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28 January 2014

Uniform Search Platform: Update #1

Work on the Uniform Search Platform – the interface to the hundreds of thousands of variables, questions and instruments used by the CLOSER studies – is well under way. The first stage of this work, and by far the most substantial, involves neither the search nor the platform. Instead, we are focusing on the uniform: […]
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20 November 2012

Studying area effects: How the old neighbourhood may shape our old age

(…Or my approach to small talk at dinner parties…and possibly why I’m not invited to more) Whenever I am at a dinner party, or meet someone new outside of academia, they always ask me what I do for a living. When I explain that I research how the places people live can affect their health, […]
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09 October 2012

Parental separation and adult psychological distress – why does this association exist and how has it changed over time?

Divorces have risen rapidly since the end of the Second World War in Great Britain, particularly in the early 1970s following the implementation of the 1969 Divorce Reform Act. As a result there has been a large increase in the number of children with separated parents and a growing concern about how separation may affect […]
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