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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2018 - Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh

Overview

Sarah Curtis is affiliated with Durham University in the United Kingdom and focuses on research within the social sciences and health professions. Their work spans multiple fields including social sciences, general health professions, public health, environmental and occupational health, and health toxicology and mutagenesis.

Their research addresses key topics such as health disparities and outcomes, employment and welfare studies, mental health treatment and access, urban transport and accessibility, psychological well-being and life satisfaction, homelessness and social issues, and migration, aging, and tourism studies.

Frequent publication venues for their work include Wellbeing Space and Society, Health & Place, Human Resources for Health, Social Science & Medicine, and European Journal of Public Health.

Recent scholarly papers by Sarah Curtis include:

  • Trajectories in mental health and socio-spatial conditions in a time of economic recovery and austerity: A longitudinal study in England 2011-17 (2020, Social Science & Medicine)
  • Wellbeing, space and society (2023, Wellbeing Space and Society)
  • Adverse conditions for wellbeing at the neighbourhood scale in England: Potential and challenges for operationalising indicators relevant to wellbeing in and of places (2020, Wellbeing Space and Society)

Other notable recent collaborations linked to their research interests include:

  • Improving longitudinal research in geospatial health: An agenda (2023, Health & Place)
  • A data linkage study of the effects of the Great Recession and austerity on antidepressant prescription usage (2021, European Journal of Public Health)

Sarah Curtis has frequently collaborated with researchers including Gergő Baranyi, Jamie Pearce, Mark Cherrie, Chris Dibben, and Niall Cunningham.

They were awarded the title of Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 2018.

Best Publications

  • Understanding and representing place in health research a relational approach

    Steven Cummins;Sarah Curtis;Ana V. Diez-Roux;Sally Macintyre

  • Approaches to sampling and case selection in qualitative research: examples in the geography of health.

    Sarah Curtis;Wil Gesler;Glenn Smith;Sarah Washburn

  • Mingling, observing, and lingering: everyday public spaces and their implications for well-being and social relations

    Vicky Cattell;Nick Dines;Wil Gesler;Sarah Curtis

  • Is There a Place for Geography in the Analysis of Health Inequality

    Sarah Curtis;Ian Rees Jones

  • Therapy by design: evaluating the UK hospital building program.

    Wil Gesler;Morag Bell;Sarah Curtis;Phil Hubbard

  • Modelling inequality in reported long term illness in the UK: combining individual and area characteristics.

    Susanna Shouls;Peter Congdon;Sarah Curtis

  • Health and Societies: Changing Perspectives

    Sarah Curtis;A. R. Taket

  • Impact of extreme weather events and climate change for health and social care systems

    Sarah Elizabeth Curtis;Alistair Fair;Jonathan Wistow;Dimitri Val

  • Mental disorders among Somali refugees: developing culturally appropriate measures and assessing socio-cultural risk factors.

    Kamaldeep Bhui;Tom Craig;Salaad Mohamud;Nasir Warfa

  • Post-migration geographical mobility, mental health and health service utilisation among Somali refugees in the UK: A qualitative study

    Nasir Warfa;Kamaldeep Bhui;Tom Craig;Sarah Curtis

  • Therapeutic Landscapes in Hospital Design: A Qualitative Assessment by Staff and Service Users of the Design of a New Mental Health Inpatient Unit:

    Sarah Curtis;Wil Gesler;Kathy Fabian;Susan Francis

  • Framing ‘fracking’: Exploring public perceptions of hydraulic fracturing in the United Kingdom

    Laurence Williams;Philip Macnaghten;Richard Davies;Sarah Curtis

  • Health and Inequality

    Sarah Curtis

  • Migration experiences, employment status and psychological distress among Somali immigrants: a mixed-method international study

    Nasir Warfa;Sarah Curtis;Charles Watters;Ken Carswell

  • Being well together : individual subjective and community wellbeing.

    Sarah Atkinson;Anne-Marie Bagnall;Rhiannon Corcoran;Jane South

  • Health and Inequality: Geographical Perspectives

    Sarah Curtis

  • Area effects on health variation over the life-course: analysis of the longitudinal study sample in England using new data on area of residence in childhood.

    Sarah Curtis;Humphrey Southall;Peter Congdon;Brian Dodgeon

  • Climate change and health and social care: Defining future hazard, vulnerability and risk for infrastructure systems supporting older people’s health care in England

    Katie J. Oven;Sarah E. Curtis;Sim Reaney;Mylene Riva;Mylene Riva

  • Space, Place and Mental Health

    Sarah Curtis

  • Mental health needs, service use and costs among Somali refugees in the UK

    P. McCrone;K. Bhui;T. Craig;S. Mohamud

  • Geographies of health: an introduction

    Sarah Curtis

Frequent Co-Authors

Clare Bambra
Clare Bambra Newcastle University
Jamie Pearce
Jamie Pearce University of Edinburgh
Gerard Leavey
Gerard Leavey Centre for Mental Health
Kamaldeep Bhui
Kamaldeep Bhui University of Oxford
Rhiannon Corcoran
Rhiannon Corcoran University of Liverpool
Lena Dominelli
Lena Dominelli University of Stirling
Jennifer S. Mindell
Jennifer S. Mindell University College London
Julian G. Elliott
Julian G. Elliott Durham University
Peter Tymms
Peter Tymms Durham University
Bo Burström
Bo Burström Karolinska Institute

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