Dr Mirjam Allik

  • Research Fellow (School of Health & Wellbeing)

email: Mirjam.Allik@glasgow.ac.uk

MRC/CSO Social and Public Health Sciences Unit, University of Glasgow, Berkeley Square, 99 Berkeley Street

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ORCID iDhttps://orcid.org/0000-0003-1674-3469

Biography

Mirjam Allik has a PhD from Trinity College, Dublin. She has worked at the University of Glasgow since December 2013 and currently leads a research project into the health of care experienced children in Scotland.

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Research interests

Mirjam is interested in using quantitative methods for linked data research. Her work is focused on measuring deprivation at the small-area level, measuring health inequalities and understanding the effects of care experience on children's health in Scotland.

Publications

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2025

Allik, M. et al. (2025) A small area deprivation index for monitoring and evaluating health inequalities in a diverse, low and middle income country: the Índice Brasileiro de Privação (IBP). International Journal of Population Data Science, (Accepted for Publication)

Brown, Denise ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5195-5312, Gedeon, Edit ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0000-0409-7354, Henderson, Marion ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7582-9516, Leyland, Alastair H. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3741-7099, Wilson, Philip and Allik, Mirjam ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1674-3469 (2025) Mortality outcomes of children and young people who have spent time in care: evidence from Children’s Health in Care in Scotland, a population-wide administrative data cohort study. Archives of Disease in Childhood, (doi: 10.1136/archdischild-2024-327854) (Early Online Publication)

2024

Tweed, Emily J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6659-812X, Cimova, Kristina ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7747-9230, Craig, Peter ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7653-5832, Allik, Mirjam ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1674-3469, Brown, Denise ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5195-5312, Campbell, Mhairi ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4416-7270, Henderson, David, Mayor, Charlie, Meier, Petra ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5354-1933 and Watson, Nick ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0364-427X (2024) Unlocking data: decision-maker perspectives on cross-sectoral data sharing and linkage as part of a whole-systems approach to public health policy and practice. Public Health Research, (doi: 10.3310/KYTW2173) (PMID:39582242) (Early Online Publication)

Allik, Mirjam ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1674-3469, Gedeon, Edit ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0000-0409-7354, Henderson, Marion ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7582-9516 and Leyland, Alastair H. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3741-7099 (2024) Hospitalisations for chronic conditions among care-experienced and general population children and young people: evidence from the Children’s Health in Care in Scotland (CHiCS) cohort study, 1990-2016. BMJ Paediatrics Open, 8(1), e002705. (doi: 10.1136/bmjpo-2024-002705) (PMID:39357978)

2023

Gedeon, Edit ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0000-0409-7354, Henderson, Marion ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7582-9516, Leyland, Alastair H. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3741-7099 and Allik, Mirjam ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1674-3469 (2023) Association between care experience and mental health hospitalisation among children in Scotland, with a focus on chronic conditions (CHiCS): a population-wide longitudinal study using administrative data. Public Health Science: A National Conference Dedicated to New Research in UK Public Health 2023, London, UK, 23-24 Nov 2023. (doi: 10.1016/s0140-6736(23)02064-0) (Accepted for Publication)

Gedeon, Edit ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0000-0409-7354, Henderson, Marion ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7582-9516, Leyland, Alastair H. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3741-7099 and Allik, Mirjam ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1674-3469 (2023) Mental health hospitalisations of care experienced and general population children with chronic conditions in Scotland, a population-wide longitudinal study using administrative data. Society for Social Medicine Annual Scientific Meeting 2023, Newcastle, UK, 06-08 Sep 2023. (doi: 10.1136/jech-2023-SSMabstracts.28)

Bradford, D.R.R. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7523-8764, Allik, M. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1674-3469, McMahon, A.D. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9425-7792 and Brown, D. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5195-5312 (2023) Assessing the risk of endogeneity bias in health and mortality inequalities research using composite measures of multiple deprivation which include health-related indicators: a case study using the Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation and population health and mortality data. Health and Place, 80, 102998. (doi: 10.1016/j.healthplace.2023.102998) (PMID:36921377)

2022

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)

Allik, Mirjam ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1674-3469, Brown, Denise ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5195-5312, Gedeon, Edit ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0000-0409-7354, Leyland, Alastair H. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3741-7099 and Henderson, Marion ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7582-9516 (2022) Children’s Health in Care in Scotland (CHiCS): Main findings from population-wide research. Project Report. University of Glasgow. (doi: 10.36399/gla.pubs.279347).

