How can biomarkers and genetics improve our understanding of society and health?
Lead Research Organisation:
University of Essex
Department Name: Inst for Social and Economic Research
Abstract
Understanding how people's social and economics lives relate to their health is essential to improving the nation's health, society in general and the economy.
Researchers in biomedical, social and economic sciences use robust, high quality data from world-leading studies to help develop this understanding. This research helps reveal hidden facts about the complex social and biological processes at work behind our everyday lives.
This proposal seeks to support this ambition to better understand people's lives and their health. It is based on Understanding Society - a rich social and economic study, which interviews the same families every year and has recently included a health interview where nurses took a number of 'biomarkers' or objective health measurements. These objective measures such as blood pressure, lung function and blood samples, have subsequently been analysed for indicators of heart disease, diabetes and anaemia, liver and kidney function and frailty. The project is led by a multi-disciplinary research team with international partners and has two broad aims:
* to contribute new scientific knowledge about the two-way relationship between people's social, economic, environmental circumstances and health;
* to build understandings of the value of and capacity for using biomarkers, genetic social and economic data together in collaborative projects.
The proposal will include a suite of exemplar research projects, which will not only address important research questions but demonstrate the value of inter-disciplinary [data and] research in these fields. It will investigate and use the best statistical techniques, and share learning with colleagues about these approaches. In addition, we will also:
*undertake a set of 'outreach' initiatives in specific social science disciplines - such as geography, economics and sociology - to investigate and disseminate the value of employing biomarkers to address social research questions relevant to them.
*establish a fellowship scheme for new researchers to propose projects at the interface of social and health sciences, which will be carried out with joint mentorship by social and biomedical scientists.
* hold a range of workshops and training events, and produce supporting resources, such as special datasets, to build understanding and capacity of the use of biomarkers in social science research.
* develop international collaborations to draw expertise from across the world into the project, and hold an annual master class and conference with contributions from them;
* involve policy makers in the oversight of the project, as well as set aside some funds for them to undertake analyses of the data relevant to their policy responsibilities. Policy relevant findings will be shared widely through briefings and a policy event.
This research will help to identify when and how health problems emerge in ways that enable policy makers to target policies more effectively. It will also help us understand how poor health affects people's ability to live their lives, which again may enable policy makers to identify appropriate times and situations when these negative consequences can be prevented or reduced. Such research directly contributes to the ESRC's strategic priority to influence behaviours and inform interventions. It will also improve the capacity of the research community to engage in this kind of research leading to future developments in this field.
Researchers in biomedical, social and economic sciences use robust, high quality data from world-leading studies to help develop this understanding. This research helps reveal hidden facts about the complex social and biological processes at work behind our everyday lives.
This proposal seeks to support this ambition to better understand people's lives and their health. It is based on Understanding Society - a rich social and economic study, which interviews the same families every year and has recently included a health interview where nurses took a number of 'biomarkers' or objective health measurements. These objective measures such as blood pressure, lung function and blood samples, have subsequently been analysed for indicators of heart disease, diabetes and anaemia, liver and kidney function and frailty. The project is led by a multi-disciplinary research team with international partners and has two broad aims:
* to contribute new scientific knowledge about the two-way relationship between people's social, economic, environmental circumstances and health;
* to build understandings of the value of and capacity for using biomarkers, genetic social and economic data together in collaborative projects.
The proposal will include a suite of exemplar research projects, which will not only address important research questions but demonstrate the value of inter-disciplinary [data and] research in these fields. It will investigate and use the best statistical techniques, and share learning with colleagues about these approaches. In addition, we will also:
*undertake a set of 'outreach' initiatives in specific social science disciplines - such as geography, economics and sociology - to investigate and disseminate the value of employing biomarkers to address social research questions relevant to them.
*establish a fellowship scheme for new researchers to propose projects at the interface of social and health sciences, which will be carried out with joint mentorship by social and biomedical scientists.
* hold a range of workshops and training events, and produce supporting resources, such as special datasets, to build understanding and capacity of the use of biomarkers in social science research.
* develop international collaborations to draw expertise from across the world into the project, and hold an annual master class and conference with contributions from them;
* involve policy makers in the oversight of the project, as well as set aside some funds for them to undertake analyses of the data relevant to their policy responsibilities. Policy relevant findings will be shared widely through briefings and a policy event.
This research will help to identify when and how health problems emerge in ways that enable policy makers to target policies more effectively. It will also help us understand how poor health affects people's ability to live their lives, which again may enable policy makers to identify appropriate times and situations when these negative consequences can be prevented or reduced. Such research directly contributes to the ESRC's strategic priority to influence behaviours and inform interventions. It will also improve the capacity of the research community to engage in this kind of research leading to future developments in this field.
Planned Impact
This project will include a wide range of individual exemplar projects that add to our understanding of how people's social and economic circumstances interact with their health at different life stages. Research findings will help us understand the social and economic processes that lead to ill health and provide better evidence about when inequalities in different dimensions of health arise. It will also shed light on the underlying biological processes, for example how spending time near green space or stress might 'get under the skin'. All of these findings will improve understandings of when to intervene and what sort of mechanisms to target to improve health. The project will also provide evidence of the effect of different aspects of ill health on people's social and economic lives, for example how ill health affects people's ability to extend their working lives or impacts on their need for social care.
The research will be relevant to a wide range of research users in government and third sector organisations that includes those with responsibility for employment (and in particular supporting people with health problems back to work), public health, health and social care, and the environment at national level. For example, within government, findings might be relevant to the Department for Work and Pensions, the Department for Environment Food & Rural Affairs and the Department of Health, Public Health England, the Scottish Government and Welsh Assembly. Think tanks and third sector agencies that would be beneficiaries of the research include medical charities such as Diabetes UK, campaigning organisations such as ASH , and organisations concerned with the needs of particular groups such as Age UK or the Child Poverty Action Group. Local agencies, in particular public health groups within local authorities and the NHS will also benefit from the evidence that emerges from this proposal. Independent research organisations that both synthesise and commission research, such as the King's Fund, Nuffield Foundation, Joseph Rowntree Foundation and Wellcome Trust, will be able to drawn on the findings produced here in their own policy related work.
A key focus of this proposal is to build capacity among social science researchers to undertake research that draws on biomarker and genetics data. The outreach and capacity building activities will benefit academics in a range of disciplines such as economics, geography, sociology, public health, demography, psychology, social policy, health services research, epidemiology, genetics and biomedical sciences. Through training events and the production of supporting resources, developing the skills and expertise of the staff and fellows employed on the study, networking and learning opportunities for senior staff engaged through the steering group or mentoring arrangements, this project will improve the skills and expertise of a wide range of researchers at different levels, building capacity for a much wider range of research projects to be conducted in the future. A particular emphasis has been placed in the project on international engagement by bringing leading international experts to the UK to contribute to the project, presenting at a wide range of international conferences and by developing collaborative projects to build networks and cross-country learning in these fields.
Finally, through the findings from the scientific research and learning from the networking opportunities that the project will provide, the UKHLS team will be in a better position to design subsequent rounds of data collection to advance scientific understandings at the interface of health and social research.
The research will be relevant to a wide range of research users in government and third sector organisations that includes those with responsibility for employment (and in particular supporting people with health problems back to work), public health, health and social care, and the environment at national level. For example, within government, findings might be relevant to the Department for Work and Pensions, the Department for Environment Food & Rural Affairs and the Department of Health, Public Health England, the Scottish Government and Welsh Assembly. Think tanks and third sector agencies that would be beneficiaries of the research include medical charities such as Diabetes UK, campaigning organisations such as ASH , and organisations concerned with the needs of particular groups such as Age UK or the Child Poverty Action Group. Local agencies, in particular public health groups within local authorities and the NHS will also benefit from the evidence that emerges from this proposal. Independent research organisations that both synthesise and commission research, such as the King's Fund, Nuffield Foundation, Joseph Rowntree Foundation and Wellcome Trust, will be able to drawn on the findings produced here in their own policy related work.
A key focus of this proposal is to build capacity among social science researchers to undertake research that draws on biomarker and genetics data. The outreach and capacity building activities will benefit academics in a range of disciplines such as economics, geography, sociology, public health, demography, psychology, social policy, health services research, epidemiology, genetics and biomedical sciences. Through training events and the production of supporting resources, developing the skills and expertise of the staff and fellows employed on the study, networking and learning opportunities for senior staff engaged through the steering group or mentoring arrangements, this project will improve the skills and expertise of a wide range of researchers at different levels, building capacity for a much wider range of research projects to be conducted in the future. A particular emphasis has been placed in the project on international engagement by bringing leading international experts to the UK to contribute to the project, presenting at a wide range of international conferences and by developing collaborative projects to build networks and cross-country learning in these fields.
Finally, through the findings from the scientific research and learning from the networking opportunities that the project will provide, the UKHLS team will be in a better position to design subsequent rounds of data collection to advance scientific understandings at the interface of health and social research.
