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Professor Paul Boyle

Paul Boyle is Associate Director of the SDHI and Professor of Human Geography at the University of St Andrews. He is also Director of the Longitudinal Studies Centre - Scotland (LSCS), which is currently establishing the Scottish Longitudinal Study (SLS), and associate Director of the Census Interaction Data Service (CIDS), which provides access to origin - destination flow data from the national census. He is also co-editor of the journal Population, Space and Place. Prior to coming to the University of St Andrews he has worked in the universities of Swansea, Leeds and Canterbury (New Zealand).

Paul sat on the Scottish Executive Measuring Inequalities in Health Working Group which has recently produced a recommendation document Inequalities in Health. He is also a member of:

• the Office for National Statistics (ONS) Academic Census Advisory Group,
• the General Register Office for Scotland (GROS) Population and Migration Statistics Committee,
• and the Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency (NISRA) Northern Ireland Longitudinal Study group.

He is currently chair of the Population Geography Research Group and vice-chair of the Health Geography Research Group (HGRG), both of the Royal Geographical Society-Institute of British Geographers (RGS-IBG).

Paul's research interests include geographical health and demographic issues. For example, he has published on:

• the relationship between migration and health;
• health inequalities;
• mortality in Scotland;
• the context versus composition debate;
• population mixing and its role in childhood leukaemia;
• accessibility issues for patients with end stage renal failure;
• and the clustering of Motor Neurone Disease.

He is co-editor of a recently published book The Geography of Health Inequalities in the Developed World: Views from Britain and North America (Ashgate, London).

See publications.

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