Outputs (17)

Interrogating ‘urban social innovation’: relationality and urban change in Berlin (2021)
Journal Article
McFarlane, C., Langley, P., Lewis, S., Painter, J., & Vradis, A. (2023). Interrogating ‘urban social innovation’: relationality and urban change in Berlin. Urban Geography, 44(2), 337-357. https://doi.org/10.1080/02723638.2021.2003586

The relationship between the city and ‘innovation’ is long and varied, but in recent years there has been a new focus on the potential of innovation to catalyse economic, social, and environmental change. This has led to a debate around whether and h... Read More about Interrogating ‘urban social innovation’: relationality and urban change in Berlin.

“I realised it weren’t about spending the money. It’s about doing something together:” The role of money in a community empowerment initiative and the implications for health and wellbeing (2020)
Journal Article
Townsend, A., Abraham, C., Barnes, A., Collins, M., Halliday, E., Lewis, S., …Popay, J. (2020). “I realised it weren’t about spending the money. It’s about doing something together:” The role of money in a community empowerment initiative and the implications for health and wellbeing. Social Science & Medicine, 260, Article 113176. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2020.113176

Community initiatives aiming to reduce health inequalities are increasingly common in health policy. Though diverse many such initiatives aim to support residents of disadvantaged places to exercise greater collective control over decisions/actions t... Read More about “I realised it weren’t about spending the money. It’s about doing something together:” The role of money in a community empowerment initiative and the implications for health and wellbeing.

Assessing the value for money of an integrated health and wellbeing service in the UK (2019)
Journal Article
Visram, S., Walton, N., Akhter, N., Lewis, S., & Lister, G. (2020). Assessing the value for money of an integrated health and wellbeing service in the UK. Social Science & Medicine, 245, Article 112661. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2019.112661

Lay health workers have been utilized to deliver health promotion programmes in a variety of settings. However, few studies have sought to determine whether these programmes represent value for money, particularly in a UK context. The present study i... Read More about Assessing the value for money of an integrated health and wellbeing service in the UK.

Food play: A novel research methodology for visceral geographers and health researchers (2019)
Journal Article
Burges Watson, D., Lewis, S., Campbell, M., Bryant, V., Storey, S., & Deary, V. (2019). Food play: A novel research methodology for visceral geographers and health researchers. Health & Place, 57, 139-146. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.healthplace.2019.04.004

This paper reinforces the value of visceral geographic approaches to health research as a method ‘beyond talking’. The paper establishes and sets out an integrative embodied multi-sensory research methodology - food play. Researchers across the socia... Read More about Food play: A novel research methodology for visceral geographers and health researchers.

Pathways to mental health improvement in a community-led area-based empowerment initiative: Evidence from the Big Local ‘Communities in Control’ study, England. (2019)
Journal Article
McGowan, V., Wistow, J., Lewis, S., Popay, J., & Bambra, C. (2019). Pathways to mental health improvement in a community-led area-based empowerment initiative: Evidence from the Big Local ‘Communities in Control’ study, England. Journal of Public Health, 41(4), 850-857. https://doi.org/10.1093/pubmed/fdy192

Background: Area-based initiatives that include a focus on community empowerment are increasingly being seen as potentially an important way of improving health and reducing inequalities. However, there is little empirical evidence on the pathways be... Read More about Pathways to mental health improvement in a community-led area-based empowerment initiative: Evidence from the Big Local ‘Communities in Control’ study, England..

Ethnography and evaluation: temporalities of complex systems and methodological complexity (2019)
Journal Article
Reynolds, J., & Lewis, S. (2019). Ethnography and evaluation: temporalities of complex systems and methodological complexity. Anthropology and Medicine, 26(1), 1-17. https://doi.org/10.1080/13648470.2018.1507106

In public health there is increased focus on evaluating ‘complex’ interventions for health improvement, examining how their multiple components interact dynamically with the contextual system in which they are delivered. Amid this complexity framing... Read More about Ethnography and evaluation: temporalities of complex systems and methodological complexity.

Reframing “participation” and “inclusion” in public health policy and practice to address health inequalities: Evidence from a major resident-led neighbourhood improvement initiative (2018)
Journal Article
Lewis, S., Bambra, C., Barnes, A., Collins, M., Egan, M., Halliday, E., …Popay, J. (2019). Reframing “participation” and “inclusion” in public health policy and practice to address health inequalities: Evidence from a major resident-led neighbourhood improvement initiative. Health and Social Care in the Community, 27(1), 199-206. https://doi.org/10.1111/hsc.12640

There is a need for greater conceptual clarity in place‐based initiatives that seek to give residents of disadvantaged neighbourhoods more control over action to address the social determinants of health inequalities at a local level. In this article... Read More about Reframing “participation” and “inclusion” in public health policy and practice to address health inequalities: Evidence from a major resident-led neighbourhood improvement initiative.

Altered eating: a definition and framework for assessment and intervention (2018)
Journal Article
Burges Watson, D., Lewis, S., Bryant, V., Patterson, J., Kelly, C., Edwards-Stuart, R., …Deary, V. (2018). Altered eating: a definition and framework for assessment and intervention. BMC Nutrition, 4, Article 14. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40795-018-0221-3

Background Eating can be a significant challenge for cancer survivors; however, to date there is no systematic way of assessing and addressing food related quality of life in this group. The purpose of our study was to develop a framework for doing s... Read More about Altered eating: a definition and framework for assessment and intervention.

Putting context centre stage: evidence from a systems evaluation of an area based empowerment initiative in England (2016)
Journal Article
Orton, L., Halliday, E., Collins, M., Egan, M., Lewis, S., Ponsford, R., …Popay, J. (2016). Putting context centre stage: evidence from a systems evaluation of an area based empowerment initiative in England. Critical Public Health, 27(4), 477-489. https://doi.org/10.1080/09581596.2016.1250868

It is now widely accepted that context matters in evaluations of the health inequalities impact of community-based social initiatives. Systems thinking offers a lens for uncovering the dynamic relationship between such initiatives and their social co... Read More about Putting context centre stage: evidence from a systems evaluation of an area based empowerment initiative in England.

Documenting Impact: An Impact Case Study of Anthropological Collaboration in Tobacco Control (2015)
Journal Article
Russell, A., & Lewis, S. (2015). Documenting Impact: An Impact Case Study of Anthropological Collaboration in Tobacco Control. Anthropology in Action: Journal for Applied Anthropology in Policy and Practice, 22(2), 14-23. https://doi.org/10.3167/aia.2015.220203

In this article we consider the 'impact case study' (ICS) as a specific kind of document, one which, as part of the U.K.'s Research Excellence Framework (REF), enforces a common template for the description and measurement of the social and economic... Read More about Documenting Impact: An Impact Case Study of Anthropological Collaboration in Tobacco Control.