Professor Emily Grundy Professor of Population Science, University of Essex
- emily.grundy@essex.ac.uk
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Emily Grundy joined ISER as Professor of Population Science in October 2017 and served as Director from then until October 2020. She is also an affiliated researcher at the Norwegian Institute of Public Health Centre for Excellence on Fertility and Health. She was previously Professor of Demography at the London School of Economics. Previous appointments include positions at the University of Cambridge, London School of Hygiene Tropical Medicine and King’s College London.
Education
PhD Medical Demography, University of London, UK; MSc Medical Demography, London School of Hygiene Tropical Medicine; BA (and MA), King’s College, University of Cambridge.
Research interests and current research
Emily’s main research interests are families, households and kin and social networks in later life, especially in relationship to health, associations between family life courses and health and well-being at older ages, and trends and differentials in later life health, disability and mortality. She has been awarded numerous UK and international grants including an ERC Advanced Grant (2013-2018). https://famhealthproject.wordpress.com. She currently leads an ESRC funded project on Families, households and health in ageing populations: Projections and Implications (2020-2023) and is a co-investigator in the Research Centre on Micro-Social Change (MiSoC; PI Emilia Del Bono).
Emily is also involved in collaborative projects on urban environments and mental health at older ages http://www.mindmap-cities.eu/ and on long-term care in Europe.
She is past Chair of the Population Investigation Committee, past President of the British Society for Population Studies, a and past Council member of the International Union for the Scientific Study of Population. She currently serves on a range of national and international review committees and on the Editorial Board of the Journals of Gerontology (Social Sciences) and Population, Space and Place. Emily is a Fellow of the British Academy and a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences.
Read more about Emily’s work on her ORCID profile and on Google Scholar.
Publications
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Area deprivation, perceived neighbourhood cohesion and mental health at older ages: a cross lagged analysis of UK longitudinal data
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Random effects dynamic panel models for unequally spaced multivariate categorical repeated measures: an application to child-parent exchanges of support
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Fertility trajectories and later-life depression among parents in England
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Fertility history and biomarkers using prospective data: evidence from the 1958 National Child Development Study
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Social isolation and memory decline in later-life
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The association between parity, CVD mortality and CVD risk factors among Norwegian women and men
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Work–family lifecourses and later-life health in the United Kingdom
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Post-war (1946-2017) population health change in the United Kingdom: a systematic review
Dawid Gondek, David Bann, Emily Grundy, et al.
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Intergenerational contacts and depressive symptoms among older parents in Eastern Europe
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Children’s age at parental divorce and depression in early and mid-adulthood
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Pathways to health
George B. Ploubidis, Benedetta Pongiglione, Bianca De Stavola, et al.
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Offspring and later-life loneliness in Eastern and Western Europe
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Cohort profile: the Office for National Statistics Longitudinal Study (The LS)
Nicola Shelton, Chris E. Marshall, Rachel Stuchbury, et al.
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Parental health limitations, caregiving and loneliness among women with widowed parents: longitudinal evidence from France
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Household debt and depressive symptoms among older adults in three continental European countries
Media
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"Torno da mia madre", che stress quando i figli quarantenni ripiombano a casa
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Empty-nesters 'resent boomerang kids'
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Parents with ‘boomerang’ children who move back home as adults suffer as much as people with illness or disability, study shows
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Boomerang offspring damage parents' wellbeing, study finds
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Parents’ lives made more miserable by the ‘boomerang generation’ returning home
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Women are happier being single than men because relationships are hard work
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Women are happier being single than men, says a new study
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Women prefer being single - because relationships are hard work, research suggests