Professor Emily Grundy Director of ISER, University of Essex
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Emily Grundy joined ISER as Professor of Population Science and Director in October 2017. Previous appointments have been at the London School of Economics (where she remains a part-time Research Professor), University of Cambridge, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine and King’s College, London. Emily is a demographer by training and most of her work has focussed on ageing. Her 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. Her current research is supported by an ERC Advanced Grant on Family life courses, intergenerational exchanges and later life health https://famhealthproject.wordpress.com/. She 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.
Emily is Chair of the Population Investigation Committee, past President of the British Society for Population Studies, a member of the Council of the International Union for the Scientific Study of Population, a Fellow of the British Academy and a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences.
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9633-1116?lang=en
Google scholar: https://scholar.google.co.uk/citations?user=KO3NyyEAAAAJ
Publications
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The increasing mortality advantage of the married: the role played by education
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Fertility history and physical and mental health changes in European older adults
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Returns home by children and changes in parents’ well-being in Europe
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Intergenerational contacts and depressive symptoms among older parents in Eastern Europe
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Parental health limitations, caregiving and loneliness among women with widowed parents: longitudinal evidence from France
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MINDMAP: establishing an integrated database infrastructure for research in ageing, mental well-being, and the urban environment
Mariëlle A. Beenackers, Dany Doiron, Isabel Fortier, et al.
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Coresidence with a child and happiness among older widows in Europe: does gender of the child matter?
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