in demography and reproductive health with backgrounds and experience in sociology, anthropology, psychology, policy analysis, operations research, economics, mathematics, statistics, biology, epidemiology and public health.
PSD provides much of the teaching for the MSc in Demography and Health and the MSc in Reproductive & Sexual Health Research. The Department is a long-established Economic and Social Research Council outlet for postgraduate training and currently has 7 ESRC Doctoral Training Centre and MRC studentships. It is host to 15-20 research students at any time. The thesis titles of the students awarded research degrees in recent years give some indication of the wide range of topics on which students can undertake research.
For information on our Population Symposium, that we held on the 12th of July 2010, please click here.
