Digital garden
The Digital Garden is the umbrella and chronological front door to GeroStats. Every item has one clear home: Data Stories, Methods, the Knowledge Hub or Projects. It can also cross-link to related work in the other strands. Each item also has a status so readers know how developed it is.
A strategic first pass, annotated 2025 ELSA paper, CASP route and downloadable reading-note template for EndNote or Zotero.
Open the paper-appraisal guideAn annotated route from research question to documented search, screening decisions and a useful EndNote or Zotero shortlist.
Open the evidence-search guideA practical guide to why referencing matters, choosing EndNote or Zotero, and building a clean library from first paper to final audit.
Open the referencing guideOne synthetic older-adult cohort, seven linked analytical steps and equivalent Stata, SPSS and R syntax from description through regression and confounding.
Open the labA practical thinking and writing guide to sharpening the question, designing the evidence, building the argument and revising with purpose.
Open the thesis guidanceA practical route to the application forms, questionnaires, data documentation and key papers needed to plan a data request.
Open the data access guideA Newcastle Metro map story about deprivation, male and female life expectancy, and why local health inequality must change.
Read the storyA map of unpaid care-hours, deprivation, poor health and disability across Tyne and Wear.
Open the mapA methodological note on estimating healthy life expectancy from two cross-sectional snapshots.
Read the methodA practical collection of software first-contact guides, medical statistics, modelling, causal thinking and research practice.
Open the guideA practical introduction to the Stata interface, the do-file editor and the first commands every epidemiologist should know.
Read the Stata guideA project note on the geographic and economic forces shaping disability prevalence across England.
Read the project noteA teaching simulator for ageing, frailty, budgets, prevention and public health leadership under pressure.
Read about the simulator