Jane Falkingham – The Conversation

Geogphotos

August 3, 2026

Britain’s quarter century: shrinking families, ethnic tensions and queer winners and losers

Athina Vlachantoni, University of Southampton; Carrie Paechter, Nottingham Trent University; Jane Falkingham, University of Southampton; Maria Evandrou, University of Southampton; Michael Skey, Loughborough University; Rob McNeil, University of Oxford, and Rory Fitzgerald, City St George's, University of London

The changing face of demographics, immigration, social attitudes and LGBTQ+ politics.

Serenity Images23/Shutterstock

April 16, 2025

Denying compensation to ‘Waspi’ women over pension changes could be a missed opportunity

Jane Falkingham, University of Southampton; Athina Vlachantoni, University of Southampton, and Yifan Ge, University of Southampton

It could have been a first step in levelling the UK’s gender pension gap.

Opting out of workplace pension schemes is more common among some minority communities than the white British population. Pranithan Chorruangsak/Shutterstock

February 5, 2025

Why there’s an ethnic pension gap in the UK – and how the government could close it

Athina Vlachantoni, University of Southampton; Jane Falkingham, University of Southampton, and Maria Evandrou, University of Southampton

The factors that feed into the pension gap begin much earlier than retirement.

The autumn years are getting later. Shutterstock

February 23, 2017

Rising life expectancy and why we need to rethink the meaning of old age

Jane Falkingham, University of Southampton

Over the last century, life expectancy has increased by seven hours a day.

JuliusKielaitis / Shutterstock.com

June 13, 2016

How likely is a UK population of 80m – and would it really be a problem?

Jane Falkingham, University of Southampton

Some scenarios put the UK population at just under 80m by 2039. Here are the facts.

Contact Jane for