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Research interests
I am a qualitative researcher with interests in: food poverty; urban regeneration; young people's experiences of health and wellbeing; food and alcohol environments; lived experiences of austerity and welfare reform; applied health and social care research with local partners; and community responses to health inequalities.
My particular focus is on how uncertainty and precarity around the social determinants of health impacts upon food choices and dietary health.
Overview
I completed an ESRC-funded PhD in Human Geography at Queen Mary University of London and an MA in the Social Sciences with the Open University. After which, I worked at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine on the ORiEL study (Olympic Regeneration in East London), as part of SPHR@L (the School of Public Health Research) and finally on a Wellcome Trust Society and Ethics fellowship - Understanding the health and wellbeing challenges of UK food poverty and food aid: a qualitative study. In 2020 I moved to the University of Hertforshire. I am now Senior Research Fellow for the Prevention and Early Detection in Health and Social Care (PEDHSC) Theme of the NIHR funded East of England Applied Research Collaboration.
External positions
Associate member, Population Health Innovation Lab, Department of Public Health, Environments and Society, Faculty of Public Health and Policy, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom
6 Jan 2020 → …
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Collaborations and top research areas from the last five years
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SALIENT: SALIENT (food System triALs for Impact on Environment, Nutrition and healTh)
3/01/23 → …
Project: Research
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BIMA evaluation: Evaluation of a faith-placed education intervention for bowel cancer screening in Muslim communities in the East of England; Affiliated to the NIHR ARC East of England
Trivedi, D., Thompson, C., Smeeton, N., Carr, M., Berger-Gillam, T., Waqar, S. & Tejani PPI, I.
1/08/21 → 29/02/24
Project: Research
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Evaluation of planning policy to regulate takeaway food outlets for improved health in England
Thompson, C., Burgoine, T., Adams, J., White, M., Cummins, S., Smith, R., Cobiac, L., Chang, M. & Mytton, O.
1/04/21 → 1/04/24
Project: Research
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Engaging South Asian women in breast cancer care: A public engagement consultation; Affiliated to NIHR ARC East of England https://arc-eoe.nihr.ac.uk/research-implementation/research-themes/prevention-and-early-detection/engaging-south-asian-women
Trivedi, D., Thompson, C. & Jayaraman, J.
1/03/22 → 31/03/23
Project: Research
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“The People's Summit”: A case for lived experience of food environments as a critical source of evidence to inform the follow-up to the 2021 UN Food Systems Summit
Spires, M., Battersby, J., Cohen, N., Daivadanam, M., Demmler, K., Mattioni, D., Pradeilles, R., Thompson, C., Turner, C., Venegas Hargous, C., Wertheim-Heck, S., Wills, W. & Hawkes, C., 30 Jun 2023, In: Global Food Security . 37, 5 p., 100690.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Hostile Environments: Immigration and Food Poverty in the UK
Hamilton, L., Thompson, C. & Wills, W., 13 Dec 2022, University of Hertfordshire. 30 p.Research output: Book/Report › Commissioned report
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Ties that bind: Young people, community and social capital in the wake of the pandemic
Barker, R., Rowland, S., Thompson, C., Lock, K., Hunter, K., Lim, J. & Marks, D., 1 Dec 2022, In: SSM - Qualitative Research in Health. 2, p. 1-10 10 p., 100155.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Changes to household food shopping practices during the COVID-19 restrictions: Evidence from the East of England
Thompson, C., Hamilton, L., Dickinson, A., Fallaize, R., Mathie, E., Rogers, S. & Wills, W., 30 Nov 2022, In: Health & Place. 78, 22 p., 102906.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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The Methodological Implications of Integrating Lived Experience in Geographic Research on Inequalities
Thompson, C., 31 Oct 2022, The Routledge Handbook of Methodologies in Human Geography. Lovell, S. A., Coen, S. E. & Rosenberg, M. W. (eds.). 1st ed. Routledge, p. 371-380 9 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review