Ridhi Kashyap
Demographer. Data enthusiast. Cricket aficionado.
- Reposted by Ridhi KashyapNew study on global digital gender gaps 🧔♂️👩📱🌐: It finds that in low- and middle-income countries - women are 9% less likely to use the 🌐 - 8% less likely to own a 📱 than men ( ~320 million fewer women 🌐 and ~190 million fewer women with 📱) www.demography.ox.ac.uk/news/mapping...
- Proud to see @jasminabdelghany.bsky.social now a Dr. It was a pleasure advising her thesis and seeing her grow as a scholar. Congratulations!
- 1/ HUGE congratulations to @jasminabdelghany.bsky.social for passing her DPhil viva w/ no corrections with her dissertation "The impact of in-utero exposure to ambient temperature on maternal health, infant health, and population composition." @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social @oxpop.bsky.social
- Reposted by Ridhi KashyapNew @pnas.org paper constructing subnational estimates of internet and mobile adoption by gender, including gender gaps, for 117 low- and middle- income countries from 2015 through 2025. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
- Reposted by Ridhi Kashyap🚨 The Economist has been telling you for years that polygamy causes civil war by locking men out of marriage. A new article with @rebeccasear.bsky.social and @anthrolog.bsky.social explains that the demography of marriage markets doesn't actually work that way. 🧵 www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
- Thanks for having me @i2sc.net - I enjoyed the discussion. Hope the rest of your SICSS goes well!
- We closed our Monday with a thought-provoking keynote by @ridhikashyap.bsky.social (@ox.ac.uk) on “𝐺𝑒𝑛𝑑𝑒𝑟 𝐼𝑛𝑒𝑞𝑢𝑎𝑙𝑖𝑡𝑖𝑒𝑠 𝑖𝑛 𝑎 𝐷𝑖𝑔𝑖𝑡𝑎𝑙 𝑊𝑜𝑟𝑙𝑑.” Her talk highlighted key challenges and opportunities for research at the intersection of gender, demography, and digital data.
- Reposted by Ridhi Kashyap🌍 Can satellites help count people where censuses are missing? New work by @edithdarin.bsky.social, @ridhikashyap.bsky.social K& Douglas Leasure shows building-footprint maps + smart models can fill census gaps—vital for health, planning & aid. www.demography.ox.ac.uk/news/can-sat...
- New work from the Digital Gender Gaps team — we show how access to free laptops provided in public schools improved foundational math esp for economically disadvantaged households, w/ more time on time on learning, less private tuition and better language comprehension.
- Access to technology and foundational math proficiency among students: empirical evidence from India doi.org/10.1057/s415... Paper in @nature.com by Prashant Poddar, @rotondivale.bsky.social and @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social Fellow @ridhikashyap.bsky.social
- Are you attending the International Population Conference in Brisbane? The IUSSP Panel on Digital and Computational Demography is organising *3* pre-conference workshops on digital gender inequalities, kinship and microsimulation, and migration and digital trace data iussp.org/en/digital-a...
- Sign up is still open for 'Gender Inequalities in a Digital World: Perspectives from Digital Demography' (Saturday July 12) docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
- Sign up still open for 'Exploring Migration Patterns using Digital Trace Data' (Saturday, July 12) docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
- Reposted by Ridhi Kashyap#IPC2025! Workshop by @lpcalderonb.bsky.social @aasli.bsky.social & @ridhikashyap.bsky.social in Brisbane: "Demographic Microsimulation in R Using SOCSIM:Modeling Population & Kinship Dynamics." ipc2025.iussp.org/cms/wp-conte... Sign up until 06/22/25 Applicants will be notified by the end of June.
- Reposted by Ridhi Kashyap🔥Coming July 2: 'Metrics and Models'!🔥 A new seminar series on advanced modelling w/ impact across health/society. 🌍 Open to *ALL*! 🕑 Weds 2pm UK alternating weeks (online) 🔗 metrics-and-models.github.io 📬 metrics_and_models-subscribe@maillist.ox.ac.uk Brilliant speakers. *Please share*!
- Reposted by Ridhi KashyapHey demographers! We're starting up the formal demography working group again! Next Friday 16 May at 11:30am ET @hggaddy.bsky.social will talk to us about challenges in estimating crisis mortality. Excited! Head to the website to sign up for Zoom details: formaldemography.github.io/working_group/
- Reposted by Ridhi KashyapI’ve loved my time here — highly recommend applying! Just a few days left...
- *JOB OPENING* Come join me and the Digital Gender Gaps team @sociologyoxford.bsky.social @oxforddemsci.bsky.social. We study digital gender inequalities and their consequences w/ social media, geospatial, and population data. tinyurl.com/postdoc-oxf Apply by 9 May, noon (UK)
- Deadline approaching: Friday this week at noon UK! Apply and/or share widely!
