Dr Robert French

(he/him)

2025

• Bartlett, S., French, R., O'Donovan, L., Huxley, K. and Whiffen, T. 2025. A-level science choices in Wales: patterns, predictors and possibilities. Presented at: ADR UK 2025, Cardiff, UK, 17-18 September 2025Conference Proceedings for ADR UK Conference 2025, Vol. 10. Vol. 4. Swansea University pp. 192., (10.23889/ijpds.v10i4.3224)
• Keating, J., Knight, C., Sandu, A. and French, R. 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., Keating, J., Huxley, K. and French, R. 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

• 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)
• 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), article number: e000521. (10.1136/bmjmed-2023-000521)
• French, R., Sariaslan, A., Larsson, H., Kneale, D. and Leckie, G. 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)

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), article number: e14908. (10.1111/dme.14908)

2021

• Kneale, D., Henley, J., Thomas, J. and French, R. 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

• 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)
• 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)
• 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)
• Oakley, N. J., Kneale, D., Mann, M., Hilliar, M., Dayan, C., Gregory, J. W. and French, R. 2020. Type 1 diabetes mellitus and educational attainment in childhood: a systematic review. BMJ Open 10(1), article number: 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, article number: 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

• 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), article number: e021893. (10.1136/bmjopen-2018-021893)
• 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)

2015

• Sindall, K., Sturgis, P., Steele, F., Leckie, G. and French, R. 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
• 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)
• 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)
• Leckie, G. and French, R. 2015. Three-Level Multilevel Models: MLwiN Practical. LEMMA VLE Module 11. University of Bristol.

2014

• Leckie, G., French, R., Charlton, C. and Browne, W. 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)