Organisations
- University of Essex (Lead Research Organisation)
- University of Michigan (Collaboration)
- UK Data Service (Collaboration)
- The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute (Collaboration)
- University of Sheffield (Collaboration)
- University of Southern California (Collaboration)
- UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL (Collaboration)
- UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON (Collaboration)
- University of Bristol (Collaboration)
- London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London) (Collaboration)
- University College London (Collaboration)
- University of Copenhagen (Collaboration)
- National Institute of Health and Medical Research (INSERM) (Collaboration)
- Social Science Genetics Association Consortium (Collaboration)
- University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) (Collaboration)
- IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON (Collaboration)
- UNIVERSITY OF EXETER (Collaboration)
- UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD (Collaboration)
- University of Oklahoma (Collaboration)
- Free University of Amsterdam (Collaboration)
- UNIVERSITY OF KENT (Collaboration)
- Wellcome Sanger Institute (Project Partner)
- University of California, Los Angeles (Project Partner)
- Inserm (Project Partner)
- Cornell University (Project Partner)
Publications
Petersen J
(2016)
Untreated hypertension in the UK household population - Who are missed by the general health checks?
in Preventive medicine reports
Chaparro M. P.
(2016)
Neighbourhood deprivation and biomarkers of health in the UK: the role of the physical environment
in EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF PUBLIC HEALTH
Davillas A
(2016)
Alternative measures to BMI: Exploring income-related inequalities in adiposity in Great Britain.
in Social science & medicine (1982)
Benzeval M
(2016)
How Do Biomarkers and Genetics Contribute to Understanding Society?
in Health economics
Hughes A
(2017)
Unemployment, underweight, and obesity: Findings from Understanding Society (UKHLS).
in Preventive medicine
Hughes A
(2017)
Unemployment and inflammatory markers in England, Wales and Scotland, 1998-2012: Meta-analysis of results from 12 studies.
in Brain, behavior, and immunity
Davillas Apostolos
(2017)
Socio-economic inequalities in C-reactive protein and fibrinogen across the adult age span: Findings from
Understanding
Society
in SCIENTIFIC REPORTS
Maddock J
(2017)
Vitamin D and cognitive function: A Mendelian randomisation study.
in Scientific reports
| Description | We undertook a range of projects from different scientific perspectives and across different topics to maximise the breadth of researchers to whom we demonstrated the value of including biomarkers and/or genetics data in social sciences research. This research has contributed to understanding the the two way interactions between society and health. Research demonstrated strong associations between income, housing tenure, education, poor socioeconomic areas, pollution and health as measured by biomarkers that are linked to biological stress. For example, it has provided robust evidence around work conditions, flexible working and health, showing that women combining fulltime work and having children were more stressed than other woman and that work practices such as flexitime did not appear to reduce this higher stress; and that returning to employment after a period of unemployment led to better health only if the position had good job quality. Other research showed how the socioeconomic gradient in health varies by the level of health, that while the physical environment is associated with biomarkers they do not appear to mediate the association with neighbourhood deprivation, that similarities in couples' health status is partly due to assortative mating and partly shared lifestyles. Another strand of research found that testosterone was associated with labour market success in men. Other research examined the ability of biomarkers to predict future disability and health care costs, finding it was a better predictor than self-report health data. Over 50 peer review papers have been published in a range of discipline specific and interdisciplinary high impact journals. Research findings have been disseminated at a range of policy events and in media outlets including national and local newspapers and online. |
| Exploitation Route | This was a 3 year grant during which we undertook a programme of capacity building and engagement with other researchers and policy makers to develop understanding of the contribution of biomarkers to understanding social and biological processes leading to poor health. The programme undertook wide ranging capacity building and awareness raising activities holding nine training courses and two conferences (approximately 480 people attended these). In addition we ran sessions or courses at 16 held by other organisations eg National Centre for Research Methods (NCRM), UK Data Service (UKDS), Cohort and Longitudinal Studies Enhancement Resources (CLOSER), as well at academic conferences such as Society for Lifecourse and Longitudinal Studies (SLLS) and European Health Economics Association. In addition team members presented scientific findings in a wide range of conferences and seminars (at least 65) internationally and nationally across specific disciplines and interdisplinary meetings, as well as practitioner and policy events (Occupational Health, Department for Work and Pensions, Department for Health in England, Scotland and Australia). We produced a range of different online resources for training, public engagement and to disseminate findings. During the life of this grant, building on the work and collaborations within it, we were part of the successful consortium (UCL, Manchester and Essex) for the Soc-B CDT. It is evident that students recruited to the programme had attended our workshops and training sessions, demonstrating that our activities led to increased awareness and thus capacity building. Members of the team recruited for this project, having completed their fixed term contracts, have moved on to other organisations taking their learning with them, and we are continuing to collaborate with a number of them. We mentored six fellows in other universities, who through our support developed significant capacity for using these kinds of data and are continuing to engage in research and in teaching and PhD supervision. We have produced new derived data, and a range of resources now on the Understanding Society website, and those of partner organisations, such as training videos, cartoons, webinars, podcasts and blogs explaining the value of this kind of data and research, which will continue to benefit users in the future. |
| Sectors | Communities and Social Services/Policy,Education,Environment,Healthcare,Transport |
| URL | https://www.understandingsociety.ac.uk/ |
| Description | A number of research findings have already received widespread media interest for example on unemployment, under and over weight; income inequality and inflammation, on the impact of returning to work on health and of flexible work and health. Findings have been presented at POST and Gender and Equalities Office events, been featured in the Guardian, Observer and on BBC. A range of podcasts and blogs have been produced, as well as one research cartoon to create resources for public engagement with this research area. We held a roundtable focusing on the growing interest in the relationship between the changing nature of work and health, bringing together researchers and policy advisors from across government departments, public health agencies, Health and Safety Executive, human resource professionals, local health and economic development organisations, transport bodies, trade unions and charities. Given the early stages of this interdisciplinary research field, we also ran a training course on impact generation, to which a number of influence policy agencies - DWP, Age UK, PHE - contributed. We continue to work with organisations to promote the Impact of these data, current collaboration with Businesses for health. More broadly, we now have funding to repeat collection of biomarker data at wave 16. Having data on longitudinal change will create many more opportunities for impact generation once they have been collected. |
| First Year Of Impact | 2015 |
| Sector | Healthcare,Other |
| Impact Types | Societal,Economic,Policy & public services |
| Description | 19 July 2018 Invited paper "Equity, opportunity and health", 6th Health Econometrics Workshop, University of Bergamo. |
| Geographic Reach | Multiple continents/international |
| Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
| Description | Andrew Jones: 10 April 2018 Half-day workshop "Data visualization and health econometrics", Monash University Business School, Melbourne. |
| Geographic Reach | Multiple continents/international |
| Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
| Description | Andrew Jones: 11 July 2018 Preconference workshop "Data visualization and health econometrics", Conference of the European Health Economics Association, Maastricht. |
| Geographic Reach | Multiple continents/international |
| Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
| Description | Andrew Jones: 12 May 2018 Keynote address "Equity, opportunity and health", 100th Annual Conference of the Austrian Economics Association, Vienna. |
| Geographic Reach | Multiple continents/international |
| Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
| Description | Andrew Jones: 14 July 2018 Presidential Address "Empirical health economics", Conference of the European Health Economics Association, Maastricht. |
| Geographic Reach | Multiple continents/international |
| Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
| Description | Andrew Jones: 15-16 Nov 2018 Half-day workshop "Data visualization and health econometrics", University of Technology Sydney, Australia. |
| Geographic Reach | Multiple continents/international |
| Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
| Description | Andrew Jones: 15-16 Nov 2018 Seminar "Equity, opportunity and health", University of Technology Sydney, Australia. |
| Geographic Reach | Multiple continents/international |
| Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
| Description | Andrew Jones: 16 October 2017 Invited speaker on "Equality of Opportunity in Health" at Economics of Health Inequalities Workshop, Centre for Health Economics, Monash University, Melbourne. |
| Geographic Reach | Multiple continents/international |
| Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
| Description | Andrew Jones: 17 November 2017 Seminar presentation "Inequality of opportunity in health: a decomposition-based approach", Department of Quantitative Methods in Business and Economics, University of Gran Canaria in Las Palmas. |
| Geographic Reach | Multiple continents/international |
| Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
| Description | Andrew Jones: 22-23 Sept 2018 Two-day workshop "Data visualization and health econometrics", Technical University Berlin, Germany. |
| Geographic Reach | Multiple continents/international |
| Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
| Description | Andrew Jones: 23 Nov 2018 Half-day workshop "Data visualization and health econometrics", University of Adelaide, Australia. |
| Geographic Reach | Multiple continents/international |
| Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
| Description | Andrew Jones: 26 October 2017 Seminar presentation "Inequality of opportunity in health: a decomposition-based approach", Melbourne Institute, University of Melbourne. |
| Geographic Reach | Multiple continents/international |
| Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
| Description | Andrew Jones: 28 May 2018 Seminar "Equity, opportunity and health", Department of Economics, University of Utrecht. |
| Geographic Reach | Multiple continents/international |
| Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
| Description | Andrew Jones: 29 May 2018 Seminar "Equity, opportunity and health", Department of Economics, University of Leuven (KUL). |
| Geographic Reach | Multiple continents/international |
| Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
| Description | Andrew Jones: 5 December 2017 Seminar presentation "Inequality of opportunity in health: a decomposition-based approach", University of Newcastle Business School. |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
| Description | Andrew Jones: 5 June 2018 Seminar "Equity, opportunity and health", Health Economics Research Unit, University of Aberdeen. |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
| Description | Andrew Jones: 7 Jan 2019 Half-day workshop "Data visualization and health econometrics", Health Economists' Study Group conference, York, United Kingdom. |
| Geographic Reach | Multiple continents/international |
| Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
