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  • 2005 - Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh

Overview

Allan Findlay is affiliated with the University of St Andrews in the United Kingdom and is recognized for their contributions to social sciences. Their research spans several subfields, including sociology and political science, as well as demography.

The scientist's work primarily addresses topics related to migration, aging, and tourism studies, migration and labor dynamics, intergenerational family dynamics and caregiving, and urban, neighborhood, and segregation studies.

Recent publications reflect a focus on demographic and geographical themes. Notable papers include:

  • Boomerang Behaviour and Emerging Adulthood: Moving Back to the Parental Home and the Parental Neighbourhood in Sweden (2020), published in the European Journal of Population / Revue européenne de Démographie
  • Professor Huw R Jones (1937-2023) (2024), published in the Scottish Geographical Journal
  • A. John Jowett (1939-2024) (2025), published in the Scottish Geographical Journal

Allan Findlay frequently publishes in the Scottish Geographical Journal and the European Journal of Population / Revue européenne de Démographie, with two contributions to the former and one to the latter.

Collaborations have included work with David McCollum, Katherine Keenan, Jenny Olofsson, Erika Sandow, and Gunnar Malmberg, indicating a network of coauthors engaged in related research areas.

Recognition for their work includes being awarded the title of Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 2005.

Best Publications

  • World class? An investigation of globalisation, difference and international student mobility

    Allan M Findlay;Russell King;Fiona M Smith;Alistair Geddes

  • Re-thinking residential mobility: Linking lives through time and space

    Rory Coulter;Maarten Van Ham;Allan MacKay Findlay

  • An Assessment of Supply and Demand-side Theorizations of International Student Mobility

    Allan M Findlay

  • Skilled International Migration and the Global City: A Study of Expatriates in Hong Kong

    A. M. Findlay;F. L. N. Li;A. J. Jowett;R. Skeldon

  • Ever Reluctant Europeans: The Changing Geographies of UK Students Studying and Working Abroad

    Allan Findlay;Russell King;Alexandra Stam;Enric Ruiz-Gelices

  • International student mobility literature review

    Russell King;Allan Findlay;Jill Ahrens

  • Does migration make you happy? A longitudinal study of internal migration and subjective well-being

    Beata Nowok;Maarten Van Ham;Allan MacKay Findlay;Vernon Gayle

  • Migration of Highly Skilled Persons From Developing Countries: Impact and Policy Responses

    Allan Findlay;B. Lindsay Lowell

  • The repopulation of rural Scotland: opportunity and threat

    Aileen Stockdale;Allan Findlay;David Short

  • Migrant destinations in an era of environmental change

    Allan M. Findlay

  • Indicators of Quality of Life: Some Methodological Issues

    R J Rogerson;A M Findlay;A S Morris;M G Coombes

  • Migrating to Learn and Learning to Migrate: A Study of the Experiences and Intentions of International Student Migrants

    F. L. N. Li;A. M. Findlay;A. J. Jowett;R. Skeldon

  • New Mobilities Across the Life Course: a Framework for Analysing Demographically Linked Drivers of Migration

    Allan MacKay Findlay;David McCollum;Rory Coulter;Vernon Gayle

  • International migration of highly-skilled manpower: theoretical and developmental issues.

    Salt J;Findlay A

  • Methodological Issues in Researching Migration

    Allan M. Findlay;F. L. N. Li

  • An auto-biographical approach to understanding migration: the case of Hong Kong emigrants

    A M Findlay;F L N Li

  • WILL ATTRACTING THE “CREATIVE CLASS” BOOST ECONOMIC GROWTH IN OLD INDUSTRIAL REGIONS? A CASE STUDY OF SCOTLAND

    Donald Houston;Allan Findlay;Richard Harrison;Colin Mason

  • The role of recruitment agencies in imagining and producing the ‘good’ migrant

    Allan Findlay;David McCollum;Sergei Shubin;Elina Apsite

  • A migration channels approach to the study of high level manpower movements: a theoretical perspective.

    A. Findlay

  • 'Flexible' workers for 'flexible' jobs? The labour market function of A8 migrant labour in the UK

    David McCollum;Allan MacKay Findlay

  • Global Production: The Apparel Industry in the Pacific Rim@@@Population, Migration, and the Changing World Order@@@The Economic Sociology of Immigration: Essays on Networks, Ethnicity, and Entrepreneurship

    Aristide R. Zolberg;Edna Bonacich;Lucie Cheng;Norma Chinchilla

Frequent Co-Authors

Maarten van Ham
Maarten van Ham Delft University of Technology
Russell King
Russell King University of Sussex
Ronald Skeldon
Ronald Skeldon University of Sussex
Clara H. Mulder
Clara H. Mulder University of Groningen
Kelvyn Jones
Kelvyn Jones University of Bristol
Terry Marsden
Terry Marsden Cardiff University
Susan J. Smith
Susan J. Smith University of Cambridge
Keith Richards
Keith Richards University of Cambridge
Kevin J. Edwards
Kevin J. Edwards University of Aberdeen
Peter Smith
Peter Smith University of Aberdeen

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