Health, Environment and Society

Human health and wellbeing are closely interlinked with the nature and quality of natural and built environments while socio-economic and cultural factors have a strong influence on disease burdens as well as on perceptions of and responses to health risks.

Image: An example of a drawing by a participant in Coen’s research on the role of the gym in gendering physical activity participation. See Coen, S. E., Rosenberg, M. W., and Davidson, J. 2018. “It’s gym, like g-y-m not J-i-m:” Exploring the role of place in the gendering of physical activity. Social Science & Medicine, 196, 29-26.

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Health, equity and environment

This work highlights the influence of social and material contexts on health outcomes, behaviours and equity and includes an emphasis on environmental as well as health-related injustices.

Recent publications

Coen, S.E. 2018. Connecting qualitative research on exercise and environment to public health agendas requires an equity lens. Health & Place. 53, 264-267
Davies, T. 2018. Toxic Space and Time: Slow Violence, Necropolitics, and Petrochemical Pollution. Annals of the American Association of Geographers. 1-17
Dhesi, S. Isakjee, A. and Davies, T. 2018. Public health in the Calais refugee camp: environment, health and exclusion. Critical Public Health. 28, 140-152
Jewitt, S. and Ryley, H. 2014. It’s a girl thing: Menstruation, school attendance, spatial mobility and wider gender inequalities in Kenya. Geoforum. 56, 137-147

Social, cultural, and environmental dimensions of health

This research explores the spatial dynamics of infectious disease along with intersections between cultural, socio-economic and environmental influences on health and health-related decisions.

Recent publications

Coen, S.E., Davidson, J. and Rosenberg, M.W. 2019. Towards a critical geography of physical activity: Emotions and the gendered boundary‐making of an everyday exercise environment. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers.
Sesan, T. Jewitt, S. Clifford, M. and Ray, C. 2018. Toilet training: what can the cookstove sector learn from improved sanitation promotion? International Journal of Environmental Health Research. 28, 667-682.
Morris, C., Helliwell, R. and Raman, S. 2016. Framing the Agricultural use of Antibiotics and Antimicrobial Resistance in UK National Newspapers and the Farming Press’ Journal of Rural Studies. 45, 43-53.
Smallman-Raynor, M. R. and Cliff, A.D, 2018. Atlas of Refugees, Displaced Populations and Epidemic Disease: Decoding Geographical Patterns and Processes since 1901. Oxford University Press

Health, Environment and Society

Health, equity and environment

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