Welcome to the website for the Centre for HeAlth Research at the Management School (CHaRMS). We are an interdisciplinary research centre based at Queen’s Management School, Queen's University Belfast. The Centre aims to promote social, behavioural, and management science research into issues relating to health and other dimensions of human wellbeing. Learn more about our internal and external members, research streams, and publications. You can follow news from CHaRMS on this website or on twitter.
Our missionCHaRMS’s goal is to provide an evidence base for supporting policy development and management within the fields of health and human wellbeing.
We aim to foster collaboration across disciplines and schools within the university, and between the university and external organisations. Upcoming EventsNext CHaRMS Seminars:
Wednesday 20th March 2019, 1300-1430, Lecture Room 4, Riddel Hall
Dr Anne Nolan (Economic and Social Research Institute) https://www.esri.ie/people/anne-nolan “Financial Literacy and Preparation for Retirement” All welcome, but you are asked to email m.mcgovern@qub.ac.uk if you would like to register as places may be limited. Tea/coffee and lunch will be served, please advise if you are attending and have any dietary restrictions.
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Latest News
Latest CHaRMS Working Papers
CHaRMS Working Paper 18/05:
M. McGovern, S. Rokicki "The Great Recession, Household Income, and Children's Test Scores" https://ideas.repec.org/p/qub/charms/1805.html CHaRMS Working Paper 18/04:
M. McGovern, "How Much Does Birth Weight Matter for Child Health in Developing Countries?" https://ideas.repec.org/p/qub/charms/1804.html Published Version |
The CHaRMS Annual Workshop took place on June 22nd 2018. Slides are below.
Session 1: Employee Wellbeing
Paddy Smith (Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development): “Health and wellbeing at work” Lisa Wilson (Nevin Economic Research Institute): “Job security and wellbeing” Owen Reidy (Irish Congress of Trade Unions): “Better work, better lives” Mark Simpson (Ulster University) “Welfare and wellbeing in the 21st century social security system” Session 2: Population Studies Gaia Narciso (Trinity College Dublin): “The deep roots of Rebellion: Evidence from the Irish Revolution” Chris Colvin (Queen’s University Belfast): “Scarring and Selection in the Great Irish Famine” Session 3: Health and Wellbeing Olinda Santin (Queen's University Belfast): "'Cancer Care and Coping: An Online Resource" Liam McCorry (HealthyKidz) Keynote: Professor Liam Delaney, AIB Chair of Behavioural Economics (University College Dublin) "Self-Control, Health, & Public Policy" http://www.ucd.ie/geary/aboutus/people/liamdelaney/ CHaRMS Launch
Details of the CHaRMS launch, including slides and photos, are available here.
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Latest CHaRMS PublicationsM. Flückiger, M. Ludwig, A. Sina Önder. Forthcoming. Ebola and
State Legitimacy. The Economic Journal. https://doi.org/10.1111/ecoj.12638 A. de Bromhead, A. Fernihough, M. Lampe, K. O’Rourke. Forthcoming. "When Britain Turned Inward: The Impact of Interwar British Protection" American Economic Review
www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/aer.20172020&&from=f D. French, D.McKillop, T. Sharma. Forthcoming. What determines UK housing equity withdrawal in later life ? Regional Science and Urban Economics.
B. Graham. 2018. Population Characteristics and Geographic Coverage of Primary Care Facilities. BMC Health Services Research, 18, 1.
https://doi.org/10.1186/s12913-018-3221-8 M. Blum and K.P. Krauss. 2018. “Age Heaping and Numeracy: Looking Behind the Curtain”. Economic History Review, 71(2), 464-479
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/ehr.12615 Moutinho Barbosa de Melo, S. 2018. The role of place on healthcare quality improvement: A qualitative case study of a teaching hospital. Social Science & Medicine, 202, 136-142.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0277953618300960 G. Marra, R. Radice, T. Bärnighausen, S. Wood & M. McGovern. "A Simultaneous Equation Approach to Estimating HIV Prevalence with Non-Ignorable Missing Responses" Journal of the American Statistical Association, 518(12) 484-496
http://amstat.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01621459.2016.1224713 E. McFerran, J. O'Mahony, R. Fallis, D. McVicar, A. Zauber, F. Kee, “Evaluation of the Effectiveness and Cost-Effectiveness of Personalized Surveillance After Colorectal Adenomatous Polypectomy”, Epidemiologic Reviews 39(1), 148-160
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