Teaching
My teaching aims to reflect my research interests in promoting interdisciplinarity. I currently teach a module in ‘Population Studies‘ at MSc-level, which introduces students to global population trends and uses an interdisciplinary approach to interpret these trends. I am also increasingly interested in promoting a critical perspective on research in my teaching. Here’s a slide deck from the ‘Conceptual approaches to population studies‘ lecture, which outlines the very interdisciplinary nature of demography. Slides
I also run a training session for early career researchers on ‘Good practice in peer review‘. Slides
MSc Demography & Health, LSHTM
I teach on this long-standing MSc, which celebrates its 50th(!) birthday in the 2020-21 academic year. It provides excellent training in demographic methods and theory, statistical methods, and population studies as well as allowing students to take a range of options, both methodological and substantive.
Scholarships opportunities for MSc study @LSHTM
- Diana Walford Scholarship (full scholarship – LMIC)
- GSK Scholarships for Future Health Leaders (full scholarship – SSA)
- LSHTM Fund Scholarship (full scholarship – LMIC)
- WT International Master’s Fellowships (full scholarship – LMIC)
- Basia Zaba Memorial Scholarship (partial scholarship – DH students only)
- PIC Masters Studentship Scheme in Population Studies (full scholarship – UK/EU): usually announced in the spring
MSc funding opportunities are regularly updated and listed here: https://www.lshtm.ac.uk/study/fees-funding/funding-scholarships/masters-funding
More info on the MSc training programmes is available here: https://www.lshtm.ac.uk/research/centres-projects-groups/psg#study
Talks
Here are a selection of slide decks from recent talks:
‘Taming the confusion in the human life history literature’
‘Family matters: a data-driven approach to dismantling the myth of the nuclear family‘
‘Why do health inequalities exist?‘
‘Interdisciplinarity in the social sciences, illustrated with evolutionary demography’