Geography and Environment

Research Group: Population, Health and Wellbeing (PHeW)

Our research focuses on contemporary issues in population, health and wellbeing, drawing on technical excellence in geographic information systems (GIS), spatial analysis and qualitative methods.

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Group Overview

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We are internationally recognised for our innovative approaches in both environmental and social aspects of population, health and wellbeing. We have an excellent resource base through the hardware, software and skilled staff of the GeoComputation laboratory and GeoData Institute.

We collaborate extensively with public health specialists, epidemiologists and other social scientists, both at Southampton and elsewhere, nationally and internationally.

Professor David Martin directs the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC)’s census programme and co-directs the ESRC National Centre for Research Methods while Professor Graham Moon founded the journal Health and Place, the leading outlet for interdisciplinary social science research on health topics. Other members of the group have ongoing advisory roles with UK and overseas governments as well as international agencies.

Publications

Selected publications associated with this group from the University of Southampton's electronic library (e-prints):

Article

Shuttleworth, Ian, Lloyd, Chris and Martin, David (2011) Exploring the implications of changing census output geographies for the measurement of residential segregation: the example of Northern Ireland 1991-2001. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series A (Statistics in Society), 174, (1), 1-16.
Yang, Hong, Flower, Roger and Battarbee, Richard (2010) An improved coverslip method for investigating epipelic diatoms. European Journal of Phycology, 45, (2), 191-199. (doi:10.1080/09670260903518439).
Reese, Ellen, DeVerteuil, Geoffrey and Thach, Leanne (2010) 'Weak Center' gentrification and the contradictions of containment: deconcentrating poverty in Downtown Los Angeles. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 34, (2), 310-327. (doi:10.1111/j.1468-2427.2010.00900.x).
Deverteuil, Geoffrey and Wilson, Kathi (2010) Reconciling indigenous need with the urban welfare state? Evidence of culturally-appropriate services and spaces for Aboriginals in Winnipeg, Canada. Geoforum, 41, (3), 498-507. (doi:10.1016/j.geoforum.2010.01.004).
Turnbull, Joanne, Pope, Catherine, Martin, David and Lattimer, Valerie (2010) Do telephones overcome geographical barriers to general practice out-of-hours services? Mixed methods study of parents with young children. Journal of Health Services Research and Policy, 15, (1), 21-27. (doi:10.1258/jhsrp.2009.009023). (PMID:19843639).
Deverteuil, Geoffrey and Wilton, Robert (2010) Spaces of abeyance, care and survival: the addiction treatment system as a site of ‘regulatory richness’. Political Geography, 28, (8), 463-472. (doi:10.1016/j.polgeo.2009.11.002).
Riches, K., Acton, M., Moon, G. and Ginns, H. (2010) Measuring resilience in childhood using data from the Tellus surveys. Research, Policy and Planning (In Press).
Moon, Graham, Barnett, R. and Pearce, J. (2010) Ethnic spatial segregation and tobacco consumption: a multi-level repeated cross-sectional analysis of smoking prevalence in urban New Zealand, 1981-1996. Environment and Planning A, 42, 469-489.
Martin, David (2010) Review. "Planning the night-time city" by M Roberts and A Eldridge. Environment and Planning B: Planning and Design, 37, (3), 571-572. (doi:10.1068/b3703rvw).
Cockings, Samantha, Harfoot, Andrew and Hornby, Duncan (2009) Towards 2011 output geographies: exploring the need for, and challenges involved in, maintenance of the 2001 output geographies. Population Trends, 138, (Winter), 38-49.
Barnett, Ross, Pearce, Jamie, Moon, Graham, Elliott, John and Barnett, Pauline (2009) Assessing the effects of the introduction of the New Zealand Smokefree Environment Act 2003 on Acute Myocardial Infarction hospital admissions in Christchurch, New Zealand. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health, 33, (6), 515-520. (doi:10.1111/j.1753-6405.2009.00446.x).
Wright, Jim, Treves, Richard and Martin, David (2009) Challenges in the reuse of learning materials: technical lessons from the delivery of an online GIS MSc module. Journal of Geography in Higher Education, 33, (S1), S78-S87. (doi:10.1080/03098260903034061).
Yang, Hong, Flower, Roger J. and Battarbee, Richard W. (2009) Influence of environmental and spatial variables on the distribution of surface sediment diatoms in an upland loch, Scotland. Acta Botanica Croatica, 68, (2), 367-380.
Martin, David and Wright, James A. (2009) Disease prevalence in the English population: a comparison of primary care registers and prevalence models. Social Science & Medicine, 68, (2), 266-274. (doi:10.1016/j.socscimed.2008.10.021).
Wright, Jim and Gundry, Stephen W. (2009) Household characteristics associated with home water treatment: an analysis of the Egyptian Demographic and Health Survey. Journal of Water and Health, 7, (1), 21-29. (doi:10.2166/wh.2009.056).
England, Kim and Boyer, L.K. (2009) Women's work: the feminization and shifting meanings of clerical work. Journal of Social History, 43, (2), Winter Issue, 307-340. (doi:10.1353/jsh.0.0284).
Boyer, Kate and England, Kim (2008) Gender, work and technology in the information workplace from Remington to the ATM. Social and Cultural Geography, 9, (3), 241-256. (doi:10.1080/14649360801990462).
Dunn, Christine E., Bhopal, Raj S., Cockings, Samantha, Walker, David, Rowlingson, Barry and Diggle, Peter (2007) Advancing insights into methods for studying environment-health relationships: a multidisciplinary approach to understanding Legionnaires’ disease. Health & Place, 13, (3), 677-690. (doi:10.1016/j.healthplace.2006.10.003).
Martin, David and Treves, Richard (2007) Embedding e-learning in geographical practice. British Journal of Educational Technology, 38, (5), 773-783. (doi:10.1111/j.1467-8535.2007.00759.x).
Fill, Karen, Leung, Samuel, DiBiase, David and Nelson, Andy (2006) Repurposing a learning activity on academic integrity: the experience of three universities. Journal of Interactive Media in Education, (2006/01), 1-12.
Wright, Jim, Martin, David, Cockings, Samantha and Polack, Clare (2006) Overall QOF scores lower in practices in deprived areas. British Journal of General Practice, 56, (525), 277-279. (PMID:1832235).
Boyer, Kate (2006) Reform and resistance: a consideration of space, scale and strategy in legal challenges to welfare reform. Antipode, 38, (1), 22-40. (doi:10.1111/j.0066-4812.2006.00563.x).
Yang, Hong, Xie, Ping, Xing, Yangping, Ni, Leyi and Guo, Hongtao (2005) Attenuation of photosynthetically available radiation by chlorophyll, chromophoric dissolved organic matter, and tripton in lake Donghu, China. Journal of Freshwater Ecology, 20, 575-581.

