Professor Paul Boyle

Prof Paul BoyleAt the time of his involvement in SHIP, Paul Boyle was Professor of Human Geography and Head of the School of Geography and Geosciences at the University of St Andrews.  He was President of the British Society for Population Studies (BSPS) from 2007 to 2009.  He directed the Longitudinal Studies Centre - Scotland (LSCS), which has established and continues to maintain and support one of the world's largest longitudinal datasets for health and social science research -the Scottish Longitudinal Study (SLS).  In addition to his role in the SHIP, he was co-Director of the ESRC Centre for Population Change (CPC); co-applicant on the ESRC Administrative Data Liaison Service (ADLS); and co-applicant on the recently funded ESRC 2012 Birth Cohort.  Paul has particular expertise in record linkage and the use of routinely collected data in health and social science research.  He has published widely in Geography, Demography and Epidemiology.

Paul is now the Chief Executive of the Economic and Social Research Council.

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