- *JOB OPENING* Come join me and the Digital Gender Gaps team @sociologyoxford.bsky.social @oxforddemsci.bsky.social. We study digital gender inequalities and their consequences w/ social media, geospatial, and population data. tinyurl.com/postdoc-oxf Apply by 9 May, noon (UK)
- *JOB OPENING* Come join me and the Digital Gender Gaps team @sociologyoxford.bsky.social @oxforddemsci.bsky.social. We study digital gender inequalities and their consequences w/ social media, geospatial, and population data. tinyurl.com/postdoc-oxf Apply by 9 May, noon (UK)
- Reposted by Ridhi KashyapREPOST #jobs @oxforddemsci.bsky.social 👨💻Senior Research Fellow Associate/Professor 👩💻Senior Researcher Geospatial Health 📲Postdoc Digital Pandemic Preparedness 👶Postdoc Reproductive Demography 🤖 Programmer AI See: www.demography.ox.ac.uk/jobs #Demography #Epidemiology #Health #Population
- Reposted by Ridhi KashyapMarch 15, 2020 was a huge turning point for me w/ both @oxforddemsci.bsky.social & the start of my #scicomm adventure w/ @thosenerdygirls.bsky.social. On the 5th anniversary of that day, I am excited to launch my Substack "Data for Health"-please subscribe! jenndowd.substack.com/p/reflection...
- The Population and Development turns 50 this year! To mark the occasion, w/ @aasli.bsky.social, we conduct a computational analysis of research themes and author characteristics in PDR and compare with @readdemography.bsky.social and Population Studies. doi.org/10.1111/padr...
- Reposted by Ridhi KashyapHow can we #AccelerateAction to improve women's health outcomes? buff.ly/pacAIJZ A new study co-authored by Dr Ursula Gazeley identifies the leading causes of maternal deaths globally and highlights the need to reduce health inequities in LMICs. @leverhulme.bsky.social @oxpop.bsky.social #IWD2025
- Reposted by Ridhi KashyapClosing the digital gender gap starts with data 📊 For #InternationalWomensDay, Ridhi & team launched an updated dashboard tracking internet & mobile access by gender at a subnational level. Explore ➡️ digitalgendergaps.org/dashboard/
- This #IWD2025, let’s talk about the digital gender gap 🌍📱 Women in low- & middle-income countries are 22% less likely to use the internet & 14% less likely to own a mobile phone. Hear from @ridhikashyap.bsky.social on why digital access matters ➡️ www.sociology.ox.ac.uk/article/brid...
- Reposted by Ridhi KashyapOn #InternationalWomensDay, @ridhikashyap.bsky.social's Digital Gender Gaps team have launched an updated dashboard to #AccelerateAction by helping to ensure women are equal participants in digital society buff.ly/OSV35V8 @leverhulme.bsky.social @oxpop.bsky.social @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social
- Reposted by Ridhi KashyapWant to learn about computational social science *for free* and launch interdisciplinary research projects? We are so excited to announce there will be *26* Summer Institutes in Computational Social Science this year! Apply to one of them here: sicss.io/locations
- Reposted by Ridhi KashyapIf you are interested in studying good old human activity on pre-Musk Twitter, we are now sharing the complete 375M dataset of our 24h Twitter data collection with researchers. Get in touch! ojs.aaai.org/index.php/IC... Please forward to interested scholars.
- Reposted by Ridhi KashyapWhat's the future of mortality in high-income countries? Making predictions (especially about the future) is hard. But that doesn't stop us from trying...I'm happy to share this contribution to the PDR 50th anniversary special issue: doi.org/10.1111/padr... (open access) #Demography
- Reposted by Ridhi KashyapHappy 5th birthday to us! 🥳 In October, we celebrated five years of disrupting and realigning demography with the #demographic community at our inaugural #DemSciSummit buff.ly/3Da6Kre @leverhulme.bsky.social @nuffieldlibrary.bsky.social @ox.ac.uk @melindacmills.bsky.social
- Reposted by Ridhi Kashyap@caseybreen.bsky.social, in “Longevity Benefits of Homeownership,” finds life expectancy differs btw homeowners & renters, presenting “compelling evidence that owning a home in early adulthood has a causal effect on later-life mortality.” @oxforddemsci.bsky.social read.dukeupress.edu/demography/a...
- We have another faculty opening at Oxford — this time in demography: Associate Professor in Social Demography, open to any area/topic, and open to different career stages, incl. junior scholars. With linked tutorial fellowship at St John’s College. t.co/rQ4Uob7bIz Happy to answer questions!
- Proud supervisor moment —congratulations to Xinyi on an excellent and ambitious thesis! Here is a glimpse of Xinyi’s research: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
- 🥳 Huge congrats to Xinyi Zhao who sailed through her viva with no corrections 👏Her thesis is on the gender inequality in academia: opportunities and challenges in the era of globalisation and digitalisation @leverhulme.bsky.social @mpidr.bsky.social
- We have a new faculty opening at Oxford Sociology and Nuffield College — come join us and be my colleague! An Oxford AP is the main faculty grade and a very broad category — covering those just out of PhD to those more senior, incl. Full Professor. www.sociology.ox.ac.uk/article/asso...
- New from the Digital Gender Gaps team: "Social capital mediates knowledge gaps in informing sexual and reproductive health in Africa" We use Facebook friendships between regions w/ DHS data to explore how social capital shapes diffusion of SRH behaviours www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
- Reposted by Ridhi KashyapTwo 3-year PhD fellowships are available within the remit of my ERC project on the risks and vulnerability of widowhood across ageing societies!!! Deadline for applications - December 10 Start date - September 1 www.sciencespo.fr/osc/fr/conte...