| Description | Anthony Laverty: Presentation - Do cardiovascular benefits of active travel vary by pre-existing risk factors? A longitudinal observational study. UK Public Health Science conference at Queens University Belfast. |
| Geographic Reach | Multiple continents/international |
| Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
| URL | https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0140673618320877 |
| Description | Anthony Laverty: submission to the Active Travel Inquiry - evidence on health impacts of active travel |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| URL | http://data.parliament.uk/writtenevidence/committeeevidence.svc/evidencedocument/transport-committee... |
| Description | Call for Understanding Society Biomarker Data Project Fellows |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
| URL | https://www.understandingsociety.ac.uk/2017/10/26/fellowships |
| Description | Chaparro MP, Benzeval M, Richardson E, Mitchell R. Neighbourhood deprivation and biomarkers of health in the UK: the role of the physical environment. Short oral presentation, European Public Health Association (EUPHA) meeting. Vienna, Austria, November 9-12, 2016. |
| Geographic Reach | Multiple continents/international |
| Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
| Description | Chaparro MP, Hughes A, Kumari M, Benzeval M. The association between self-rated health and biomarker levels is modified by age, gender and household income. Oral presentation, Understanding Society Conference: Combining Biological and Social Data, London, UK, December 6, 2018. |
| Geographic Reach | Multiple continents/international |
| Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
| Description | Generating policy impact from bio-social research (Raj Patel and Meena Kumari, Dec 2018) |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
| Impact | Developed the knowledge and skills of researchers in generating impact, with contributions from the Department for Work and Pensions, Age Uk and Public Health England. |
| Description | Meena Kumari: Presentation - Allostatic Load: A Comparison of Statistical Methods Used to Evaluate the Construct. Society for Longitudinal and Lifecourse Studies Annual Conference, Bamberg, 8 October 2016 |
| Geographic Reach | Multiple continents/international |
| Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
| Description | Meena Kumari: Presentation - Allostatic Load: Components and Construction Across the CLOSER studies. Society for Longitudinal and Lifecourse Studies Annual Conference, Stirling, 11 October 2017 |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
| Description | Meena Kumari: Presentation - Anabolic and Catabolic Markers in UKHLS: Understanding Development, Maintenance and Decline Across the Age Span. Society for Longitudinal and Lifecourse Studies Annual Conference, Bamberg, 8 October 2016 |
| Geographic Reach | Multiple continents/international |
| Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
| Description | Meena Kumari: Presentation - Are anabolic processes an overlooked mechanism in health disparities? World Congress of Epidemiology, Saitama, Japan, 20 August 2017 |
| Geographic Reach | Multiple continents/international |
| Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
| Description | Meena Kumari: Presentation - Body mass index (BMI) and self reported sleep duration: a Mendelian randomisation study. Understanding Society scientific conference. 12th July 2017 |
| Geographic Reach | Multiple continents/international |
| Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
| Description | Meena Kumari: Presentation - Body mass index (BMI) and well-being: a Mendelian randomisation study. Understanding Society scientific conference. 12th July 2017 |
| Geographic Reach | Multiple continents/international |
| Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
| Description | Meena Kumari: Presentation - Combining multiple SNPs in Mendelian randomisation studies with continuous outcomes. Understanding Society scientific conference. 12th July 2017. |
| Geographic Reach | Multiple continents/international |
| Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
| Description | Meena Kumari: Presentation - Early life event trajectories and early adult health: Evidence from the British Household Panel Survey and the UK Household Panel Study World Congress of Epidemiology, Saitama, Japan, 20 August 2017 |
| Geographic Reach | Multiple continents/international |
| Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
| Description | Meena Kumari: Presentation - Genetics in the Context of Social to Biological Research Society for Longitudinal and Lifecourse Studies Annual Conference, 9-11 Milan, July 2018 |
| Geographic Reach | Multiple continents/international |
| Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
| Description | Meena Kumari: Presentation - Socioeconomic position and DNA methylation age acceleration across the lifecourse in UKHLS. Society for Longitudinal and Lifecourse Studies Annual Conference, 9-11 Milan, July 2018 |
| Geographic Reach | Multiple continents/international |
| Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
| Description | Meena Kumari: Presentation - The Composition of Allostatic Load: A Review of the Literature. Society for Longitudinal and Lifecourse Studies Annual Conference, Bamberg, 8 October 2016 |
| Geographic Reach | Multiple continents/international |
| Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
| Description | Meena Kumari: Presentation - Understanding Allostatic Load: Theoretical Underpinnings, Construction and Associations With Age and Social Position. Society for Longitudinal and Lifecourse Studies Annual Conference, Bamberg, 8 October 2016 |
| Geographic Reach | Multiple continents/international |
| Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
| Description | Meena Kumari: Presentation - What Do Measures of Biological Age Tell Us That Chronological Age Doesn't? Society for Longitudinal and Lifecourse Studies Annual Conference, Bamberg, 8 October 2016 |
| Geographic Reach | Multiple continents/international |
| Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
| Description | NCRM training videos |
| Geographic Reach | Multiple continents/international |
| Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
| Impact | Two 15 minute training videos hosted on utube by NCRM on how to use biomarker data |
| URL | https://www.youtube.com/user/NCRMUK/videos?disable_polymer=1 |
| Description | Presentation - Biomarkers as precursors of disability. European Association of Health Economics, Maastricht 2018 |
| Geographic Reach | Europe |
| Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
| Description | Presentation - Nitzan Peri Rotem - BSPS Annual Meeting 11 September 2018 - The Role of Biomedical Factors in Explaining Fertility Differences by Education |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
| Description | Rebecca Richmond: Society of Social Medicine; Glasgow, UK, September 2018 (poster presentation: Investigating epigenetic changes in shift work - a possible mechanism for its impact on health and the body clock) |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
| Description | Rebecca Richmond: Understanding Society Conference: Combining Biological and Social Data; London, UK December 2018 (oral presentation: Investigating epigenetic changes in shift work - a possible mechanism for its impact on health and the body clock) |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
| Description | SLLS Biomarker training course: scientific advisory committee |
| Geographic Reach | Multiple continents/international |
| Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
| Description | SS&M paper cited by a systematic review |
| Geographic Reach | Multiple continents/international |
| Policy Influence Type | Citation in systematic reviews |
| URL | https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Almudena_Claassen/publication/326551325_A_Systematic_Review_of_... |
| Description | Tarani Chandola: Biosocial research: some challenges from a sociological perspective. Presentation - UCL Research Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, London |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
| Description | Tarani Chandola: Citation in European Parliament policy document ("Temporary contracts, precarious employment, employees' fundamental rights and EU employment law") on precarious work which put forward recommendations on EU social policy around worker protections and work precariousness |
| Geographic Reach | Europe |
| Policy Influence Type | Citation in other policy documents |
| URL | http://www.europarl.europa.eu/RegData/etudes/STUD/2017/596823/IPOL_STU(2017)596823_EN.pdf |
| Description | Tarani Chandola: Citation in numerous reports by Directors of Public Health |
| Geographic Reach | Multiple continents/international |
| Policy Influence Type | Citation in other policy documents |
| URL | https://bit.ly/2IFf4OP |
| Description | Tarani Chandola: Citation in the European Agency for Safety and Health at Work report on "new and emerging occupational safety and health risks" as the need for occupational health and safety to deal with new types of working arrangements that could be hazardous for worker's wellbeing |
| Geographic Reach | Europe |
| Policy Influence Type | Citation in other policy documents |
| Description | Tarani Chandola: Citation in the London Mayor's health inequalities strategy document as evidence for the need for the Mayor's new Good Work Standard |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Citation in other policy documents |
| URL | https://www.london.gov.uk/moderngov/documents/s72008/Appendix%205%20-%20Health%20Inequalities%20Stra... |
| Description | Tarani Chandola: Citation in the UK Chief Medical Officer's annual report as an example of where future public health policy needs to focus on. |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Citation in other policy documents |
| URL | https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/7675... |
| Description | Tarani Chandola: Questions relating to research raised in State Assembly of Jersey to the minister for social security, about banning the use of precarious working contracts |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Implementation circular/rapid advice/letter to e.g. Ministry of Health |
| URL | https://bit.ly/2yiOs5z |
| Description | Tarani Chandola: The future of work and health research. Presentation - Cumberland Lodge, Windsor. |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
| Description | Tarani Chandola: The role of workplace accommodations in explaining the disability employment gap. Lane Lecture and Symposium, Manchester |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
| Description | Tarani Chandola: Work and Socio-economic differences in biomarkers of stress. Presentation - Australia National University, Canberra |
| Geographic Reach | Multiple continents/international |
| Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
| Description | Tarani Chandola: Work, health and stress: some observations. Presentation - Work and Equalities Institute, Manchester |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
| Description | Tarani Chandola: Work, health and wellbeing. Presentation - Sociology department, Lingnan University, Hong Kong |
| Geographic Reach | Multiple continents/international |
| Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
| Description | Tarani Chandola: Work, health and wellbeing. Webinar - Society of occupational medicine |
| Geographic Reach | Multiple continents/international |
| Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
| Description | Tarani Chandola: Work, health and wellbeing: some biosocial perspectives. Sociology seminar - Nuffield College, Oxford |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
| Description | Thijs van den Broek: Presentation - Socio-Medical Sciences research seminar at the Erasmus School of Health Policy and Management, Rotterdam, April 2019 |
| Geographic Reach | Multiple continents/international |
| Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
| Description | Centre for Doctoral Training |
| Amount | £0 (GBP) |
| Organisation | University of Essex |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 10/2016 |
| End | 09/2023 |
| Description | ESRC - CLOSER Innovation Fund - Exploiting the existing biomarker data available in the CLOSER: age, social position and allostatic load |
| Amount | £191,000 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | EBB6900 |
| Organisation | Economic and Social Research Council |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 10/2015 |
| End | 09/2017 |
| Description | ESRC enhancement funding - for 5 additional analytes |
| Amount | £552,641 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | ES/N00812X/1 |
| Organisation | Economic and Social Research Council |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 01/2017 |
| End | 10/2021 |
| Description | ESRC enhancement funding - for Health Innovation Panel (IP12) |
| Amount | £1,502,793 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | ES/N00812X/1 |
| Organisation | Economic and Social Research Council |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 01/2017 |
| End | 10/2021 |
| Description | ESRC enhancement funding - for consents interviews; review of cognitive scales; biomarker/ survey weights; NCMP linkage demo project; incentives |
| Amount | £123,086 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Economic and Social Research Council |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 01/2017 |
| End | 10/2021 |
| Description | Major Research Fellowship (for Andrew Jones) |
| Amount | £66,173 (GBP) |
| Organisation | The Leverhulme Trust |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 09/2017 |
| End | 08/2020 |
| Description | Social capital, health and wellbeing in ageing populations in the UK and Brazil |
| Amount | £8,693 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | ES/P010075/1 |
| Organisation | Economic and Social Research Council |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 12/2016 |
| End | 11/2017 |
| Description | Understanding Society: The UK Household Longitudinal Study: Waves 9-11 - enhancement funding - IP12 extension |
| Amount | £330,925 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | ES/N00812X/1 |
| Organisation | Economic and Social Research Council |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 10/2018 |
| End | 10/2021 |
| Description | Understanding Society: The UK Household Longitudinal Study: Waves 9-11 - enhancement funding - epigenetics, proteomics, methodological fellows, event histories development work, public engagement activities, data infrastructure developments |
| Amount | £1,729,626 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | ES/N00812X/1 |
| Organisation | Economic and Social Research Council |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 10/2018 |
| End | 10/2021 |
| Title | Understanding Society: The UK Household Longitudinal Study. Biomarker User Guide and Glossary |
| Description | This document contains an overview of the biomarker data available in Understanding Society. The glossary provides key information for each biomarker to help users with their analysis and provide relevant information to be considered when biomarker data are used for publications. For each biomarker the user guide and glossary outline: - the clinical significance of each biomarker, - a description of the role of the biomarker in the body; - laboratory methods and procedures used to measure the analyte; - guidance on factors to consider when analysing the biomarker; - distributions for each biomarker and where available, these distributions are compared to equivalent data available from the HSE or ELSA. |
| Type Of Material | Improvements to research infrastructure |
| Year Produced | 2014 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | This user guide and glossary has been cited by 19 research papers, helping researchers on how to construct biomarker research and make biomarker data easy to use even without prior experience in this field. |
| URL | https://www.understandingsociety.ac.uk/sites/default/files/downloads/legacy/7251-UnderstandingSociet... |
| Title | DNA methylation dataset - deposited in the European Phenome genome archive |
| Description | DNA methylation using EPIC array in UK population study. Bisulfite Converted DNA obtained from Whole Blood analysed on IlluminaHumanMethylationEPIC BeadChip microarrays processed with bigmelon R package |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2017 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | Collaborative research projects. |
| URL | https://www.ebi.ac.uk/ega/datasets/EGAD00010001521 |
| Title | Epigenetic Database with EGA and METADAC |
| Description | Epigenetic data processed on the Illumina EPIC array of 1175 samples from BHPS. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2017 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | Applciations for the data via METADAC and numerous publications. |
| URL | https://www.understandingsociety.ac.uk/2017/04/03/new-epigenetics-data |
| Title | Epigenetic Dataset Launched |
| Description | We have provided a methylation database of 1175 individuals from BHPS. DNA samples were run on the Illumina Infinium Methylation Epic Array, the most up-to-date-platform for this type of analysis |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2017 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | Increase in the number of applications for genetic and epigenetic data via the METADAC. |
| URL | https://www.understandingsociety.ac.uk/events/2017/04/27/understanding-society-epigenetics-data-laun... |
| Title | Genetics and epigenetics datasets - combined genotype phenotype data |
| Description | Set of genetics or and/or epigenetics datasets provided to different groups of researchers, via Metadac. To March 2018, 20 datasets have been supplied with a further 4 in progress. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2016 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | Further research combining genetics/ epigenetics data and UKHLS data. |
| Title | MDAC_2017_0016_02_mills |
| Description | Provided a genetic dataset to University of Oxford |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2017 |
| Provided To Others? | No |
| Impact | Potential publication |
| Title | MDAC_2017_0017_02_jerrim |
| Description | Provided a genetic and epigenetic dataset to UCL |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2017 |
| Provided To Others? | No |
| Impact | pOtential publication |
| Title | MDAC_2017_0023_02_barrett |
| Description | Provided a genetic dataset to WTS |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2017 |
| Provided To Others? | No |
| Impact | Potential publication |
| Title | MDAC_2017_0024_02_kippersluis |
| Description | Provided a genetic dataset to Rotterdam University |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2017 |
| Provided To Others? | No |
| Impact | Potential publication |
| Title | MDAC_2017_0031_02_mills |
| Description | Provided a genetic dataset to University of Oxford |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2018 |
| Provided To Others? | No |
| Impact | Potential publication |
| Title | MDAC_2017_14_02_kuchenbaceker |
| Description | Provided a genetic and epigenetic dataset for UCL |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2017 |
| Provided To Others? | No |
| Impact | Potential publication |
| Title | MDAC_2018_0002_02A_diangelantonio |
| Description | Provided a genetic and epigenetic dataset to University of Cambridge |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2018 |
| Provided To Others? | No |
| Impact | Potential publication |
| Title | MDAC_2018_0004_02E_corbyn |
| Description | Provided a genetic dataset to University of Bristol |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2018 |
| Provided To Others? | No |
| Impact | Potential publication |
| Title | MDAC_2018_0008_02E_green |
| Description | Provided a genetic dataset to Univeristy of Liverpool |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2018 |
| Provided To Others? | No |
| Impact | Potential publication |
| Title | MDAC_2018_0016_02E_belsky |
| Description | Provided a genetic and epigenetic dataset |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2018 |
| Provided To Others? | No |
| Impact | Potential publication |
| Title | MDAC_2018_0016_02E_relton |
| Description | Provided a genetic and epigenetic dataset to University of Bristol |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2018 |
| Provided To Others? | No |
| Impact | Potential publication |
| Title | MDAC_2018_0031_02a_frayling |
| Description | Provided a genetic dataset to University of Oxford and Exeter |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2018 |
| Provided To Others? | No |
| Impact | Potential publication |
| Title | MEATDAC application: MDAC-2017-0016-02-Mills |
| Description | UKHLS genetics data provided to University of Oxford for project: Genes, cognitive function, political behaviours and orientations |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2018 |
| Provided To Others? | No |
| Impact | Further use of UKHLS genetics data - scientific impact |
| Title | METADAC Application - MDAC_2017_0004_02 |
| Description | Provided a dataset to University of Oxford to research matching models, schooling, marriage, exclusion restiction, IV and polygeneic scores. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Provided To Others? | No |
| Impact | N/A |
| Title | METADAC Application - MDAC_2017_0009_02_Richmond |
| Description | Provided a genetic and epigenetic database to University of Bristol to research the imapct of shiftwork on DNA methylation. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Provided To Others? | No |
| Impact | N/A |
| Title | METADAC Application - MDAC_2017_0011_02_Yousefi |
| Description | Provided a genetic and epigenetic database to the University of Bristol to research the impact of economic conditions at year of birth on DNA methylation age acceleration. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Provided To Others? | No |
| Impact | N/A |
| Title | METADAC Application - MDAC_2017_13_02_Lewis_Zebaneh |
| Description | Provided a genetic and epigenetic dataset to UCL to investigate the genetic relationship between anxiety, depression on CVD risk factors and disease. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Provided To Others? | No |
| Impact | N/A |
| Title | METADAC Application - USOCDAC 030 |
| Description | Created a dataset combining genetic data with main survey data for UCL, project on using genetic markers to understand CV risk factors, mental, cognition and well-being. Dataset released to applicant February 2016 |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Provided To Others? | No |
| Impact | N/A |
| Title | METADAC Application - USOCDAC 031 |
| Description | Created a dataset combining genetic data with main survey data for University of Bristol - CARTA Consortium Dataset released to applicant February 2016 |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Provided To Others? | No |
| Impact | N/A |
| Title | METADAC Application - USOCDAC 032 |
| Description | Created a dataset combining genetic data with main survey data for University of Bristol, project on MR: causal role of Insulin-like growth factors in prostate cancer. Dataset released to applicant February 2016 |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Provided To Others? | No |
| Impact | N/A |
| Title | METADAC Application - USOCDAC 033 |
| Description | Created a dataset combining genetic data with main survey data for Nuffield, Oxford, project REPROGENE - Genome Wide Gene-environment Interactions for Reproductive Behaviour. Dataset released to applicant February 2016 |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Provided To Others? | No |
| Impact | Potential journal article |
| Title | METADAC Application - USOCDAC 036 |
| Description | Created a dataset combining genetic data with main survey data for University of East Anglia, project on assortative mating. Dataset released to applicant February 2016 |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Provided To Others? | No |
| Impact | Journal article published |
| URL | http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.intell.2016.08.005 |
| Title | METADAC Application: 2015_UKHLS_04 |
| Description | Created a dataset combining genetic data with main survey data for Wellcome Trust Sanger, project on FPLD1 and severe insulin resistance GWAS Dataset released to applicant February 2016 |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Provided To Others? | No |
| Impact | Journal article published |
| URL | http://www.nature.com/ng/journal/v49/n1/full/ng.3714.html |
| Title | METADAC Application: 2016_UKHLS_01_NICODEMUS |
| Description | Created a dataset combining genetic data with main survey data for University of Edinburgh, project on genomics of social support, personality and cognition. Dataset released to applicant July 2016 |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Provided To Others? | No |
| Impact | Potential journal artcile |
| Title | METADAC Application: 2016_UKHLS_03_CARVALHO |
| Description | Created a dataset combining genetic data with main survey data forQueen Mary University, project on Inflammatory cytokines IL-6, IL-1 and CRP as causal risk factors for depressive symptoms: MR Study Dataset released to applicant September 2016 |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Provided To Others? | No |
| Impact | N/A |
| Title | METADAC Application: MDAC-2017-0006-02 |
| Description | Provided data to the University of Edinburgh to perform a meta-analysis of genome-wide association studies of general cognitive function in the CHARGE and COGENT consortia. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Provided To Others? | No |
| Impact | N/A |
| Title | METADAC application - 2017-12 and 14 - 02-Kuchenbaecker |
