Professor Paul Boyle
At 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.
Publications
Recent Journal Articles
- Boyle PJ, Norman P and Popham F 2009 Selective mobility: evidence that it can widen health inequalities Social Science and Medicine 68 1835-1842
- Boyle PJ, Feng Z and Gayle V 2009 A new look at family migration and women's employment status Journal of Marriage and the Family 71 417-431
- Cooke T, Boyle PJ, Couch K and Feijten 2009 A longitudinal analysis of family migration and the gender gap in earnings in the United States and Great Britain Demography 46 147-167
- Leese G, Boyle PJ, Feng Z, Emslie-Smith A and Ellis J 2008 Screening uptake in a well established diabetic retinopathy screening programme: the role of geographical access and deprivation Diabetes Care 31:2131-2135