Dr Daniel Holman
BA, MSc, PhD
Department of Sociological Studies
Lecturer in Sociology and Public Health
(He/him)
+44 114 222 6417
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Department of Sociological Studies
Elmfield Building
Northumberland Road
Sheffield
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- Profile
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Dr. Daniel Holman’s research centres around social science perspectives on health and illness, especially with respect to health inequalities and ageing. He is Principal Investigator (Co-Investigators Professor Sarah Salway and Dr. Andy Bell) on a new ESRC project on intersectional inequalities in later life chronic disease (‘Chronic disease and healthy ageing at the intersections: social locations, biomarkers, and health practices’).
Daniel joined the department in November 2014 to work with Professor Alan Walker as a Research Associate. Daniel has since worked on a number of international ageing projects alongside Professor Walker: Mobilising the potential of active ageing in Europe (MoPAct), Social Innovation for Active and Healthy Ageing (SIforAGE), and most recently, Social inequalities in extending working lives of an ageing workforce (EXTEND), for which he is the Co-Investigator for the UK component. He has also worked with Professor Salway on the NIHR project Integrating attention to ethnicity and migration within applied public health and health inequalities research.
Prior to this, Daniel was a Research Associate at the University of Cambridge. He obtained his PhD in sociology in 2012 from the University of Essex, under the supervision of Professor Joan Busfield.
- Research interests
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Intersectionality, health inequalities and healthy ageing
I am interested in how intersectionality can inform understanding of inequalities, especially in ageing and health. I am Principal Investigator (Co-Investigators Prof. Sarah Salway and Dr. Andy Bell) on a new ESRC grant on this topic, specifically focussing on later life inequalities in chronic diseases (‘Chronic disease and healthy ageing at the intersections: social locations, biomarkers, and health practices’). This will analyse lifecourse determinants and biomarker outcomes.
Extending working lives
I am Co-Investigator on the ESRC funded project ‘EXTEND: Social inequalities in extending working lives of an ageing workforce’ which is considering the social inequalities that might result from extending working life policies. This has included work on inequalities resulting from changes to the state pension age, the role of chronic conditions in driving later life exit from employment, case studies in the social care sector, policy mapping, and the impact of working conditions on post-retirement health.
Social science, social determinants and public health
I have also conducted research on social science perspectives on public health, which has involved for example tracing the input of social science and sociological theory in health behaviour interventions. I am interested in social quality theory as a framework to investigate the social determinants of health. I also occasionally publish in the field of medicine, specifically on risk models and healthcare costs in relation to chronic diseases.
- Publications
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Journal articles
- Use of intersectionality theories in interventional health research in high-income countries: a systematic scoping review. The Lancet, 400, S58-S58.
- 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(1). View this article in WRRO
- Association between systolic blood pressure and cardiovascular inpatient cost moderated by peer-support intervention among adult patients with type 2 diabetes : a 2-cohort study. Canadian Journal of Diabetes.
- Challenges and practices in promoting (ageing) employees working career in the health care sector – case studies from Germany, Finland and the UK. BMC Health Services Research, 19(1). View this article in WRRO
- Educational inequalities in health after work exit : the role of work characteristics. BMC Public Health, 19(1). View this article in WRRO
- Learning from the experience of peer support facilitators and study nurses in diabetes peer support: a qualitative study. Chronic Illness. 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
- Chronic conditions as predictor of later life disability employment exit: a gendered analysis. Occupational and Environmental Medicine. View this article in WRRO
- Derivation and external validation of risk algorithms for cerebrovascular (re)hospitalisation in patients with type 2 diabetes: Two cohorts study. Diabetes Research and Clinical Practice, 144, 74-81. View this article in WRRO
- Total/high density lipoprotein cholesterol and cardiovascular disease (re)hospitalization nadir in type 2 diabetes. Journal of Lipid Research, 59(9), 1745-1750. View this article in WRRO
- Inequalities in women's awareness of changes to the State Pension Age in England and the role of cognitive ability. Ageing & Society. View this article in WRRO
- Social Quality and Health: Examining Individual and Neighbourhood Contextual Effects Using a Multilevel Modelling Approach. Social Indicators Research, 138(1), 245-270. View this article in WRRO
- Impact of peer support on inpatient and outpatient payments among people with Type 2 diabetes : a prospective cohort study. Diabetic Medicine, 35(6), 789-797. View this article in WRRO
- Development and external validation of risk scores for cardiovascular hospitalization and rehospitalization in patients with diabetes. The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism, 103(3), 1122-1129. View this article in WRRO
- Shirt sponsorship by gambling companies in the English and Scottish Premier Leagues: global reach and public health concerns. Soccer and Society. View this article in WRRO
- Can peer support be cost saving? An economic evaluation of RAPSID: a randomized controlled trial of peer support in diabetes compared to usual care alone in East of England communities. BMJ Open Diabetes Research and Care, 5(1). View this article in WRRO
- How do health behaviour interventions take account of social context? A literature trend and co-citation analysis. Health: An Interdisciplinary Journal for the Social Study of Health, Illness and Medicine. View this article in WRRO
- Applying social theory to understand health-related behaviours. Medical Humanities, 42(2), 143-145. View this article in WRRO
- Exploring the relationship between social class, mental illness stigma and mental health literacy using British national survey data. Health: An Interdisciplinary Journal for the Social Study of Health, Illness and Medicine, 19(4), 413-429.
- Class dis-identification, cultural stereotypes, and music preferences: Experimental evidence from the UK. Poetics, 50, 44-61. View this article in WRRO
- ‘What help can you get talking to somebody?’ Explaining class differences in the use of talking treatments. Sociology of Health & Illness, 36(4), 531-548.
- Understanding unequal ageing: towards a synthesis of intersectionality and life course analyses. European Journal of Ageing.
- Transforming the health system for the UK’s multiethnic population. BMJ, m268-m268.
- Impact of Community Based Peer Support in Type 2 Diabetes: A Cluster Randomised Controlled Trial of Individual and/or Group Approaches. PLOS ONE, 10(3), e0120277-e0120277. View this article in WRRO
- Educational differences in the influence of health on early work exit among older workers. Occupational and Environmental Medicine. View this article in WRRO
Preprints
- Can intersectionality help with understanding and tackling health inequalities? Perspectives of professional stakeholders.
- Can Intersectionality Help with Understanding and Tackling Health Inequalities? Perspectives of Professional Stakeholders.
- 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.
- Use of intersectionality theories in interventional health research in high-income countries: a systematic scoping review. The Lancet, 400, S58-S58.