Emily Grundy MA MSc PhD

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Background

Emily Grundy took the MSc in Medical Demography at the School sometime ago and returned to the Centre for Population Studies in 1998. She previously worked at the Institute of Gerontology, King's College London, and prior to that in the Social Statistics Research Unit at City University and in the Department of Health Care of the Elderly at Nottingham University.Emily is currently President of the British Society for Population Studies and Secetary-General and Treasurer of the International Union for the Scientific Study of Population.  

Teaching

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

Selected publications

• Grundy, E.; Kravdal, O.; Fertility history and cause-specific mortality: A register-based analysis of complete cohorts of Norwegian women and men. Soc Sci Med, 2010; 70(11):1847-57
• Grundy, E.; Household transitions and subsequent mortality among older people in England and Wales: trends over three decades. J Epidemiol Community Health, 2010;
• Grundy, E.; Women's fertility and mortality in late mid life: A comparison of three contemporary populations. Am J Hum Biol, 2009; 21(4):541-7
• Young, H.; Grundy, E.; O'Reilly, D.; Boyle, P.; Self-rated health and mortality in the UK: results from the first comparative analysis of the England and Wales, Scotland, and Northern Ireland Longitudinal Studies. Popul Trends, 2010; 139(1):11-36
• Grundy, E.; Kravdal, Ø.; Reproductive History and Mortality in Late Middle Age among Norwegian Men and Women. Am J Epidemiol, 2008; 167(3):271-9
• Grundy, E.; Jitlal, M.; Socio-demographic variations in moves to institutional care 1991-2001: a record linkage study from England and Wales. Age Ageing, 2007; 36(4):424-30
• Ploubidis, G.B.; Grundy, E.; Later-Life Mental Health in Europe: A Country-Level Comparison. J Gerontol B Psychol Sci Soc Sci, 2009;
• Grundy, E; Tomassini, C.; Fatherhood history and later life health and mortality in England and Wales: a record linkage study. Social Biology, 2006; 58(3-4):189-205

Full publications listing (since 2001)