Dr Olivia Hamilton

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

email: Olivia.Hamilton@glasgow.ac.uk
pronouns: She/her/hers

Biography

Olivia is a Research Associate within the Health Economics and Health Technology Assessment Group (HEHTA), where she works on evaluations of complex public health interventions and research exploring the social determinants of health. Her approach emphasises stakeholder engagement and collaborative research design, working closely with public sector partners, community organisations, and policy influencers.

Currently, Olivia works in partnership with local authorities and community organisations to support evidence-based decision-making through two large-scale collaborative programmes of work, the Glasgow Health Determinants Research Collaboration and PHIRST Fusion. This work involves facilitating workshops with diverse stakeholders to co-produce evaluation approaches that are responsive to policy and practice needs.

Olivia's research background bridges neuroscience and public health. She completed her PhD in Translational Neuroscience at the University of Edinburgh (2016-2021), supported by a Wellcome Trust studentship. Her doctoral work investigated cognitive changes associated with cerebral small vessel disease, using cognitive and brain imaging data.

Prior to her PhD, Olivia gained experience in dementia research at University College London, where she implemented a clustered Randomised Controlled trial in Care Homes across London as part of the MARQUE Study. She holds an MSc in Language Sciences with Neuroscience from UCL and a BA in English Language from Cardiff University.

Beyond research, Olivia is actively involved in building evaluation capacity within community organisations through a monthly Evaluation Surgery at the Byres Community Hub. She also contributes to equality and inclusion initiatives as co-chair of the School's Athena Swan LGBTQ+ group.

Research interests

Research interests:

Evaluation of complex public health interventions
Health inequalities and social and economic determinants of health
Participatory and collaborative research approaches
Cognitive health and cerebrovascular disease

Methodological expertise:

Participatory and deliberative engagement including Evaluability Assessment and Systems Mapping approaches
Co-production with external stakeholders from public and third sector organisations
Statistical analysis including structural equation modeling and natural experimental methods
Analysis of large-scale longitudinal cohort data and linked administrative datasets
Systematic review and meta-analysis

Publications

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Number of items: 29.

2025

Shaw, R. J. et al. (2025) Associations between different measures of SARS-CoV-2 infection status and subsequent economic inactivity: a pooled analysis of five longitudinal surveys linked to healthcare records. PLoS ONE, 20(4), e0321201. (doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0321201) (PMID:40203025) (PMCID:PMC11981124)

Jochems, A. C.C. et al. (2025) Longitudinal cognitive changes in cerebral small vessel disease: the impact of white matter hyperintensity regression and progression. Neurology, 104(4), e213323. (doi: 10.1212/WNL.0000000000213323) (PMID:39899790) (PMCID:PMC11793922)

2024

Clancy, U. et al. (2024) Incident infarcts in patients with stroke and cerebral small vessel disease: frequency and relation to clinical outcomes. Neurology, 103(5), e209750. (doi: 10.1212/wnl.0000000000209750) (PMID:39159417)

Jochems, A. C.C. et al. (2024) Impact of long-term white matter hyperintensity changes on mobility and dexterity. Brain Communications, 6(3), fcae133. (doi: 10.1093/braincomms/fcae133) (PMID:38715716) (PMCID:PMC11074793)

2023

de Kort, F. A.S. et al. (2023) White matter hyperintensity volume and poststroke cognition: an individual patient data pooled analysis of 9 ischemic stroke cohort studies. Stroke, 54(12), pp. 3021-3029. (doi: 10.1161/STROKEAHA.123.044297) (PMID:37901947) (PMCID:PMC10664782)

Sleight, E. et al. (2023) Cerebrovascular reactivity in patients with small vessel disease: a cross-sectional study. Stroke, 54(11), pp. 2776-2784. (doi: 10.1161/STROKEAHA.123.042656) (PMID:37814956) (PMCID:PMC10589433)

