Dr Richard Shaw

Research Fellow (MRC/CSO Social & Public Health Sciences Unit)

MRC/CSO Social and Public Health Sciences Unit, Clarice Pears Building, 90 Byres Road, Glasgow, G12 8TB

Biography

Richard Shaw is an epidemiologist who is interested in how health inequalities develop across the life course with a focus on secondary analysis of administrative data and cohort studies. He has been part of the Institute of Health and Wellbeing (IHW) at the University of Glasgow since 2012. Prior to that he worked to that he worked at the Universities of Oxford, Southampton and York, and studied for a PhD at the Department of Epidemiology at University College London.

He currently has an Understanding Society Fellowship focusing on evaluating the consequences for wellbeing of changes in policies relating to the Education Maintence Allowance and Tuition fees. He is also finishing work related to COVID-19 Longitudinal Health and Wellbeing National Core Study, Other recent work involves the potential biases linked administrative data.

Here are links for Richard’s ORCID, Mastodon, and Google Scholar pages

Research interests

Broadly Richard’s research interests are in how a person’s social context influence their health across the life course.

Specific areas of research interest include mental health, socio-economic determinants of health, education, loneliness, ethnicity, neighbourhoods, suicide and social care.

Ares of expertise include quantitative methods, longitudinal analysis, and administrative data.

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2024

Rhead, R. et al. (2024) Long COVID and financial outcomes: evidence from four longitudinal population surveys. Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, (doi: 10.1136/jech-2023-221059) (PMID:38508701) (Early Online Publication)

2023

Shaw, R. , Rhead, R., Zhu, J., Wels, J., Silverwood, R., Demou, E. , Hamilton, O. , Pattaro, S. , Boyd, A. and Katikireddi, V. (2023) The Relationship Between Testing Positive for COVID-19 and Economic Activity and Employment Status: Evidence from Five Longitudinal Studies Linked to English NHS Testing Data. SSM Annual Scientific Meeting 2023, Newcastle University, UK, 6-8 September 2023. (doi: 10.1136/jech-2023-SSMabstracts.283)

McElroy, E. et al. (2023) Living alone and mental health: parallel analyses in UK longitudinal population surveys and electronic health records prior to and during the COVID-19 pandemic. BMJ Mental Health, 26(1), e300842. (doi: 10.1136/bmjment-2023-300842) (PMID:37562853) (PMCID:PMC10577768)

Green, M. A., McKee, M., Hamilton, O. K.L. , Shaw, R. J. , Macleod, J., Boyd, A., The LH&W NCS Collaborative, and Katikireddi, S. V. (2023) Associations between self-reported healthcare disruption due to covid-19 and avoidable hospital admission: evidence from seven linked longitudinal studies for England. British Medical Journal, 382, e075133. (doi: 10.1136/bmj-2023-075133) (PMID:37468148) (PMCID:PMC10354595)

Wels, J. et al. (2023) Home working and social and mental wellbeing at different stages of the COVID-19 pandemic in the UK: evidence from 7 longitudinal population surveys. PLoS Medicine, 20(4), e1004214. (doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1004214) (PMID:37104282) (PMCID:PMC10138202)

Bowyer, R. C.E. et al. (2023) Characterising patterns of COVID-19 and long COVID symptoms: evidence from nine UK longitudinal studies. European Journal of Epidemiology, 38(2), pp. 199-210. (doi: 10.1007/s10654-022-00962-6) (PMID:36680646) (PMCID:PMC9860244)

2022

Shaw, R. J. (2022) Living alone and suicide risk: a complex problem requiring a whole population approach. American Journal of Public Health, 112(12), pp. 1699-1701. (doi: 10.2105/AJPH.2022.307138) (PMID:36383942) (PMCID:PMC9670235)

