Recent News
August 2011
Fiona Mapp joins HERP as Project Support Officer on the National Evaluation of the Healthy Towns Programme. Fiona previously worked for the London Sexual Health Programme (NHS) in the strategic commissioning of sexual health and sexual health planning for the 2012 Olympics. She is interested in the wider public health agenda and its implications for society and is currently consolidating her knowledge by undertaking a Masters in Public Health part-time at LSHTM. Welcome!
April 2011
Dr Jamie Fagg has won the 2011 Jacques May Thesis Prize. The prize is awarded by the Association of American Geographers Health & Medical Geography Study Group and is judged on the quality of the contribution to the field, and the methodological approach.
Jamie graduated from his PhD last summer, and is currently a post-doc at the UCL Institute of Child Health. Well done to Jamie, just reward for an excellent thesis!
April 2011
Dr Steven Cummins has been awarded a £2 million grant from the NIHR Public Health Research Programme to investigate the health and social impact of the 2012 London Olympic Games. The project is a collaboration with researchers at UEL & LSHTM and will follow 1800 East London familes for five years.
Jan 2011
Dr Steven Cummins has been awarded a NIHR Senior Fellowship to further develop the Healthy Environments Research Programme. The fellowship runs for 5 years and will allow concentrated time for research and the development of a new MA/MSc programme.
July 2010
Dr Tim Brown has been awarded C$38,000 by the Social Sciences & Humanities Research Council of Canada, in collaboration with Dr Sarah Wakefield, University of Toronto. The funding is for a project investigating discourses around food security in the UK and Canada and will facilitate further collaborative work between the Departments of Geography at Queen Mary and the University of Toronto.
June 2010
Dr Steven Cummins has been awarded four new grants totalling £3.5 million in collaboration with a number of colleagues in Canada, Netherlands, France & the UK. Funding is for a range of methodological and substantive projects investigating the environmental determinants of diet and physial activity; and crime reduction strategies and psychological wellbeing. The projects are funded by CIHR (Canada), ZonMw (Netherlands), NIH (US) and NIHR (UK).
April 2010
Dr Katy Wheeler, Dr Elena Sautkina and Melanie Ahmed join HERP working on the National Evaluation of the Healthy Towns Programme. They will managing, organising and conducting fieldwork and undertaking analysis and writing related to the evaluation. Welcome to all three!
March 2010
On March 16th, Jamie Fagg successfully defended his PhD thesis on pathways of adolescent self-esteem which uses data from the UK and Canada. His examiners Prof Ingrid Schoon & Prof Paul Boyle congratulated him on an excellent oral defence and a high quality piece of work. Jamie is now working for HERP undertaking some analysis on the links between greenspace and health.
March 2010
Dr Tim Brown, along with Prof Sara Mclafferty and Prof Graham Moon, publishes the Blackwell Companion to Health & Medical Geography. Congratulations to Tim.
October 2009
Dr Steven Cummins has been appointed to the National Institute for Health & Clinical Excellence (NICE) programme development group on diabetes in high risk populations. The group will synthesise the existing best available evidence on prevention, and use this to produce guidance for various stakeholder groups such as GPs, public health practioners and policymakers.
June 2009
June 2009
Dr Steven Cummins has been awarded the 2009 Association for the Study of Obesity Young Achiever Award. The annual award is designed to encourage and recognise research contributions in the field of obesity and is awarded to those who have made a significant contribution to scientific or clinical knowledge and who is 40 years old or younger.
May 2009
Claire Thompson wins her second prize of the year, the 2009 Mary Langman Essay Prize from the The Pioneer Health Foundation.
April 8th 2009
Claire Thompson, first-year doctoral student, has won 1st Prize for her paper on 'Obesity, culture and the built environment' presented at the 14th Emerging New Research in Geographies of Health & Impairment Conference held at Durham University. Claire's prize is £100 worth of Amazon vouchers to spend on academic books. Congratulations Claire - an excellent achievement!
April 8th 2009
Dr Dianna Smith has been awarded a prestigious MRC Population Health Scientist Fellowship. The award is worth c£230,000 and will run for three years with Dianna mentored at QM by Dr Steven Cummins. The fellowship will also involve a 6 month overseas collabortative visit to work with Professor Billie Giles-Corti at the Centre for the Built Environment & Health, University of Western Australia. Congratulations Dianna!
March 17th 2009
Dr Tim Brown and Dr Steven Cummins have been awarded a Wellcome Trust research expenses grant for £3,363 on "(Re)designing for health: evaluating the place of cemeteries and burial grounds in the promotion of 'healthy' green space in East London, circa. 1890-1920". The project builds nicely on shared research interests around the built environment and health and will allow us to learn from history about the potential of environmental interventions to improve health.
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Fiona Mapp joins HERP as Project Support Officer on the National Evaluation of the Healthy Towns Programme. Fiona previously worked for the London Sexual Health Programme (NHS) in the strategic commissioning of sexual health and sexual health planning for the 2012 Olympics. She is interested in the wider public health agenda and its implications for society and is currently consolidating her knowledge by undertaking a Masters in Public Health part-time at LSHTM. Welcome!
April 2011
Dr Jamie Fagg has won the 2011 Jacques May Thesis Prize. The prize is awarded by the Association of American Geographers Health & Medical Geography Study Group and is judged on the quality of the contribution to the field, and the methodological approach.
Jamie graduated from his PhD last summer, and is currently a post-doc at the UCL Institute of Child Health. Well done to Jamie, just reward for an excellent thesis!
April 2011
Dr Steven Cummins has been awarded a £2 million grant from the NIHR Public Health Research Programme to investigate the health and social impact of the 2012 London Olympic Games. The project is a collaboration with researchers at UEL & LSHTM and will follow 1800 East London familes for five years.
Jan 2011
Dr Steven Cummins has been awarded a NIHR Senior Fellowship to further develop the Healthy Environments Research Programme. The fellowship runs for 5 years and will allow concentrated time for research and the development of a new MA/MSc programme.
July 2010
Dr Tim Brown has been awarded C$38,000 by the Social Sciences & Humanities Research Council of Canada, in collaboration with Dr Sarah Wakefield, University of Toronto. The funding is for a project investigating discourses around food security in the UK and Canada and will facilitate further collaborative work between the Departments of Geography at Queen Mary and the University of Toronto.
June 2010
Dr Steven Cummins has been awarded four new grants totalling £3.5 million in collaboration with a number of colleagues in Canada, Netherlands, France & the UK. Funding is for a range of methodological and substantive projects investigating the environmental determinants of diet and physial activity; and crime reduction strategies and psychological wellbeing. The projects are funded by CIHR (Canada), ZonMw (Netherlands), NIH (US) and NIHR (UK).
April 2010
Dr Katy Wheeler, Dr Elena Sautkina and Melanie Ahmed join HERP working on the National Evaluation of the Healthy Towns Programme. They will managing, organising and conducting fieldwork and undertaking analysis and writing related to the evaluation. Welcome to all three!
March 2010
On March 16th, Jamie Fagg successfully defended his PhD thesis on pathways of adolescent self-esteem which uses data from the UK and Canada. His examiners Prof Ingrid Schoon & Prof Paul Boyle congratulated him on an excellent oral defence and a high quality piece of work. Jamie is now working for HERP undertaking some analysis on the links between greenspace and health.
March 2010
Dr Tim Brown, along with Prof Sara Mclafferty and Prof Graham Moon, publishes the Blackwell Companion to Health & Medical Geography. Congratulations to Tim.
October 2009
Dr Steven Cummins has been appointed to the National Institute for Health & Clinical Excellence (NICE) programme development group on diabetes in high risk populations. The group will synthesise the existing best available evidence on prevention, and use this to produce guidance for various stakeholder groups such as GPs, public health practioners and policymakers.
June 2009
Dr Steven Cummins has been awarded a major grant worth £916,803 from the Department of Health’s Policy Research Programme. The project will evaluate the ‘Healthy Towns’ programme, a set of environmental interventions in nine towns across England aimed at reducing obesity through improving diet and increasing physical activity.
The project is in collaboration with four colleagues from Cambridge, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, University of East Anglia & Newcastle.June 2009
Dr Steven Cummins has been awarded the 2009 Association for the Study of Obesity Young Achiever Award. The annual award is designed to encourage and recognise research contributions in the field of obesity and is awarded to those who have made a significant contribution to scientific or clinical knowledge and who is 40 years old or younger.
May 2009
Claire Thompson wins her second prize of the year, the 2009 Mary Langman Essay Prize from the The Pioneer Health Foundation.
April 8th 2009
Claire Thompson, first-year doctoral student, has won 1st Prize for her paper on 'Obesity, culture and the built environment' presented at the 14th Emerging New Research in Geographies of Health & Impairment Conference held at Durham University. Claire's prize is £100 worth of Amazon vouchers to spend on academic books. Congratulations Claire - an excellent achievement!
April 8th 2009
Dr Dianna Smith has been awarded a prestigious MRC Population Health Scientist Fellowship. The award is worth c£230,000 and will run for three years with Dianna mentored at QM by Dr Steven Cummins. The fellowship will also involve a 6 month overseas collabortative visit to work with Professor Billie Giles-Corti at the Centre for the Built Environment & Health, University of Western Australia. Congratulations Dianna!
March 17th 2009
Dr Tim Brown and Dr Steven Cummins have been awarded a Wellcome Trust research expenses grant for £3,363 on "(Re)designing for health: evaluating the place of cemeteries and burial grounds in the promotion of 'healthy' green space in East London, circa. 1890-1920". The project builds nicely on shared research interests around the built environment and health and will allow us to learn from history about the potential of environmental interventions to improve health.
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