Exalto, L. G. et al. (2023) Sex differences in post-stroke cognitive impairment: a multicenter study in 2343 patients with acute ischemic stroke. Stroke, 54(9), pp. 2296-2303. (doi: 10.1161/STROKEAHA.123.042507) (PMID:37551589) (PMCID:PMC10453354)

Shaw, Richard ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7906-6066, Rhead, Rebecca, Zhu, Jingmin, Wels, Jacques, Silverwood, Richard, Demou, Evangelia ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8616-525X, Hamilton, Olivia ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5874-0058, Pattaro, Serena ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3422-4443, Boyd, Andy and Katikireddi, Vittal ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6593-9092 (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)

Green, Mark A., McKee, Martin, Hamilton, Olivia K.L. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5874-0058, Shaw, Richard J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7906-6066, Macleod, John, Boyd, Andy, The LH&W NCS Collaborative and Katikireddi, Srinivasa Vittal ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6593-9092 (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)

Costello, R. et al. (2023) Ethnic differences in the indirect effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on clinical monitoring and hospitalisations for non-COVID conditions in England: a population-based, observational cohort study using the OpenSAFELY platform. eClinicalMedicine, 61, p. 102077. (doi: 10.1016/j.eclinm.2023.102077) (PMID:37434746) (PMCID:PMC10331810)

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)

Cheetham, N. J. et al. (2023) Antibody levels following vaccination against SARS-CoV-2: associations with post-vaccination infection and risk factors in two UK longitudinal studies. eLife, 12, e80428. (doi: 10.7554/eLife.80428) (PMID:36692910) (PMCID:PMC9940912)

2022

Conte, Federica P., Okely, Judith A., Hamilton, Olivia K. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5874-0058, Corley, Janie, Page, Danielle, Redmond, Paul, Taylor, Adele M., Russ, Tom C., Deary, Ian J. and Cox, Simon R. (2022) Cognitive change before old age (11 to 70) predicts cognitive change during old age (70 to 82). Psychological Science, 33(11), pp. 1803-1817. (doi: 10.1177/09567976221100264) (PMID:36113037)

Wielgoszewksa, Bożena, Booth, Charlotte, Green, Michael J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3193-2452, Hamilton, Olivia K.L. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5874-0058 and Wels, Jacques (2022) Association between home working and mental health by key worker status during the Covid-19 pandemic. Evidence from four British longitudinal studies. Industrial Health, 60(4), pp. 345-359. (doi: 10.2486/indhealth.2022-0081) (PMID:35584949)

Hamilton, Olivia K. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5874-0058 and Wardlaw, Joanna M. (2022) Response to Schroeter ML, Letter, Small vessel disease and social cognition. Alzheimer's and Dementia, 18(2), pp. 380-381. (doi: 10.1002/alz.12402) (PMID:34156150)

Biesbroek, J. M. et al. (2022) Network impact score is an independent predictor of post-stroke cognitive impairment: a multicenter cohort study in 2341 patients with acute ischemic stroke. NeuroImage: Clinical, 34, 103018. (doi: 10.1016/j.nicl.2022.103018) (PMID:35504223) (PMCID:PMC9079101)

Jochems, A. C. C. et al. (2022) Associations of peak-width skeletonized mean diffusivity and post-stroke cognition. Life, 12(9), 1362. (doi: 10.3390/life12091362)

2021

Jiménez-Sánchez, Lorena, Hamilton, Olivia K. L. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5874-0058, Clancy, Una, Backhouse, Ellen V., Stewart, Catriona R., Stringer, Michael S., Doubal, Fergus N. and Wardlaw, Joanna M. (2021) Sex differences in cerebral small vessel disease: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Frontiers in Neurology, 12, 756887. (doi: 10.3389/fneur.2021.756887)

Hamilton, O.K.L. et al. (2021) Associations between total MRI-visible small vessel disease burden and domain-specific cognitive abilities in a community-dwelling older-age cohort. Neurobiology of Aging, 105, pp. 25-34. (doi: 10.1016/j.neurobiolaging.2021.04.007) (PMID:34022536)

