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Population, Health and Wellbeing (PHeW)

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Our group specialises in the spatial analysis of census and population data. We study geographical population trends and future population measurement systems.

About

Our research group works in areas like population modelling, population health cultures, and global practices of care and wellbeing. This helps us understand the different challenges facing people across the world. 
 
To support our insights into care for vulnerable and marginalised groups, we have hosted the WorldPop Project. This provides spatial demographic data to support development, health and disaster response applications. 

We work alongside GeoData - an enterprise group that researches social and environmental challenges. We focus on areas like food and water security, poverty alleviation and climate change adaptation.  
 
Some of our recent projects have explored: 

  • livestock's threat to human health through contact with drinking water 
  • disproportionate access to vaccination against disease 
  • how to provide clean, affordable water to those in need 

 
By working with major social survey companies, national statistical organisations and health organisations, we've developed expertise in geographical referencing, catchment definition, zone design and policy analysis. 

We also do consultancy work for organisations in social statistics, health and welfare across the public and private sectors. 

Research highlights

People, projects and publications

People

Professor Andrew Power

Professor

Research interests

  • Support provision for disabled people including models of direct payments and personal budgets, peer-support and residential care.
  • Relational geographies of the voluntary sector particularly within the social care landscape
  • Family caregiving - interdependency between care givers and recipients 

Accepting applications from PhD students

Connect with Andrew

Email: a.power@soton.ac.uk

Address: B44, West Highfield Campus, University Road, SO17 1BJ (View in Google Maps)

Professor David Martin

Professor of Geography

Connect with David

Email: d.j.martin@soton.ac.uk

Address: B44, West Highfield Campus, University Road, SO17 1BJ (View in Google Maps)

Dr Dianna Smith

Associate Professor

Research interests

  • Social and spatial health inequalities

Accepting applications from PhD students

Connect with Dianna

Email: d.m.smith@soton.ac.uk

Address: B44, West Highfield Campus, University Road, SO17 1BJ (View in Google Maps)

Dr Edson Utazi

Lecturer

Accepting applications from PhD students

Connect with Edson

Email: c.e.utazi@soton.ac.uk

Address: B39, West Highfield Campus, University Road, SO17 1BJ (View in Google Maps)

Dr Eleanor Wilkinson

Associate Professor

Research interests

  • Affect and emotion
  • Feminist and queer theory 
  • Housing and home

Accepting applications from PhD students

Connect with Eleanor

Email: e.k.wilkinson@soton.ac.uk

Address: B44, West Highfield Campus, University Road, SO17 1BJ (View in Google Maps)

Dr Elizabeth Taylor

Research Fellow

Connect with Elizabeth

Email: e.taylor@soton.ac.uk

Address: B44, West Highfield Campus, University Road, SO17 1BJ (View in Google Maps)

Professor Emma Roe

Professor of More-Than-Human Geographies

Accepting applications from PhD students

Connect with Emma

Email: e.j.roe@soton.ac.uk

Address: B44, West Highfield Campus, University Road, SO17 1BJ (View in Google Maps)

Dr Farouk Umar

Research Fellow

Connect with Farouk

Professor Jim Wright

Professor in GIS & Int Development

Research interests

  • Safe water access and public health in Sub-Saharan Africa
  • Environmental applications of GIS
  • Geospatial analysis for public health, particularly via routine health management information systems

Accepting applications from PhD students

Connect with Jim

Email: j.a.wright@soton.ac.uk

Address: B44, West Highfield Campus, University Road, SO17 1BJ (View in Google Maps)

Dr Ortis Yankey

Research Fellow

Research interests

  • Population Modelling
  • Spatial Epidemiology
  • Health/Medical geography

Connect with Ortis

Email: o.yankey@soton.ac.uk

Address: B37, East Highfield Campus, University Road, SO17 1BJ (View in Google Maps)

I help develop innovative methods for high-resolution mapping of populations in countries with limited or no census data.
Enterprise Fellow GRID3 programme
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