Alan Marshall

Biographic Data

ID3583578
NAMEAlan Marshall
GIVEN NAMESAlan
FAMILY NAMEMarshall
SIGNATUREMARSHALL A
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Edinburgh
ORCID0000-0003-0971-829X
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS49
TOTAL CITATIONS87
AUTHOR COUNT48
EDITOR COUNT1
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1951
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX5

  • Not quite home: The limitations of neighbourhood community assets measures for understanding ageing in place

    Open AccessHelena Tunstall, Marisa De Andrade et al.ARTICLEWellbeing Space and Society2026

    Community assets may play an important role in enabling ageing in place. Features like access to health and social care, physical environments that support mobility, natural environments and community spaces that sustain social connection may influence whether people can continue to live successfully at home. Increasing digitisation and spatial data availability have expanded opportunities to measure such characteristics quantitatively. We review…

  • Later life precarity and longitudinal frailty trajectories in older adults

    Open AccessLaurence Rowley-Abel, Lisa van den Driest et al.ARTICLEAgeing and Society2026References: 36

    The concept of precarity is increasingly being applied in social gerontology to understand risks and uncertainties faced by older adults. However, existing research has not captured precarity quantitatively nor has it modelled its effect on older adults’ health. We therefore develop a Later Life Precarity Index and model its association with frailty. Using longitudinal data on 15,733 older adults from the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing, we …

  • Can Topic Modeling of Local Newspaper Texts Enhance Understanding of Neighborhood Effects on Health

    Open AccessEleojo Abubakar, Andreas Grivas et al.ARTICLEGeographical Analysis2025

    Social attributes of neighborhoods, like heritage, and low‐level social disorder, are not reflected in official metrics such as deprivation indices. However, research suggests these attributes are important for understanding spatial variations in health and social outcomes. This exploratory study investigated whether recurring themes in local newspaper articles capture meaningful social characteristics that help explain neighborhood health resili…

  • Visioning Tropical Cities of the Future: Case Studies Using the Literary Method of Urban Design

    Open AccessAlan MarshallARTICLEeTropic electronic journal of…2025References: 5

    This essay applies the Literary Method of Urban Design to forecast the futures of three tropical urban spaces through scenario art inspired by novels set in these cities. Bangkok, Thailand, is envisioned through Paolo Bacigalupi’s The Wind-Up Girl as a city grappling with rising seas, precarious governance, and environmental degradation. Aracataca, Colombia, inspired by Gabriel García Márquez’s One Hundred Years of Solitude, is envisioned as a fl…

  • Neighbourhood social cohesion, loneliness and multimorbidity: Evidence from a UK longitudinal panel study

    Open AccessLaurence Rowley-Abel, Chunyu Zheng et al.ARTICLEHealth & Place2025References: 7

    In the context of population ageing, multimorbidity is an increasingly prevalent public health issue that has a substantial impact on both individuals and healthcare systems. Alongside the literature looking at risk factors at the individual level, there is a growing body of research examining the role of neighbourhoods in the development of multimorbidity. However, most of this work has focused on physical features of place such as air pollution…

  • In the Land of Marvels: Science, Fabricated Realities, and Industrial Espionage in the Age of the Grand Tour by Paola Bertucci (review)

    Anne Marshall, Alan MarshallARTICLETechnology and Culture2024

  • Income Trajectories and Precarity in Later life

    Open AccessAlan Marshall, Chima Eke et al.ARTICLEJournal of Population Ageing2024Cited by: 2References: 12

    This paper captures trajectories of income in later-life and considers how membership of particular income trajectories is patterned by social class, sex and precarity in housing, pensions relationships, care and retirement. Using the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing (2002-19) for over-50s, latent class analysis identifies 10 income trajectory clusters and on the basis of comparable income levels from around statutory retirement age (65), we …

  • The impact of place on multimorbidity: A systematic scoping review

    Open AccessChunyu Zheng, Christina Macrae et al.ARTICLESocial Science & Medicine2024References: 2

    Multimorbidity, commonly defined as the co-existence of two or more long-term conditions, is a major global public health challenge with significant impacts for health and social care systems. There is a substantial body of work identifying different individual- and household-level determinants of multimorbidity, yet the role of place-based characteristics in affecting multimorbidity remains limited. This systematic scoping review identifies plac…

