Scottish Longitudinal Study
Development & Support Unit
The SLS team
Dr Lynne Adair (Forrest)
University of Edinburgh, SLS Head of Research Support Service
Contact Dr Lynne Adair (Forrest)
Lynne works as Head of the Research Support Service on the Scottish Longitudinal Study. She has a background in working with linked administrative data for research. She previously worked at Research Data Scotland as Data Curation Manager, where she developed a synthetic data strategy for Scotland. Prior to that she...
Joseph Barbour
Technical Data Officer and Database Developer for the SLS, University of Edinburgh.
With a Bachelor’s of Fine Arts (BFA) and a background of technical support roles, Joseph has a knack for problem-solving; building creative solutions to a variety of technical problems. He’s a self-taught programmer, focusing User-centred and iterative design. Prior to joining the SLS team, Joseph spent 13 years building robotic...
Greg Blackadder
NRS/SLS Project Manager
Greg joined the team as SLS Project Manager in September 2018 and represents the data custodians, the National Records of Scotland.
Dr Tom Clemens
SLS Director of Impact & Engagement / Research Fellow, Univ of Edinburgh
Tom is based in Edinburgh and has been part of the Demographic, Socio-Economic and Environmental Data Linkage arm of the Scottish Health Informatics Programme (SHIP) since March 2011. He graduated with a first class BA degree in Human Geography from Lancaster University (2006), followed by an MRes (2007) and PhD (2012)...
Dr Helen Corby
SLS Research Methodolgy Support Officer, The University of Edinburgh
Helen works on the Scottish Longitudinal Study as a Methodology Research Support Officer. Their background is in psychology, public health and quantitative analysis, but their main research interests are in the application of administrative data for psychology and health research. For Helen’s PhD research they used the SLS to investigate...
Angela Fallon
LSCS Administrative Coordintor University of Edinburgh
Angela Fallon joined the LSCS Team in 2016 as Administrative Assistant. Angela was previously employed by the University of Edinburgh working on Scottish Carbon Capture & Storage. She has over 13 years experience working for the University of Edinburgh as a PA, Project Administrator and Events Organiser. Angela’s hours are:...
Dr Zhiqiang Feng
Support Officer, Senior Research Fellow,
Univ of Edinburgh
Zhiqiang is a support officer and research fellow for the Longitudinal Studies Centre Scotland. He is based in Edinburgh. His research interests cover population geography, health geography, health inequalities, GIS, spatial analysis, longitudinal models, multilevel models, migration, commuting, and fuzzy classification. Publications Flowerdew, R, Feng, Z and Manley, D (2006) Constructing data...
Sandrine Flower
SLS Administrative Assistant, University of Edinburgh
Sandrine Flower is an Administrative Assistant on the Scottish Longitudinal Study. She has been working in the university sector for over 8 years. She has a background in research support and project coordination. She previously worked in Research Excellence Framework and Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Teams at Edinburgh Napier University. ...
Joan Nolan
Database Manager, Univ of Edinburgh
Joan is a database manager and systems developer for the SLS team at NRS and her responsibilities include the initial setting up and ongoing maintenance requirements for the SLS database. She also provides support to users. Joan’s background is in Information Management, and prior to joining the SLS team, spent...
Blessious Phiri
SLS Technical Data Officer/ Database Developer, University of Edinburgh
As a programmer and developer, Blessious’ role focuses on developing and maintaining the infrastructure and datasets held within the LSCS. In addition, Blessious provides data support to SLS researchers. Prior to Joining the Longitudinal Studies Centre Scotland (LSCS), Blessious was employed as an Oracle and SQL Database Administrator in Malawi...
Prof Gillian Raab
Support Officer, Statistician, Univ of Edinburgh
Gillian Raab is an applied statistician whose fields of application are chiefly in medical and social statistics. Her methodological interests include survey research, methods for dealing with missing data and various aspects of the design and analysis of clinical trials. A recent ESRC supported project has been the PEAS web site to...
Cassia Smith
Technical Data Officer and Database Developer for the SLS, University of Edinburgh
Cassia Smith comes to the SLS after working with data in academic settings for over 10 years. In addition to her previous work as data engineer for the biomarker wing of a longitudinal study in the US, Cassia has experience in software development, metadata management, and public education. Her path...
Dr Lee Williamson
LSCS Deputy Director
Digitising Scotland, Project Manager
Lee works as a Senior Research Fellow at the Longitudinal Studies Centre - Scotland, part of the Research Institute of Geography and The Lived Environment in School of GeoSciences at the University of Edinburgh. Lee obtained a PhD on “Population projections by small areas and ethnic groups – developing strategies for demographic rate estimation” at the University of Manchester. Her methodological interests include demographic methods and longitudinal techniques. Her research interests include demography, fertility behaviour; inequality, heath and mortality; birth parity; early life; historical demography; population projections.
