Staff
NILS-RSU Team
Director
Dr Ian Shuttleworth
Email: i.shuttleworth@qub.ac.uk
Tel: 028 9097 3359
A graduate of the University of Leicester and Trinity College Dublin, Ian Shuttleworth has worked in Northern Ireland since 1990. He was appointed to a lectureship in Human Geography in QUB in 1993 and since 2004 has been a senior lecturer. During his career he has conducted a wide range of research on topics ranging from education to segregation, and he has published over 35 journal articles and book chapters. His current research interests include spatial mobility in the labour market, migration, residential segregation, and census analysis. He is currently Director of the NILS-RSU and is also a member of the NI Census Advisory Group and the ESRC Census Advisory Committee.
Research Support Officers
Michael Rosato
Email: m.rosato@qub.ac.uk
Tel: 028 9082 8210
Michael Rosato has had extensive experience in data management, study management, software development and epidemiological research. He has worked with the Office for National Statistics-Longitudinal Study both as facilitator and as researcher, and was lucky enough to work with Professors John Fox and Peter Goldblatt in its early phases. He has worked with the NILS-RSU for more than two years - for a list of relevant publications, see the appropriate section of this web-site. He has a Bachelors Degree in Sociology and Government from Brunel University; post-graduate diplomas in Computer Science from both City University (London) and Queen's University Belfast (QUB); and a Masters Degree in Medical Demography from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. For his sins he is currently completing a PhD (part-time) in Epidemiology at QUB. He also has research interests outside of the NILS-RSU and currently has active collaborations with both researchers from the Medical Research Council Social and Public Health Sciences Unit (SPHSU, Glasgow), and the EU funded MEHO project (Migrant and Ethnic Minority Health Observatory). Other interests include all good music, France, and books (at the moment - accessible science and detective fiction from Europe). He thinks Bob Dylan should get the Nobel Prize for literature, and hopes to do something interesting when he finishes the PhD.
Fiona Johnston
Email: fiona.johnston@dfpni.gov.uk
Tel: 028 9034 8138
Fiona Johnston is a NISRA Statistician who has been seconded to work with the NILS-RSU to assist government researchers and to undertake exemplar public policy research on the NILS and the NIMS. Fiona has a Bachelors Degree in Sociology and Politics from Queen's University Belfast, a Masters Degree in Sociology from the University of Leeds and a Postgraduate Diploma in Statistics from Trinity College Dublin. She is currently involved in a number of NILS-related projects under the broad themes of demography, inequality and health including community background and fertility, demographic determinants of antibiotic useage, educational attainment, health and socio-demographic status by occupational group and vital events standard outputs.
Placement Student
Fintan Mc Nally
Email: fintan.mcnally@dfpni.gov.uk
Tel: 028 90348199
Fintan Mc Nally is an IT placement student studying CIT at Queen's University. He will be spending a year with NILS to gain experience related to his course. Interests include rock & roll and blues. He thinks Jim Morrison should get a posthumous Nobel Prize for literature.
NILS-Core Team
NILS-Core is a small team of 5 NISRA staff who are responsible for the creation, maintenance, development and use of the NILS. The team is made up of 1 deputy principal statistician, 1 assistant statistician, 1 IT placement student and 2 admin support staff. The NILS-Core is part of NISRA’s Demography and Methodology Branch who report to the Head of Demography (Dr David Marshall) and ultimately to the NISRA Chief Executive and Registrar General for Northern Ireland (Dr Norman Caven).
The work of the NILS-Core includes:
• all tasks relating to the update, maintenance and development of the NILS such as requesting data from data suppliers, developing and implementing the matching processes, completing all automated and manual matching and producing regular updates of Core NILS Data to the NILS-RSU;
• responsibility for the NILS network including all aspects of security of the NILS. This includes all IT equipment, software etc including the maintenance of the NILS servers and the management of Audit database. Permitting access for NILS User to the network through the creation of the user names & project folders;
• ensuring the security of data during linkage process for Distinct Linkage Projects and liaison with ORECNI and PAC;
• development of NILS-related policies (disclosure, licence, security, RAG); and
• management of NILS Steering Group and NILS Research Approvals Group (RAG), managing NILS RAG forms and forwarding copies of final outputs to NILS RAG.
In addition the NILS-Core work closely with the NILS-RSU on:
• the development of Distinct Linkage Projects to ensure legal, ethical and RAG issues are all addressed;
• NILS documentation including working papers and support the NILS-RSU with the maintenance & development of the Data Dictionary;
• Transfer of Intermediate Outputs to Researchers; and
• Promotion of NILS.