Amazing energy and presence of St Andrews Geography & SD Population & Health Research PhD students and staff at the British Society for Population Studies - BSPS #bsps2023

Great presentation by Mary Abed Al Ahad on air pollution in Scotland and its adverse effects on health 🤩💃🏼 #BSPS2023 Population & Health Research St Andrews Geography & SD

💡Our very own Nissa Finney is excited to report the #EVENS dataset release! This is a landmark moment in the project which inc. PhD students @JHarrison_37 and Michaela Šťastná. EVENS is the most comprehensive survey on the lives of #ethnic and #religious #minorities in the UK 🎉

It has been great to be a part of the EVENS journey. Get to know the novel dataset Evidence for Equality National Survey (EVENS) with us tomorrow😊

Join us Birkbeck, University of London on 21st November to hear Nissa Finney on ‘Contemporary Jewish identities and experiences of racism’. What can ‘big data’ tell us about Jewish experiences of discrimination and how are they distinctive? Full details and to book: bit.ly/47B22wW

WORKSHOP by UKDataService: Teaching with the Evidence for Equality National Survey (EVENS) dataset 📆10-11.30am 31 Jan 2024 How to access & use our new dataset in undergraduate teaching. Unique data on ethnic inequalities in Britain (incl racism, impact of COVID-19, belonging) ukdataservice.ac.uk/events/teachin…

🚨New publication alert! Have a look at our paper on Diverse Early-Life Family Trajectories and Young Children’s Mental Health with Julia Mikolai Nissa Finney and Katy Keenan St Andrews Geography & SD Population & Health Research doi.org/10.1177/019251…

💡Nissa Finney is giving an inaugural lecture! Nissa will discuss 🇬🇧socio-#spatial #inequalities/#injustice, #neighbourhood #ethnic diversity & #housing experiences, touching on housing markets, #migration, #ageing, #economic disadvantage, #racism & #belonging. University of St Andrews

New Doctor! 🍾 🥳 Huge congratulations to Michaela St’astna (Michaela Šťastná) who successfully defended her thesis, ‘Family complexity and child mental health in the UK: A longitudinal study’, yesterday!

Very pleased to announce that my first paper✍️, co-authored with Francesca Fiori, is now published in the Care & Caring Jnl! 🎉🎉 The full paper can be found here: doi.org/10.1332/239788… Or available here for those without the necessary access: doi.org/10.17868/strat… 1/6

🚨 My first PhD paper is out! Using discrete-time multistate models, we find intersectional inequalities across race, education, & sex in multimorbid life expectancy in South Africa. Have a read if you're interested! doi.org/10.1080/003247…

Our new paper "Educational inequalities in cervical cancer screening participation in 24 European countries" (aka the 3rd paper of my dissertation) is out in Public Health! sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

🚨New #publication alert! Congratulations Dr Mengxing PhD, MSW, MA, AFHEA (she/her) 🎉 (Nissa Finney @johale13)

When divorced parents re-partner and their adult children have kids, this new generation of children have up to 8 grandparents instead of 4. As part of my recently awarded NWO VENI project, I’ll be exploring the pros and cons of this new family structure ✨ NIDI

2nd #PhD paper is finally out! 🥳 We identified 5 different framings of the role of #EU marine environmental policies in #marine nature protection among the key #policy actors from national to regional sea to EU levels. conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/cs… (Open Access)

🚨 Now published in the European Journal of Population: "Family Formation and Employment Changes Among Descendants of Immigrants in France: A Multiprocess Analysis" (co-authored with Hill Kulu MigrantLife) 🔗Have a read here: rdcu.be/dTvPc

The findings of this study suggest that mental disorders might be socially transmitted within adolescent peer networks. ja.ma/3TubUnA

Quoting a fellow demographer: "It's here, it's here!" (IYKYK) The 16th Conference of #YoungDemographers is coming up and it will be amazing as always. So share the good news with everyone and send your best papers by 28 October! 👉 bit.ly/YD2025CfP

So this has recently happened😇

A new article on the impact of 16 years air pollution on physical and mental health hospital admissions in Scotland at BMJ Open: bmjopen.bmj.com/content/14/12/… The article captured so much media attention. Population & Health Research St Andrews Geography & SD CPC SLS-DSU MigrantLife