Professor Ross Macmillan is the Professor of Sociology at the University of Limerick, Ireland.  He is a graduate of the University of Toronto, Queen s University Canada, and the University of Winnipeg. After a short lectureship at Queen s, he joined the faculty in Sociology at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities where he was an assistant professor and then associate professor with tenure. During this time, he undertook training in formal demography at Stanford University and was director of the graduate program in population studies. He then joined the faculty in Policy Analysis and Public Management (now Social and Political Sciences) at Bocconi University in Milan, Italy and was the director of the Dondena Centre for Research on Social Dynamics. Subsequent to this, he helped design the PhD in Public Policy and Administration before being appointed its inaugural director. A sociologist, demographer, and epidemiologist, his research has focused on crime and victimization, child development, family relationships, and the dynamics of health and well-being over the life course. Alone and in collaboration, his work has been funded by the Health Research Board of Ireland, the European Union, the European Research Council, the National Science Foundation (USA), the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development(USA), and the Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada.