Health, Place and Society Research Group

This research theme conducts innovative and critical geographical research on health and the body, socio- environmental determinants of health inequalities, and the cultural, political, and economic geographies of bio-medical science. The group produces cutting edge theoretical and empirical research of direct relevance to key academic and wider political and social debates on the future of health care provision in both the UK and Global South. Research is currently organised into three main areas: The Construction of Healthy and Ill Bodies, including work on the health and place making practices of migrants (Isabel Dyck, Beth Greenhough); the Healthy Environments Research Programme, with work on the socio-environmental determinants of health and health inequalities together with the bayesian spatial statistical modelling of health and health care in shaping health outcomes for local and national populations (Steven Cummins, Peter Congdon); and The Political Economy of Contemporary Biomedical Science, with research on the production of pharmaceuticals, the delivery of public health and health services, medical research, and understandings of the human body and identity (Bronwyn Parry, Catherine Nash, Beth Greenhough and Simon Reid-Henry).