We are pleased to invite you to a joint conference organised by the Centre for Labour Market Research and the Health Economics Research Unit, titled Work. Life. Health. Connecting the Dots on Socioeconomic Wellbeing. The provisional programme can be found at the bottom.
The conference will take place on Wednesday, 3 June 2026 in Aberdeen (Sir Duncan Rice Library) and will bring together researchers and policymakers to explore the interconnections between labour markets, socioeconomic circumstances, and health outcomes.
If you would like to attend, please get in touch with iahsadmin@abdn.ac.uk. This will help us estimate numbers and make appropriate catering arrangements.
Feel free to share this invitation with colleagues or networks who may be interested in attending. We hope to see many of you there.
Provisional Programme
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930 |
Arrival |
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945 |
Welcome by Yu Aoki-Beattie (Organiser)& Graham Scotland (Director of HERU) |
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950 |
Marco Mello (UoA, Economics) “Pay structure and labour supply: evidence from NHS trainee doctors” |
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1015 |
Luis Loria Rebolledo (UoA, HERU) “Health benefit value of NHS Scotland's outdoor estate” |
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1040 |
Yu Aoki-Beattie (UoA, Economics/HERU) “Proximity to Fast-Food Outlets and Adolescent BMI: Accounting for Persistent Health Dynamics” |
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1105 |
Coffee Break |
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1120 |
Annoucement - Gary Macfarlane (UoA, Epidemiology) "Scottish Centre for Work and Health" |
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1135 |
Keynote 1 - Jillian Evans (NHS Grampian) “TBC” |
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1220 |
Bea Dawkins (Aberdeen HDRC/Aberdeen City Council) "Housing and Health Data Linkage in Scotland" |
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1245 |
Lunch |
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1335 |
Arthur Juet (University of Leeds) "Impacts of employment transitions on mental health and life satisfaction among individuals with arthritis: a staggered difference-in-differences analysis" |
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1400 |
Gokben Aydilek (UoA, HERU) "Quality of Life Among Patients with Psoriatic Arthritis – A Real-world Longitudinal Study" |
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1425 |
Krzysztof Adamczyk (Aberdeen Centre for Health Data Science/ UoA, Sociology) "Social Mobility, Psychological Distress, and Long-Term Limiting Illness in a City in Transition: Evidence from the Aberdeen Children of the 1950s" |
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1450 |
Coffee Break |
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1510 |
Rachel Forshaw (Edinburgh Business School) “The Health Effects of Occupational Meaningfulness: Evidence from the UK Furlough Scheme” |
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1535 |
Alexandros Zangelidis (UoA, Economics) "The Labour Market Consequences of Thyroid Conditions: Evidence from Finland" |
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1600 |
Keynote 2 - Mara Violato (University of Oxford) "Health Economics Meets Policy: Shaping Better Population Health Together" |
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1700 |
Closing remark byAlexandros Zangelidis (Organiser/Director of CeLMR) & Zaheer Khan (School Director of Research) |
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