| Description | Provided genetics and epigenetics data to UCL for projects: An assessment of the genetic architecture of mental health indicators; Effects of GxE intercations on biomarker levels. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2017 |
| Provided To Others? | No |
| Impact | Further use of UKHLS genetics and epigenetics data - scientific impact of research |
| Title | METADAC application: MDAC-2017-0017-02-Jerrim |
| Description | Genetics data provided to UCL for project: Educational attainment and socio-economic gaps |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2017 |
| Provided To Others? | No |
| Impact | Further research using UKHLS genetics data - scientific impact |
| Title | METADAC application: MDAC-2017-0023-02-Barrett |
| Description | Use of UKHLS genetics data in project: Understanding the genetics of neurodevelopmental disorders |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2017 |
| Provided To Others? | No |
| Impact | Further use of UKHLS genetics data - scientific impact |
| Title | METADAC application: MDAC-2017-0024-02-van Kippersluis |
| Description | Use of UKHLS genetics data for project: Gene-Environment Interplay in the Generation of Health and Education Inequalities |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2018 |
| Provided To Others? | No |
| Impact | Further use of UKHLS genetics data - scientific impact |
| Title | Summary estimates from Prins et al deposited in GWAS catalogue |
| Description | Summary estimates from Prins et al deposited in GWAS catalogue |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2018 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | Collaborative research. |
| URL | https://www.ebi.ac.uk/gwas/downloads/summary-statistics |
| Title | The summary estimates from Hannon et al. 2018 are available at the following website: https://epigenetics.essex.ac.uk/shiny/ShinySMR/ |
| Description | Characterizing the complex relationship between genetic, epigenetic and transcriptomic variation has the potential to increase understanding about the mechanisms underpinning health and disease phenotypes. In this study, we describe the most comprehensive analysis of common genetic variation on DNA methylation (DNAm) to date, using the Illumina EPIC array to profile samples from the UK Household Longitudinal study. We identified 12,689,548 significant DNA methylation quantitative trait loci (mQTL) associations (P < 6.52x10-14) occurring between 2,907,234 genetic variants and 93,268 DNAm sites, including a large number not identified using previous DNAm-profiling methods. We demonstrate the utility of these data for interpreting the functional consequences of common genetic variation associated with > 60 human traits, using Summary data-based Mendelian Randomization (SMR) to identify 1,662 pleiotropic associations between 36 complex traits and 1,246 DNAm sites. We also use SMR to characterize the relationship between DNAm and gene expression, identifying 6,798 pleiotropic associations between 5,420 DNAm sites and the transcription of 1,702 genes. Our mQTL database and SMR results are available via a searchable online database (www.epigenomicslab.com) as a resource to the research community. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2018 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | Collaborative research. |
| URL | https://epigenetics.essex.ac.uk/shiny/ShinySMR/ |
| Description | DTRN: Data training and resource network |
| Organisation | UK Data Service |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | This network was established to promote the use of ESRC data infrastucture and to support its use by providing training and resources. We have contributed a range of resources about Understanding Society and contributed to training events and documents. |
| Collaborator Contribution | as above |
| Impact | range of training events held |
| Start Year | 2014 |
| Description | DTRN: Data training and resource network |
| Organisation | University College London |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | This network was established to promote the use of ESRC data infrastucture and to support its use by providing training and resources. We have contributed a range of resources about Understanding Society and contributed to training events and documents. |
| Collaborator Contribution | as above |
| Impact | range of training events held |
| Start Year | 2014 |
| Description | DTRN: Data training and resource network |
| Organisation | University College London |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | This network was established to promote the use of ESRC data infrastucture and to support its use by providing training and resources. We have contributed a range of resources about Understanding Society and contributed to training events and documents. |
| Collaborator Contribution | as above |
| Impact | range of training events held |
| Start Year | 2014 |
| Description | DTRN: Data training and resource network |
| Organisation | University of Southampton |
| Department | Administrative Data Research Centre for England |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | This network was established to promote the use of ESRC data infrastucture and to support its use by providing training and resources. We have contributed a range of resources about Understanding Society and contributed to training events and documents. |
| Collaborator Contribution | as above |
| Impact | range of training events held |
| Start Year | 2014 |
| Description | DTRN: Data training and resource network |
| Organisation | University of Southampton |
| Department | ESRC National Centre for Research Methods |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | This network was established to promote the use of ESRC data infrastucture and to support its use by providing training and resources. We have contributed a range of resources about Understanding Society and contributed to training events and documents. |
| Collaborator Contribution | as above |
| Impact | range of training events held |
| Start Year | 2014 |
| Description | Does Education Modify the Genetic Risk of Obesity? |
| Organisation | University of Michigan |
| Country | United States |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Analysis submitted from the genetic and main survey data. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Provided analysis plan |
| Impact | One paper published in Social Science and Medicine (http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2017.10.027). Second paper underway. |
| Start Year | 2016 |
| Description | Effects of personal traits and life style on wellbeing |
| Organisation | University of Kent |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | We generated Polygenetic risk score using genetic data and contributed to analysis. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Analysis personal traits and life style on wellbeing using Polygenetic risk score as instruments and write the manuscript. |
| Impact | Preparing and analysing data. |
| Start Year | 2018 |
| Description | GWAS of Human Reproductive Behaviour |
| Organisation | University of Oxford |
| Department | Department of Sociology |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Analysis submitted from the genetic and main survey data. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Provided analysis plan for all involved. Wrote the manuscript to be submitted. |
| Impact | Final draft of manuscript in circulation |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | GWAS of kidney function (eGFR) |
| Organisation | University of Copenhagen |
| Department | Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences |
| Country | Denmark |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Analysis submitted from the genetic and main survey data. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Provided analysis plan for all involved. Wrote the manuscript to be submitted. |
| Impact | Journal article written and ready for submission. |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | GWAS on subjective well-being |
| Organisation | Free University of Amsterdam |
| Department | Department of Biological Psychology |
| Country | Netherlands |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | We have provided analysis from the genetic and main survey data from Understanding Society. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Provided analysis plan for all involved. Wrote the manuscript to be submitted. |
| Impact | Paper published in Nature Genetics |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | International partner: biomarkers and genetics |
| Organisation | National Institute of Health and Medical Research (INSERM) |
| Country | France |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Collaboration to exploit and promote biomarker data in Understanding Society, organised masterclass, hosted visit, advising on use of data |
| Collaborator Contribution | Run masterclass, participated in steering group, developing further collaborations |
| Impact | Masterclass event |
| Start Year | 2015 |
| Description | International partner: biomarkers and genetics |
| Organisation | University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) |
| Department | School of Medicine UCLA |
| Country | United States |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Organise masterclass and range of other training and engagment activities, develop collaborative projects |
| Collaborator Contribution | lead masterclass, contribute to other activites and steering group, develop collaboartions |
| Impact | none yet. |
| Start Year | 2015 |
| Description | International partner: biomarkers and genetics |
| Organisation | University of Southern California |
| Country | United States |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Will host masterclass and range of other engagemetn activities, develop collaborative projects |
| Collaborator Contribution | Will lead masterclass, contribute to steering group and take part in range of other engagement activities to promote use of genetics in social science research. |
| Impact | none yet |
| Start Year | 2015 |
| Description | SSGAC GWAS on risk preferences |
| Organisation | Social Science Genetics Association Consortium |
| Country | Global |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | We have provided analysis from the genetic and main survey data from Understanding Society. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The SSGAC is a cooperative enterprise among medical researchers and social scientists that coordinates genetic association studies for social science outcomes and provides a platform for interdisciplinary collaboration and cross-fertilization of ideas. The SSGAC also tries to promote the collection of harmonized and well-measured phenotypes. |
| Impact | Paper publised in Nature Genetics |
| Start Year | 2015 |
| Description | Understanding Society - Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute - collaboration on genetics data and analysis |
| Organisation | The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | Collaborative work to share the genetics data from Understanding Society and use it for analysis. |
| Collaborator Contribution | As above. |
| Impact | See other outputs for: ES/H029745/1 and ES/M008592/1 |
| Start Year | 2012 |
| Description | Understanding Society Biomarker Fellowships |
| Organisation | Imperial College London |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | 6 Fellowships offered by Understanding Society |
| Collaborator Contribution | Research Projects using Understanding Society data, in collaboration with expert team members. |
| Impact | Research projects have just commenced - publications and events are planned for later in 2018 when the projects are further developed. Each of the Fellows will present their research at international conferences, raising awareness of UKHLS data and its use. |
| Start Year | 2018 |
| Description | Understanding Society Biomarker Fellowships |
| Organisation | London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London) |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | 6 Fellowships offered by Understanding Society |
| Collaborator Contribution | Research Projects using Understanding Society data, in collaboration with expert team members. |
| Impact | Research projects have just commenced - publications and events are planned for later in 2018 when the projects are further developed. Each of the Fellows will present their research at international conferences, raising awareness of UKHLS data and its use. |
| Start Year | 2018 |
| Description | Understanding Society Biomarker Fellowships |
| Organisation | University of Bristol |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | 6 Fellowships offered by Understanding Society |
| Collaborator Contribution | Research Projects using Understanding Society data, in collaboration with expert team members. |
| Impact | Research projects have just commenced - publications and events are planned for later in 2018 when the projects are further developed. Each of the Fellows will present their research at international conferences, raising awareness of UKHLS data and its use. |
