Matthew Wallace
@mjwdemography.bsky.social
Associate Professor / Reader in Social Inequality at Centre for Research on Inclusive Society @ University of Salford. PI of £1.3m UKRI project PARA-MOR. #Migration #Health #Inequality
I am very happy to share that I have been awarded an ERC Starting Grant for the immiGEN project, “(Dis)advantage Across Countries and Generations: Intergenerational Social Mobility in Immigrant Families”! Thank you to all my friends, colleagues, and family for all your encouragement along the way!
We (@para-mor-ukri.bsky.social) published a paper! Life expectancy & Disabilty Free Life Expecyancy by country of origin in England & Wales. Interesting findings, showing the change over time for some groups, including some groups now living longer in worse health. journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...
Immigrant life expectancy and disability-free life expectancy by detailed country of birth in England and Wales: A total population, repeated cross-sectional approach
Research regularly reports lower mortality among migrants, leading to conclusions of a “Healthy Immigrant Effect”. However, evidence on migrant health is less consistent, suggesting a disconnect betwe...
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🎉 Happy to share a new publication co-authored with Ben Wilson and @mjwdemography.bsky.social on child mortality (ages 0-14) among children of immigrants in Sweden. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Mortality in children aged 0–14 years born to immigrant parents in Sweden: a total-population cohort study
A higher risk of childhood death in these groups is the result of specific factors that interact uniquely across ages and origins. While mortality at these ages is low in absolute terms, each death is...
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I'm Matt Wallace and this is my TEDx talk 👇🏻 www.youtube.com/watch?v=UCMA... @uos-health-society.bsky.social @salforduni.bsky.social @ukri.org @para-mor-ukri.bsky.social @bspsuk.bsky.social
Healthy migration, sustainable populations | Matt Wallace | TEDxUniversityofSalford
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The MigrantLife project officially comes to an end this month! Earlier today, together with our colleagues at @phrg-standrews.bsky.social, we looked back on and celebrated our achievements—and the many people who contributed to the project’s success 🍾
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📢 Join us at the first meeting of the new EAPS Working Group on Migrant Health in Bologna! #EPC2026 Details below ⬇️
EAPS Migrant Health@eapsmigranthealth.bsky.social · 8mo ago📢📢 Launching the @eaps.bsky.social Working Group on Migrant Health! 📌 Our first meeting will be a pre-EPC event in Bologna on June 3rd, 9:00–12:00. ✉️ Write to eapsmigranthealth@gmail.com to become a member, join our mailing list, and/or register for the event! More info 👉 shorturl.at/mBsJJ
📢📢 Launching the @eaps.bsky.social Working Group on Migrant Health! 📌 Our first meeting will be a pre-EPC event in Bologna on June 3rd, 9:00–12:00. ✉️ Write to eapsmigranthealth@gmail.com to become a member, join our mailing list, and/or register for the event! More info 👉 shorturl.at/mBsJJ
1️⃣podcast recorded @mjwdemography.bsky.social @jharrison37.bsky.social "ONS Linking Our Lives - Champions of the LS" (5/5) 🌎📈📢
3️⃣ brilliant postdocs hired Dr. Courtney Franklin @courtneyfranklin.bsky.social Dr Joe Harrison @jharrison37.bsky.social Dr Daniela Foresta @daniforesta.bsky.social (4/5)
4️⃣working papers published (available to read here): wallace-demography.weebly.com/para-mor-wor... (3/5)
2️⃣research articles published: academic.oup.com/bmb/article/... www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... (2/5)
Forget Spotify, here's the "Wrapped" that you didn't know you needed. ⭐"PARA-MOR Wrapped" 2025 ⭐ @ukri.org @salforduni.bsky.social @uos-health-society.bsky.social (1/5)
Super proud to share my first working paper from the @para-mor-ukri.bsky.social project, co-authored with PI @mjwdemography.bsky.socialy.bsky.social, which can be found here wallace-demography.weebly.com/para-mor-wor... @salforduni.bsky.social @uos-health-society.bsky.social @ukri.org
PARA-MOR Working Paper Series
Wallace, M. (2024). Living longer in poor health? A narrative review of the evidence among international migrants. PARA-MOR Working Paper Series No. 1. *Now published in British Medical Bulletin and.....
