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Olivia McEvoy

@olivia-mcevoy

Postdoc @pophel.bsky.social | PhD Sociology & MSc Statistics @tcdssp.bsky.social @tcddublin.bsky.social | MLitt Social Theory @uniofgalway.bsky.social | Interested in #Social #Inequalities #Health

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Latest posts by Olivia McEvoy @olivia-mcevoy

Social determinants of clusters of health behaviours: a longitudinal cohort study using latent- class analysis

Mine and Prof. Richard Layte's @tcdsociology.bsky.social @tcdschoolssp.bsky.social paper on the social determinants of health behaviours premised on theories of social exclusion and social resistance, using Growing up in Ireland (GUI) data, is now available at BMC Public Health: rdcu.be/e26t2

12.02.2026 15:14 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Nuoruudessa koettu alkoholipolitiikka yhteydessä myöhempään terveyteen | Helsingin yliopisto Vapaammalle alkoholipolitiikalle nuoruudessaan altistuneet henkilöt olivat keski-ikään mennessä sairastuneet ja kuolleet alkoholiperäisiin sairauksiin useammin kuin tiukemmalle alkoholipolitiikalle nu...

Nuorempana alkoholia laillisesti ostaneet henkilöt ovat sairastuneet ja kuolleet kroonisiin alkoholiperäisiin sairauksiin useammin kuin henkilöt, jotka saivat laillisesti ostaa alkoholia 21–vuotiaana.

19.09.2025 11:00 👍 14 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 1
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Our symposium from #SLLS2025 @sllshome.bsky.social consisted of research from Shubh Sharma @eugeniopaglino.bsky.social @olivia-mcevoy.bsky.social mcevoy.bsky.social @moberndorfer.bsky.social orfer.bsky.social Lauren Bishop and registry data expertise from Hanna Remes.
Thanks to all who attended!

17.09.2025 07:17 👍 8 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 1
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Congratulations to the newest Trinity College Dublin PhD graduates in Sociology
@tcdsociology.bsky.social!

@surili.bsky.social @olivia-mcevoy.bsky.social and Aron Foley!

@tcdschoolssp.bsky.social

14.06.2025 08:51 👍 9 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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Co-convenor of my first symposium at #SLLS2025 @sllshome.bsky.social "Leveraging Nordic Register Data to Study Health Inequalities" with my colleagues at @pophel.bsky.social and presented forthcoming research on peer influence on substance use, which uses the biological linking within registry data.

17.09.2025 06:55 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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📝 New paper out in IJCS! With Camilla Devitt and Daniel Faas, we investigated the experiences of workers in privatised vs public asylum systems.

✅ We found evidence that privatisation isolates workers and hinders transparency and accountability.

journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/00…

19.02.2025 15:44 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
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The role of family, school and neighbourhood in explaining inequalities in physical activity trajectories between age 9 and 18 Differentials in physical activity (PA) between social and economic groups has been shown to contribute significantly to social gradients in health an…

Another published paper:
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

10.01.2025 12:23 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Bringing the group back in: Social class and resistance in adolescent smoking Absolute prevalence of tobacco smoking has fallen in recent decades but inequalities by socioeconomic position (SEP) persist. Adolescence is a critical period for smoking initiation and habits formed...

One of the published chapters: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

10.01.2025 12:23 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0

Thank you @katchzhen.bsky.social for acting as an examiner. Grateful for your invaluable insight, as always.

20.01.2025 13:14 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0