Dr Andrew Bell
Sheffield Methods Institute
Senior Lecturer in Quantitative Social Sciences


+44 114 222 6065
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Sheffield Methods Institute
Interdisciplinary Centre of the Social Sciences (ICOSS)
219 Portobello
Sheffield
S1 4DP
- Profile
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Before moving to Sheffield, Andy was a lecturer at the University of Bristol, where he also completed his undergraduate degree (in Geography) and PhD (in Advanced Quantitative Methods). His current substantive research focuses on mental health from a life course perspective, but also spans a diverse range of other subject areas, including geography, political science, social epidemiology and economics. Methodologically, Andy’s interests are in the development and application of multilevel models, with work focusing on age-period-cohort analysis and fixed and random effects models.
- Research interests
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Multilevel modelling, longitudinal modelling, mental health and wellbeing, life course research, political science, social epidemiology
- Publications
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Books
Edited books
Journal articles
- Understanding the effect of universal credit on housing insecurity in England: a difference-in-differences approach. Housing Studies.
- Methods for disentangling period and cohort changes in mortality risk over the twentieth century: comparing graphical and modelling approaches. Quality and Quantity. View this article in WRRO
- Neighbourhood deprivation and intersectional inequalities in biomarkers of healthy ageing in England. Health and Place, 77. View this article in WRRO
- Revisiting the Effects of Organized Mammography Programs on Inequalities in Breast Screening Uptake: A Multilevel Analysis of Nationwide Data From 1997 to 2017. Frontiers in Public Health, 10. View this article in WRRO
- Can intersectionality help with understanding and tackling health inequalities? Perspectives of professional stakeholders. Health Research Policy and Systems, 19(1). View this article in WRRO
- Mapping intersectional inequalities in biomarkers of healthy ageing and chronic disease in older English adults. Scientific Reports, 10. View this article in WRRO
- Age period cohort analysis: a review of what we should and shouldn’t do. Annals of Human Biology, 47(2), 208-217. View this article in WRRO
- A survey of new PIs in the UK. eLife, 8, e46827. View this article in WRRO
- Using Shrinkage in Multilevel Models to Understand Intersectionality: A Simulation Study and a Guide for Best Practice. Methodology: European Journal of Research Methods for the Behavioral and Social Sciences, 15(2), 88-96. View this article in WRRO
- Fixed and random effects models: making an informed choice. Quality & Quantity, 53(2), 1051-1074. View this article in WRRO
- Cross‐Classified Multilevel Modelling of the Effectiveness of Similarity‐Based Virtual Screening. ChemMedChem, 13(6), 582-587. View this article in WRRO
- Understanding and misunderstanding group mean centering: a commentary on Kelley et al.’s dangerous practice. Quality and Quantity, 52(5), 2031-2036. View this article in WRRO
- The hierarchical age–period–cohort model: Why does it find the results that it finds?. Quality and Quantity, 52(2), 783-799. View this article in WRRO
- Urban geography and protest mobilization in Africa. Political Geography, 53, 54-64. View this article in WRRO
- Formula for success: Multilevel modelling of Formula One Driver and Constructor performance, 1950-2014. Journal of Quantitative Analysis in Sports, 12(2), 99-112. View this article in WRRO
- Should age-period-cohort analysts accept innovation without scrutiny? A response to Reither, Masters, Yang, Powers, Zheng and Land. Social Science & Medicine, 128, 331-333. View this article in WRRO
- Stylised fact or situated messiness? The diverse effects of increasing debt on national economic growth. Journal of Economic Geography, 15(2), 449-472. View this article in WRRO
- Bayesian informative priors with Yang and Land’s hierarchical age–period–cohort model. Quality & Quantity, 49(1), 255-266. View this article in WRRO
- Explaining Fixed Effects: Random Effects Modeling of Time-Series Cross-Sectional and Panel Data. Political Science Research & Methods, 3(1), 133-153. View this article in WRRO
- Life-course and cohort trajectories of mental health in the UK, 1991–2008 – A multilevel age–period–cohort analysis. Social science & medicine, 120, 21-30. View this article in WRRO
- Current practice in the modelling of age, period and cohort effects with panel data: a commentary on Tawfik et al. (2012), Clarke et al. (2009), and McCulloch (2012). Quality & Quantity, 48(4), 2089-2095. View this article in WRRO
- Another 'futile quest'? A simulation study of Yang and Land's Hierarchical Age-Period-Cohort model. Demographic Research, 30, 333-360. View this article in WRRO
- Don't birth cohorts matter? A commentary and simulation exercise on Reither, Hauser, and Yang's (2009) age–period–cohort study of obesity. Social Science & Medicine, 101, 176-180. View this article in WRRO
- The impossibility of separating age, period and cohort effects. Social Science & Medicine, 93, 163-165. View this article in WRRO
Chapters
- Multilevel models for age–period–cohort analysis In Bell A (Ed.), Age, Period and Cohort Effects: Statistical Analysis and the Identification Problem (pp. 23-40). Abingdon: Routledge. View this article in WRRO
- Age, Period and Cohort Processes in Longitudinal and Life Course Analysis: A Multilevel Perspective In Burton-Jeangros C, Cullati, S, Sacker A & Blane D (Ed.), A Life Course Perspective on Health Trajectories and Transitions (pp. 197-213). Springer View this article in WRRO
Website content
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rwqnC1fy_zc
- https://www.socialsciencespace.com/2020/01/making-sense-of-data-in-the-2019-general-election/
- https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-00933-0
- Using Longitudinal Multilevel Models to Investigate the Relationship Between Urbanization and Protest Mobilization in Africa. Sage Research Methods Case Studies. Retrieved from http://methods.sagepub.com/case/longitudinal-multilevel-models-urbanization-and-protest-mobilization-africa
- http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-41902914
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t0GuikebSNw
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rzzSEMNmxmI&list=PLfcfWl4oIvSRzF_bE8Snz2jqdYZX1CRKN&index=5
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S3aLo_rYBgQ&list=PLfcfWl4oIvSRzF_bE8Snz2jqdYZX1CRKN&index=4
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQLCWHww9OQ&list=PLfcfWl4oIvSRzF_bE8Snz2jqdYZX1CRKN&index=3
- https://about.futurelearn.com/blog/blue-monday-and-the-problem-of-junk-science/
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j0Cb5g-lx9g
- http://eprints.ncrm.ac.uk/3699/4/MethodsNewsAutumn2014.pdf
- http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandpolicy/debt-and-economic-growth-but-no-geography-a-cautionary-tale/
- http://www.bristol.ac.uk/media-library/sites/cmm/migrated/documents/12-mlwin-example.pdf
Preprints
- The life of P.I. Transitions to Independence in Academia. View this article in WRRO
- Period and cohort changes in mortality risk over the twentieth century in the UK: an exploratory analysis, Center for Open Science.
- Can intersectionality help with understanding and tackling health inequalities? Perspectives of professional stakeholders, Research Square Platform LLC.
- Can Intersectionality Help with Understanding and Tackling Health Inequalities? Perspectives of Professional Stakeholders, Research Square Platform LLC.
- Can Intersectionality Help with Understanding and Tackling Health Inequalities? Perspectives of Professional Stakeholders, Research Square Platform LLC.
- Can intersectionality help with understanding and tackling health inequalities? Perspectives of professional stakeholders, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory.