Matthew Wallace

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 ⬇️

📢📢 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):

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(3/5)

2️⃣research articles published:

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(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)

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.....

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

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@salforduni.bsky.social

@uos-health-society.bsky.social

@ukri.org

My first working paper from the @para-mor-ukri.bsky.social project is now available. Co-authored with PI @mjwdemography.bsky.social

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@salforduni.bsky.social @uos-health-society.bsky.social @ukri.org

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

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

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#migration #health #inequality #mortality

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Welcome @daniforesta.bsky.social! (3/3)

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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)

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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)

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

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/...

I love this so much! Mega congrats @ugobas.bsky.social and @marilianep.bsky.social! ❤️💪🏻💯

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

📢 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...

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Welcome to PARA-MOR @jharrison37.bsky.social! (5/5)

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)

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...

@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)

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)

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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)

Welcome, @vergeles.bsky.social ! (4/4)

@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)

INEQKILL - How Inequality Kills INEQKILL is an interdisciplinary research project on how inequality kills using all-cause and cause-specific mortality in Belgium (1800-2025).

@vergeles.bsky.social is completing a joint PhD between UCLouvain and VUB within the large-scale INEQKILL project (www.ineqkill.be). She has a Bachelor's degree in biological anthropology and Master's degree in demography. (2/4)

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The PARA-MOR project would like to welcome Marina Vergeles @vergeles.bsky.social to the School of Health and Society @uos-health-society.bsky.social ! brispo.research.vub.be/en/marina-ve... (1/4)

We're are beyond excited to have her on board here and look forward to doing some brilliant migrant health research together! 🌍📈💯 #migration #health #inequality #society

Neighbourhood socioeconomic conditions and emergency admissions for ambulatory care sensitive conditions in children: a longitudinal ecological analysis in England, 2012–2017 Ambulatory care sensitive conditions (ACSCs) are those for which hospital admission could be prevented by interventions in primary care. Children living in socioeconomic disadvantage have higher rates...

Here's another:

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Coming in hot: a qualitative investigation into perceptions of parents and doctors of reasons for the presentation of children with fever to the emergency department in England Paediatric emergency department (ED) attendances and admissions in England are increasing. Fever is a common presenting problem for these attendances. Anxiety and misperceptions surrounding appropriat...

She's has produced a couple of really cool papers so far.

Here's one:

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