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Congratulations to Ridhi Kashyap, Professorial Fellow at Nuffield College and Professor of Demography & Computational Social Science at the University of Oxford Department of Sociology, who has been honoured with the first Early Career Award from the European Association for Population Studies (EAPS).

The award, which was established in September 2025, marks outstanding contributions by an early career scholar to demography and the interdisciplinary study of population. EAPS is a non-profit professional organisation promoting population studies.

On receiving the EAPS Early Career Award, she said:

"I am deeply honoured to receive the inaugural EAPS Early Career Award, especially in a year in which I have also been fortunate to receive the PAA Early Achievement Award. 

I am incredibly grateful to the mentors, collaborators and colleagues whose support, guidance and friendship have shaped my work. I am also fortunate to have wonderful students with whom I can work together to advance demographic research. 

Population studies is a vibrant, innovative, and interdisciplinary field, and I feel privileged to contribute to research that helps us better understand demographic change and its implications for societies around the world."

Ridhi Kashyap’s research covers a broad range of demographic topics, including mortality and population health, migration and ethnicity, family and marriage patterns, and gender inequality.

A key focus is the application of computational approaches to demographic research by developing the field of digital and computational demography. Through this, she is helping to build connections between demography and the wider interdisciplinary field of computational social science.

Professor Kashyap also won the Early Achievement Award from the Population Association of America earlier this year.