| Start Year | 2018 |
| Description | Understanding Society Biomarker Fellowships |
| Organisation | University of Exeter |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | 6 Fellowships offered by Understanding Society |
| Collaborator Contribution | Research Projects using Understanding Society data, in collaboration with expert team members. |
| Impact | Research projects have just commenced - publications and events are planned for later in 2018 when the projects are further developed. Each of the Fellows will present their research at international conferences, raising awareness of UKHLS data and its use. |
| Start Year | 2018 |
| Description | Understanding Society Biomarker Fellowships |
| Organisation | University of Liverpool |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | 6 Fellowships offered by Understanding Society |
| Collaborator Contribution | Research Projects using Understanding Society data, in collaboration with expert team members. |
| Impact | Research projects have just commenced - publications and events are planned for later in 2018 when the projects are further developed. Each of the Fellows will present their research at international conferences, raising awareness of UKHLS data and its use. |
| Start Year | 2018 |
| Description | Understanding Society Biomarker Fellowships |
| Organisation | University of Sheffield |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | 6 Fellowships offered by Understanding Society |
| Collaborator Contribution | Research Projects using Understanding Society data, in collaboration with expert team members. |
| Impact | Research projects have just commenced - publications and events are planned for later in 2018 when the projects are further developed. Each of the Fellows will present their research at international conferences, raising awareness of UKHLS data and its use. |
| Start Year | 2018 |
| Description | Vitamin D and T2D - Multi-ethnic Mendelian Randomization Study |
| Organisation | University of Oklahoma |
| Department | Health Sciences Centre |
| Country | United States |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Analysis submitted from the genetic and main survey data. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Provided analysis plan for all involved. Wrote the manuscript to be submitted. |
| Impact | Journal article written and ready for submission. |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Title | Stata software: bicop |
| Description | A new command, called BICOP, written for the statistical package Stata. The command allows the user to fit a model consisting of a pair of ordinal regressions with a flexible residual distribution, with each marginal distribution specified as a two-part normal mixture, and stochastic dependence governed by a choice of copula functions. |
| Type Of Technology | Software |
| Year Produced | 2015 |
| Impact | The code is described in an Understanding Society Working Paper. It is being made freely available to potential users. We have had 8 requests so far. A revised version of the working paper describing the command and an application to Understanding Society data has been accepted for publication in the Stata Journal, and we expect its use to grow considerably when that article appears. |
| URL | https://www.understandingsociety.ac.uk/research/publications/working-paper/understanding-society/201... |
| Title | intcount: a Stata command for fitting count-data models from interval data |
| Description | Freely available for download, use and modification from the Stata website. |
| Type Of Technology | Software |
| Year Produced | 2019 |
| Open Source License? | Yes |
| Impact | The software has been developed and used by me for an analysis of healthcare costs which has been submitted for publication. It is expected that that work will be of interest to the health research and policy communities. It is expected to be potentially useful for statistical research in a wide range of fields, but it is too early to know how extensive use will be. |
| URL | https://www.stata-journal.com/article.html?article=st0571 |
| Description | 'HEALTHY & UNHEALTHY CONNECTIONS' article published in ESRC report Britain in 2016 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | An article outlining why biomarker data are important for soical science research, and illustrating with Understanding Society examples. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| URL | http://www.esrc.ac.uk/news-events-and-publications/publications/magazines-and-newsletters/britain-in... |
| Description | (Mark Green) Poster at Public Health Science in Belfast 2018 (title was: Utilising machine learning approaches for comparing the contribution of different types of data for predicting an individual's risk of ill health) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Mark Green, Biomarker Fellow, had a poster at Public Health Science in Belfast last year (title was: Utilising machine learning approaches for comparing the contribution of different types of data for predicting an individual's risk of ill health). The abstract was published in the Lancet but I guess that does count? Here is the link to the abstract https://www.thelancet.com/pdfs/journals/lancet/PIIS0140-6736(18)32877-0.pdf). |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://www.thelancet.com/pdfs/journals/lancet/PIIS0140-6736(18)32877-0.pdf |
| Description | Allostatic load construction changes with age |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | presentation at the biomarker conference demonstrating that the construction of allostatic load changes with age. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Amanda Hughes: Guardian online article: Study dispels myth of links between poverty and weight |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | https://www.theguardian.com/society/2017/jan/29/unemployed-more-likely-to-be-underweight-than-obese |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | https://www.theguardian.com/society/2017/jan/29/unemployed-more-likely-to-be-underweight-than-obese |
| Description | Amanda Hughes: Independent online - Renters have higher levels of harmful stress markers than home owners, study finds |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Amanda Hughes: Independent online - Renters have higher levels of harmful stress markers than home owners, study finds |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.independent.co.uk/news/health/renting-stress-health-homeowner-mortgage-flat-terrace-bene... |
| Description | Amanda Hughes: Independent online: Renters are more likely to have poor health than those who own, researchers say |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Amanda Hughes: Independent online: Renters are more likely to have poor health than those who own, researchers say |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.independent.co.uk/news/health/renting-owning-property-real-estate-health-a8750651.html |
| Description | Amanda Hughes: POST presentation: Unemployment, underweight and obesity: findings from UKHLS. Presentation for the UK Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology, Westminster, 20 July 2017 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | POST presentation: Unemployment, underweight and obesity: findings from UKHLS. Presentation for the UK Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology, Westminster, 20 July 2017 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Amanda Hughes: Podcast - Unemployment, underweight, and obesity: Findings from Understanding Society (UKHLS) (LSE/DWP seminar: joint hosted and attended by Department of Work and Pensions Staff) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Amanda Hughes: Podcast - Unemployment, underweight, and obesity: Findings from Understanding Society (UKHLS) (LSE/DWP seminar: joint hosted and attended by Department of Work and Pensions Staff) |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | http://sticerd.lse.ac.uk/case/_new/events/audio.asp?id=5982http://sticerd.lse.ac.uk/case/_new/events... |
| Description | Amanda Hughes: Telegraph online: Why living in a detached house could be better for health |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Amanda Hughes: Telegraph online: Why living in a detached house could be better for health |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/2019/01/14/living-detached-house-could-better-health/ |
| Description | Amanda Hughes: The Conversation: Difficult childhood experiences could make us age prematurely - new research |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Amanda Hughes: The Conversation: Difficult childhood experiences could make us age prematurely - new research |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://theconversation.com/difficult-childhood-experiences-could-make-us-age-prematurely-new-resear... |
| Description | Amanda Hughes: The Conversation: How renting could affect your health |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Amanda Hughes: The Conversation: How renting could affect your health. Reported by the Metro, World Economic Forum, and Independent. Generation Rent also sent the paper to the MHCLG private rented sector team. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://theconversation.com/how-renting-could-affect-your-health-110334 |
| Description | Amanda Hughes: The Scotsman online: Levels of stress linked to the type of housing accommodation in UK |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Amanda Hughes: The Scotsman online: Levels of stress linked to the type of housing accommodation in UK |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.scotsman.com/news/health/levels-of-stress-linked-to-the-type-of-housing-accommodation-in... |
| Description | Amanda Hughes: Times of Malta online: How renting could affect your health - and not for the better |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Amanda Hughes: Times of Malta online: How renting could affect your health - and not for the better |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20190129/health-fitness/how-renting-could-affect-your-hea... |
| Description | Amanda Hughes: presentation - Socioeconomic Position and DNA Methylation Age Acceleration Across the Life Course (Health Studies user conference 2018) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Amanda Hughes: presentation - Socioeconomic Position and DNA Methylation Age Acceleration Across the Life Course (Health Studies user conference 2018) |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://ukdataservice.ac.uk/eventsdocs/healthuserconfprog17jul18 |
| Description | Anthony Laverty: Foresight Future of Mobility event, May 2018 - "How will the relationship between mobility and health & wellbeing change between now and 2040" |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Discussed research produced as part of UKHLS Biomarker Fellowship project. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | BMI and Well-being- A Mendelian randomization study |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Introduce genetic data as instrumental variables to explain causal effect of BMI on wellbeing. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://www.pssru.ac.uk/blog/measuring-health-well-being-reaching-across-disciplinary-boundaries/ |
| Description | Biomarker Launch |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | To mark the first release of biomarker and genetics data on Wednesday 10th December, Understanding Society is hosting an event at The Royal Society for Public Health in London For the first time, Understanding Society will release results from a wide range of blood analytes for over 13,000 people. In addition, the results from a genome-wide scan of 10,000 respondents who took part in a nurse health assessment will also be available. Both these new elements added to Understanding Society's existing social and economic data will combine to provide very rich research opportunities. Aimed at social scientists who are interested to find out how to use the data in their research. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
| URL | https://www.understandingsociety.ac.uk/2014/11/10/social-scientists-biomarkers |
| Description | Biosocial research and policy |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Discussion on how biomarkers and biomarker research can be useful or used by policy makers and third sector organisations |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | CLOSER |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | CLOSER (UCL Institute of Education, University College London) has published a news story regarding Dr Davillas' research on the concordance of health states within couples. This news story has been read extensively and has sparked discussions regarding the need for a re-orientation of public health policy and the underlying research towards a family-centred focus. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | https://www.closer.ac.uk/news-opinion/news/partners-health-inequalities/ |
