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Health and the Life Course
This area uses sociological approaches to understand health as a manifestation of broader structures of social inequality and student health and aging over the life course as a social process. Special attention if offered to the intersections of individual lives, social structures, and social change. Research includes examinations of cumulative advantage processes as mechanisms of health inequality, social mobility and trajectories of health, inequality in health behaviours and well-being, health professions, work and health, family ties and aging, trajectories of socioeconomic status and health from early life through old age, intimate partner violence, and Indigenous well-being.
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Faculty experts in Health and the Life Course
Tracey Adams, Professor
- Work
- Professions
- Regulation of professions in Canada
- Social inequality
- Gendered professions
- Health professions
Kate H. Choi, Associate Professor
Director, Centre for Research on Social Inequality
- Social Demography
- Social Determinants of Health
- Social Inequality
- Family Sociology
- Racial Inequality
- Quantitative Methodology
Patrick Denice, Assistant Professor
Graduate Chair, Department of Sociology
- Social inequality, social stratification, and mobility
- Life course
- Education
- Labour markets
- Union and non-union influences on wages
519-661-2111 x85725
pdenice@uwo.ca
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Anders Holm, Professor
Acting Chair, Department of Sociology
- Quantitative methods
- Socioeconomic status over the lifecourse
- Social stratification
- Inter-generational mobility
- Sociology of health
519-661-2111 x 85515
aholm@uwo.ca
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Mila Kolpashnikova, Assistant Professor
- Time use
- Gender Inequality
- Housework
- Fear of Falling
519-661-2111 x87177
kkolpash@uwo.ca
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Rachel Margolis, Professor
Undergraduate Chair, Department of Sociology
- Demography
- Social inequality
- Family change
- Aging
519-661-2111 x82850
rachel.margolis@uwo.ca
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Julie McMullin, Professor
- Social Inequality
- Aging and the Life Course
- Gender Inequality
- Family
- Paid and Unpaid Work
519 661-2111 x83689
mcmullin@uwo.ca
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Lora Phillips, Assistant Professor
- Inequality
- Precarity
- Vulnerable populations
- Health and well-being
- Urban sociology
Kim Shuey, Professor
- Health and disability across the life course
- Transmission of health across generations
- Precarious employment, work and health
- Environmental sociology.
Andrea Willson, Associate Professor
- Social inequality over the life course
- Aging and the life course
- Health effects of socioeconomic status across generations
- Quantitative research
Anna Zajacova, Professor
- Social epidemiology
- Health inequalities
- Demography
- Lifecourse and aging
- Quantitative methods
- Measurement
519-661-2111 x85123
anna.zajacova@uwo.ca
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