Pescarini, J. M. et al. (2022) Impact of Brazil’s Bolsa Familia Programme on cardiovascular and all-cause mortality: a natural experiment study using the 100 Million Brazilian Cohort. International Journal of Epidemiology, 51(6), pp. 1847-1861. (doi: 10.1093/ije/dyac188) (PMID:36172959) (PMCID:PMC9749722)

Shaw, R. J. et al. (2022) Biases arising from linked administrative data for epidemiological research: a conceptual framework from registration to analyses. European Journal of Epidemiology, 37(12), pp. 1215-1224. (doi: 10.1007/s10654-022-00934-w) (PMID:36333542) (PMCID:PMC9792414)

Thompson, E. J. et al. (2022) Psychological distress, depression, anxiety and life satisfaction following COVID-19 infection: evidence from 11 UK longitudinal population studies. Lancet Psychiatry, 9(11), pp. 894-906. (doi: 10.1016/S2215-0366(22)00307-8) (PMID:36244359) (PMCID:PMC9560745)

Bécares, L., Shaw, R. J. , Katikireddi, S. V. , Irizar, P., Amele, S. , Kapadia, D., Nazroo, J. and Taylor, H. (2022) Racism as the fundamental cause of ethnic inequities in COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy: a theoretical framework and empirical exploration using the UK Household Longitudinal Study. SSM - Population Health, 19, 101150. (doi: 10.1016/j.ssmph.2022.101150) (PMID:35765366) (PMCID:PMC9225926)

Wels, J. et al. (2022) Mental and social wellbeing and the UK coronavirus job retention scheme: evidence from nine longitudinal studies. Social Science and Medicine, 308, 115226. (doi: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2022.115226) (PMID:35932537) (PMCID:PMC9296227)

Shaw, R. , Harron, K., Pescarini, J., Júnior, E., Siroky, A., Campbell, D. , Dundas, R. , Ichihara, M. Y., Barreto, M. and Katikireddi, V. (2022) Biases Arising from Using Linked Administrative Data for Research: A Conceptual Framework from Registration to Analysis. In: 2022 International Population Data Linkage, Edinburgh, UK, 7-9 Sept 2022, (doi: 10.23889/ijpds.v7i3.1800)

2021

Silverman, E. , Gostoli, U. , Picascia, S. , Almagor, J. , McCann, M. , Shaw, R. and Angione, C. (2021) Situating agent-based modelling in population health research. Emerging Themes in Epidemiology, 18, 10. (doi: 10.1186/s12982-021-00102-7) (PMID:34330302) (PMCID:PMC8325181)

Shaw, R. J. , Mackay, D. , Pell, J. P. , Padmanabhan, S. , Bailey, D. S. and Smith, D. J. (2021) The relationship between antihypertensive medications and mood disorders: analysis of linked healthcare data for 1.8 million patients. Psychological Medicine, 51(7), pp. 1183-1191. (doi: 10.1017/S0033291719004094) (PMID:31973782)

Green, M. J. , Whitley, E. , Niedzwiedz, C. L. , Shaw, R. J. and Katikireddi, S. V. (2021) Social contact and inequalities in depressive symptoms and loneliness among older adults: a mediation analysis of the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing. SSM - Population Health, 13, 100726. (doi: 10.1016/j.ssmph.2021.100726) (PMID:33521227) (PMCID:PMC7820553)

Shaw, R. , Cullen, B. , Graham, N., Lyall, D. , Mackay, D. , Okolie, C., Pearsall, R., Ward, J. , John, A. and Smith, D. (2021) Living alone, loneliness and lack of emotional support as predictors of suicide and self-harm: a nine-year follow up of the UK Biobank cohort. Journal of Affective Disorders, 279, pp. 316-323. (doi: 10.1016/j.jad.2020.10.026) (PMID:33096330)

2020

Strawbridge, R. J. et al. (2020) Carotid intima-media thickness: novel loci, sex-specific effects, and genetic correlations with obesity and glucometabolic traits in UK Biobank. Arteriosclerosis, Thrombosis, and Vascular Biology, 40(2), pp. 446-461. (doi: 10.1161/ATVBAHA.119.313226) (PMID:31801372) (PMCID:PMC6975521)

