Dr Robert French

(he/him)

2025

• Bartlett, S. et al. 2025. A-level science choices in Wales: patterns, predictors and possibilities. Presented at: ADR UK 2025 Cardiff, UK 17-18 September 2025. Conference Proceedings for ADR UK Conference 2025. Vol. 10.Vol. 4. Swansea University. , pp.192. (10.23889/ijpds.v10i4.3224)
• Keating, J. et al. 2025. What individual, family, and school factors influence the identification of special educational needs in Wales?. British Journal of Educational Psychology 95 (2), pp.530-550. (10.1111/bjep.12760)

2024

• Sandu, A. et al. 2024. Educational attainment dynamics in Wales: Insights through data linkage and geographically weighted regression. Presented at: International Population Data Linkage Conference Chicago, Illinois, USA 17 September 2024. Vol. 9.Vol. 5. Swansea University. (10.23889/ijpds.v9i5.2722)

2023

• French, R. et al. 2023. Estimating the importance of families in modeling educational achievement using linked Swedish administrative data. Journal of Research on Educational Effectiveness 16 (1), pp.106-133. (10.1080/19345747.2022.2054480)
• Kilpi, F. et al., 2023. Association between perinatal mortality and morbidity and customised and non-customised birthweight centiles in Denmark, Finland, Norway, Wales, and England: comparative, population based, record linkage study. BMJ Open 2 (1) e000521. (10.1136/bmjmed-2023-000521)
• Taylor, P. et al. 2023. Factors predicting long-term outcome and the need for surgery in Graves orbitopathy: Extended follow-up from the CIRTED trial. The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism 108 (10), pp.2615-2625. (10.1210/clinem/dgad084)

2022

• French, R. et al. 2022. Educational attainment and childhood-onset type 1 diabetes. Diabetes Care 45 (12), pp.2852–2861. (10.2337/dc21-0693)
• Taylor, P. N. et al. 2022. Prescribing costs of hypoglycaemic agents and associations with metabolic control in Wales; a national analysis of primary care data. Diabetic Medicine 39 (9) e14908. (10.1111/dme.14908)

2021

• Kneale, D. et al., 2021. Inequalities in older LGBT people's health and care needs in the United Kingdom: a systematic scoping review. Ageing and Society 41 (3), pp.493-515. (10.1017/S0144686X19001326)

2020

• Allen, L. A. et al. 2020. Pregnancy in teenagers diagnosed with type 1 diabetes mellitus in childhood: a national population based e-cohort study. Diabetologia 63 , pp.799-810. (10.1007/s00125-019-05063-w)
• Derakhshan, A. et al., 2020. Association of maternal thyroid function with birthweight: a systematic review and individual-participant data meta-analysis. Lancet Diabetes and Endocrinology 8 (6), pp.501-510. (10.1016/S2213-8587(20)30061-9)
• Kneale, D. , Thomas, J. and French, R. 2020. Inequalities in health and care among lesbian, gay and bisexual people aged 50 and over in the United Kingdom: a systematic review and meta-analysis of sources of individual participant data. Journals of Gerontology, Series B 75 (8), pp.1758-1771. (10.1093/geronb/gbaa071)
• Oakley, N. J. et al. 2020. Type 1 diabetes mellitus and educational attainment in childhood: a systematic review. BMJ Open 10 (1) e033215. (10.1136/bmjopen-2019-033215)

2019

• Kneale, D. et al., 2019. Conducting sexualities research: an outline of emergent issues and case studies from ten Wellcome-funded projects [version 1; peer review: 3 approved]. Wellcome Open Research 4 137. (10.12688/wellcomeopenres.15283.1)
• Okosieme, O. E. et al. 2019. Primary therapy of Graves' disease and cardiovascular morbidity and mortality: a linked-record cohort study. Lancet Diabetes and Endocrinology 7 (4), pp.278-287. (10.1016/S2213-8587(19)30059-2)

2018

• Kneale, D. and French, R. 2018. Examining life course trajectories of lesbian, gay and bisexual people in England - exploring convergence and divergence among a heterogeneous population of older people. Longitudinal and Life Course Studies 9 (2), pp.226-244. (10.14301/llcs.v9i2.425)
• Oakley, N. et al., 2018. The association between Type 1 diabetes mellitus and educational attainment in childhood: a systematic review protocol. BMJ Open 8 (8) e021893. (10.1136/bmjopen-2018-021893)

2015

• Feinstein, L. et al., 2015. Social class differences in early education. Longitudinal and Life Course Studies 6 (3), pp.331-376. (10.14301/llcs.v6i3.361)
• French, R. and Steele, F. 2015. Trajectories of functional disability for the elderly in Britain. Longitudinal and Life Course Studies 6 (3), pp.303-318. (10.14301/llcs.v6i3.317)
• Leckie, G. and French, R. 2015. Three-Level Multilevel Models: MLwiN Practical. LEMMA VLE Module 11. University of Bristol
• Sindall, K. et al., 2015. A reassessment of socio - economic gradients in child cognitive development using Growth Mixture Models. Working paper. NCRM. Available at: http://eprints.ncrm.ac.uk/3768.

2014

• Leckie, G. et al., 2014. Modeling heterogeneous variance-Covariance Components in Two-Level Models. Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics 39 (5), pp.307-332. (10.3102/1076998614546494)

2013

• Steele, F. , French, R. and Bartley, M. 2013. Adjusting for selection bias in longitudinal analyses using simultaneous equations modeling. Epidemiology 24 (5), pp.703-711. (10.1097/EDE.0b013e31829d2479)