Celebrating success

Mary Abed Al Ahad has received a 2021 Royal Society of Edinburgh Saltire Early Career Fellowship to support career development and European collaboration.

David McCollum has been awarded a British Academy Mid-Career Fellowship on ‘Post pandemic working practices and residential preferences: Implications for people and places’.

Melinda Mills has been appointed as one of three Special Advisors to Paolo Gentiloni, the European Commissioner of the Economy.

Lydia Palumbo passed her PhD viva with the thesis ‘The relationship between economic precariousness, parental socio-economic status & partnership dynamics in the UK’. Lydia’s main supervisor was Professor Ann Berrington, with Professor Agnese Vitali as co-supervisor (year one) and Professor Peter Eibich (MPIDR) as external co-supervisor. Lydia’s research has been accepted by Population Studies.

Seb Stannard passed his PhD for his work examining the life course determinants of poor health in mid life and the role of inter-generational transmission of demographic behaviour. Seb’s supervisors were Professor Ann Berrington, along with Dr Nisreen Alwan, Associate Professor in Public Health at the University of Southampton. Seb’s research has already been published in Scientific Reports and Advances in Life Course Research.