Impact

Media impact

Stakeholder impact

  • Dr. Sarah Christison met with writer and director Katherine Nesbitt who has secured funding from Creative Scotland to develop a verbatim theatre project exploring Scotland’s declining fertility rate. They discussed the drivers of fertility decline as well as wider issues related to population change and Scotland’s demographic challenges. This discussion along with others with experts in demography, economics and maternity care will form the basis for structuring the play along side conversations with focus groups made up of members of the public, February 2025.
  • Dr. Bernice Kuang co-convened a breakfast roundtable at the Labour Party Conference on ‘Understanding population change and the implications for the five missions’, 23 September 2024.
  • Professor Ann Berrington met with Sir Ian Diamond, Donna Ward (Director of strategic policy at Department for Education) and other senior researchers from ONS to discuss policy responses to demographic change in the UK, 26 April 2024.
  • Professor Hill Kulu presented ‘Fertility trends by birth order in Britain: The comparison between England and Wales, and Scotland’ at the 4th Annual Academy of the International Max Planck Research School (Population, Health, Data Science) in Rostock on 13 December 2022.
  • In collaboration with the Scottish Government Population Team, the FertilityTrends project team (Professor Hill Kulu, Professor Ann Berrington, Dr Bernice Kuang, Dr Sarah Christison, and Dr Joanne Ellison) presented at a ‘Fertility in Scotland’ workshop in Edinburgh on 29 November 2022.  Workshop participants included invited guests from the Office for National Statistics (ONS), National Records of Scotland (NRS), and the Finnish Population Research Institue.
  • Professor Jane Falkingham, Professor Ann Berrington and Professor Hill Kulu discussed their research with UK government Permanent Secretaries and Sir Ian Diamond, National Statistician, 29 October 2021.
  • Professor Hill Kulu and Professor Ann Berrington contributed to the National Population Projections Expert Advisory Group meeting on 24 May 2021.
  • Dr. Joanne Ellison gave a presentation at the monthly ONS DMEG (Demographic Methods Expert Group) meeting on 12 April 2021 on ‘Combining data sources to develop a Bayesian projection model for England and Wales fertility’.