Dr Bethan Thomas

Bethan Thomas

Room number:	F8
Telephone (internal):	27962
Telephone (UK):	0114 222 7962
Telephone (International):	+44 114 222 7962
Email:	B.S.Thomas@Sheffield.ac.uk

Bethan Thomas has a BA in Contemporary East European Studies from the School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University of London (1995) and an MSc in Geographic and Geodetic Information Systems from UCL (1997). She completed her PhD in Geography (The Visualisation of Flow Data: from UK Telephone Calls to a General Method) at the University of Leeds in 2004.

From 2002-2003 Bethan was a research officer at the University of Leeds working on a project (sponsored by the Welsh Assembly) with colleagues on the microsimulation of the population of Wales.

Since 2003 Bethan has been a researcher at the University of Sheffield.

Research Interests

Bethan's research interests include the social geography of Great Britain, social and health inequalities and visualisation methods. She is a member of the SASI research group within the department and part of her job includes managing its extensive data collection.

Current research

Bethan is currently researching changes in mortality by causes of death from 1981 to the current day.

Key Publications

Books and Reports

Thomas, B. (2012). Homelessness kills: an analysis of the mortality of homeless people in early twenty-first century England. Report commissioned by Crisis.
Dorling, D. and Thomas, B. (2011). Bankrupt Britain: An atlas of social change, Policy Press, Bristol
Thomas, B., Pritchard, J., Ballas, D., Vickers, D. and Dorling, D. (2009). A Tale of Two Cities: The Sheffield Project, report commissioned by David Blunkett MP
Shaw, M., Thomas, B. , Davey Smith, G., and Dorling, D., (October 2008). The Grim Reaper's road map: An atlas of mortality in Britain , Bristol : Policy Press.
Dorling, D., Vickers, D., Pritchard, J., Thomas, B. and Ballas, D., (2008). Changing UK: the way we live now, report commissioned for the BBC.
Thomas, B. and Dorling D., (2007) Identity in Britain : A cradle-to-grave atlas , Bristol : Policy Press
Dorling, D., Rigby, J., Wheeler, B., Ballas, D., Thomas, B ., Fahmy, E., Gordon, D., and Lupton, R., (2007). Poverty, wealth and place in Britain, 1968 to 2005 , Bristol: Policy Press.

Book Chapter

Dorling, D. and Thomas, B. (2009). Geographical inequalities in health over the last Century. In: Graham, H. (ed.) Understanding Health Inequalities. Open University Press, Maidenhead.

Journal articles

Gunnell, D., Wheeler, B., Chang, S-S., Thomas, B., Sterne, J. A. C. and Dorling, D. (2012). Changes in the geography of suicide in young men: England and Wales 1981-2005. Journal of Epidemiological Community Health, 66(6), 536-543.
doi:10.1136/jech.2009.104000
Dorling, D. and Thomas, B. (2011). Mapping inequalities in Britain. Sociology Review, 21(1).
Thomas, B., Dorling, D., and Davey Smith, G. (2010). Inequalities in premature mortality in Britain: observational study from 1921 to 2007. BMJ 2010; 341:c3639.
doi:10.1136/bmj.c3639
Thomas, B., (2010). Young Adults in Early 21st Century Britain. Criminal Justice Matters, 80(1).
Thomas, B. , (2008). Identity in Britain: investigating the social geology. Geography, 93(3).
Metcalfe, C., Patel, B., Evans, S., Ibrahim, F., Anson, K., Chinegwundoh, F., Corbishley, C., Dorling, D., Thomas, B., Gillatt, D., Kirby, R., Muir, G., Nargund, V., Popert, R., Persad, R. and Ben-Shlomo, Y. (2008). The risk of prostate cancer amongst South Asian men in southern England: the PROCESS cohort study. BJU International.
Ben-Shlomo, Y., Evans, S., Ibrahim, F., Patel, B., Anson, K., Chinegwundoh, F., Corbishley, C., Dorling, D., Thomas, B. , Gillatt, D., Kirby, R., Muir, G., Nargand, V., Popert, R., Metcalfe, C. and Persad, R. (2008). The risk of prostate cancer amongst Black men in the United Kingdom: The PROCESS retrospective cohort study. European Urology, 53(1).
Thomas, B. and Dorling, D. (2007). Human mosaic: maps of honeycombed British Society. Significance, 4(4).