Bradford, Daniel R. R. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7523-8764, Allik, Mirjam ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1674-3469, McMahon, Alex D. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9425-7792 and Brown, Denise ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5195-5312 (2022) Physical health of care-experienced young children in high-income countries: a scoping review protocol. BMJ Open, 12(9), e063648. (doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2022-063648) (PMID:36691175) (PMCID:PMC9454045)

Allik, Mirjam ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1674-3469, Brown, Denise ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5195-5312, Dundas, Ruth ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3836-4286 and Leyland, Alastair H. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3741-7099 (2022) Differences in ill health and in socioeconomic inequalities in health by ethnic groups: a cross-sectional study using 2011 Scottish Census. Ethnicity and Health, 27(1), pp. 190-208. (doi: 10.1080/13557858.2019.1643009) (PMID:31313591)

2021

Allik, Mirjam ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1674-3469, Brown, Denise ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5195-5312, Taylor Browne Lūka, Courtney ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2819-0673, Macintyre, Cecilia, Leyland, Alastair H. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3741-7099 and Henderson, Marion ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7582-9516 (2021) Cohort profile: The ‘Children’s Health in Care in Scotland’ (CHiCS) study—a longitudinal dataset to compare health outcomes for care experienced children and general population children. BMJ Open, 11(9), e054664. (doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2021-054664) (PMID:34521682) (PMCID:PMC8442099)

2020

Allik, Mirjam ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1674-3469, Brown, Denise ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5195-5312, Dundas, Ruth ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3836-4286 and Leyland, Alastair H. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3741-7099 (2020) Deaths of despair: Cause-specific mortality and socioeconomic inequalities in cause-specific mortality among young men in Scotland. International Journal for Equity in Health, 19, 215. (doi: 10.1186/s12939-020-01329-7) (PMID:33276793) (PMCID:PMC7716282)

Pescarini, Julia M., Craig, Peter ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7653-5832, Allik, Mirjam ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1674-3469, Amorim, Leila, Ali, Sanni, Smeeth, Liam, Barreto, Mauricio L., Leyland, Alastair H. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3741-7099, Aquino, Estela M.L. and Katikireddi, Srinivasa Vittal ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6593-9092 (2020) Evaluating the impact of the Bolsa Familia conditional cash transfer program on premature cardiovascular and all-cause mortality using the 100 million Brazilian cohort: A natural experiment study protocol. BMJ Open, 10, e039658. (doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2020-039658) (PMID:33444195) (PMCID:PMC7682454)

Allik, Mirjam ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1674-3469, Ramos, Dandara, Agranonik, Marilyn, Pinto Júnior, Elzo Pereira, Ichihara, Maria Yury, Barreto, Mauricio L., Leyland, Alastair H. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3741-7099 and Dundas, Ruth ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3836-4286 (2020) Developing a Small-Area Deprivation Measure for Brazil. Technical Report. University of Glasgow. (doi: 10.36399/gla.pubs.215898).

Allik, Mirjam ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1674-3469, Leyland, Alastair ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3741-7099, Ichihara, Maria Yury Travassos and Dundas, Ruth ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3836-4286 (2020) Creating small-area deprivation indices: a guide for stages and options. Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, 74(1), pp. 20-25. (doi: 10.1136/jech-2019-213255) (PMID:31630122) (PMCID:PMC6929699)

2019

Brown, Denise ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5195-5312, Allik, Mirjam ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1674-3469, Dundas, Ruth ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3836-4286 and Leyland, Alastair H. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3741-7099 (2019) All-cause and cause-specific mortality in Scotland 1981-2011 by age, sex and deprivation: a population-based study. European Journal of Public Health, 29(4), pp. 647-655. (doi: 10.1093/eurpub/ckz010) (PMID:31220246) (PMCID:PMC6660111)

2018

Ichihara, M. Y. et al. (2018) Area deprivation measures used in Brazil: a scoping review. Revista de Saúde Pública, 52, 83. (PMID:30183845) (PMCID:PMC6122878)

2017

Allik, Mirjam ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1674-3469 and Kearns, Ade ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3198-8392 (2017) “There goes the fear”: Feelings of safety at home and in the neighbourhood: the role of personal, social and service factors. Journal of Community Psychology, 45(4), pp. 543-563. (doi: 10.1002/jcop.21875)

