Matthew Iveson

Senior Data Scientist

Centre for Clinical Brain Sciences
Administrative Data Research Centre Scotland
Centre for Cognitive Ageing and Cognitive Epidemiology

Tel: 0131 650 4005
Email: Matthew.Iveson@ed.ac.uk

Street: Room F2, Psychology Building
City: 7 George Square, Edinburgh
Post code: EH8 9JZ

Biography

Background

I moved to Edinburgh in 2005, where I completed my undergraduate degree (Psychology), MSc by Research and PhD.

Since my Masters I have been interested in how cognition changes with age, and how this coincides with physical changes in the brain. During my PhD, run bilaterally between the University of Edinburgh and Suor Orsola Benincasa University (Italy), I gained an appreciation for the contribution of individual differences in demographic factors and general cognitive ability to age-related changes in cognition. After my PhD I led a research project in Kyoto (Japan) as a JSPS Post-doctoral Fellow. I returned to Edinburgh in 2016, taking up a position as a post-doctoral researcher at the Centre for Cognitive Ageing and Cognitive Epidemiology.

I now work as a Senior Data Scientist on an MRC-funded Mental Health Data Science grant, leading a project which aims to investigate mental health within and between generations by constructing a linked family e-cohort from routinely-collected data sources.

Qualifications

PhD Psychology, Suor Orsola Benincasa University & The University of Edinburgh 2011 – 2015

MSc by Research Psychology, The University of Edinburgh 2009 – 2010

MA (Hons.) Psychology, The University of Edinburgh 2005 – 2009

Research

Research summary

I am interested in better understanding age-related changes in physical and mental health, and how factors from across the life-course - such as cognitive abilty - can predict these changes.

Current research interests

My current interests are in the contributions of life-course factors to mental health risk, the transmission of mental health risk between individuals, and the differential contributions of individual and shared factors to mental health risk.

Past research interests

I am also interested in cognitive neuroscience more generally, particularly executive functions and working memory and their associations with prefrontal brain systems.

Knowledge exchange

I am involved in several public enagagement activities, including most recently:

Public enagagement around the use of NHS data and administrative data in research
Public engagement around the value of data linkage studies and e-cohorts
Knowledge exchange activities around depression research, including "Big Data Detectives" (Edinburgh Science Festival, 2019)

Research activities

Historical data linkage and its value, The UK Census Longitudinal Studies Annual Conference 2019 8 Apr 2019 Academic talk or presentation types › Oral presentation
Mendelian Randomization Course 20 Mar 2019 to 21 Mar 2019 Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in workshop, seminar, course
Mixed Effects Modelling Workshop 6 Mar 2019 Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in workshop, seminar, course

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Projects

Project activity

MC_PC_17209; McIntosh AM (PI) 2018-2020; MRC Mental Health Pathfinder Award: “Leveraging routinely collected and linked research data to study the causes and consequences of common mental disorders” - Work Package 1: Mental health within and between generations.

Publications

Early-life predictors of retirement decisions and post-retirement health Aug 2019 In: SSM - population health, vol. 8
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssmph.2019.100430
Contribution to journal › Article (Published)
Childhood cognitive function and later-life economic activity : Linking the Scottish Mental Survey 1947 to administrative data 10 May 2019 In: Longitudinal and Life Course Studies
Contribution to journal › Article (Accepted/In press)
Intelligence and all-cause mortality in the 6-Day Sample of the Scottish Mental Survey 1947 and their siblings : Testing the contribution of family background 1 Feb 2018 In: International Journal of Epidemiology, vol. 47, no. 1, pp. 89-96
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/ije/dyx168
Contribution to journal › Article (Published)
Intergenerational social mobility and subjective wellbeing in later life (10 pages) Sep 2017 In: Social Science & Medicine, vol. 188, pp. 11-20
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2017.06.038
Contribution to journal › Article (Published)
Goal neglect, fluid intelligence and processing speed : Manipulating instruction load and inter-stimulus interval (10 pages) May 2017 In: Acta Psychologica, vol. 176, pp. 1-10
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actpsy.2017.03.003
Contribution to journal › Article (Published)
Life-course predictors of functional limitations in older age 2017
Contribution to conference › Paper (Published)
Childhood cognitive function and later-life economic activity. 2017
Contribution to conference › Paper (Published)
Same task rules, different responses : Goal neglect, stimulus-response mapping and response modalities (6 pages) 4 Dec 2016 In: Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, vol. 23, no. 6, pp. 1968-1973
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3758/s13423-016-1052-3
Contribution to journal › Article (Published)
Handbook of Frontal Lobe Assessment (448 pages) 7 May 2015
Book/Report › Book (Published)

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This article was published on Aug 15, 2019