2019

Shaw, R. J. , Currie, D. B., Smith, G. S., Brown, J. , Smith, D. J. and Inchley, J. C. (2019) Do social support and eating family meals together play a role in promoting resilience to bullying and cyberbullying in Scottish school children? SSM - Population Health, 9, 100485. (doi: 10.1016/j.ssmph.2019.100485) (PMID:31649998) (PMCID:PMC6804649)

Pearsall, R., Shaw, R. J. , McLean, G., Connolly, M., Hughes, K. A., Boyle, J. G., Park, J., Smith, D. J. and Mackay, D. (2019) Health screening, cardiometabolic disease and adverse health outcomes in individuals with severe mental illness. BJPsych Open, 5(6), e97. (doi: 10.1192/bjo.2019.76) (PMID:31699180) (PMCID:PMC6854356)

Shaw, R. J. , Currie, D. B., Smith, G., Inchley, J. and Smith, D. (2019) The Role of Family and Peer Support in Promoting Resilience in the Face of Bullying and Cyberbullying: Evidence from School Children in Scotland. Society for Social Medicine and Population Health and International Epidemiology Association European Congress Annual Scientific Meeting 2019, Cork, Ireland, 4-6 September 2019.

Strawbridge, R. J. et al. (2019) Identification of novel genome-wide associations for suicidality in UK Biobank, genetic correlation with psychiatric disorders and polygenic association with completed suicide. EBioMedicine, 41, pp. 517-525. (doi: 10.1016/j.ebiom.2019.02.005) (PMID:30745170) (PMCID:PMC6442001)

Okely, J. A., Čukić, I., Shaw, R. J. , Chastin, S. F., Dall, P. M., Deary, I. J., Der, G. , Dontje, M. L., Skelton, D. A. and Gale, C. R. (2019) Positive and negative well-being and objectively measured sedentary behaviour in older adults: evidence from three cohorts. BMC Geriatrics, 19, 28. (doi: 10.1186/s12877-019-1026-1) (PMID:30700261) (PMCID:PMC6354406)

2018

Shaw, R.J. , Cullen, B. , Graham, N., Mackay, D. , Ward, J., Pearsall, R. and Smith, D.J. (2018) Loneliness, Living Arrangements and Emotional Support as Predictors of Suicidality: a 7 Year Follow-up of the UK Biobank Cohort. Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health 72(Suupl_1): A30. Society for Social Medicine 62nd Annual Scientific Meeting, Glasgow, UK, 5-7 Sep 2018. (doi: 10.1136/jech-2018-SSMabstracts.62)

Čukić, I. et al. (2018) Cognitive ability does not predict objectively measured sedentary behaviour: evidence from three older cohorts. Psychology and Aging, 33(2), pp. 288-296. (doi: 10.1037/pag0000221) (PMID:29658748) (PMCID:PMC5900579)

Dall, P. M. et al. (2018) Characteristics of a protocol to collect objective physical activity/sedentary behavior data in a large study: Seniors USP (Understanding Sedentary Patterns). Journal for the Measurement of Physical Behaviour, 1(1), pp. 26-31. (doi: 10.1123/jmpb.2017-0004) (PMID:30159548) (PMCID:PMC6110380)

Chastin, S.F.M. et al. (2018) Systematic comparative validation of self-report measures of sedentary time against an objective measure of postural sitting (activPAL). International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity, 15, 21. (doi: 10.1186/s12966-018-0652-x) (PMID:29482617) (PMCID:PMC5828279)

Gale, C. R. et al. (2018) The epigenetic clock and objectively measured sedentary and walking behavior in older adults: the Lothian Birth Cohort 1936. Clinical Epigenetics, 10, 4. (doi: 10.1186/s13148-017-0438-z) (PMID:29321814) (PMCID:PMC5759300)

