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Bio social research in social surveys

Presenter(s): Michaela Benzeval


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In this video resource, I'm going to be talking about research that brings together biological and social data as part of biological research in social sciences. This is sometimes called bio-social research. So, in the first video what I'm going to be talking about is what kinds of biological data we might have in social surveys that enables us to do this kind of research, and then give examples of research questions that we could answer with these data and show how they might contribute to understanding of health and to policy. In the second video I will look at how we might combine biological and social data in order to understand people's health and society better.

Biosocial research: biological data in social surveys

In this video, I am talking about: what kinds of biological data we might have in social surveys that enables us to do this kind of research; and then give examples of research questions that we could answer with these data and; show how they might contribute to understanding of health and to policy.



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Biological research: impact of biosocial research on health and policy

In this video I look into how we might combine biological and social data in order to understand people's health and society better. In this part of the video we're going to look at what biological data look like, and some of the things that we need to take into account when we are analyzing them. And I'm going to give you some information about the kinds of studies that include these data and where you might go to for further advice.



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Michaela is Professor of Longitudinal Research and the Director and Principal Investigator of Understanding Society: the UK Household Longitudinal Study. Before joining ISER, Michaela was a Programme Leader, and Research Project Director of the West of Scotland Twenty-07 Study, at the MRC/CSO Social and Public Health Sciences Unit, Glasgow. She has also worked at Queen Mary University of London, East London and City Health Authority, the London School of Economics and the King?s Fund. Michaela studied economics at the University of Bath, and health policy and epidemiology, as well as a PGCAP, at the University of London, and gained her PhD, on income and health, from the University of Glasgow.

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