Dr Matt Wallace

School of Health & Society

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Matt Wallace

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Current positions

Associate Professor/Reader

Biography

Matthew is an Associate Professor and Reader in Social Inequality at the Centre for Research on Inclusive Society (CRIS) at the University of Salford. He is a winner of Horizon Europe's 2023 European Research Council Starting Grant (ERC StG) and Principal Investigator of the UKRI-funded 1.3 million GBP ERC StG Horizon Guarantee project (Nov 2024- Nov 2029) PARA-MOR, which investigates whether migrants are living longer lives in worse health than non-migrants are. The 5-year project implements advanced quantitative methods on large-scale administrative register data from several European countries. Latest updates from the project can be found on X (@para_mor_ukri) and BlueSky (@para-mor-ukri.bsky.social), alongside the official news channels at the School of Health & Society.

Matthew sits within the Equity, Inequalities, and Inclusivity Research theme, which spans the School of Health & Society and additionally includes the Centre for Applied Health Research. He is a Visiting Researcher at the Stockholm University Demography Unit (SUDA) in Sweden, where he worked as Researcher / Associate Professor from 2019 to 2024. During his time there, Matthew was the Principal Investigator of the Swedish Research Council-funded 360,000 GBP MIGMORT project which investigated the intergenerational reversal in mortality risks between migrants and their children. During his time at SUDA, Matthew was awarded the European Demographer of the Year Award by Population Europe, in conjunction with Allianz. From 2015 to 2019, Matthew worked in the Health, Mortality and Epidemiology Unit at the French Institute for Demographic Studies (INED) on the National Institute for Health (NIH) funded project Mobility, Selectivity and the Migrant Mortality Advantage (MoSEMMA).

Matthew's profile reflects his experiences in the fields of demography, geography, sociology, epidemiology, public health, and social medicine. He is interested in primarily in the intersection of ethnic, health, and social inequalities and how these inequalities affect wider population health, social and public health policies, and the delivery of care.

Matthew's personal webpage can be found at: https://wallace-demography.weebly.com/.

Areas of Research

International Migrants and their Children; COVID-19; Health, Morbidity and Mortality; Inequality and Inequity; Inclusion; Integration; Demography; Advanced Quantitative Methods; Large-Scale Secondary Data

Areas of Supervision

Health, Morbidity, Mortality, International Migrants, the Children of Migrants, Ethnic Inequality, Social Inequality, Health Inequality, Migrant Adaptation, Migrant Integration, COVID-19, Demography, Quantitative Methods, Secondary Data

Teaching Qualifications and Recognitions Publications

Teaching

Research Problems and Methods: Making It Count (Module Leader);
Migration and Socio-Legal Dynamics (Contributor)

Qualifications and Recognitions

Qualifications

  • Environmental Sciences

    2012 - 2016

  • Research Methodology in Population Studies

    2011 - 2012

  • BA (Hons) Human Geography

    2007 - 2010

Recognitions

  • European Demographer of the Year (Population Europe)

Publications

Publications

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