Who are we?

Dr Daniel Holman

Senior Lecturer in Sociology and Public Health, University of Sheffield UK

Daniel’s research centres around social science perspectives on health and illness, especially with respect to health inequalities and ageing.

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Dr Andrew Bell

Senior Lecturer in Quantitative Social Sciences

Andrew’s current substantive research focuses on mental health from a life course perspective, but also spans a diverse range of other subject areas, including geography, political science, social epidemiology and economics.

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Dr George Leckie

Professor of Social Statistics, Centre for Multilevel Modelling, Scholl of Education, University of Bristol, UK

George’s research interests are in the development, application, and dissemination of multilevel models to analyse messy and complex clustered cross-sectional and longitudinal data in educational, health and social science research.

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Dr Clare R Evans

Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Oregon, USA

A social epidemiologist, medical sociologist, and quantitative methodologist. Clare’s research focuses on the intersectional social determinants of population health inequalities. In 2015, she proposed the approach now known as intersectional MAIHDA. Her current work focuses on developing refining quantitative approaches for answering complex study questions and disseminating them across the social, health, and environmental sciences.

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Dr Will Johnson

Reader in Epidemiology and Population Health

Will Johnson is a Reader in Epidemiology and Population Health at Loughborough University in the UK. His research focuses on working with complex longitudinal data to investigate the life course epidemiology of non-communicable diseases in both high-income settings (e.g., UK and USA) and low- and middle-income settings (e.g., The Gambia and India).

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Dr Yiyang Gao

Research Associate in the Sheffield Methods Institute, University of Sheffield UK

Yiyang is a quantitative sociologist specialising in educational inequality and ethnic segregation research. Her work focuses on applying multilevel modelling and advanced statistical methods to examine how intersecting social identities shape inequalities in education and, now with the MAIHDA project, health outcomes.

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Dr Natalie C Bennett

Research Associate in the Sheffield Methods Institute, University of Sheffield UK

Natalie is a social epidemiologist with a background in geography. Natalie primarily studies health inequalities and their intersectional social determinants.

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Sophie Bright

PhD Researcher

Sophie Bright is a PhD researcher examining how intersectionality theory can deepen our understanding and modelling of alcohol-related inequalities. Her work explores how structural discrimination and intersecting social positions shape patterns of alcohol use and harm. She is joining the team on secondment, where she will undertake a systematic review of MAIHDA studies.

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