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I am a health geographer and work across the disciplines of geography and public health, with links to local government. My substantive interests are in food, diet and related health outcomes or behaviours. In particular, I lead research on household food insecurity/food poverty in the UK and food aid interventions.
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- Small-area estimation for policy analysis
Current research
Household food insecurity: This theme is consistent across several projects, from using secondary data to estimate household risk of food insecurity to exploring the interventions that have positive impacts for diet, mental health and food security such as the study.
Area-based risk measures: An additional area of research is food poverty risk and the provision of emergency food through food banks. Working with colleagues including Dr Claire Thompson (University of Hertfordshire), I developed a small-area risk index of food poverty in England. We are extending this work through further collaboration with external groups and this forms part of the research with Dr Nisreen Alwan, funded by NIHR ARC which includes the creation of refined area-based food and child poverty measures ().
Co-development of toolkits: As part of an ESRC Impact Acceleration Account award, I developed a website to facilitate mapping and sharing of spatial data for local government and third sector/civil society. This culminated in the launch of , devised in collaboration with Southampton City Council and Sustain, where the food poverty risk measures are published. A recent project in this theme using citizen science approaches is , which enables direct feedback between young adults and the city council regarding their local built environment. A recent project to develop a new toolkit which will support local government decision-making is Wessex , which I am leading with Dr Nisreen Alwan, funded by NIHR ARC Wessex.
Social and spatial health inequalities: My masters, doctoral and some postdoc research focused on the spatial analysis of food access and health outcomes, including the identification of 鈥榝ood deserts鈥: areas with poor access to healthy and affordable food. These previous studies have contributed to my primary research goal of facilitating a more widespread understanding of the measurable extent of social inequalities, with a focus on the basic needs of individuals. This aim is now reflected in much of my ongoing work using secondary data and newer methods of primary data collection, such as citizen science.
Small-area estimation for policy analysis: I use spatial microsimulation methods (Iterative Proportional Fitting) to create small-area estimates of health behaviours and outcomes, including common mental disorders, alcohol use, smoking behaviour and diet choices.
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