SSRU Research Grants

Current and Recent Research Grants

Bartley M, Sacker A, Blane D, Netuveli G, Montgomery S.  International Centre for Life Course Studies in Society and Health.  Economic and Social Research Council.  £2.9M; Jan 08 (60 months).

Siegrist J, Singh-Manoux A, Blane D.  Cultural variations of social identity in early old age: a comparative study in Germany, France and United Kingdom.  Nordrhein-Westfalia Ministry of Research.  Euro 100K.  July 2005 (18 months).

Netuveli G, Blane D.  Analysing longitudinal data.  Economic and Social Research Council Mid-Career Fellowship (Fellow: Gopalakrishnan Netuveli).  January 2007 (15 months).

Blane D.  Measuring socioeconomic position across the life course.  Economic and Social Research Council PhD Studentship (Student: Juliet Stone).  October 2005 (36 months).

Blane D.  Measuring socioeconomic position across the life course.  Joint Economic and Social Research Council-Medical Research Council PhD Studentship (Student: Claire O’Regan – declined offer).  October 2005 (36 months).

Netuveli G, Siegrist J, Bobak M, Pikhart H, Blane D.  Cross-national comparison of quality of life at older ages in Europe.  Economic and Social Research Council.  £36K.  June 2005 (15 months).

Chandola T, Clarke P, Blane D.  Pathways between education and health: a causal modeling approach.  Economic and Social Research Council.  £39K.  February 2004 (12 months).

Bartley M, Sacker A, Blane D, Mitchell R, Schoon I, Stansfeld S, Whitehead M. ESRC Priority Research Network Development and persistence of capabilities and resilience in its social and geographical context. Economic and Social Research Council. £2.0M; of which Blane, as Principal Investigator, Resilience and quality of life in early old age. £353K. October 2003 (36 months).

Blane D, Higgs P, Wiggins R. Influences on quality of life in early old age. £122K (Economic and Social Research Council £84K; National Institute of Aging £21K; Medical Research Council £17K).  October 1999 (30 months). 

Nazroo J, Bajekal M, Blane D. Ethnic inequalities in quality of life at older ages: subjective and objective components. Economic and Social Research Council. £130K. January 2000 (24 months).

Blane D, Gunnell D, Mills E, Ness A, Maynard M. What influences diet in early old age? £111K (Economic and Social Research Council – Biotechnology and Biological Science Research Council ESRC-BBSRC £64K; Research into Ageing £47K). May 2000 (18 months).

Recent peer-reviewed Journal Articles

Wiggins R, Netuveli G, Hyde M, Higgs P, Blane D.  Top down and bottom up: combining confirmatory and exploratory approaches to evaluating the measurement properties of a self-enumerated scale of quality of life (CASP-19) in the context of research on ageing.  Social Indicators Research (accepted January 2007).  

Wiggins R, Erzberger C, Hyde M, Higgs P, Blane D.  Optimal matching analysis using ideal types to describe the life course: an illustration of how histories of work, partnerships and housing relate to quality of life in early old age.  International Journal of Social Research Methodology (accepted January 2007).

Montgomery S, Netuveli G, Hildon Z, Blane D.  Does financial disadvantage at older ages eliminate the potential for better health?  Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health (accepted January 2007).

Blane D, Netuveli G, Bartley M.  Does quality of life at older ages vary with socio-economic position?  Sociology (accepted December 2006).

Blane D, Netuveli G, Stone J.  The development of life course epidemiology.  Revue d’Epidemiologie et de Sante Publique 2007;55:31-38.

Maynard M, Gunnell D, Abraham L, Ness A, Bates C, Blane D. What influences diet at older ages? Prospective and cross-sectional analyses of the Boyd Orr cohort. European Journal of Public Health 2006;16:315-323.  

Chandola T, Clarke P, Morris JN, Blane D.  Pathways between education and health: a causal modelling approach.  Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series A 2006;169:337-359.

Netuveli G, Hildon Z, Montgomery S, Wiggins R, Blane D.  Quality of life at older ages: evidence from English Longitudinal Study of Ageing.  Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health 2006:60:357-363.

Chandola T, Deary I, Blane D, Batty D.  Childhood IQ in relation to obesity and weight gain in adult life: the National Child Development (1958) Study.  International Journal of Obesity 2006;30:1422-1432.

Gilleard C, Higgs P, Hyde M, Wiggins R, Blane D.  Class, cohort and consumption: the British experience of the Third Age.  Journal of Gerontology 2005;60B:S305-S310.

Netuveli G, Hildon Z, Montgomery S, Wiggins R, Blane D.  Need for change in focus from illness to functioning to improve quality of life: evidence from a national survey.  British Medical Journal 2005;331:1382-1383.

Naess O, Hernes F, Blane D.  Life course influences on mortality at older ages: evidence from the Oslo Mortality Study.  Social Science and Medicine 2006;62:329-336.

White C, Wiggins R, Blane D, Whitworth A, Glickman M.  Person, place or time? The effect of individual circumstances, area and changes over time on mortality in men 1995-2001.  Health Statistics Quarterly 2005;28:18-26.

Dreary I, Taylor M, Hart C, Wilson V, Davey Smith G, Blane D, Starr J.  Intergenerational social mobility and mid-life status attainment: influences of childhood intelligence, childhood social factors and education.  Intelligence 2005;33:455-472.

Mitchell R, Fowkes G, Blane D, Bartley M.  High rates of ischaemic heart disease in Scotland are not explained by conventional risk factors.  Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health 2005;59:565-567.

Blane D.  Cohort profile: The Boyd Orr lifegrid sub-sample – medical sociology study of life course influences on early old age.  International Journal of Epidemiology 2005;34:750-754.

Maynard M, Ness A, Abraham L, Blane D, Bates C, Gunnell D.  Selecting a healthy diet score: lessons from a study of diet and health in early old age (the Boyd Orr cohort).  Public Health Nutrition 2005;8:321-326.

Wiggins R, Higgs P, Hyde M, Blane D.  Quality of life in the third age: key predictors of the CASP-19 measure. Aging and Society 2004;24:693-708..

Bajekal M, Blane D, Grewal I, Karlsen S, Nazroo J. Influences on quality of life: a quantitative analysis of ethnic differences at older ages. Ageing and Society 2004;24:709-728.

Grewal I, Nazroo J, Bajekal M, Blane D, Lewis J. Influences on quality of life: a qualitative investigation of ethnic differences among older people in England. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies 2004;30:737-761.