Advanced Research Methodologies in Health and Biomedical Sciences (ARMS) seminar

Speaker biographies

Dr Yanchun Bao is a senior lecturer in statistics and data science at the School of Mathematics, Statistics and Actuarial Sciences of the University of Essex. She obtained her PhD from University of Manchester in 2007. Prior to joining the University of Essex at 2014, she worked as a post doctor researcher in University of Manchester, Brunel University and University of College London. She worked as researcher at Institute for Social and Economic Research from 2014 to 2019. Yanchun's research interests are developing statistical methodology in health, biology and social research areas. More specifically, her main research interests include: 1. Longitudinal and survival analysis. 2. Causal methods. 3. Instrumental methods (Mendelian Randomization). 4. Bioinformatics research (statistical methods for omic data, such as SNP, DNAm, proteomic, ChIP-sequencing and HiC data). 5. Covariance modelling.

Wen Wang is a PhD student at the Soc-B Centre for Doctoral Training at ISER. Supervised by Prof. Meena Kumari, Dr. Yanchun Bao, Prof. Paul Clarke, and Dr. Steven Haworth, her thesis works on the role of the residential environment on biological ageing using the data from Understanding Society. Her research interests include ageing across the entire age range of adults, life trajectories, health inequality, and material deprivation.