Book Section

Cockings, Samantha, Martin, David and Leung, Samuel (2010) Population 24/7: building space-time specific population surface models. In, Hakley, M., Morley, J. and Rahemtulla, H. (eds.) Proceedings of the GIS Research UK 18th Annual Conference GISRUK 2010. London, University College London, 41-48.
Boyer, Kate (2010) A feminist technology, or (yet) "More Work for Mother"? In, Layne, Linda, Vostral, Sharra and Boyer, Kate (eds.) Feminist Technology. , University of Ilinois Press, 119-135. (Women, Gender, and Technology).
Martin, David (2009) Census mapping. In, Kitchin, Rob and Thrift, Nigel (eds.) International Encyclopedia of Human Geography. Kidlington, UK, Elsevier, 12-17. (doi:10.1016/B978-008044910-4.00013-4).
Moon, Graham (2009) Health geography. In, Kitchin, Rob and Thrift, Nigel (eds.) International Encyclopedia of Human Geography. Oxford, UK, Elsevier, 35-55. (doi:10.1016/B978-008044910-4.00338-2).
Deverteuil, Geoffrey (2009) Inequality. In, Kitchen, Robert and Thrift, Nigel (eds.) International Encyclopedia of Human Geography. Kidlington, UK, Elsevier, 433-445. (doi:10.1016/B978-008044910-4.00963-9).
Leung, Samuel, Martin, David, Treves, Richard and Duke-Williams, Oliver (2008) Exchanging e-learning materials, modules and students. In, Rees, Philip, Mackay, Louise, Martin, David and Durham, Helen (eds.) E-Learning for Geographers: Online Materials, Resources, and Repositories. Hershey, USA, Information Science Reference, 20-37.

Staff

Members of staff associated with this group: