Alan Marshall
Job Title
Professor of Social Research on Inequality

Room number
2.12C (enter through 2.12A)Building (Address)
Chrystal Macmillan BuildingStreet (Address)
George SquareCity (Address)
EdinburghCountry (Address)
UKResearch interests
Research interests
I am a Social Statistician by training with both substantive and methodological research interests. My substantive research uses longitudinal data from social surveys in the UK and overseas to better understand the social and biological determinants of inequalities observed in health and wellbeing in later life. I have made methodological research contributions around the development of local estimates and projections of populations and of populations in poor health in collaboration with the UK's National statistical agencies and local authorities.
I am currently seconded to the Scottish Graduate School for Social Sciences for 50% of my time where I have responsibility for studentships and partnerships.
A list of my publications and funded research projects can be found here.
PhD topics that I am interested in supervising
Social determinants of health (particularly in later life) Retirement and health Population ageing Small area demographic estimation/forecasting
Background
After holding lecturing positions at the University of Manchester and University of St Andrews, I joined Edinburgh in 2017 as Senior Lecturer in Quantitative Methods and director of the Q-Step Centre. In 2019 I became the Director of the Research Training Centre within the School of Social and Political Science and served in this role to 2022. I am currently the Deputy Director of the Scottish Graduate School for Social Sciences with responsibility for studentships and partnerships.