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ISER has an enviable publications record in top academic journals and regularly presents its work at key conferences and policy events in the UK and around the world. It is also frequently commissioned to produce reports and papers for Government Departments, think tanks, charities and businesses and its important work is frequently featured in the media. You can search all of ISER’s outputs including by area of interest and author.

Assessment of multidimensional measures of aging cross-sectionally and longitudinally across the entire adult age span in the United Kingdom

  1. Wen Wang
  2. Steven Haworth
  3. Yanchun Bao
  4. Meena Kumari
Journal Article - March 1, 2026
  1. Older People
  2. Life Course Analysis
  3. Health
  4. Demography
  5. Biology
  6. Young People
  7. Genetics
  8. Medicine

Socioeconomic position and the gut microbiota: a narrative synthesis of the association and recommendations

  1. Jasmine Samantha Ratcliff
  2. Meena Kumari
  3. Patrick Varga-Weisz
  4. Rick O’Gorman
Journal Article - January 31, 2026
  1. Health
  2. Biology
  3. Social Stratification

Cardiovascular risk factors and cognitive ability across eight decades of life: a cross-sectional analysis of the Understanding Society UK Household Longitudinal Study -conference paper abstract-

  1. Scott T. Chiesa
  2. Kristine B. Walhovd
  3. Meena Kumari
  4. Alun D. Hughes
Journal Article - December 15, 2025
  1. Older People
  2. Life Course Analysis
  3. Psychology
  4. Health
  5. Well Being
  6. Biology

A methylome-wide association study of major depression with out-of-sample case–control classification and trans-ancestry comparison

  1. Xueyi Shen
  2. Miruna Barbu
  3. Doretta Caramaschi
  4. Ryan Arathimos
  5. Darina Czamara
  6. , et al
Journal Article - October 1, 2025
  1. Psychology
  2. Health
  3. Well Being
  4. Biology
  5. Genetics
  6. Medicine
  7. Psychiatry

Measuring resilience to chronic pain in population surveys using hair cortisol

  1. Tarani Chandola
  2. Stephanie Cahill
  3. Wanying Ling
  4. Meena Kumari
Journal Article - August 15, 2025
  1. Older People
  2. Life Course Analysis
  3. Surveys
  4. Survey Methodology
  5. Psychology
  6. Health
  7. Well Being
  8. Biology
  9. Medicine

Association of diurnal cortisol rhythm with chronic pain: evidence from a prospective cohort study in community-dwelling adults

  1. Yunlong Liang
  2. Rui Li
  3. Laura Fumagalli
  4. Cara Booker
Journal Article - August 15, 2025
  1. Life Course Analysis
  2. Health
  3. Biology
  4. Medicine

How different mixed-mode data collection approaches impact response rates and provision of biomeasure samples

  1. Tarek Al Baghal
  2. Jonathan Burton
  3. Thomas F. Crossley
  4. Michaela Benzeval
  5. Meena Kumari
  6. , et al
Journal Article - June 20, 2025
  1. Surveys
  2. Survey Methodology
  3. Health
  4. Biology

Genome-wide association study of long COVID

  1. Vilma Lammi
  2. Tomoko Nakanishi
  3. Samuel E. Jones
  4. Shea J. Andrews
  5. Juha Karjalainen
  6. , et al
Journal Article - June 1, 2025
  1. Life Course Analysis
  2. Health
  3. Covid-19
  4. Biology
  5. Genetics
  6. Medicine

Epigenetic markers of adverse lifestyle identified among evening and night shift workers in two UK population-based studies: Generation Scotland and Understanding Society

  1. Paige M. Hulls
  2. Daniel L. McCartney
  3. Yanchun Bao
  4. Rosie M. Walker
  5. Frank de Vocht
  6. , et al
Journal Article - April 30, 2025
  1. Labour Market
  2. Health
  3. Education
  4. Biology
  5. Genetics
  6. Drug/alcohol Abuse

Social biological research: special issue contributions and next steps

  1. Naomi Priest
  2. Meena Kumari
Journal Article - April 1, 2025
  1. Life Course Analysis
  2. Surveys
  3. Health
  4. Biology
  5. Research
  6. Interdisciplinarity: Social Sciences
  7. Genetics

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