2017

Shaw, R. J. , Čukić, I., Deary, I. J., Gale, C. R., Chastin, S. F.M., Dall, P. M., Dontje, M. L., Skelton, D. A., Macdonald, L. and Der, G. (2017) The influence of neighbourhoods and the social environment on sedentary behaviour in older adults in three prospective cohorts. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 14(6), 557. (doi: 10.3390/ijerph14060557) (PMID:28538672) (PMCID:PMC5486243)

Shaw, R. J. , Čukić, I., Deary, I. J., Gale, C. R., Chastin, S. F.M., Dall, P. M., Skelton, D. A. and Der, G. (2017) Relationships between socioeconomic position and objectively measured sedentary behaviour in older adults in three prospective cohorts. BMJ Open, 7(6), e016436. (doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2017-016436) (PMID:28619784) (PMCID:PMC5541575)

Minton, J. , Shaw, R. , Green, M. A., Vanderbloemen, L., Popham, F. and McCartney, G. (2017) Visualising and quantifying 'excess deaths' in Scotland compared with the rest of the UK and the rest of Western Europe. Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, 71(5), pp. 461-467. (doi: 10.1136/jech-2016-207379) (PMID:28062643) (PMCID:PMC5484031)

Minton, J. , Green, M., McCartney, G., Shaw, R. , Vanderbloemen, L. and Pickett, K. (2017) Two cheers for a small giant? Why we need better ways of seeing data: A commentary on: ‘Rising morbidity and mortality in midlife among white non-Hispanic Americans in the 21st century'. International Journal of Epidemiology, 46(1), pp. 356-361. (doi: 10.1093/ije/dyw095) (PMID:27639276) (PMCID:PMC5407174)

2016

Vanderbloemen, L., Minton, J. , Green, M., Mccann, M. and Shaw, R. (2016) Visualising Age-Period-Cohort Patterns in Health Data Using Lexis Surfaces. 60th Anniversary of the Annual Scientific Meeting of the Society for Social Medicine, York, UK, 14-16 Sep 2016. (Unpublished)

2014

Shaw, R. J. , Benzeval, M. and Popham, F. (2014) To what extent do financial strain and labour force status explain social class inequalities in self-rated health? Analysis of 20 countries in the European Social Survey. PLoS ONE, 9(10), e110362. (doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0110362) (PMID:25313462) (PMCID:PMC4196960)

Shaw, R. J. , Green, M. , Popham, F. and Benzeval, M. (2014) Differences in adiposity trajectories by birth cohort and childhood social class: evidence from cohorts born in the 1930s, 1950s and 1970s in the west of Scotland. Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, 68(6), pp. 550-556. (doi: 10.1136/jech-2013-203551)

2013

Vlachantoni, A., Shaw, R. , Evandrou, M. and Falkingham, J. (2013) The determinants of receiving social care in later life in England. Ageing and Society, pp. 1-25. (doi: 10.1017/S0144686X1300072X)

Shaw, R. J. and Pickett, K. E. (2013) The health benefits of Hispanic communities for non-Hispanic mothers and infants: another Hispanic paradox. American Journal of Public Health, 103(6), pp. 1052-1057. (doi: 10.2105/AJPH.2012.300985)

Shaw, R. , Green, M. , Popham, F. and Benzeval, M. (2013) How do Adiposity Trajectories Bary by Birth Cohort and Parental Social Class? Evidence From the West of Scotland Twenty-07 Study. Society for Social Medicine 57th Annual Scientific Meeting, Brighton, UK, 11-13 Sep 2013. A30. (doi: 10.1136/jech-2013-203126.62)

2012

Bécares, L., Shaw, R. , Nazroo, J., Stafford, M., Albor, C., Atkin, K., Kiernan, K., Wilkinson, R. and Pickett, K. (2012) Ethnic density effects on physical morbidity, mortality, and health behaviors: a systematic review of the literature. American Journal of Public Health, 102(12), e33-e66. (doi: 10.2105/AJPH.2012.300832)

Shaw, R. , Atkin, K., Becares, L., Albor, C.B., Stafford, M., Kiernan, K.E., Nazroo, J.Y., Wilkinson, R.G. and Pickett, K.E. (2012) Impact of ethnic density on adult mental disorders: narrative review. British Journal of Psychiatry, 201(1), pp. 11-19. (doi: 10.1192/bjp.bp.110.083675)

Tunstall, H., Cabieses, B. and Shaw, R. (2012) The characteristics of mobile families with young children in England and the impact of their moves on neighbourhood inequalities in maternal and child health. Health and Place, 18(3), pp. 657-670. (doi: 10.1016/j.healthplace.2011.11.009)

2011

Vlachantoni, A., Shaw, R. , Willis, R., Evandrou, M., Falkingham, J. and Luff, R. (2011) Measuring unmet need for social care amongst older people. Population Trends, 145(1), pp. 60-76. (doi: doi10.1057/pt.2011.17) (PMID:21987013)

Shaw, R. J. and Pickett, K. E. (2011) The association between ethnic density and poor self-rated health among US Black and Hispanic people. Ethnicity and Health, 16(3), pp. 225-244. (doi: 10.1080/13557858.2011.561428) (PMID:21491285)

2010

Shaw, R. J. , Pickett, K. E. and Wilkinson, R. G. (2010) Ethnic density effects on birth outcomes and maternal smoking during pregnancy in the US linked birth and infant death data set. American Journal of Public Health, 100(4), pp. 707-713. (doi: 10.2105/AJPH.2009.167114)

2009

Pickett, K. E., Shaw, R. J. , Atkin, K., Kiernan, K. E. and Wilkinson, R. G. (2009) Ethnic density effects on maternal and infant health in the Millennium Cohort Study. Social Science and Medicine, 69(10), pp. 1476-1483. (doi: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2009.08.031) (PMID:19765872)

Weich, S., Patterson, J., Shaw, R. and Stewart-Brown, S. (2009) Family relationships in childhood and common psychiatric disorders in later life: systematic review of prospective studies. British Journal of Psychiatry, 194(5), pp. 392-398. (doi: 10.1192/bjp.bp.107.042515) (PMID:19407266)

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Articles

Vlachantoni, A., Shaw, R. , Evandrou, M. and Falkingham, J. (2013) The determinants of receiving social care in later life in England. Ageing and Society, pp. 1-25. (doi: 10.1017/S0144686X1300072X)

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Grants

Grants and Awards listed are those received whilst working with the University of Glasgow.

The wellbeing and personal consequences of changing support and funding for students in post-16 education.
University of Essex
2023 - 2024

Teaching

Richard has assisted with the Introduction to Statistical Methods MED5029 & Advanced Epidemiology MED5523. He is also interested in supervising Marsters and intercalated BSc students.

Research datasets

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2021

Strawbridge, R. , Ward, J., Bailey, M. , Cullen, B. , Ferguson, A., Graham, N., Johnston, K., Lyall, L., Pearsall, R., Pell, J. , Shaw, R. , Tank, R., Lyall, D. and Smith, D. (2021) Summary statistics from a genome-wide association study of carotid intima-media thickness in UK Biobank. [Data Collection]

2019

Strawbridge, R. , Ward, J., Ferguson, A., Graham, N., Shaw, R. , Cullen, B. , Pearsall, R., Lyall, L., Johnston, K., Niedzwiedz, C. , Pell, J. , Mackay, D. , Martin, J., Lyall, D. , Bailey, M. and Smith, D. (2019) Identification of novel genome-wide associations for suicidality in UK Biobank, genetic correlation with psychiatric disorders and polygenic association with completed suicide. [Data Collection]

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