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Professor Paul Boyle

Tel: +44 1334 462397
Fax: +44 01334 463949
E-mail: p.boyle@st-andrews.ac.uk

Research Expertise Profile
Publications

Biography

I graduated with a B.A. (hons) degree in Geography from Lancaster University in 1986, having spent a year at the University of Colorado, Boulder, on an exchange. I returned to Lancaster to undertake a PhD which modelled migration flows in the West Midlands region of England, graduating in 1991.  I held my first lectureship at the University of Wales, Swansea and then moved to the University of Leeds, spending a year at the University of Canterbury in New Zealand during this period.  I moved to take up a chair in Human Geography at the University of St Andrews in 1999.

My research interests fall within population and health geography, with many projects looking at issues which intersect both these themes. I have published on migration issues, including the influence of family migration on women, on health issues, including health inequalities and the clustering of disease, and on the intersection between demographic and health issues, such as my work on the links between migration and health.

As Director of the ESRC funded Longitudinal Studies Centre - Scotland (LSCS) a major part of my role has been the establishment and support of the Scottish Longitudinal Study.  This major resource links data from various routine administrative sources for around 5.3% of the Scottish population and is one of the largest studies of its type in the world. As a result, I have become increasingly interested in the use of such longitudinal data and the ethical and confidentiality issues that arise when using personal information.  I am also Co-Director of the ESRC funded Centre for Population Change (CPC) and am a Co-Investigator on the Wellcome Trust funded Scottish Health Informatics Programme (SHIP) and the ESRC funded Administrative Data Liaison Service (ADLS).

 

Profile

  • 1986 B.A., University of Lancaster, Geography

  • 1991 PhD, University of Lancaster, Geography

  • 1991-1995 Lecturer, University of Wales Swansea, Department of Geography

  • 1997 Visiting lecturer, University of Canterbury, Department of Geography

  • 1995-1999 Lecturer, University of Leeds, School of Geography

  • 1999-present Professor, School of Geography & Geosciences, University of St Andrews

  • 2001-2005  Deputy Director of the Census Interaction Data Service (CIDS)

  • 2001-present Director, Longitudinal Studies Centre - Scotland

  • 2003-2007 Director, Social Dimensions of Health Institute, Universities of Dundee and St Andrews

  • 2006-present  Fellow, Royal Society of Edinburgh (FRSE)

  • 2007-present  Work-Family Leader, Alfred Sloan Foundation, United States

  • 2008-present  Co-Director of the Wellcome Trust Scottish Health Informatics Programme (SHIP)

  • 2009-present  Co-director of the ESRC Centre for Population Change (CPC)

Responsibilities

University Responsibilities

  • Head of School

External Responsibilities

  • Member, Board of Governors, European Population Partnership 2009-present
  • European Science Foundation Expert Board to advise on the Position Paper Social Sciences in Europe 2009
  • Member, ESRC National Centre for e-Social Science review panel 20
  • International Health Data Linkage Consortium 2008-present
  • Royal Statistical Society Working Party on Data Capture and Society 2008- present
  • Royal Society of Edinburgh, Economic and Social Sciences Sectional Committee, 2008-10
  • President, British Society for Population Studies 2007-9
  • Co-editor of the journal Population, Space and Place
  • Board member of the Long View Charitable Trust
  • Steering Group for Data Exchange in Education and Children's Services, Scottish Executive
  • Chair, Children of the 1950s Scientific Steering Committee
  • ESRC Virtual College member
  • Vice Chair, Scientific Advisory Committee for the Birth Cohort Studies
  • ONS Longitudinal Study Research Board
  • UK Census Design and Methodology Advisory Committee
  • UK National Longitudinal Strategy Committee
  • Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency Longitudinal Study Committee
  • Office for National Statistics 2001 Academic Advisory Group
  • General Register Office (Scotland) Census Advisory Group, Population and Migration Group

Teaching interests

  • Health Geography
  • Population Geography

Research interests

  • Population Geography, including migration, fertility and family dynamics
  • Health Geography, including health inequalities and geographical variations in morbidity and mortality

Postgraduate Students

Recent Publications

Boyle PJ, Norman P and Popham F 2009 Selective mobility: evidence that it can widen health inequalities Social Science and Medicine 68 1835–1842

Boyle PJ, Feng Z and Gayle V 2009 A new look at family migration and women’s employment status Journal of Marriage and the Family 71 417–431

Cooke T, Boyle PJ, Couch K and Feijten 2009 A longitudinal analysis of family migration and the gender gap in earnings in the United States and Great Britain Demography 46 147–167

Leese G, Boyle PJ, Feng Z, Emslie-Smith A and Ellis J 2008 Screening uptake in a well established diabetic retinopathy screening programme: the role of geographical access and deprivation Diabetes Care 31:2131-2135

 

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