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Professor Jane Falkingham FBA

Jane Falkingham's multi-disciplinary research agenda is located at the interface between population studies and social policy, spanning both developed and developing countries.
Fellow type
UK Fellow
Year elected
2026
Honours
CBE, FAcSS, FRSA
Subjects
Sociology
Sections
Sociology, Demography and Social Statistics
Website
University of Southampton

Summary

Jane Falkingham is Vice President (Engagement & International) and Professor of Demography & International Social Policy at the University of Southampton. She is also the Director of the ESRC Centre for Population Change (CPC), whose remit is to ‘improve understanding of the drivers and consequences of population change both nationally and globally’ and PI of the ESRC Connecting Generations research collaboration.

Jane pursues a multi-disciplinary research agenda, located at the interface between population studies and social policy and spanning both developed and developing countries. She has published more than 230 journal articles and book chapters and supervised over 30 PhD students to successful completion.

Jane has a long history of service to the academic community both in the UK and internationally. From 2017 to March 2022, she was a Member of ESRC Council and chaired the ESRC Grant Delivery Group. She was also the Chair ESRC Covid-19 Rapid Response funding panel.

Jane was President of the British Society for Population Studies (2015-2017) and President of the European Association for Population Studies (2018-2020) and is currently Chair of the European Population Information Centre, Population Europe.

Jane was elected as a Fellow of the UK Academy of Social Sciences in 2011 and the Royal Society of Arts in 2016. In January 2023 she was named as a Commander of the British Empire (CBE) in the King’s first New Year’s Honours.

Current post

University of Southampton Director, ESRC Centre for Population Change

University of Southampton Vice President (Engagement & International)

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