Niall Newsham

Biography

Niall Newsham is a postdoctoral research scholar in the Department of Geography at the University of California at Santa Barbara and member of the MOVE Lab. His research focuses on analysing spatial and temporal features of demographic change, with a focus on population decline, low fertility and mobility trajectories. His recent works have developed machine learning models to forecast population change outcomes in small geographic areas across Europe. He holds a PhD in Human Geography from the University of Liverpool, and an MSc in Demography from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona.

Selected Publications

Newsham, N. and Rowe, F., 2024. The Demographic Causes of European Sub-National Population Declines.

Newsham, N. and Rowe, F., 2023. Understanding trajectories of population decline across rural and urban Europe: A sequence analysis. Population, Space and Place, 29(3), p.e2630.

González‐Leonardo, M., Newsham, N. and Rowe, F., 2023. Understanding population decline trajectories in Spain using sequence analysis. Geographical Analysis, 55(4), pp.495-516.

González‐Leonardo, M., López‐Gay, A., Newsham, N., Recaño, J. and Rowe, F., 2022. Understanding patterns of internal migration during the COVID‐19 pandemic in Spain. Population, Space and Place, 28(6), p.e2578.

Newsham, N. and Rowe, F., 2021. Projecting the demographic impact of Syrian migration in a rapidly ageing society, Germany. Journal of Geographical Systems, 23(2), pp.231-261.