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My first working paper from the @para-mor-ukri.bsky.social project is now available. Co-authored with PI @mjwdemography.bsky.social wallace-demography.weebly.com/uploads/5/4/... @salforduni.bsky.social @uos-health-society.bsky.social @ukri.org
New article out in the British Medical Bulletin from the PARA-MOR team: Long lives, poor health? A comprehensive review of the evidence among international migrants | British Medical Bulletin | Oxford Academic academic.oup.com/bmb/article/... #migration #health #inequality #mortality
Long lives, poor health? A comprehensive review of the evidence among international migrants
AbstractIntroduction. Empirical evidence on migrant morbidity suggests that migrant populations have a higher burden of disease compared to non-migrants in
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@daniforesta.bsky.social has already done some super exciting work on migration 🌎 and health 🚑 inequalities and we're excited to see what she's going to do next (2/3) journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
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The @ukri.org-funded PARA-MOR project is over the moon 🌕 to welcome @daniforesta.bsky.social as our third and final Postdoctoral Research Fellow! @uos-health-society.bsky.social (1/3)
New article out in the British Medical Bulletin from the @para-mor-ukri.bsky.social project team: | Long lives, poor health? A comprehensive review of the evidence among international migrants | academic.oup.com/bmb/article/...
Long lives, poor health? A comprehensive review of the evidence among international migrants
AbstractIntroduction. Empirical evidence on migrant morbidity suggests that migrant populations have a higher burden of disease compared to non-migrants in
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I love this so much! Mega congrats @ugobas.bsky.social and @marilianep.bsky.social! ❤️💪🏻💯
Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR)@mpidr.bsky.social · last yr.🎉🎊A week full of celebrations ✨Two ERC Starting Grants for the MPIDR✨ We are thrilled to announce that @marilianep.bsky.social and @ugobas.bsky.social have each been awarded with an ERC Starting Grant by the @erc.europa.eu. #ERCStG www.demogr.mpg.de/en/news_even... #ERCStartingGrant #longevity
📢 We are hiring! 📢 Are you a UK home student with (or nearing) a Master's degree in Demography, Public Health, Sociology or a related discipline? Do you have a strong interest in ethnicity and inequality? 📈🌍 If so, come and do a PhD @salforduni.bsky.social! www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
Living longer in worse health? Understanding the immigrant morbidity-mortality paradox in the U.K. at University of Salford on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - Living longer in worse health? Understanding the immigrant morbidity-mortality paradox in the U.K. at University of Salford, listed on FindAPhD.com
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He's also published on other migrant outcomes, including union formation and fertility among Pakistani and Bangladeshi migrants and the children of migrants in the U.K. www.jstor.org/stable/48728... (4/5)
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@jharrison37.bsky.social has previously published on cancer mortality among Pakistani and Bangladeshi migrants and the children of migrants in England and Wales link.springer.com/article/10.1... (3/5)
All-cancer incidence and mortality in Pakistanis, Bangladeshis, and their descendants in England and Wales - BMC Public Health
Background This paper identifies differences in all-cancer incidence and mortality between Pakistani-born (PB), Bangladeshi-born (BB), their descendants, and the White British (WB) in England and Wale...
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Joe completed his PhD at @uniofstandrews.bsky.social in the area of migrant health and has been working for the past year on the massive @erc.europa.eu funded @migrantlife.bsky.social project. He's so good that he'll also remain involved in "Migrant Life" until 2026. (2/5)
The PARA-MOR project is super delighted to welcome @jharrison37.bsky.social as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow! @salforduni.bsky.social @uos-health-society.bsky.social (1/5)
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@vergeles.bsky.social will be with us for a while. During her stay we will work closely together on a multi-country comparative paper focusing on migration, mortality, and inequality. (3/4)
