Matthew Iveson
Senior Data Scientist
- Centre for Clinical Brain Sciences
- Administrative Data Research Centre Scotland
- Centre for Cognitive Ageing and Cognitive Epidemiology
Contact details
- Tel: 0131 650 4005
- Email: Matthew.Iveson@ed.ac.uk
Address
- Street
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Room F2, Psychology Building
- City
- 7 George Square, Edinburgh
- Post code
- EH8 9JZ
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 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
- Meeting with Scottish Government Minister for Mental Health (Clare Haughey) Other activity types › Other
- Historical data linkage and its value, The UK Census Longitudinal Studies Annual Conference 2019 Academic talk or presentation types › Oral presentation
- Mendelian Randomization Course to Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in workshop, seminar, course
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.
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Early-life circumstances and the risk of function-limiting long-term conditions in later life
In:
Longitudinal and Life Course Studies
Contribution to journal › Article (Accepted/In press) -
Early-life predictors of retirement decisions and post-retirement health
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
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
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)
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)
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
Contribution to conference › Paper (Published) -
Childhood cognitive function and later-life economic activity.
Contribution to conference › Paper (Published) -
Same task rules, different responses : Goal neglect, stimulus-response mapping and response modalities
(6 pages)
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)
Book/Report › Book (Published)