Niels BlomWe are delighted to announce Niels Blom as one of our Data Impact Fellows for 2023. In this post Niels shares a bit about his background, his current work and research and what he hopes to get out of the Fellows scheme.
About me
I am a Research Fellow at the Violence and Society Centre qatar rcs data at City, University of London, where I work as a core member of the UKPRP Violence, Health and Society (VISION) consortium. The consortium is a major 5 year investment by the UKRI/MRC aiming to use data to reduce violence and resulting health and social inequalities. Here, I investigate violence and abuse and its relationship with job loss, health, and wellbeing, with a particular focus on intimate partner violence and abuse. Additionally, I am responsible for a programme of work harmonising and integrating data from various surveys and administrative records regarding violence and abuse.
Before starting at City, I worked at the University of Bath where I investigated how the division of housework and employment between partners is related to one’s wages. Previously, I researched how couples’ relationship quality is associated with family formation, including marriage and childbearing decisions at the University of Southampton. I was awarded a PhD from Radboud University in the Netherlands in 2019 in which I investigated how economic inequalities within and between couples affected relationship quality.