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Gavin Turrell

Gavin Turrell

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Social Sciences and Humanities

D-Index
75
Citations
18178
World Ranking
559
National Ranking
39

Overview

Gavin Turrell is affiliated with RMIT University in Australia and has contributed extensively to social sciences, focusing particularly on urban transport, health disparities, and physical activity. Their body of work spans multiple interrelated subfields such as transportation, public health, environmental health, and sociology.

Their research frequently explores themes around urban transport and accessibility, health disparities and outcomes, urban green space and health, obesity and physical activity, noise effects and management, as well as neighborhood and segregation studies. These topics reflect a multidisciplinary approach to understanding how urban environments influence health and wellbeing.

Turrell's recent publications include:

  • Positive HABITATS for physical activity: Examining use of parks and its contribution to physical activity levels in mid-to older-aged adults (2020, Health & Place)
  • Cohort Profile: HABITAT-a longitudinal multilevel study of physical activity, sedentary behaviour and health and functioning in mid-to-late adulthood (2020, International Journal of Epidemiology)
  • Children's neighbourhood physical environment and early development: an individual child level linked data study (2020, Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health)
  • Spatial and socioeconomic inequities in liveability in Australia's 21 largest cities: Does city size matter? (2022, Health & Place)
  • Associations of time spent gardening with mental wellbeing and life satisfaction in mid-to-late adulthood (2023, Journal of Environmental Psychology)

Their research has appeared most frequently in the following journals:

  • Health & Place (8 publications)
  • BMC Public Health (5 publications)
  • International Journal of Epidemiology (3 publications)
  • Cities & Health (3 publications)
  • Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health (2 publications)

Collaboratively, Turrell has worked with several coauthors on multiple projects, including Billie Giles-Corti (11 publications), Jerome N. Rachele (10 publications), Sarah Foster (8 publications), Nicola W. Burton (7 publications), and Lucy Gunn (6 publications). These collaborations underline a broad network within public health and urban studies research communities.

Gavin Turrell's research contributions focus on the interplay between physical environments, social factors, and health outcomes, emphasizing longitudinal and multilevel studies that analyze patterns in mid-to-late adulthood populations. This work supports a comprehensive understanding of how neighborhood characteristics and urban design impact physical activity and wellbeing across the life course.

Best Publications

  • City planning and population health: a global challenge

    Billie Giles-Corti;Anne Vernez-Moudon;Rodrigo Siqueira Reis;Rodrigo Siqueira Reis;Rodrigo Siqueira Reis;Gavin Turrell;Gavin Turrell

  • Occupation, hours worked, and leisure-time physical activity.

    Nicola W. Burton;Gavin Turrell

  • Childhood socioeconomic position and cognitive function in adulthood

    George A. Kaplan;Gavin Turrell;John W. Lynch;Susan A. Everson

  • Socio-economic pathways to diet: modelling the association between socio-economic position and food purchasing behaviour.

    Gavin Turrell;Anne M Kavanagh

  • Advance transit oriented development typology : case study in Brisbane, Australia

    Kamruzzaman;Douglas C. Baker;Simon Washington;Gavin Turrell

  • Socioeconomic differences in food purchasing behaviour and suggested implications for diet-related health promotion.

    Gavin Turrell;Belinda Hewitt;Carla Patterson;Brian Frederick Oldenburg

  • Socio-economic differences in fruit and vegetable consumption among Australian adolescents and adults

    Katrina Giskes;Gavin Turrell;Carla Patterson;Beth Newman

  • Measuring socio-economic position in dietary research: is choice of socio-economic indicator important?

    Gavin Turrell;Belinda Hewitt;Carla Patterson;Brian Frederick Oldenburg

  • Cycling for Transportation in Sao Paulo City: Associations with Bike Paths, Train and Subway Stations

    Alex Antonio Florindo;Ligia Vizeu Barrozo;Gavin Turrell;João Paulo dos Anjos Souza Barbosa

  • Socioeconomic inequalities in all-cause and specific-cause mortality in Australia: 1985–1987 and 1995–1997

    Gavin Turrell;Colin Mathers

  • Socioeconomic position across the lifecourse and cognitive function in late middle age

    Gavin Turrell;John W. Lynch;George A. Kaplan;Susan A. Everson

  • Sedentary behaviour and health: mapping environmental and social contexts to underpin chronic disease prevention

    Neville Owen;Jo Salmon;Mohammad Javad Koohsari;Gavin Turrell

  • Built environment and cardio-metabolic health: systematic review and meta-analysis of longitudinal studies.

    Manoj Chandrabose;Jerome N. Rachele;L. Gunn;L. Gunn;A. Kavanagh

  • Socioeconomic inequalities in food purchasing: the contribution of respondent-perceived and actual (objectively measured) price and availability of foods.

    K. Giskes;F.J. Van Lenthe;J. Brug;J.P. Mackenbach

  • Food insecurity among adults residing in disadvantaged urban areas: potential health and dietary consequences

    Rebecca Ramsey;Katrina Giskes;Gavin Turrell;Danielle Gallegos

  • Public open spaces and leisure-time walking in Brazilian adults

    Alex Antonio Florindo;Ligia Vizeu Barrozo;William Cabral-Miranda;Eduardo Quieroti Rodrigues

  • The shape of the socioeconomic-oral health gradient: implications for theoretical explanations.

    Anne E. Sanders;Gary D. Slade;Gavin Turrell;A. John Spencer

  • Does gender modify associations between self rated health and the social and economic characteristics of local environments

    Anne M Kavanagh;Rebecca Bentley;Gavin Turrell;Dorothy H Broom

  • Income non-reporting: implications for health inequalities research

    Gavin Turrell

  • Urban area disadvantage and physical activity: a multilevel study in Melbourne, Australia

    Anne M Kavanagh;Jane L Goller;Tania King;Damien John Jolley

  • Socioeconomic Differences Among Australian Adults in Consumption of Fruit and Vegetables and Intakes of Vitamins A, C and Folate

    Katrina M. Giskes;Gavin Turrell;Carla M. Patterson;Beth M. Newman

Frequent Co-Authors

Anne M Kavanagh
Anne M Kavanagh University of Melbourne
Brian Oldenburg
Brian Oldenburg University of Melbourne
Takemi Sugiyama
Takemi Sugiyama Swinburne University of Technology
Rebecca Bentley
Rebecca Bentley University of Melbourne
Hannah Badland
Hannah Badland RMIT University
Frank J. van Lenthe
Frank J. van Lenthe Erasmus University Rotterdam
Janeen Baxter
Janeen Baxter University of Queensland
Suzanne Mavoa
Suzanne Mavoa University of Melbourne
Suzanne K. Chambers
Suzanne K. Chambers University of Technology Sydney
Mohammad Javad Koohsari
Mohammad Javad Koohsari Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology

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