Matthew Wallace

Matthew Wallace serves as Associate Professor and Reader in Social Inequality at the University of Salford, actively contributing to demographic research through platforms like the Centre for Population Change webinar series.

His research examines how international migration patterns influence national population health metrics, particularly life expectancy. In his March 2025 presentation, he analyzed administrative register data from 1990-2019 focusing on Nordic countries (especially Sweden), revealing that while migrants' impact on national life expectancy remains small, it is growing with significant variations across demographic variables. His work demonstrates marked heterogeneity in these effects according to sex, age, migrant generation, and country of origin.

Employing established demographic methods, Wallace's research bridges sociology and public health, providing crucial insights for policy development in migrant-receiving nations where international populations represent increasingly large and diverse segments. His findings address a critical gap in literature, as few studies have quantified migrants' actual impact on national health metrics despite extensive documentation of mortality differences between migrants and native populations.