Malcolm Campbell
Exploring the socio-economic and geographical determinants of ill-health in Scotland
Supervisors: Dr Dimitris Ballas and Professor Danny Dorling
An ERSC / Scottish Government Sponsored Project
Malcolm has a BSc (Hons) in Economics with a Diploma in Industrial Studies (2007) from the University of Ulster. Recently, he has undertaken a Masters in Human Geography Research at the University of Sheffield. Malcolm has also been employed as a Research Assistant for the Economic Research Institute of Northern Ireland (ERINI), assisting in a variety of projects with a focus on health, deprivation, welfare and the labour market. Furthermore, Malcolm has worked as a consultant, most recently on a project funded by a Local Authority. Presently, Malcolm is undertaking his doctoral studies, researching the geographical and socio-economic determinants of ill health in Scotland.
The Project
The main aims of the PhD project are to build on relevant existing research on health inequalities and morbidity. Additionally, to further develop and apply spatial Microsimulation methods, creating a powerful policy relevant modelling framework that can be used for 'what-if' analysis of Government policy in Scotland. The indicative research questions for the PhD project are:
- What are the main socio-economic and geographical factors affecting the risk that Scottish individuals suffer from ill-health, and how are these factors changing over time?
- How do the factors which determine risks of poor health vary from place to place?
- To what extent are these factors affected by individual family morbidity history?
- What are the socio-economic and geographic factors affecting social mobility of different types of individuals, and how do those factors relate to health?
- How do Scottish Government policies appear to relate to risk factors for poor health, and how do they potentially affect different types of individuals?
- Do the outcomes of Scottish Government policies vary geographically and if so, what determines this variation?
- Are existing policies addressing sufficiently the key population health risk factors?
- What kind of new policies may be needed and what are the potential health gains from their successful implementation?
Previous Research and Publications
Masters in Human Geography Research Dissertation: People, Position, or Place: An exploratory study of the socio-economic and geographical determinants of mortality in Scotland
Undergraduate Dissertation: Fair and Square? The spatial pattern of socio-economic characteristics in Northern Ireland
Emerging New Research on Geographies of Health and Impairment (ENRGHI), 11 June 2008, Exploring the socio-economic and geographical determinants of ill-health and morbidity in Scotland, St. Andrews, UK.
Forsythe, F., Campbell, M. and Keen, P. (September 2007). Introducing PBL to a first-year curriculum: results and experiences, Cambridge, UK.
http://www.economicsnetwork.ac.uk/dee2007/presentations/forsythe_pbl.ppt
Anyadike-Danes, M., Campbell, M. (August 2007). What's Been Going on at the Bottom End of the UK Labour Market? The Regional Science Association International, British and Irish Section, Annual Conference 2007, Bangor, Northern Ireland
http://www.erini.ac.uk/Publications/PDF/EriniConf22.pdf
Anyadike-Danes, M., Campbell, M. (March 2006). What's in a place? Continuity and change in the spatial distribution of deprivation in Northern Ireland, 1971 to 2001, Linking Censuses through Time, Queen's University, Belfast, UK.
http://www.erini.ac.uk/Publications/PDF/ERINIConf15.pdf
Contact Details
Address: A5, Department of Geography, University of Sheffield, Sheffield S10 2TN
Email: M.H.Campbell@sheffield.ac.uk
