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Dr. Liliana Andriano is a lecturer whose research interests encompass child health, mortality, female education, and climate change. She investigates how environmental processes, including climate change and conflict, affect health and demographic outcomes in sub-Saharan Africa. Dr. Andriano's work examines the implications of weather shocks during early childhood and young adulthood on child health and family formation. She emphasizes the role of female education in facilitating adaptation to climate change and has received funding from the British Academy and Leverhulme Trust for her recent research on the relationship between political conflict and demographic processes. An economist by training from Bocconi University, Dr. Andriano earned her PhD in Sociology from the University of Oxford. Before her position at the University of Southampton, she held postdoctoral research positions at Nuffield College, Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science, and the Department of Sociology at the University of Oxford. Dr. Andriano teaches a variety of undergraduate and postgraduate modules, showing interest in supervising students whose research aligns with climate change, conflict, and spatial methods.