Demography & Health (online) (Taught)

Ageing populations, shifting fertility rates, migration, growing inequalities - these are the demographic forces driving today’s global headlines. Population dynamics affect every aspect of our world, from political stability and climate impact to economies, health, and family life. As the data landscape continues to evolve, new avenues for digital demographic research are emerging. Expert demographers are crucial for generating the population insights that shape global trends and for driving innovation in demographic data science with tangible, real-world benefits.

Join our online MSc Demography and Health to study population dynamics and their interaction with global health. This is an intensive online programme that can be taken either full time (one year) or built to work alongside your employment part-time over two years. You’ll learn to analyse processes that govern and interact with population change, including reproductive behaviour and social relationships, exposure to health risks, economic growth, and climate change.

What you will learn

• Learn demographic methods and theory, including population projections; dynamics of fertility, mortality and migration; data science and analytics; life-course research and survival analysis

• Learn to present results of analyses through written and oral presentations

• Take a critical, interdisciplinary approach to the study of population change and its interactions with wider social, political and environmental change

• Discover how we can use evidence-based approaches to develop and evaluate population programmes

• Formulate critical, policy-relevant, research questions and use demographic and health data to address them

• Develop practical skills through student-led seminars, data analysis tasks and mini-research projects.

Mode of Delivery
Lectures and practicals for this online programme will be delivered during the UK timezone, on weekdays, usually between 09.00-17.00. The programme will be delivered wholly online, with no in-person attendance. There will be a mix of live and interactive activities (synchronous learning) as well as recorded or self-directed study (asynchronous learning). Examples of synchronous learning are live online lectures, group discussions and seminars. Asynchronous learning includes pre-recorded lectures, independent reading and activities.

Duration
The programme is 12 months full-time or 24 months part-time; it is also available for split-study over two years.