Dr Sheelah Connolly

Sheelah Connolly completed an undergraduate degree in Economics at the National University of Ireland Galway, a Masters degree in Health Economics at the University of York, and a PhD in Public Health at Queen’s University Belfast (QUB).  Sheelah has worked as a lecturer in Economics at NUIG and QUB, and a Research Fellow in the Centre for Public Health, QUB. She was a visiting researcher to the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine in 2008.  Sheelah is currently employed as a Research Fellow at the Irish Centre for Social Gerontology

Sheelah’s research interests lie in the area of the social and socio-economic determinants of health, the measurement of socio-economic status in older populations and the economics of ageing. She has extensive experience in the analysis of longitudinal data, having worked on the England and Wales Longitudinal Study and the Northern Ireland Longitudinal Study for a number of years. She recently completed a project funded by the Nuffield Trust looking at the impact of devolution on the health care systems of the UK. Sheelah is currently involved in a number of projects including an assessment of volunteerism in the Third Age, the development of a model to predict the demand for Long Term care in the North and South of Ireland and an assessment of the impact of income inequality at the small area level on health.