Staff profile: Gill Mein

Gill Mein Position: Senior Research Fellow
School: Rehabilitation Sciences
Telephone: +44 (0)20 8725 4642
Email: g.mein@sgul.kingston.ac.uk

Biography

Gill Mein is a senior research fellow working in the School of Rehabilitation Sciences in the Faculty of Health and Social Care Sciences. Prior to this she was responsible for the retirement project within the Whitehall II study.

She obtained an MSc in 1993 from the Department of Public Health and Policy at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, and following this worked as a research fellow in the Health Promotion Research Unit at the London School of Hygiene. Prior to obtaining her MSc she worked overseas for non-governmental organisations in primary health care development projects and on emergency health care programmes.

She currently teaches on the MSc in Rehabilitation and the undergraduate degree in Physiotherapy. She is also a senior facilitator for Teens and Toddlers, a successful organisation working with teenagers from disadvantaged backgrounds and preventing teenage pregnancies.

Interests

Gill's current research is examining the effect of physical activity on cancer patients. She has examined the benefits of rehabilitation with patients suffering Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary disease. She is also evaluating a project preventing teenage pregnancies. Previous ongoing work from the Whitehall II study is examining retirement from work and health inequalities and participant participation in longitudinal studies.

Publications

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Number of items: 7.

Article

Bhamra, Suneeta , Tinker, Anthea , Mein, Gillian , Ashcroft, Richard and Askham, Janet (2008) The retention of older people in longitudinal studies: a review of the literature. Quality in ageing: policy, practice and research, 9(4), pp. 27-35. ISSN (print) 1471-7794

Mein, Gillian and McDowell, Andrew (2007) Parent prevention. Community Care(1654), pp. 30-31. ISSN (print) 0307-5508

Mein, G and Ellison, G.T.H (2006) The impact of early retirement on perceptions of life at work and at home: qualitative analyses of British civil servants participating in the Whitehall II Retirement Study. International Journal of Aging and Human Development, 63(3), pp. 187-216. ISSN (print) 0091-4150

Mein, Gill K. , Shipley, Martin J. , Hillsdon, Melvyn , Ellison, George T.H. and Marmot, Michael G. (2005) Work, retirement and physical activity: cross-sectional analyses from the Whitehall II study. European Journal of Public Health, 15(3), pp. 317-322. ISSN (print) 1101-1262

Hyde, Martin , Ferrie, Jane , Higgs, Paul , Mein, Gill and Nazroo, James (2004) The effects of pre-retirement factors and retirement route on circumstances in retirement: findings from the Whitehall II study. Ageing and Society, 24(2), pp. 279-296. ISSN (print) 0144-686X

Mein, G. , Martikainen, P. , Hemingway, H. , Stansfeld, S. and Marmot, M. (2003) Is retirement good or bad for mental and physical health functioning? Whitehall II longitudinal study of civil servants. Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, 57(1), pp. 46-49. ISSN (print) 0143-005X

Higgs, Paul , Mein, Gill , Ferrie, Jane , Hyde, Martin and Nazroo, James (2003) Pathways to early retirement: structure and agency in decision-making among British civil servants. Ageing and Society, 23(6), pp. 761-778. ISSN (print) 0144-686x

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