Hamilton, O. K. L. et al. (2021) Cerebral small vessel disease burden and longitudinal cognitive decline from age 73 to 82: the Lothian Birth Cohort 1936. Translational Psychiatry, 11, 376. (doi: 10.1038/s41398-021-01495-4) (PMID:34226517) (PMCID:PMC8257729)

Weaver, N. A. et al. (2021) Strategic infarct locations for post-stroke cognitive impairment: a pooled analysis of individual patient data from 12 acute ischaemic stroke cohorts. Lancet Neurology, 20(6), pp. 448-459. (doi: 10.1016/S1474-4422(21)00060-0) (PMID:33901427)

Hamilton, Olivia K.L. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5874-0058, Backhouse, Ellen V., Janssen, Esther, Jochems, Angela C. C., Maher, Caragh, Ritakari, Tuula E., Stevenson, Anna J., Xia, Lihua, Deary, Ian J. and Wardlaw, Joanna M. (2021) Cognitive impairment in sporadic cerebral small vessel disease: a systematic review and meta‐analysis. Alzheimer's and Dementia, 17(4), pp. 665-685. (doi: 10.1002/alz.12221) (PMID:33185327)

Clancy, U. et al. (2021) Rationale and design of a longitudinal study of cerebral small vessel diseases, clinical and imaging outcomes in patients presenting with mild ischaemic stroke: Mild Stroke Study 3. European Stroke Journal, 6(1), pp. 81-88. (doi: 10.1177/2396987320929617) (PMID:33817338) (PMCID:PMC7995323)

2020

Jochems, A. C.C. et al. (2020) Relationship between venules and perivascular spaces in sporadic small vessel diseases. Stroke, 51(5), pp. 1503-1506. (doi: 10.1161/STROKEAHA.120.029163) (PMID:32264759) (PMCID:PMC7185057)

Davies, Caitlin, Hamilton, Olivia K.L. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5874-0058, Hooley, Monique, Ritakari, Tuula E., Stevenson, Anna J. and Wheater, Emily N.W. (2020) Translational neuroscience: the state of the nation (a PhD student perspective). Brain Communications, 2(1), fcaa038. (doi: 10.1093/braincomms/fcaa038) (PMID:32671338) (PMCID:PMC7331125)

2019

Weaver, N. A. et al. (2019) The Meta VCI Map consortium for meta‐analyses on strategic lesion locations for vascular cognitive impairment using lesion‐symptom mapping: design and multicenter pilot study. Alzheimer's and Dementia: Diagnosis, Assessment and Disease Monitoring, 11(1), pp. 310-326. (doi: 10.1016/j.dadm.2019.02.007) (PMID:31011619) (PMCID:PMC6465616)

Hamilton, O. K.L. et al. (2019) An epigenetic score for BMI based on DNA methylation correlates with poor physical health and major disease in the Lothian Birth Cohort. International Journal of Obesity, 43(9), pp. 1795-1802. (doi: 10.1038/s41366-018-0262-3) (PMID:30842548) (PMCID:PMC6760607)

2018

Rapaport, Penny, Livingston, Gill, Hamilton, Olivia ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5874-0058, Turner, Rebecca, Stringer, Aisling, Robertson, Sarah and Cooper, Claudia (2018) How do care home staff understand, manage and respond to agitation in people with dementia? A qualitative study. BMJ Open, 8(6), e022260. (doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2018-022260) (PMID:29961036) (PMCID:PMC6042579)

2017

Robertson, Sarah, Cooper, Claudia, Hoe, Juanita, Hamilton, Olivia ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5874-0058, Stringer, Aisling and Livingston, Gill (2017) Proxy rated quality of life of care home residents with dementia: a systematic review. International Psychogeriatrics, 29(4), pp. 569-581. (doi: 10.1017/S1041610216002167) (PMID:28088926) (PMCID:PMC5964456)

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