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Kim Shuey is an Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology at Western University. She holds a PhD from Florida State University and specializes in health inequality and work-life intersections. Her research examines how economic hardship and social mobility across the life course influence health outcomes, particularly focusing on intergenerational transmission of health disparities. She also investigates precarious employment's effects on worker health, including job stress and disability accommodations in unstable work environments.
Dr. Shuey's work has been published in top journals like the Journal of Health and Social Behavior and Journal of Gerontology. Her research highlights longitudinal approaches to understanding health as a marker of social inequality. She has received recognition through grants such as the SSHRC Insight Grant and contributed to collaborative projects on migration, inequality, and aging.
Her affiliations include the Centre for Research on Social Inequality, Aging and Health (CRSIAH) and the Centre for Computational and Quantitative Social Science. She advises graduate students in sociology and collaborates on interdisciplinary projects addressing environmental sociology and policy implications of health disparities.
