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 was a Support Officer at the SLS and a researcher at SCADR. Having initially worked as a programmer, data analyst and project manager she retrained and obtained an MSc in Public Health in 2010 and then a PhD in 2014, from Newcastle University. Her PhD investigated intervention-generated inequalities in lung cancer care.  Research interests include social and geographical mobility, cancer, and socio-economic and age-related inequalities in health.

Selected publications:

Berrie L, Adair L, Williamson L, Dibben C (2023) Youth organizations, social mobility and health in middle age: evidence from a Scottish 1950s prospective cohort study. European Journal of Public Health 33 (1), 6-12

Forrest LF, Sowden S, Rubin G, White M, Adams J (2016) Socio-economic inequalities in stage at diagnosis, and in time from first symptom to treatment, for lung cancer: systematic review and meta-analysis. Thorax. Thorax 72 (5), 430-436

Forrest LF, Adams J, Rubin G, White M (2015) The role of receipt and timeliness of treatment in socioeconomic inequalities in lung cancer survival: population-based, data linkage study. Thorax. 70(2) 138-145 doi: 10.1136/thoraxjnl-2014-205517.

Forrest LF, Adams JM, Wareham H, Rubin, G, White M (2013) Socioeconomic inequalities in lung cancer treatment: systematic review and meta-analysis.  PLoS Medicine. 10(2):e1001376. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1001376.

Lynne’s full list of publications can be found here