Alice Goisis

Alice is Associate Professor of Demography in the Centre for Longitudinal Studies in the UCL Department of Social Science. Prior to joining CLS, Alice held posts at the London School of Economics and at the UCL Department of Epidemiology and Public Health.

Research Summary

Alice's research interests span a number of substantive areas in social demography and epidemiology. Her research has examined the association between advanced maternal age and child well-being, with a particular focus on whether and how it varies across different groups of the population and time periods. She is also interested in understanding the determinants of child obesity and other markers of health, including if they vary by ethnicity.

Alice is the PI on two projects: an ERC Starting Grant to study the effects of Medically Assisted Reproduction on children, adults and parents and an ESRC New Investigator Grant to study only children (families) in the UK.

Research areas

• Demographic and social determinants of health
• The effects of medically assisted reproduction on families
• Only children well-being
• Parental age effects on child outcomes

Publications

• Pelikh, A., Smith, K., Myrskylä, M. and Goisis, A. Medically Assisted Reproduction Treatment Types and Birth Outcomes: A Between-Family and Within-Family Analysis. Obstetrics & Gynecology (forthcoming)

• Goisis, A. and Myrskylä, M. Well-being of children born after medically assisted reproduction. Der Gynäkologe (in press)

• Keenan, K., Barclay K. and Goisis, A. Health outcomes of only children across the life course: An investigation using Swedish register data. Population Studies (forthcoming).

• Cozzani, M., Aradya, S. and Goisis, A. (2021) The cognitive development from childhood to adolescence of low birth weight children born after medical assisted reproduction – a UK longitudinal cohort study. International Journal of Epidemiology (in press)

• Tosi, M. and Goisis, A. (2021) Mental health around the transition to first birth: Does Medically Assisted Reproduction matter? Demography 58(4): 1347–1371

• Goisis, A. and Palma, M. (2021) Medically assisted reproduction and parent-child relationships during adolescence: Evidence from the UK Millennium Cohort Study Human Reproduction 36(3): 702–711

• Goisis, A., Håberg, S., Hanevik, H., Magnus, M.C., Kravdal Ø. (2020). The demographics of assisted reproductive technology births in a Nordic country Human Reproduction 35(6): 1441–1450

• Barbuscia, A., Martikainen, P., Remes, H., Somigliana, E., Myrskylä, M., Klemetti, R., Goisis, A. (2020). Maternal age and risk of low birth weight and premature birth in children conceived through medically assisted reproduction. Evidence from Finnish population registers Human Reproduction 35(1):212–220

• Somigliana, E., Busnelli, A., Vigano’, P. Vegetti, W., Goisis, A., Vercellini, P. (2019) Is early initiation of infertility treatment justified in women over the age of 35 years?. Reproductive BioMedicine Online.

• Goisis, A., Melissa Martinson and Wendy Sigle (2019). When richer does not mean thinner:Ethnicity, socio-economic position and the risk of child obesity in the U.K. Demographic Research 41 (23): 648-678

• Sigle, W. and Goisis, A. (2019) Mind the Gap: The Health Advantages that Accompany Parental Marriage Vary by Maternal Nativity Population Studies 73(3):369-386

• Einiö E., Goisis, A. and Myrskylä, M. (2019) Is the relationship between men’s age at first birth and midlife health changing? Evidence from two British cohorts SSM – Population Health Volume 8 (2019) 100458

• Goisis Alice, Berkay Özcan, and Philippe Van Kerm (2019)Do Children Carry the Weight of Divorce? Demography 56(3): 785–811

• Goisis, A. and Remes, Hanna and Martikainen, Pekka and Klemetti, Reija and Myrskylä, Mikko (2019) Medically assisted reproduction and birth outcomes: a within-family analysis using Finnish Population Registers The Lancet.

• Barbuscia, A, M. Myrskylä and Goisis A. The psychosocial health of children born after fertility treatments. Evidence from the UK Millennium Cohort Study SSM – Population Health 7 (2019) 100355

• Goisis, A., Remes, H., Barclay, K. Martikainen, P., Myrskylä, M. (2018) Paternal age and the risk of low birth weight and preterm delivery: a Finnish register-based study Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health 72:1104-1109

• Goisis, A., Schneider, D. and Myrskylä, M. (2018) Secular changes in the association between advanced maternal age and the risk of low birth weight: a cross-cohort comparison in the UK Population Studies 72(3):381-397

• Myrskylä, M and Barclay, K and Goisis, A. (2017) Advantages of later motherhood Der Gynäkologe 50(10):767–772

• Goisis, A., Remes, H., Barclay, K. Martikainen, P., Myrskylä, M. (2017) Advanced maternal age and the risk of Low Birth Weight and Preterm Delivery: a within-family analysis using Finnish population registers American Journal of Epidemiology 186(11):1219–1226

• Mariani, E., Ozcan B., Goisis, A. (2017) Family trajectories and wellbeing of children born to lone mothers in the UK European Journal of Population 33(2):185–215

• Goisis, A., Schneider, D. and Myrskylä, M. (2017) The reversing association between advanced maternal age and child cognitive development: Evidence from three UK birth cohorts International Journal of Epidemiology 46(3):850–859

• Goisis, A., Ozcan, B. and M. Myrskylä. (2016) The negative association between low birth weight and cognitive ability is decreasing: evidence from three U.K. birth cohorts Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 114(1):84-88
  In March 2018, the paper has received an award to celebrate outstanding contributions to science of the 1958 Birth Cohort

• Kelly, Y., Goisis, A. et al. (2016) What influences 11-year-olds to drink? Findings from the Millennium Cohort Study BMC Public Health 16(169)

• Goisis, A., Sacker, A. and Kelly, Y. (2015) Why are poorer children at higher risk of obesity? Evidence from a U.K. cohort study European Journal of Public Health 26(1):7-13

• Goisis, A. (2015) How are children of older mothers doing? Evidence from the UK Journal of Biodemograhy and Social Biology 61(3): 231-251

• Goisis, A. and Sigle-Rushton,W. (2014) Childbearing postponement and child wellbeing: a complex and varied relationship? Demography 51(5): 1821-1841.

• Aassve, A., Arpino, B. and Goisis. A. (2012). Grand-parenting and mothers’ labour force participation: A comparative analysis using the Gender and Generation Survey Demographic Research 27(3): 53-84.

• Sigle-Rushton,W., Goisis, A. and Keizer, R. (2012). Fathers and Fatherhood in the European Union: data limitations, gaps in knowledge, and implications for evidence-based policy. In: Tamis-LeMonda, Catherine and Cabrera, Natasha, (eds.) Handbook of father involvement: multidisciplinary perspectives. Routledge Taylor and Francis Group.

• A.Aassve, Goisis, A. and Sironi, M. (2012). Happiness and Childbearing across EuropeSocial Indicators Research, 108(1): 65-86.

• F.C. Billari; A. Goisis; A.C. Liefbroer et al. (2010) Social age deadlines for the childbearing of women and men Human Reproduction 26(3): 616-622.