Tom Emery

Tom Emery

Associate Professor

Erasmus University Rotterdam

Intro

I am Associate Professor at Erasmus University Rotterdam and the Deputy Director of ODISSEI (http://www.odissei-data.nl/), the Dutch National Infrastructure for Social Science, where I am responsible for the strategic development of the infrastructure and international collaborations. I’m deeply passionate about improving social science data and the infrastructure that is needed for its collection, processing and dissemination. I believe that the social sciences can help us understand and improve society, but to do so we must improve and diversify the data we use in social research. Because of this, I am a strong advocate of open science and the FAIR principles. I also conduct research on family sociology and demographic behaviour. Good demographic data is the vital basis for understanding all manner of social issues from changes in consumer trends through to assessing environmental impacts. You need to know how many people there are, and who they are.

I’m always keen to discuss my work and engage in new collaborations.

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Interests
  • Research Infrastructure
  • Computational Social Science
  • Intergenerational Relations
  • Open Science
  • FAIR Implementation
Education

  • MBA in Research Infrastructure Management, 2019

    University Milano-Bicocca

  • PhD in Social Policy, 2014

    University of Edinburgh

  • MSc in Social Policy Analysis, 2010

    KU Leuven

  • MA in Comparative Politics, 2008

    University of Essex

Featured Publications

January 2021
Fertility intentions during the pandemic
Fertility intentions during the pandemic

Using data from before and during the pandemic, we show that people are postponing their plans to have children and control over family planning has been affected by access to contraception.
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December 2020 The Palgrave Handbook of Family Policy, p511-532
Private Childcare and Employment Options
Private Childcare and Employment Options

I used geocoded data of respondents to estimate whether the proximity to childcare facilities effected mothers working hours and how this changed over time. The results showed that proximity matters suggesting the density of childcare provision was important in structuring individuals employment choices.
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December 2020 Demographic Research, 43 (50)
Evaluating interviewer manipulation in the new round of the Generations and Gender Survey
Evaluating interviewer manipulation in the new round of the Generations and Gender Survey

We analyze whether centralized fieldwork processes increase data quality in the collection of complex life histories in the GGP.
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Projects

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All Surveys Ageing Infra Social Policy Families
Application Programming Interfaces for Social Policy Analysis
In this project we have been converting existing social policy datasets into documented RESTful API’s that allow researchers to intergrate social policy data into wider social science research and beyond.
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Application Programming Interfaces for Social Policy Analysis
SSHOC
ocial Sciences & Humanities Open Cloud (SSHOC) is a project funded by the EU framework programme Horizon 2020 and unites 20 partner organisations and their 27 associates in developing the social sciences and humanities area of the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC). In SSHOC, I led tasks on the development of audio data collection in social surveys and the use of API’s to intergrate Social Policy data in surveys.
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Care, Retirement and Well-Being
As societies age, the well-being of the elderly becomes an important societal challenge. CREW builds an interdisciplinary team of researchers from six institutions in five countries (Spain, Italy, Netherlands, Belgium, Canada), to examine the interrelationships between care, work, health and wellbeing..
Care, Retirement and Well-Being
Comparative Study of Family Dynamics
This was a collaborative project with colleagues from Princeton, Oxford and Peking University to examine important dmeographic, economic and social changes taking place in both China and Europe. These challenges present the two regions with some common challenges, including rising economic inequality, heightened migration, regional imbalance and population ageing.
Comparative Study of Family Dynamics
SERISS
Synergies for Europe’s Research Infrastructures in the Social Sciences (SERISS) was a four-year project that aimed to strengthen and harmonise social science research across Europe. I represented the GGP and worked on the implementation of GDPR across Survey Infrastructures.
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Experience

 
 
 
 
 
Deputy Director
ODISSEI
Jun 2016 – Present Rotterdam
Responsible for the scientific and strategic development of the Dutch national Social Science Infrastructure.
 
 
 
 
 
Deputy Director
Generations and Gender Programme
Jun 2013 – Oct 2020 The Hague

Responsibilities include:

  • Fieldwork Coordination
  • Strategic Development
  • Grant Writing
  • Project Management

Grants

Co-Author - GGP ESFRI Roadmap Application
GGP Sep 2020
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Co-PI - Large Roadmap Investment Grant (€14.2m)
ODISSEI Jul 2020 – Dec 2024
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Co-PI - GGP - Evaluate, Plan, Initiate (€2m)
GGP Jan 2017 – Dec 2019
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Recent Publications

Tom Emery, Judith Koops (2021). Fertility intentions during the pandemic.

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Tom Emery (2020). Private Childcare and Employment Options. The Palgrave Handbook of Family Policy, p511-532.

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Eugenio Paglino, Tom Emery (2020). Evaluating interviewer manipulation in the new round of the Generations and Gender Survey. Demographic Research, 43 (50).

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Damiano Ucheddu, Anne Gauthier, Nardi Steverink, Tom Emery (2019). The pains and reliefs of the transitions into and out of spousal caregiving. Social Science & Medicine, 240.

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