  • Frailty or frailties: Exploring frailty index subdimensions in the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing

    Open AccessLara Johnson, Bruce Guthrie et al.ARTICLEJournal of Epidemiology and…2024References: 30

    BACKGROUND: Frailty, a state of increased vulnerability to adverse health outcomes, has garnered significant attention in research and clinical practice. Existing constructs aggregate clinical features or health deficits into a single score. While simple and interpretable, this approach may overlook the complexity of frailty and not capture the full range of variation between individuals. METHODS: Exploratory factor analysis was used to infer lat…

  • Robert Harley as Secretary of State and his Intelligence Work: 1702–1708

    Open AccessAnne Marshall, Alan MarshallARTICLEHistory2023

    This article seeks to reassess Robert Harley's role as Secretary of State (1704–10) and especially his work in the intelligence and espionage fields of his day. It examines not only his reputation in such affairs but his skills and techniques in early eighteenth‐century espionage, and also his failures. It sets out the important administrative background of Harley's espionage work, and how he handled and processed secret material through his secr…

  • The Literary Method of Urban Design: Design Fictions Using Fiction

    Anne Marshall, Alan MarshallARTICLEUtopian Studies2023

    For students of design the world over, there’s usually nowhere near enough time in the school year to build a prototype of each and every single innovative idea that pops into one’s head—let alone to test them all in the social world or the marketplace. To speedily explore as many innovations as possible, students are sometimes encouraged to follow an alternative pathway, to create “design fiction.” Intended to exist only on paper or the screen, …

  • Les Lumières radicales de la Révolution anglaise: Samuel Hartlib et les réseaux de l’Intelligence (1600–1660), by Stéphane Haffemayer

    Open AccessAnne Marshall, Alan MarshallARTICLEThe English Historical Review2021

    This is a volume that gives us a meticulous inspection of the ideas and ideologies behind the utopian and apocalyptic agendas of Samuel Hartlib the ‘intelligencer’ in the early to mid-seventeenth century. Hartlib once described himself to his readers as ‘a traveller ... [who] can tell you strange newes, and much knowledge’ and this, alongside his penchant for reform and preaching of Christian solidarity, is broadly how Stéphane Haffemayer sees hi…

  • Ethnic differences in self‐assessed health in Scotland: The role of socio‐economic status and migrant generation

    Open AccessGeneviève Cézard, Nissa Finney et al.ARTICLEPopulation Space and Place2020References: 14

    This study investigates ethnic differences in self‐assessed health in Scotland and their determinants, focusing on socio‐economic status and migrant generations. We use the Scottish Health and Ethnicity Linkage Study (SHELS) and apply regression analysis to data for 4.6 million people. The analysis shows that the White British, Other White and Chinese groups reported better health than the White Scottish population, whereas Pakistani and Indian p…

  • Does having highly educated adult children reduce mortality risks for parents with low educational attainment in Europe

    Open AccessAlbert Sabater, Albert Sabater I Coll et al.ARTICLEAgeing and Society2020Cited by: 4References: 68

    It is known that the education of significant others may affect an individual's mortality. This paper extends an emerging body of research by investigating the effect of having highly educated adult children on the longevity of older parents in Europe, especially parents with low educational attainment. Using a sample of 15,015 individuals (6,620 fathers and 8,395 mothers) aged 50 and above, with 1,847 recorded deaths, over a mean follow-up perio…

  • Educational engagement, expectation and attainment of children with disabilities: Evidence from the Scottish Longitudinal Study

    Open AccessFiona M Cox, Alan Marshall et al.ARTICLEBritish Educational Research…2020Cited by: 2References: 25

    Government statistics show that children with special educational needs and disabilities do not achieve as well academically as their peers, which impacts on later employment and socioeconomic circumstances. Addressing these inequalities is a key policy area which currently lacks a satisfactory evidence base. To explore the issue, the present study used data from the Scottish Longitudinal Study which contains data from the 1991, 2001 and 2011 cen…

  • Area effects on the level and development of social exclusion in later life

    Open AccessJennifer Prattley, Tine Buffel et al.ARTICLESocial Science & Medicine2020Cited by: 18References: 28

