Group Overview
Our methodological work on the spatial analysis and modelling of population includes automated zone design, spatiotemporal population modelling and synthetic estimation. We receive extensive funding from the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) and work closely with the Office for National Statistics (ONS), including development of census output areas for the 2001 and 2011 censuses and new workplace zones for the 2011 census. Prof David Martin is currently co-director of the ESRC’s UK Data Service, National Centre for Research Methods and Administrative Data Research Centre for England, the latter two both led from the Faculty of Social, Human and Mathematical Sciences at Southampton.
A second area of research within PHeW focuses on cultures, spaces and practices of care. Research In this vein approaches care through various conceptual and empirical concerns relating to how it is practiced, including: who does it and how and where it is done; as well as its successes, failures and limitations. These include considering care as ‘ethics in practice’ across (un)regulated spaces and relationships; contested concepts of care and welfare in both human contexts (as relating to children and people with disabilities and mental health issues); as well as animal contexts (in terms of farm spaces and practices of experimentation). We are also interested in the (in)visibilities of care work (such as within the voluntary sector, in families, and amongst animal technicians); as well as histories and futures of (redundant) care spaces. Finally, we are interested in exploring how ‘care worker subjectivities’ are constituted in spaces such as laboratories, farms, homes, childcare workplaces, and public space.
A central theme of our research is population health – the study of the health outcomes of population groups and the spatio-temporal distribution of health outcomes within these groups. A particular interest is the influence of the social, built and natural environment on population health. In examining environmental influences on population health, the group draws on our technical expertise in GIS, multi-level modelling, Bayesian geostatistics, automated zone design and spatio-temporal population modelling. The group focuses on both developed world issues (including non-communicable diseases and health-related behaviours) and developing country health concerns such as zoonotic diseases, safe drinking-water access and population and disease mapping. Professor Graham Moon founded and edits the journal Health and Place, the leading outlet for interdisciplinary social science research on health topics, and many of the group are also part of the Population Health university strategic research group.
Publications
Articles
- Buller, H., & Roe, E. J. (2014). Modifying and commodifying animal welfare: the economisation of layer chickens. Journal of Rural Studies, 33, 141-149. DOI: 10.1016/j.jrurstud.2013.01.005
- Pini, B., Mayes, R., & Boyer, K. (2013). “Scary” heterosexualities in a rural Australian mining town. Journal of Rural Studies, 32, 168-176. DOI: 10.1016/j.jrurstud.2013.06.002
- Martin, D., Cockings, S., & Harfoot, A. (2013). Development of a geographical framework for Census workplace data. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series A (Statistics in Society), 176(2), 585-602. DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-985X.2012.01054.x
- Cockings, S., Harfoot, A., Martin, D., & Hornby, D. (2013). Getting the foundations right: spatial building blocks for official population statistics. Environment and Planning A, 45(6), 1403-1420. DOI: 10.1068/a45276
- Power, A. (2013). Making space for belonging: critical reflections on the implementation of personalised adult social care under the veil of meaningful inclusion. Social Science & Medicine, 88, 68-75. DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2013.04.008
- Wardrop, N. A., Fèvre, E. M., Atkinson, P. M., & Welburn, S. C. (2013). The dispersal ecology of Rhodesian sleeping sickness following its introduction to a new area. PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 7(10), 2485. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0002485
- Boyer, K., Reimer, S., & Irvine, L. (2013). The nursery workspace, emotional labour, and contested understandings of commoditised childcare in the contemporary UK. Social & Cultural Geography, 14(5), 517-540. DOI: 10.1080/14649365.2012.710913
- Yang, H., Bain, R. E. S., Bartram, J., Gundry, S., Pedley, S., & Wright, J. A. (2013). Water safety and inequality in access to drinking-water between rich and poor households. Environmental Science and Technology Library, 47(3), 1222-1230. DOI: 10.1021/es303345p
- Bain, R., Gundry, S., Wright, J. A., Yang, H., Pedley, S., & Bartram, J. (2012). Accounting for water quality in monitoring access to safe drinking-water as part of the Millennium Development Goals: lessons from five countries. Bulletin of the World Health Organization, 90(3), 228-235A. DOI: 10.2471/BLT.11.094284
- Boyer, K. (2012). Affect, corporeality and the limits of belonging: breastfeeding in public in the contemporary UK. Health & Place, 18(3), 552-560. DOI: 10.1016/j.healthplace.2012.01.010
- Tatem, A. J., Hemelaar, J., Gray, R. R., & Salemi, M. (2012). Spatial accessibility and the spread of HIV-1 subtypes and recombinants. AIDS, 26(18), 2351-2360. DOI: 10.1097/QAD.0b013e328359a904
- Greenhough, B., & Roe, E. J. (2011). Ethics, space, and somatic sensibilities: comparing relationships between scientific researchers and their human and animal experimental subjects. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 29(1), 47-66. DOI: 10.1068/d17109
- Martin, D., Lloyd, C., & Shuttleworth, I. (2011). Evaluation of gridded population models using 2001 Northern Ireland Census data. Environment and Planning A, 43(8), 1965-1980. DOI: 10.1068/a43485
- Deverteuil, G. (2011). Evidence of gentrification-induced displacement among social services in London and Los Angeles. Urban Studies, 48(8), 1563-1580. DOI: 10.1177/0042098010379277
- Shuttleworth, I., Lloyd, C., & Martin, D. (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. DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-985X.2010.00647.x
- Cockings, S., Harfoot, A., Martin, D., & Hornby, D. (2011). Maintaining existing zoning systems using automated zone design techniques: methods for creating the 2011 Census output geographies for England and Wales. Environment and Planning A, 43(10), 2399-2418. DOI: 10.1068/a43601
- DeVerteuil, G. (2011). Survive but not thrive? Geographical strategies for avoiding absolute homelessness among immigrant communities. Social & Cultural Geography, 12(8), 929-945. DOI: 10.1080/14649365.2011.624279
- Wright, J. A., Yang, H., Walker, K., Pedley, S., Elliott, J., & Gundry, S. W. (2011). The H2S test versus standard indicator bacteria tests for faecal contamination of water: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Tropical Medicine & International Health, 17(1), 94-105. DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3156.2011.02887.x
- Roe, E., Buller, H., & Bull, J. (2011). The performance of farm animal assessment. Animal Welfare, 20(1), 69-78.
- Tatem, A. J., Smith, D. L., Gething, P. W., Kabaria, C. W., Snow, R. W., & Hay, S. I. (2010). Ranking of elimination feasibility between malaria-endemic countries. Lancet, 376(9752), 1579-1591. DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(10)61301-3