2016

Allik, Mirjam ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1674-3469, Brown, Denise ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5195-5312, Dundas, Ruth ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3836-4286 and Leyland, Alastair H. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3741-7099 (2016) Small-area deprivation measure datasets for Scotland, 2001 and 2011. Data In Brief, 7, pp. 1682-1686. (doi: 10.1016/j.dib.2016.04.060) (PMID:27761509) (PMCID:PMC5063812)

Allik, Mirjam ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1674-3469, Brown, Denise ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5195-5312, Dundas, Ruth ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3836-4286 and Leyland, Alastair H. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3741-7099 (2016) Developing a new small-area measure of deprivation using 2001 and 2011 census data from Scotland. Health and Place, 39, pp. 122-130. (doi: 10.1016/j.healthplace.2016.03.006) (PMID:27082656) (PMCID:PMC4889779)

Allik, Mirjam ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1674-3469 (2016) Welfare state and representation: do women make the welfare state or does the welfare state make women representatives? Representation, 52(4), pp. 253-269. (doi: 10.1080/00344893.2017.1300599)

2015

Allik, Mirjam ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1674-3469 (2015) Who stands in the way of women? Open vs. closed lists and candidate gender in Estonia. East European Politics, 31(4), pp. 429-451. (doi: 10.1080/21599165.2015.1084924)

2014

Brown, Denise ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5195-5312, Allik, Mirjam ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1674-3469, Dundas, Ruth ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3836-4286 and Leyland, Alastair H. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3741-7099 (2014) Carstairs Scores for Scottish Postcode Sectors, Datazones and Output Areas from the 2011 Census. Technical Report. MRC/CSO Social and Public Health Sciences Unit, University of Glasgow, Glasgow.

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Articles

Allik, M. et al. (2025) A small area deprivation index for monitoring and evaluating health inequalities in a diverse, low and middle income country: the Índice Brasileiro de Privação (IBP). International Journal of Population Data Science, (Accepted for Publication)

Brown, Denise ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5195-5312, Gedeon, Edit ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0000-0409-7354, Henderson, Marion ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7582-9516, Leyland, Alastair H. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3741-7099, Wilson, Philip and Allik, Mirjam ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1674-3469 (2025) Mortality outcomes of children and young people who have spent time in care: evidence from Children’s Health in Care in Scotland, a population-wide administrative data cohort study. Archives of Disease in Childhood, (doi: 10.1136/archdischild-2024-327854) (Early Online Publication)

Tweed, Emily J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6659-812X, Cimova, Kristina ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7747-9230, Craig, Peter ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7653-5832, Allik, Mirjam ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1674-3469, Brown, Denise ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5195-5312, Campbell, Mhairi ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4416-7270, Henderson, David, Mayor, Charlie, Meier, Petra ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5354-1933 and Watson, Nick ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0364-427X (2024) Unlocking data: decision-maker perspectives on cross-sectoral data sharing and linkage as part of a whole-systems approach to public health policy and practice. Public Health Research, (doi: 10.3310/KYTW2173) (PMID:39582242) (Early Online Publication)

Allik, Mirjam ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1674-3469, Gedeon, Edit ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0000-0409-7354, Henderson, Marion ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7582-9516 and Leyland, Alastair H. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3741-7099 (2024) Hospitalisations for chronic conditions among care-experienced and general population children and young people: evidence from the Children’s Health in Care in Scotland (CHiCS) cohort study, 1990-2016. BMJ Paediatrics Open, 8(1), e002705. (doi: 10.1136/bmjpo-2024-002705) (PMID:39357978)

Bradford, D.R.R. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7523-8764, Allik, M. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1674-3469, McMahon, A.D. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9425-7792 and Brown, D. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5195-5312 (2023) Assessing the risk of endogeneity bias in health and mortality inequalities research using composite measures of multiple deprivation which include health-related indicators: a case study using the Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation and population health and mortality data. Health and Place, 80, 102998. (doi: 10.1016/j.healthplace.2023.102998) (PMID:36921377)

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)

Bradford, Daniel R. R. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7523-8764, Allik, Mirjam ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1674-3469, McMahon, Alex D. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9425-7792 and Brown, Denise ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5195-5312 (2022) Physical health of care-experienced young children in high-income countries: a scoping review protocol. BMJ Open, 12(9), e063648. (doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2022-063648) (PMID:36691175) (PMCID:PMC9454045)