| Description | CLOSER seminar: methods of data collection and implications for social science |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | CLOSER longitudinal studies seminar: methods and their implications for participation in social science studies |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Closed door discussion with selective members at MCRI - 11 September 2017 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Sharing of good practice in collecting BIomarker Data |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Department of Health in Canberra - 6 September 2017 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Presentation and discussion to department of health Australia on the role of biomarkers in policy research. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | ESRC Staff seminar |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Presentation and discussions with ESRC staff, and representatives from MRC and BBSRC, about the role of biomarkers and genetics in social science research. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| Description | Economics of Obesity Special Interest Group -iHEA |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Dr Davillas has served as a founder member of the Economics of Obesity Special Interest Group (EOSIG) within the iHEA. He has been successfully involved in a number of activities within the EOSIG: a) Enhance understanding of the prevention and treatment of obesity from an economics perspective; b) Connect economists working in obesity across the world; c) Share knowledge and provide support through the creation of a community of health economists specialized at the Economics of Obesity working together; d) Provide input to policy development at an international level. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2008,2017 |
| URL | https://www.healtheconomics.org/page/EOSIGMembers |
| Description | Epigenetic Data Launch |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | We launched the Epigenetic dataset generated in Understanding Society to a mixed audience at a day event in London. This involved delegated from all over the country. Our aim was to inform as many potential users of the dataset of the strengths of this type of data in social and biological sciences and how they could access the data. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | https://www.understandingsociety.ac.uk/events/2017/04/27/understanding-society-epigenetics-data-laun... |
| Description | Epigenetic Data Launch 27 April 2017 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Introducing understanding society biomarker data to leading experts in a new field of the study of epigenetics. Increased understanding of data and data use. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Epigenetics For Social Scientists |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | A workshop designed to introduce and help social scientists use the epigenetic data within Understanding Society. This was a whole day workshop with lectures and an interactive session. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Genetic Data in Understanding Society |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | November 2015 This course will introduce genetic terms relevant to social science, the genetic data available in Understanding Society and procedures to access these data, the structure of these data and provide worked examples of genetic analyses. In Wave 2 for the general population sample and wave 3 for the BHPS sample Understanding Society included a nurse visit. DNA was extracted from a blood sample that was collected from participants and genetic data from these samples have been deposited in the European-phenome archive. This half day workshop will consist of an introductory presentation on basic genetics, followed by an overview of the genetic data in Understanding Society. This will be followed by an example of genetic analysis that participants will work on in the computer lab. The focus of the course is on understanding how the genetic data might be useful to social science analyses, introduction to the format of genetic data and how to prepare them for analyses, rather than on analysis methods. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| URL | https://www.understandingsociety.ac.uk/events/2015/11/06/Genetic%20Data%20in%20Understanding%20Socie... |
| Description | Genetics For Social Scientists |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | A workshop designed to introduce and help social scientists use Mendelian Randomization with genetic data of Understanding Society. This was a whole day workshop with lectures and an interactive session. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://www.understandingsociety.ac.uk/documentation/training/genetics-for-social-science-workshop |
| Description | Genetics in social science research |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Symposium presentation discussion the use of genetics for social science |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Glasgow seminar 2 February 2017 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Presentation to introduce biomarker and genetic research in Understanding Society to MRC unit in Glasgow |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Guardian article |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | The Guardian has published an in-depth feature on Dr Davillas' (along with Benzeval and Kumari) research on biomarkers using UKHLS. This article has been shared with social media more than 450 times and has received more than 160 comments from general public. This article has sparked several discussions regarding the potential of biomarkers for social and economic research. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | https://www.theguardian.com/inequality/2017/oct/10/how-your-blood-may-predict-your-future-health-bio... |
| Description | Guardian podcast interview |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Interview with the Guardian for a podcast |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Interview for national newspaper (the Observer) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | I was interviewed for the Observer newspaper about my research into the relationship of Body Mass Index (BMI) and unemployment, suggesting that underweight may explain more ill-health among jobseekers than previously realized. This resulted in the article linked below. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | https://www.theguardian.com/society/2017/jan/29/unemployed-more-likely-to-be-underweight-than-obese |
| Description | Interview with the Guardian |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | Interview for an article in the Guardian |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Invited Talks -- Zhongshan University (Guangzhou, China), Nankai University (Tianjin, China), Yunnan Normal University (Kunming, China) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Audience are mainly postgraduate students from medical/statistical research area and they were introduced about Understanding Society (UKHLS) Study, how to apply and access data, what the potential health related scientific questions that could be answered using Understanding Society data. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Invited talk - City, London |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Dr Davillas has been invited by the School of Health Sciences at City, University of London to give a talk regarding the potential of biomarker data for social science research. An audience of about 50 (undergraduate and postgraduate) students and academics is expected (December 2018). |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Invited talk - U of Barcelona |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Dr Davillas has been invited by the Department of Economics, University of Barcelona to give a talk regarding the potential of biomarker data for social science research. An audience of about 40 (undergraduate and postgraduate) students, academics and (local government) health policymakers is expected to attend (November 2018). |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2008,2018 |
| Description | Invited workshop for Understanding Society Scientific Conference (Clarke) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | An invited workshop "Longitudinal modelling with longitudinal households" for the Understanding Society Scientific Conference. The session was attended by a variety of academic and non-academic users of BHPS and Understanding Society. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| URL | https://www.understandingsociety.ac.uk/scientific-conference-2015/papers/75 |
| Description | KEY NOTE - Portugese Health Economics Conference - October 2017 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Keynote presentation to Portugese conference on methodological innovation in Health Research |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | MRC Clincal Trials Unit |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | wide ranging methodological presentation and discussions MRC CTU, followed by number of meetings re possible collaborations |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Machine Learning in Geography. Geography in Machine Learning - RGS-IBG Annual International Conference 2018 (Mark Green) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Mark Green, Biomarker Fellow, co-organised a session at the RGS-IBG Annual Conference in 2018 on Machine Learning and also gave a presentation as well (see here for more details http://conference.rgs.org/AC2018/220) |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | http://conference.rgs.org/AC2018/220 |
| Description | Masterclass on allostatic load - 13 March 2017 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | To introduce understanding society biomarker data to leading experts internationally in the field |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Murdoch Childrens Research Institute (MCRI) 11 september 2017 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Presentation and discussion with the Murdoch institute on collecting Biomarkers in the general population |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | NCRM course with UKHLS - methodological considerations in biosocial research using Understanding Society data |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Tarani Chandola course at Southampton - awareness raising and capacity building. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | NCRM, UKHLS and ICLS Autumn School 2016 for Postdoctoral Researchers |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Training event for early career researchers on biomarkers in social science |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | New forms of data: Glasgow |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | New forms of data: introduction to the biomarker data in social science surveys to enable new users of the these datasets. Workshop organised by CLOSER, the UKDA and Understanding Society |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | New forms of data: London |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | new forms of data in London. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Nitzan Peri-Rotem: The role of biomedical factors in explaining fertility differences by education. Presentation - British Society for Population Studies annual meeting. 11 September 2018. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Nitzan Peri-Rotem: The role of biomedical factors in explaining fertility differences by education. Presentation - British Society for Population Studies annual meeting. 11 September 2018. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Obesity opinion article |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Dr Davillas has been invited by the ESRC to contribute an opinion article regarding his research on the Economics of Obesity (ESRC Society Now magazine, Winter 2017, issue 27). Society Now is the regular magazine of the ESRC, bringing the latest and most topical social science research to key opinion formers in business, government and the voluntary sector. It is published four times a year and highlights research by the UK's leading social scientists. This opinion article demonstrates the importance of the survey measurement of obesity on inequalities and social science research. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | https://esrc.ukri.org/files/news-events-and-publications/publications/magazines/society-now/society-... |
| Description | Oxford NCRM Summer School 2017 for Postdoctoral Researchers |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Lecture to researchers interested in incorporating genetics in their social science analyses. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Politico Interview |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Dr Davillas has been interviewed by Politico.com regarding the potential of biomarker information for health policy. This article has been read extensively and has sparked several discussions in social media on the value of objective measures of health for health policy evaluation. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | https://www.politico.com/agenda/story/2018/01/10/long-term-health-nation-problems-000613 |
