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.
Research Stories
Current Projects
- Gender, Interpersonal Risk and Childbearing
Roderic Beaujottopicsgender, fertility
Completed Projects
- Family Transformation and Social Cohesion
Roderic Beaujottopicsfamily structure, social cohesion
Faculty experts in Health and the Life Course
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
SSC 5407
519-661-2111 x85725
pdenice@uwo.ca
Faculty Profile
Anders Holm, Professor

- Quantitative methods
- Socioeconomic status over the lifecourse
- Social stratification
- Inter-generational mobility
- Sociology of health
SSC 5327
519-661-2111 x 85515
aholm@uwo.ca
Faculty Profile
Rachel Margolis, Professor
Undergraduate Chair, Department of Sociology

- Demography
- Social inequality
- Family change
- Aging
SSC 5326
519-661-2111 x82850
rachel.margolis@uwo.ca
Faculty Profile
Kim Shuey, Professor

- Health and disability across the life course
- Transmission of health across generations
- Precarious employment, work and health
- Environmental sociology.
SSC 5426
519-661-2111 x85135
kshuey@uwo.ca
Faculty Profile
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
- Ethnicity
- Quantitative methods
SSC 5330
519-661-2111 x85123
anna.zajacova@uwo.ca
Faculty Profile