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Dr. Richard Shaw is a Research Fellow at the MRC/CSO Social and Public Health Sciences Unit, part of the University of Glasgow’s School of Health and Wellbeing. He holds a PhD in Epidemiology from University College London and has been affiliated with the University since 2012. Prior to this, he worked at the Universities of Oxford, Southampton, and York. His research focuses on health inequalities across the life course, particularly using secondary analysis of administrative data and cohort studies. Key areas include mental health, socio-economic determinants of health, education, loneliness, and suicide prevention.
He has led projects such as an Understanding Society Fellowship analyzing policy impacts on wellbeing and investigated biases in linked administrative data for epidemiological research. Shaw is actively involved in teaching epidemiology courses, including MED5653 (Introduction to Epidemiology and Statistics), and supervises postgraduate students. Notable grants include funding from the University of Essex (2023–2024) exploring student support impacts on wellbeing. He serves as Chair of the Mid-Career Research Section for the Society for Social Medicine and has contributed to professional activities like editing newsletters and presenting at conferences.
Shaw’s work emphasizes quantitative methodologies, longitudinal analyses, and interdisciplinary collaboration, addressing critical public health challenges such as the mental health consequences of the pandemic and structural inequities in healthcare access.
