Enrico Pfeifer
enrico-ucl.bsky.social
Enrico Pfeifer
@enrico-ucl.bsky.social
PHD Candidate in Lifecourse and Social Epidemiology, unpaid carer, registered nurse, interested in research in care-related topics and health inequalities
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There are a few more days to apply. Closes on Weds 4th June
June 1, 2025 at 3:58 PM
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I am hiring for a new researchers on my @nuffieldfoundation.org young carers project.
Closes 4thJune. After someone with strong quant longitudinal skills, passion for communicating research beyond academia & wants to work with people w lived experience/other sectors
jobs.sgul.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...
Job Opportunity at St George's University of London: Research Fellow in Social Epidemiology
The Research Fellow will investigate young carers and health inequalities using advanced longitudinal quantitative methods. Responsibilities include data analysis, literature reviews, publishing findi...
jobs.sgul.ac.uk
May 16, 2025 at 1:10 PM
‘Nobody found him in time’: how neglect and stress led to the deaths of a full-time carer and his son - The Guardian
March 24, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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New blog post! In which I explain the issue with mediation analysis and sketch out one way to deal with the underlying causal inference problem -- in just a bit over 1,000 words!

If you have never found the time to read up on this, now is your chance.

www.the100.ci/2025/03/20/r...
Reviewer notes: That’s a very nice mediation analysis you have there. It would be a shame if something happened to it.
Mediation analysis has gotten a lot of flak, including classic titles such as “Yes, but what’s the mechanism? (Don’t expect an easy answer)” (Bullock et al., 2010), “What mediation analysis can (not) ...
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March 20, 2025 at 1:40 PM
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New 3.5yr PhD opportunity at UCL with @equalise.bsky.social supervised by myself, @yvonne-kelly.bsky.social, @baowenxue.bsky.social & @profkatsmith.bsky.social on inequalities in pathways to employment in young people. Closes 25th Feb
www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
UCL – University College London
UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).
www.ucl.ac.uk
January 30, 2025 at 10:03 AM
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Our work published today shows the psychological distress associated with combining care of both the younger and older generations with lead author @baowenxue.bsky.social and @rebeccalacey.bsky.social
January 7, 2025 at 7:44 AM
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Call for abstracts: Inaugural Sociology PhD Student Conference. Don’t miss this chance to submit an abstract, contribute to the conversation and connect with your fellow PhD students! shorturl.at/Hsw26
December 6, 2024 at 3:31 PM
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UCL researchers: participate in our Methods Beyond the Interview workshop (31.01.25). Methodological approaches will be work-shopped in small groups shorturl.at/EE9c7
December 10, 2024 at 3:12 PM
Saw Angela Merkel today talking about her book. I really miss her and reasonable politicians in general.
December 4, 2024 at 9:15 PM
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This work with Alejandra Letelier Rodríguez and @rebeccalacey.bsky.social suggests caring has become more common for young people since the pandemic. More awareness and support is required.
"As the landscape of young caring evolves in response to global health crises like COVID-19, it becomes imperative for policymakers and support systems to adapt and provide robust assistance to this vulnerable group." New paper/blog from ICLS colleagues bit.ly/3OzGhWM @ukri.org
Covid and young carers – a double whammy?
For some time there has been concern about the mental and physical health effects of being a young carer. Research has shown  these young people are more likely to come from lower income households…
childofourtimeblog.org.uk
December 4, 2024 at 9:48 AM
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This ~ 💯%
November 29, 2024 at 11:21 AM
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1/8 All countries in Europe face nursing shortages. The issue isn't so much training more, it's keeping those we have. Our new European Observatory policy brief asks what can be done (supported by Horizon Europe MAGNET4EUROPE project)
eurohealthobservatory.who.int/publications...
Strengthening Europe’s Nursing Workforce: Strategies for Retention
Policy Brief 66 by the European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies. The numbers of nurses (and the ratios of nurses to patients and to doctors) vary widely across Europe but there are shortage...
eurohealthobservatory.who.int
November 28, 2024 at 5:04 PM
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Depletion by Shirin Rai considers the hidden costs of care work, exposing its unequal gendered and racialised distribution across society.

Rai offers us a transformative feminist framework to reimagine care economies, writes Shalini Grover.

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Depletion: The Human Costs of Caring – review
Depletion by Shirin Rai considers the hidden costs of care work, exposing its unequal gendered and racialised distribution across society. Presenting depletion as an innovative way to conceptualise…
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November 27, 2024 at 4:02 PM
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We are a new ESRC funded centre led out of UCL but working with a multidisciplinary team of researchers at 4 other universities and an amazing group of #healthequity advocates - find out more www.ucl.ac.uk/epidemiology...
Equalise: ESRC Centre for Lifecourse Health Equity
A 5-year collaborative programme of research tackling and reducing health inequalities. NEW WEBSITE COMING SOON!
www.ucl.ac.uk
November 26, 2024 at 2:51 PM
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Interested in inequality research? Here is a starter pack containing research centers / institutes / organizations dedicated to the study of socioeconomic inequality.

Time seemed ripe as, finally, organizations are moving to Bluesky. Let me know if others should be added.

go.bsky.app/5daYr6v
November 26, 2024 at 1:08 PM
@yvonne-kelly.bsky.social welcome Yvonne! Finally a familiar face here ☺️
November 26, 2024 at 10:21 AM
Interested how unpaid caregibing shapes lives and health? Then vheck out my newest blog ☺️
www.powertopersuade.org.au/blog/unseen-...
Unseen Impact: How Unpaid Caregiving Shapes Health and Lives — Power to Persuade
Care-giving can be a rich and complex experience that is both rewarding and challenging. Enrico Pfeifer ( @EnricoPfeifer1 ), a PhD Candidate at the University College London, knows this fir...
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November 14, 2024 at 5:42 PM