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Tracking Persistent Symptoms in Scotland (TraPSS): a longitudinal prospective cohort study of COVID-19 recovery after mild acute infection (2025)
Journal Article

Background COVID-19 disease results in disparate responses between individuals and has led to the emergence of long coronavirus disease (Long-COVID), characterised by persistent and cyclical symptomology. To understand the complexity of Long-COVID, t... Read More about Tracking Persistent Symptoms in Scotland (TraPSS): a longitudinal prospective cohort study of COVID-19 recovery after mild acute infection.

Body-weight functional exercise promotes greater and safer blood glucose reduction compared to aerobic and strength exercises in type 1 diabetics: a randomised crossover study (2025)
Journal Article

Aims: Aerobic and strength exercises are commonly recommended for patients with type-1 diabetes (T1DM) but may not suit everyone. Body-weight functional exercise (BWFE) could offer an alternative for diabetes management. We aimed to compare blood glu... Read More about Body-weight functional exercise promotes greater and safer blood glucose reduction compared to aerobic and strength exercises in type 1 diabetics: a randomised crossover study.

COVID-19, Inequality and Older People: Developing Community-Centred Interventions (2021)
Journal Article

This paper considers the basis for a ‘community-centred’ response to COVID-19. It highlights the pressures on communities weakened by austerity, growing inequalities, and cuts to social infrastructure. This paper examines the disproportionate impact... Read More about COVID-19, Inequality and Older People: Developing Community-Centred Interventions.

Locked down by inequality: Older people and the COVID-19 pandemic (2021)
Journal Article

This paper develops the argument that post-COVID-19 recovery strategies need to focus on building back fairer cities and communities, and that this requires a strong embedding of ‘age-friendly’ principles to support marginalised groups of older peopl... Read More about Locked down by inequality: Older people and the COVID-19 pandemic.

Aging in the urban context (2024)
Book Chapter

Population aging is taking place across all countries of the world, raising major issues for the future direction of public policy. By 2050, one in six people in the world will be 65 and over (16 percent), up from one in 11 in 2019 (9 percent). Of eq... Read More about Aging in the urban context.