Key Note Speaker

 

Professor Emily Grundy

Centre for Population Studies (from London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, University of London)

[http://www.lshtm.ac.uk/prospectus/research/cps.html]

Emily Grundy took the MSc in Medical Demography at the School sometime ago and returned to the Centre for Population Studies in 1998. She previously worked at the Institute of Gerontology, King's College London, and prior to that in the Social Statistics Research Unit at City University and in the Department of Health Care of the Elderly at Nottingham University.

Most of Emily's research has been focused on ageing. Her main interests in this field are families, households and social support in later life, especially in relationship to health; trends and differentials in health and disability, and the long term consequences of marital and reproductive history for health and social support. Much of Emily's research has involved analysis of data from the Office for National Statistics Longitudinal Study (ONS LS) and she leads the team which provides support to academic users of this resource (CeLSIUS). Emily is involved in several European collaborative projects, as well as collaborative projects elsewhere, and chairs the European Population Association working group on demographic change and the support of older people