📅 NEXT WEEK - 'The Great British #BabyBust: Should we worry about the UK’s falling #birthrate, and can we do anything about it?' hosted by the #ResolutionFoundation.

CPC-CG member Professor Ann Berrington (University of Southampton) and CG member Charles McCurdy (Resolution Foundation) are panellists, discussing why it matters, how, and if #policymakers should respond, and what we can learn from across the globe.

Register to attend in-person or online on Weds 1 April: https://www.resolutionfoundation.org/events/the-great-british-baby-bust/

"When considering those transitioning to state #pension age, #policymakers need to account for the different #socioeconomic resources and health status that individuals with different #demographic characteristics bring to these transitions," say CPC-CG and CRA researchers in newly published evidence submitted to the #Work and #Pensions Committee inquiry into the transition to #StatePension age.

Read their written evidence in full: https://committees.parliament.uk/writtenevidence/157340/pdf/

Inquiry info: https://committees.parliament.uk/.../transi.../publications/

The #Wittgenstein Centre has announced CPC-CG member Professor Ann Berrington as their first #WICConference2026 keynote speaker, exploring how #education, #family trajectories, and #lifecourse decisions shape #societies and #opportunities over time.

🎓 A must-attend event for #researchers, #policymakers, #students, and anyone interested in the future of #demography and #humancapital.

Find out more: https://www.oeaw.ac.at/vid/news-events/conferences/demography-and-human-capital

Vaccination hesitancy is among the top 10 threats to global health, according to the World Health Organization. Tracking attitudes toward #vaccination is a key tool to tackle #vaccinationhesitancy.

We explored the link between anti-vaccination attitudes and endorsement of several policies and disease-spreading countermeasures, showing the importance of tracking people's attitudes towards vaccination.
Moreover, we adapted the Vaccination Attitudes Examination (VAX) Scale
to the Italian context (freely available in the appendix) and ran a comprehensive psychometric assessment of the scale.

Collabra: Psychology (University of California Press) gave us a platform for sharing our findings and materials (e.g., the scale's items) in full compliance with #openscience best practices.

We hope researchers and #policymakers can leverage our work to foster knowledge sharing and support vaccination efforts.

https://online.ucpress.edu/collabra/article/11/1/136895/209907/Psychometric-Assessment-of-the-Italian-Version-of