Allik, Mirjam ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1674-3469, Brown, Denise ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5195-5312, Dundas, Ruth ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3836-4286 and Leyland, Alastair H. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3741-7099 (2022) Differences in ill health and in socioeconomic inequalities in health by ethnic groups: a cross-sectional study using 2011 Scottish Census. Ethnicity and Health, 27(1), pp. 190-208. (doi: 10.1080/13557858.2019.1643009) (PMID:31313591)

Allik, Mirjam ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1674-3469, Brown, Denise ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5195-5312, Taylor Browne Lūka, Courtney ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2819-0673, Macintyre, Cecilia, Leyland, Alastair H. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3741-7099 and Henderson, Marion ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7582-9516 (2021) Cohort profile: The ‘Children’s Health in Care in Scotland’ (CHiCS) study—a longitudinal dataset to compare health outcomes for care experienced children and general population children. BMJ Open, 11(9), e054664. (doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2021-054664) (PMID:34521682) (PMCID:PMC8442099)

Allik, Mirjam ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1674-3469, Brown, Denise ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5195-5312, Dundas, Ruth ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3836-4286 and Leyland, Alastair H. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3741-7099 (2020) Deaths of despair: Cause-specific mortality and socioeconomic inequalities in cause-specific mortality among young men in Scotland. International Journal for Equity in Health, 19, 215. (doi: 10.1186/s12939-020-01329-7) (PMID:33276793) (PMCID:PMC7716282)

Pescarini, Julia M., Craig, Peter ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7653-5832, Allik, Mirjam ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1674-3469, Amorim, Leila, Ali, Sanni, Smeeth, Liam, Barreto, Mauricio L., Leyland, Alastair H. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3741-7099, Aquino, Estela M.L. and Katikireddi, Srinivasa Vittal ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6593-9092 (2020) Evaluating the impact of the Bolsa Familia conditional cash transfer program on premature cardiovascular and all-cause mortality using the 100 million Brazilian cohort: A natural experiment study protocol. BMJ Open, 10, e039658. (doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2020-039658) (PMID:33444195) (PMCID:PMC7682454)

Allik, Mirjam ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1674-3469, Leyland, Alastair ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3741-7099, Ichihara, Maria Yury Travassos and Dundas, Ruth ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3836-4286 (2020) Creating small-area deprivation indices: a guide for stages and options. Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, 74(1), pp. 20-25. (doi: 10.1136/jech-2019-213255) (PMID:31630122) (PMCID:PMC6929699)

Brown, Denise ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5195-5312, Allik, Mirjam ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1674-3469, Dundas, Ruth ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3836-4286 and Leyland, Alastair H. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3741-7099 (2019) All-cause and cause-specific mortality in Scotland 1981-2011 by age, sex and deprivation: a population-based study. European Journal of Public Health, 29(4), pp. 647-655. (doi: 10.1093/eurpub/ckz010) (PMID:31220246) (PMCID:PMC6660111)

Ichihara, M. Y. et al. (2018) Area deprivation measures used in Brazil: a scoping review. Revista de Saúde Pública, 52, 83. (PMID:30183845) (PMCID:PMC6122878)

Allik, Mirjam ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1674-3469 and Kearns, Ade ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3198-8392 (2017) “There goes the fear”: Feelings of safety at home and in the neighbourhood: the role of personal, social and service factors. Journal of Community Psychology, 45(4), pp. 543-563. (doi: 10.1002/jcop.21875)

Allik, Mirjam ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1674-3469, Brown, Denise ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5195-5312, Dundas, Ruth ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3836-4286 and Leyland, Alastair H. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3741-7099 (2016) Small-area deprivation measure datasets for Scotland, 2001 and 2011. Data In Brief, 7, pp. 1682-1686. (doi: 10.1016/j.dib.2016.04.060) (PMID:27761509) (PMCID:PMC5063812)

Allik, Mirjam ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1674-3469, Brown, Denise ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5195-5312, Dundas, Ruth ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3836-4286 and Leyland, Alastair H. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3741-7099 (2016) Developing a new small-area measure of deprivation using 2001 and 2011 census data from Scotland. Health and Place, 39, pp. 122-130. (doi: 10.1016/j.healthplace.2016.03.006) (PMID:27082656) (PMCID:PMC4889779)

Allik, Mirjam ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1674-3469 (2016) Welfare state and representation: do women make the welfare state or does the welfare state make women representatives? Representation, 52(4), pp. 253-269. (doi: 10.1080/00344893.2017.1300599)

Allik, Mirjam ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1674-3469 (2015) Who stands in the way of women? Open vs. closed lists and candidate gender in Estonia. East European Politics, 31(4), pp. 429-451. (doi: 10.1080/21599165.2015.1084924)

Research Reports or Papers

Allik, Mirjam ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1674-3469, Brown, Denise ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5195-5312, Gedeon, Edit ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0000-0409-7354, Leyland, Alastair H. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3741-7099 and Henderson, Marion ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7582-9516 (2022) Children’s Health in Care in Scotland (CHiCS): Main findings from population-wide research. Project Report. University of Glasgow. (doi: 10.36399/gla.pubs.279347).

Allik, Mirjam ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1674-3469, Ramos, Dandara, Agranonik, Marilyn, Pinto Júnior, Elzo Pereira, Ichihara, Maria Yury, Barreto, Mauricio L., Leyland, Alastair H. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3741-7099 and Dundas, Ruth ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3836-4286 (2020) Developing a Small-Area Deprivation Measure for Brazil. Technical Report. University of Glasgow. (doi: 10.36399/gla.pubs.215898).

Brown, Denise ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5195-5312, Allik, Mirjam ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1674-3469, Dundas, Ruth ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3836-4286 and Leyland, Alastair H. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3741-7099 (2014) Carstairs Scores for Scottish Postcode Sectors, Datazones and Output Areas from the 2011 Census. Technical Report. MRC/CSO Social and Public Health Sciences Unit, University of Glasgow, Glasgow.

Conference or Workshop Item

Gedeon, Edit ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0000-0409-7354, Henderson, Marion ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7582-9516, Leyland, Alastair H. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3741-7099 and Allik, Mirjam ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1674-3469 (2023) Association between care experience and mental health hospitalisation among children in Scotland, with a focus on chronic conditions (CHiCS): a population-wide longitudinal study using administrative data. Public Health Science: A National Conference Dedicated to New Research in UK Public Health 2023, London, UK, 23-24 Nov 2023. (doi: 10.1016/s0140-6736(23)02064-0) (Accepted for Publication)

Gedeon, Edit ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0000-0409-7354, Henderson, Marion ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7582-9516, Leyland, Alastair H. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3741-7099 and Allik, Mirjam ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1674-3469 (2023) Mental health hospitalisations of care experienced and general population children with chronic conditions in Scotland, a population-wide longitudinal study using administrative data. Society for Social Medicine Annual Scientific Meeting 2023, Newcastle, UK, 06-08 Sep 2023. (doi: 10.1136/jech-2023-SSMabstracts.28)

This list was generated on Mon Nov 3 16:33:20 2025 GMT.

Grants

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

  • Unlocking data to inform public health policy and practice
    National Institute for Health Research
    2021 - 2021
     
  • Comparing health outcomes for looked after children and children in the general population in Scotland using linked administrative data
    Economic and Social Research Council
    2020 - 2022
     

Supervision

I am interested in supervising students in the areas of measuring deprivation, health inequalities, child and youth health or research using quantitative methods using linked data.

Currents PhD students:

Past MPH students:

  • Sha Tao
  • Danny Bradford

Teaching

Teaching Assistant (computer labs):
  • Quantitative Data Analysis (PG), Spring 2018
  • Q-Step Programme, academic years 2016/2017, 2015/2016
  • Social Science Statistics 1 (PG), Fall 2016

Professional activities & recognition

Prizes, awards & distinctions

  • 2014: Images with impact contest winner (MVLS, University of Glasgow)

Selected international presentations

  • 2020: Invited Speaker: Society for Social Medicine & Population Health, Annual Scientific Meeting (Online)

Research datasets

Jump to: 2022 | 2020 | 2019 | 2016
Number of items: 4.

2022

Brown, D. , Allik, M. , Dundas, R. and Leyland, A. (2022) Carstairs deprivation scores for Scotland. [Data Collection]

2020

Allik, M. , Ramos, D., Agranonik, M., Junior, E., Ichihara, M. Y., Barreto, M. L., Dundas, R. and Leyland, A. (2020) Small-area Deprivation Measure for Brazil: Data Documentation. [Data Collection]

2019

Allik, M. , Brown, D. , Dundas, R. and Leyland, A. (2019) Differences in Ill Health and in Socioeconomic Inequalities in Health by Ethnic Groups: A cross-sectional study using 2011 Scottish Census. [Data Collection]

2016

Allik, M. (2016) Estonian national candidate data 1992 to 2015. [Data Collection]

This list was generated on Mon Nov 3 10:54:07 2025 GMT.

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