Prof Allan Mackay Findlay

Emeritus Professor

Researcher profile

Email

Allan.M.Findlay@st-andrews.ac.uk

 

Research areas

Mobilities strand leader of the ESRC Centre for Population Change. My current research projects study a) international student mobility in relation to the globalisation of higher education, b) the changing mobilities associated with fluid lifecourses, c) issues associated with forecasting migration, d) longitudinal methods for understanding mobility. I am also Co-Director of ESRC's Census and Longitudinal Studies hub (CALLS).

I also am Editor of Population, Space and Place

Selected publications

• Open access

  Boomerang behaviour and emerging adulthood: moving back to the parental home and the parental neighbourhood in Sweden

  Olofsson, J., Sandow, E., Findlay, A. & Malmberg, G., 18 Mar 2020, (E-pub ahead of print) In: European Journal of Population. First Online, 27 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• The case for a lifecourse perspective on mobility and migration research

  McCollum, D., Keenan, K. L. & Findlay, A. M., 2020, The Handbook of Demographic Change and the Lifecourse.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

• Open access

  Assessing time series models for forecasting international migration: lessons from the United Kingdom

  Bijak, J., Disney, G., Findlay, A. M., Forster, J. J., Smith, P. W. F. & Wiśniowski, A., Aug 2019, In: Journal of Forecasting. 38, 5, p. 470-487 18 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Open access

  Determinants of occupational mobility: the importance of place of work

  McCollum, D., Liu, Y., Findlay, A., Feng, Z. & Nightingale, G., 31 Oct 2018, In: Regional Studies. 52, 12, p. 1612-1623 12 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Open access

  Fees, flows and imaginaries: exploring the destination choices arising from intra-national student mobility

  Findlay, A., Packwood, H., McCollum, D., Evans, G. F. & Tindal, S., 2018, In: Globalisation, Societies and Education. 16, 2, p. 162-175 14 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Open access

  Linking desires and behaviour of residential relocation with life domain satisfaction

  Nowok, B., Findlay, A. M. & McCollum, D., 1 Mar 2018, In: Urban Studies. 55, 4, p. 870-890

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Open access

  Oiling the wheels? Flexible labour markets and the migration industry

  McCollum, D. & Findlay, A., 2018, In: Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies. 44, 4, p. 558-574

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Open access

  Distinctive and comparative places: alternative narratives of distinction within international student mobility

  Prazeres, L., Findlay, A., McCollum, D., Sanders, N., Musil, E., Krisjane, Z. & Apsite-Berina, E., Mar 2017, In: Geoforum. 80, p. 114-122 9 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Open access

  Marketization, marketing and the production of international student migration

  Findlay, A. M., McCollum, D. & Packwood, H., 11 May 2017, In: International Migration. 55, 3, p. 139-155 17 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Open access

  ‘It was always the plan’: international study as ‘learning to migrate’

  Findlay, A., Prazeres, L., McCollum, D. & Packwood, H., Jun 2017, In: Area. 49, 2, p. 192-199

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

 

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