| Description | Presentation for Parliamentary staff at POST (Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | I presented new work looking into employment and health at a lunchtime meeting for staff at the Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology (POST). This was based on recently published research into the relationship of Body Mass Index (BMI) and unemployment, suggesting that underweight may explain more ill-health among jobseekers than previously realized. Also presenting was Tarani Chandola, with his research on how poor quality work may be worse for some aspects of health than no work at all. The purpose of the session was to communicate to policymakers recent findings from UKHLS indicating that received wisdom about the relationships of work, non-work and health may need to be reconsidered. After each presentation, the researchers asked questions about findings and what we thought were the most important implications for policymakers. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | https://www.iser.essex.ac.uk/2017/07/24/iser-at-post |
| Description | Presentation for an audience including DWP staff and academics |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | I presented at a lunchtime seminar in the CASE (Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion) Welfare Policy and Analysis series. Sponsored by the DWP, these seminars are attended by DWP staff as well as LSE academics and the general public. This was based on recently published research into the relationship of Body Mass Index (BMI) and unemployment, suggesting that underweight may explain more ill-health among jobseekers than previously realized, and was followed by a Q&A. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | http://sticerd.lse.ac.uk/case/_new/events/audio.asp?id=5982 |
| Description | Presentation on UK causal inference meeting |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | The workshop is an annual meeting for statistician exchange ideas and findings in causal effect research area. Understanding Society genetic data was used in presentation as a good practical example of how genetic data can be used in helping explaining causal effect of health exposure on social outcomes. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | https://sites.google.com/site/ukcausalinferencemeeting/ |
| Description | Psychological stress, health and potential biological mechanisms |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Presentation at a mini-conference on stress: Invited to speak on the biological pathways that may mediate social differences in health: |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | RMF video |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | What is? video on biosocial research on NCRM website |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Research Methods Festival |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | RMF event to raise awareness of value of biomarkers in social science research |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | SLLS value biomarkers |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Presentation in symposium promoting value of biomarkers in social science research and how to use them effectively. provided advice for indvidual's own research ideas and collaborations. Two collaborative projects are ongoing as resutl fo disucssions. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | SLLS: social to biological workshop 2016 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Workshop illustrating the use of biomarkers in social science |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | SLLS: social to biological workshop 2017 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | SLLS workshop illustrating the use of biomarkers to social science researchers |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | SLLS: social to biological workshop 2018 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | training workshop |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Social science and epigenetics network |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Presentation to network of researchers engaged in social science an epigenetics |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Tarani Chandola - Re-employment, job quality, health and allostatic load biomarkers: prospective evidence from the UK Household Longitudinal Study |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | - |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | https://oxfordjournals.altmetric.com/details/23553380/news |
| Description | Tarani Chandola - Work, health and inequality: Colt foundation keynote lecture. Workplace Health, Leamington Spa |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Keynote lecture. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Tarani Chandola - Work, health and wellbeing. Society of Occupational Medicine: Webinar |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Tarani Chandola - Work, health and wellbeing. Society of Occupational Medicine: Webinar |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018,2019 |
| Description | Tarani Chandola - Working mothers 'up to 40% more stressed'. Guardian Online 27 January 2019 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Guardian online article based on research from this grant. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018,2019 |
| URL | https://www.theguardian.com/money/2019/jan/27/working-mothers-more-stressed-health |
| Description | The Oxford NCRM (National Centre for Research Methods) Summer School |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | An introduction to combining social science and molecular genetic research offer graduate students, early career researchers and researchers interested in entering this topic a unique introductory course. The programme consisted of morning lectures by top scholars in the emerging field of 'sociogenomics', including Dalton Conley (Princeton), Ben Domingue (Stanford), Melinda Mills (Oxford), David Steinsaltz (Oxford), Meena Kumari (Essex), Cecilia Lindgren (Oxford). Afternoon lectures consist of hands-on computer lab training by Oxford-based researchers Nicola Barban, Felix Tropf, Stine Møllegaard, Maria Christodoulou, Melissa Smart (Essex), and Yanchun Bao (Essex). The course equipped students with a unique insight into the emerging topic of sociogenomics and the most cutting-edge methodological techniques in this area of research. The focus was on understanding the key substantive research questions in this area, an overview of UK data that is increasingly available, hands-on computer lesson of how to work with genetic data, and an introduction into the current methodological techniques used in the field. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | http://www.oxfordsociogenetics.com/ |
| Description | UK evidence on environmental and health behaviours |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Workshop bringing together academics and policy makers in health and environment to consider key questions and data available to address them. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| Description | Understanding Society Biomarker Conference (15 March 2017) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | A new conference which showcased work from researchers using Understanding Society biomarker data to investigate links between health and social and economic factors in contemporary Britain. The Understanding Society Biomarker Conference was held on 15th March 2017 at RIBA, London gave researchers the opportunity to showcase their current and ongoing work based on Understanding Society biomarker data. The conference which took place on 15th March 2017 at RIBA, London saw presentations on topics such as non-standard work-hours, unemployment and financial insecurity, caregiving, volunteering, and neighbourhood differences in morbidity. As well as hearing the findings from these different research projects, there was ample time for discussion of analytical issues raised by the presentations and more generally. The Biomarker Team from Understanding Society was also on hand to answer any additional questions that users may have had about the data. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | https://www.understandingsociety.ac.uk/events/2017/03/15/understanding-society-biomarker-conference |
| Description | Understanding Society Biomarker Workshop |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | July 2015 In Wave 2 for the general population sample and wave 3 for the BHPS sample Understanding Society included a nurse visit. The physical measures and blood analytes data from these interviews have been deposited at the UK Data Service. The purpose of this workshop is to introduce the blood analytes; and outline some of the issues that need to be considered in analysing them. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| URL | https://www.understandingsociety.ac.uk/events/2015/07/20/understanding-society-biomarkers-workshop |
| Description | Understanding Society Biomarker Workshop |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Biomarker Workshop November 2014 In Wave 2 for the general population sample and wave 3 for the BHPS sample UKHLS included a nurse visit. The physical measures data from these interviews have already been deposited at the UK Data Service. In December 2014, blood analytes will be deposited. The purpose of this training course is to introduce the blood analytes included in the UKHLS/BHPS datasets; and outline some of the issues that need to be considered in analysing them. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
| URL | https://www.understandingsociety.ac.uk/events/2014/11/18/ukhls-biomarkers-training-course |
| Description | Understanding Society Lifecourse and Health Masterclass |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | This course was led by international expert Dr Michelle Kelly-Irving from INSERM, Toulouse University. It introduced lifecourse theories from across biological and social sicence disciplines, and then through group work supported participants to develop research proposals to investigate lifecourse questions with Understanding Society data. It was open to all but geared to early career and PhD students from both social and biological sciences with an interest in health inequalities and the life course approach. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | https://www.understandingsociety.ac.uk/2016/01/28/masterclass |
| Description | Understanding Society Masterclass Combining Sociology and Biology (13 March 2017) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | This workshop with Professor Teresa Seeman from the University of California, Los Angeles helped researchers better understand the interaction of the social environment and health with a focus on the biological pathways and the potential to investigate them with Understanding Society. The event was held at the Royal Institute of British Architects, London. As part of Understanding Society's £1.4 million biomarker research programme, this course encouraged an interdisciplinary approach to research on health. A mixture of lectures, seminars and group activities will focus on: The interaction between social and biological processes Opening up the research process: how to go from general ideas, to research questions to testing hypotheses Familiarisation with Understanding Society and the BHPS |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | https://www.understandingsociety.ac.uk/events/2017/03/13/masterclass |
| Description | Understanding Society and ELSA genetic workshop |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | 20 researchers attended this workshop. The audience was composed of social scientists who wanted to learn about genetics and the use of these types of data for social science research. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| Description | masterclass: allostatic load |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Masterclass on allostatic load: with Teresa Seeman |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | masterclass: lifecourse |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Presentation in masterclass on lifecourse theories and embodiment |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | understanding health and society: the role of biomarkers article published in Taking the Long View |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Article outlining importance of biomarkers for policy and social science research |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| URL | https://www.iser.essex.ac.uk/system/annual_reports/file_downloads/000/000/018/original/ISER-Report-2... |