Jane Falkingham
Jane Cecelia Falkingham is a Professor of Demography and International Social Policy at the University of Southampton. She is also Dean of the Faculty of Social Science at the University of Southampton, and Director of the ESRC Centre for Population Change. In 2018 she was elected President of the European Association of Population Studies.. She was President of the British Society for Population Studies between 2015 and 2017.
She was awarded an OBE for services to Social Science in the Queen’s Birthday Honours for 2015.
She is a part of the UK Research and Innovation Executive Committee as a member of the Economic and Social Research Council, and a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences and the Royal Society of Arts.
She spent the first 21 years of her academic career at the London School of Economics and Political Science, starting as an undergraduate. She became Bachelor of Science in Economics in 1984, and Master of Science in Demography in 1985. From 1986 to 2002 she held various academic research positions at LSE, including Lecturer, and then became a Reader in the Department of Social Policy. She joined the University of Southampton in 2002 as a Professor, becoming Head of the School of Social Sciences in 2010 and Dean in 2014
