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Steven Hope

Steven Hope

ccUCL Institute of Child Health, University College London


Steven Hope has trained in psychology and social research methods, and his career has included employment as a researcher in academia, the NHS, the pharmaceutical industry, and in a survey organisation. He is currently Senior Research Associate at UCL Institute of Child Health.


Type of member: Regular


Email Address: s.hope@ucl.ac.uk

Website Address: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/child-health/people/hope-steven


Current research interests
Steven is a member of the Centre for Policy Research and works on two Department of Health Children's Policy Research Unit-funded projects, both using data from the Millennium Cohort Study. He leads one of the projects, on maternal mental health and child health outcomes, and line manages and advises on the second, assessing co-occurrence of health outcomes. His primary interests are life-course, health services and methodological research.

His specialties include social research methodology, data analysis, health research, life-course research, and psychometrics.


Selected publications

Pearce, A., Hope, S., Griffiths, L., Cortina-Borja, M., Chittleborough, C., & Law, C. (2018). What if all children achieved WHO recommendations on physical activity? Estimating the impact on socioeconomic inequalities in childhood overweight in the UK Millennium Cohort Study. International Journal of Epidemiology, 48(1), 134-147. doi:10.1093/ije/dyy267 https://academic.oup.com/ije/article/48/1/134/5233438

Rougeaux, E., Hope, S., Law, C., & Pearce, A. (2017). Have health inequalities changed during childhood in the New Labour generation? Findings from the UK Millennium Cohort Study. BMJ Open, 7(1). doi:10.1136/bmjopen-2016-012868 http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/1535950/

Taylor-Robinson, D., Williams, H., Pearce, A., Law, C., & Hope, S. (2016). OP56 Do early life exposures explain why more advantaged children get eczema? findings from the UK millennium cohort study. Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, 69(Suppl 1). doi:10.1136/jech-2015-206256.55 http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/10050294/

Hope, S., Pearce, A., Whitehead, M., & Law, C. (2014). Family employment and child socioemotional behaviour: Longitudinal findings from the UK Millennium Cohort Study. Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, 68(10), 950-957. doi:10.1136/jech-2013-203673 http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/1432655/

profile updated: 04/12/2019