    Social exclusion in later life is associated with decreased quality of life and poorer health outcomes. Reducing the number of people at risk of exclusion is a key theme in European social policy, but there is limited understanding of the relationship between neighbourhood characteristics, personal attributes and the level and development of social exclusion in later life. In this paper, cross-classified multilevel growth curve models for predict…

  • Impacts of migration on health and well-being in later life in China: Evidence from the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study (CHARLS)

    Open AccessBo Hou, James Nazroo et al.ARTICLEHealth & Place2019Cited by: 11References: 12

  • Digital inclusion in later life: Cohort changes in internet use over a ten-year period in England

    Open AccessKATEY MATTHEWS, James Nazroo et al.ARTICLEAgeing and Society2019Cited by: 10References: 34

    The ability to use the internet frequently is likely to provide a useful means of engaging with society and using services in later life, yet older people are the most likely to suffer digital exclusion, with those of the oldest ages at the greatest risk. Using six waves (2002–2012) of the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing, we model cohort-specific patterns of frequent internet use for people aged 50 and over. Multi-level growth models are use…

  • Charles Olson changes objects: A Reinterpretation of Projective Verse

    Anne Marshall, Alan MarshallARTICLETextual Practice2019

    This article argues that what Charles Olson called objectism was not the mere rehashing of objectivist poetics, as has sometimes been supposed, but involved the working out of a position that was diametrically opposed to objectivism, with respect both to objects in the world and objects in the poem. Central to objectism was what I call here the rule of interchangeability. It is this principle of interchangeability, I argue, that both grounds poet…

  • Comparing subjective and objective neighbourhood deprivation and their association with health over time among older adults in England

    Open AccessSimran Godhwani, Stephen Jivraj et al.ARTICLEHealth & Place2018Cited by: 8References: 10

    The importance of neighbourhood on individual health is widely documented. Less is known about the relative role of objective and subjective reports of neighbourhood conditions, how their effect on health changes as people age, and whether they moderate each other's impact on health. This study uses the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing (ELSA) to determine whether older adults report worse self-rated health as they age, and whether this differ…

  • Is migration in later life good for wellbeing? A longitudinal study of ageing and selectivity of internal migration

    Open AccessNissa Finney, Alan MarshallARTICLEArea2018Cited by: 3References: 24

    Migration scholarship has recently paid attention to lifecourse and non‐economic effects of moving house. Yet consideration of the effects of internal migration in later life has been relatively neglected despite their implications for social and spatial inequalities. Thus we address two questions: how trajectories of wellbeing in later life vary for movers and non‐movers, and how the event of moving affects wellbeing. In both cases we distinguis…

  • Comparison of hypertension healthcare outcomes among older people in the USA and England

    Open AccessAlan Marshall, James Nazroo et al.ARTICLEJournal of Epidemiology and…2016References: 15

    BACKGROUND: The USA and England have very different health systems. Comparing hypertension care outcomes in each country enables an evaluation of the effectiveness of each system. METHOD: The English Longitudinal Study of Ageing and the Health and Retirement Survey are used to compare the prevalence of controlled, uncontrolled and undiagnosed hypertension within the hypertensive population (diagnosed or measured within the survey data used) aged …

  • Trajectories in the Prevalence of Self-Reported Illness Around Retirement

    Open AccessAlan Marshall, James NazrooARTICLEJournal of Population Ageing2015Cited by: 1References: 3

  • Cohort differences in the levels and trajectories of frailty among older people in England

    Open AccessAlan Marshall, James Nazroo et al.ARTICLEJournal of Epidemiology and…2015Cited by: 11References: 35

    BACKGROUND: The level of frailty in the older population across age cohorts and how this changes is a factor in determining future care costs and may also influence the extent of socioeconomic and gender inequalities in frailty. METHODS: We model cohort-specific trajectories in frailty among the community dwelling population older than 50 years, using five waves (2002-2010) of the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing. We stratify our analysis by …

  • Does the level of wealth inequality within an area influence the prevalence of depression amongst older people

    Open AccessAlan Marshall, Stephen Jivraj et al.ARTICLEHealth & Place2014Cited by: 5References: 9