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  • Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, United Kingdom
  • Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, United Kingdom
  • Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, United Kingdom

Overview

Ade Kearns is a researcher affiliated with the University of Glasgow in the United Kingdom. Their primary areas of work combine social sciences with health professions, with research spanning topics related to health disparities, urban studies, and social issues affecting vulnerable populations.

Their recent publication record includes work focused on housing and its impacts on wellbeing and public health, urban regeneration, neighborhood empowerment, and the complexities of social support systems. Key papers include:

  • Housing space and occupancy standards: developing evidence for policy from a health and wellbeing perspective in the UK context (2022, Building Research & Information)
  • Urban regeneration and mental health: Investigating the effects of an area-based intervention using a modified intention to treat analysis with alternative outcome measures (2020, Health & Place)
  • Are housing and neighbourhood empowerment beneficial for mental health and wellbeing? Evidence from disadvantaged communities experiencing regeneration (2020, SSM - Population Health)
  • Housing as a public health investment (2020, BMJ)

The primary topics of Ade Kearns's research include health disparities and outcomes, homelessness and social issues, urban, neighborhood, and segregation studies, migration, aging, tourism, food security and health in diverse populations, employment and welfare studies, and global health care issues.

Frequent collaborators in their work are Phil Mason, Seemanti Ghosh, Matt Egan, Elise Whitley, and Louise Lawson.

Ade Kearns has published multiple papers in notable venues such as Housing Studies, Building Research & Information, SSM - Population Health, Health & Place, and BMJ.

The subfields of study encompassing their research are general health professions, health, sociology and political science, demography, and areas relating to health, toxicology, and mutagenesis.

Ade Kearns has been recognized with the distinction of Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, United Kingdom.

Best Publications

  • Social Cohesion, Social Capital and the Neighbourhood

    Ray Forrest;Ade Kearns

  • Social Cohesion and Multilevel Urban Governance

    Ade Kearns;Ray Forrest

  • What Makes People Dissatisfied with their Neighbourhoods

    Alison Parkes;Ade Kearns;Rowland Atkinson

  • The Significance of Neighbourhood

    Ade Kearns;Michael Parkinson

  • Perceptions of Place and Health in Socially Contrasting Neighbourhoods

    Anne Ellaway;Sally Macintyre;Ade Kearns

  • Natural experiments: an underused tool for public health?

    Mark Petticrew;Steven Cummins;Catherine Ferrell;Anne Findlay

  • Ontological Security and Psycho-Social Benefits from the Home: Qualitative Evidence on Issues of Tenure

    Rosemary Hiscock;Ade Kearns;Sally MacIntyre;Anne Ellaway

  • 'Beyond Four Walls'. The Psycho-social Benefits of Home: Evidence from West Central Scotland

    Ade Kearns;Rosemary Hiscock;Anne Ellaway;Sally MaCintyre

  • In the driving seat: psychosocial benefits from private motor vehicle transport compared to public transport

    Anne Ellaway;Sally Macintyre;Rosemary Hiscock;Ade Kearns

  • Joined-up Places?: Social Cohesion and Neighbourhood Regeneration

    Ray Forrest;Ade Kearns

  • MEANS OF TRANSPORT AND ONTOLOGICAL SECURITY: DO CARS PROVIDE PSYCHO-SOCIAL BENEFITS TO THEIR USERS?

    Rosemary Hiscock;Sally Macintyre;Ade Kearns;Anne Ellaway

  • New Challenges for Urban Governance

    Ade Kearns;Ronan Paddison

  • What features of the home and the area might help to explain observed relationships between housing tenure and health? Evidence from the west of Scotland

    Sally Macintyre;Anne Ellaway;Rosemary Hiscock;Ade Kearns

  • Living in and leaving poor neighbourhood conditions in England

    Ade Kearns;Alison Parkes

  • Do urban regeneration programmes improve public health and reduce health inequalities? A synthesis of the evidence from UK policy and practice (1980–2004)

    Hilary Thomson;Rowland Atkinson;Mark Petticrew;Ade Kearns

  • Exploring the relationships between housing, neighbourhoods and mental wellbeing for residents of deprived areas

    Lyndal Bond;Ade Kearns;Phil Mason;Carol Tannahill

  • Active citizenship and local governance: political and geographical dimensions

    Ade Kearns

  • Loneliness, social relations and health and well-being in deprived communities

    Ade Kearns;Elise Whitley;Carol Tannahill;Anne Ellaway

  • Place Attachment in Deprived Neighbourhoods: The Impacts of Population Turnover and Social Mix

    Nick Bailey;Ade Kearns;Mark Livingston

  • People's attachment to place: the influence of neighbourhood deprivation

    M. Livingston;N. Bailey;A. Kearns

Frequent Co-Authors

Anne Ellaway
Anne Ellaway University of Glasgow
Lyndal Bond
Lyndal Bond Victoria University
Sally Macintyre
Sally Macintyre MRC Social and Public Health Sciences Unit
Mark Petticrew
Mark Petticrew London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Alastair H. Leyland
Alastair H. Leyland University of Glasgow
Hilary Thomson
Hilary Thomson University of Glasgow
Rowland Atkinson
Rowland Atkinson University of Sheffield
Seeromanie Harding
Seeromanie Harding King's College London
Srinivasa Vittal Katikireddi
Srinivasa Vittal Katikireddi University of Glasgow
Ray Forrest
Ray Forrest City University of Hong Kong

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