Biography

I am a statistical demographer working predominantly with migration data to better predict past and future movement patterns and gain a richer understanding of how migration varies by core demographic variables such as age, sex, and education. This website contains posts mainly related to my research, including some information on my publications and use of R, including packages I developed.

I am based in the Department of Sociology at the University of Hong Kong. Previously, I have worked in the Asian Demographic Research Institute at Shanghai University, the Vienna Institute of Demography in the Austrian Academy of Sciences, and the ESRC Centre for Population Change and S3RI at the University of Southampton.

Interests
  • Statistical Demography
  • Migration
  • R
Education
  • PhD Social Statistics and Demography, 2009

    University of Southampton

  • MSc Social Statistics (Distinction), 2005

    University of Southampton

  • MSc Statistics (Distinction), 2003

    University of Kent

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(2024). The Globalization of International Migration? A Conceptual and Data‐Driven Synthesis. In Population and Development Review.

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(2024). Drought and aridity influence internal migration worldwide. In Nature Climate Change 14, 1245–1253.

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(2024). The Migration Intersections Grid: An Organizing Framework for Migration Research in and through the Twenty-first Century. In International Migration Review, 58(4), 1937-1973..

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(2024). A multidimensional global migration model for use in cohort-component population projections. In Demographic Research, 51 323-376.

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(2024). Integrating traditional and social media data to predict bilateral migrant stocks in the European Union. In International Migration Review 59(1), 90-118.

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