Giorgio DiGessa BSc MScR

Research Degree Student

I started studying for a PhD at the School in October 2008. Before joining the school, I did a M.Sc. by Research in Statistics at the University of Glasgow, having previously studied "Social Statistics, Population Sciences and Demography" at the University of Rome "La Sapienza" and at the University of Southampton as an exchange student.

Affiliation

Teaching

In 2008, I taught a class on 'Multivariate Methods' to first and second year undergraduate psychologists at the University of Glasgow, UK, where I was also demonstrator for the 2007 academic session of Biometrics 3.

Research

My current research focuses on better understanding and identifying individual level and policy related differentials in indicators of 'active ageing' (paid work, volunteering, social relationships) and associations with health and well-being of older people in 4 European countries, selected to represent different welfare regimes.

Research areas

  • Ageing
  • Health inequalities
  • Social and structural determinants of health

Disciplines

  • Demography
  • Life-course epidemiology
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