Research & Projects

Research & Projects

Population research for planning, policy, and public understanding

PSR HUB brings together research on population projections, fertility, human capital, ageing, migration, education, and subnational futures. The work connects academic evidence with tools, training, visual communication, and policy-facing outputs.

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POPSYM

POPSYM is a core research and modelling direction connected to population systems, multidimensional demographic analysis, and scenario-based thinking. This space will introduce the platform, its questions, applications, data products, and links to related tools and publications.

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What POPSYM should connect

  • Population projection models and scenario analysis
  • Education, human capital, labour force, ageing, fertility, mortality, and migration
  • Interactive dashboards, Shiny apps, and reproducible workflows
  • Research papers, policy briefs, visual cards, and teaching materials

Project hubs

Current and developing research hubs

Population projections

Nepal Population Projections 2021-2051

Subnational population projection work supporting planning, policy, dashboards, and visual communication.

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Fertility

Fertility behaviour and sociocultural differences in Nepal

A project hub connecting a BMC Women’s Health paper, seminar recording, future brief, press release, and public discussion.

Project hub to be added

Regional applications

Mozambique population projection work

Projection work, dashboard development, training, and workshop engagement connected to Mozambique population futures.

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Themes

Research themes

Population projections

National and subnational projection models, scenarios, and planning applications.

Fertility and transition

Fertility behaviour, demographic transition, social differentials, and reproductive health.

Human capital

Education, skills, labour force, and multidimensional population modelling.

Ageing

Age structure, dependency, care systems, public finance, and ageing societies.

Migration

Internal migration, emigration, immigration, and regional population change.

Tools and communication

Dashboards, cards, policy briefs, teaching materials, and public-facing outputs.

In development

POPSYM development notes

This section can later be expanded into a dedicated POPSYM page with model description, use cases, documentation, datasets, dashboard links, publications, and teaching materials. For now, it marks POPSYM as one of the main directions of PSR HUB.

Connect research to outputs

Each project can connect papers, datasets, seminars, visual cards, dashboards, briefs, press releases, and public comments in one place.