Dr. Richard Shaw

Biography

Richard Shaw is an epidemiologist interested in health inequalities and the development of life course models with a focus on secondary analysis of administrative data and cohort studies. He has been part of the School of Health and Wellbeing at the University of Glasgow since 2012. Previously, he worked at the Universities of Oxford, Southampton, and York, and studied for his PhD in the Department of Epidemiology at University College London. His recent work includes a Fellowship with Understanding Society, focusing on evaluating the consequences of wellbeing changes linked to policies like the Education Maintenance Allowance and tuition fees. His research interests are centered on how a person's social context influences health throughout their life course, with specific areas of interest including mental health, socio-economic determinants of health, economic inactivity, receipt of benefits, education, loneliness, ethnicity, neighborhoods, siblings, suicide, and social care. He is adept in quantitative methods, longitudinal analysis, and the use of administrative data.

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