Emily Grundy MA MSc PhD

Professor of Demographic Gerontology

Emily Grundy worked in the Centre/Department of Population Studies from 1998 to May 2012 when she left to take up a post as Professor of Demography at Cambridge University. She remains connected with the School through various collaborative projects (see http://pathways.lshtm.ac.uk/ )

Her new email from May 1 2012 will be emily.grundy@geog.cam.ac.uk

Affiliation

Teaching

Emily teaches on the main term one demography courses, Population Studies,   Demographic Methods (which she organises), and on the Basic Epidemiology and Statistics for Epidemiology courses.

Research

Most of Emily's research has been focused on ageing. Her main interests in this field are families, households and social support in later life, especially in relationship to health; trends and differentials in health and disability, and the long term consequences of marital and reproductive history for health and social support. Much of Emily's research has involved analysis of data from the Office for National Statistics Longitudinal Study (ONS LS)and she leads the team which provides support to academic users of this resource (CeLSIUS). Emily is involved in several European collaborative projects, as well as collaborative projects elsewhere, and chairs the European Population Association working group on demographic change and the support of older people.

Research areas

  • Ageing
  • Health inequalities

Disciplines

  • Demography
  • Life-course epidemiology

Other interests

  • MARCH,social Support And Health,family And Household
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