Lisa GarnhamNHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde | GRI · Glasgow Centre for Population Health
Lisa Garnham
PhD Public Health
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Introduction
I am currently working at the GCPH on a peer research project with migrant and refugee women.
My previous research at the Centre has considered the impacts of housing and of neighbourhood change on quality of life, health and wellbeing and the impacts of Sistema Scotland's 'Big Noise' music programmes on children and young people.
I have a particular interest in visual research methods such as photovoice and have experience working with community organisations and charities.
Additional affiliations
July 2015 - present
Position
- Public Health Research Specialist
Description
- Neighbourhoods and housing research, which explores impacts on quality of life, health and wellbeing. Focus on qualitative methods, as well as peer research.
August 2013 - June 2015
Glasgow Centre for Population Health
Position
- Research Assistant
Description
- Evaluation of Sistema Scotland's Big Noise projects in Raploch, Stirling and Govanhill, Glasgow.
July 2013 - July 2013
Position
- Research Assistant
Description
- Contributing to a review of literature on the relationship between politics and health inequalities.
Education
October 2009 - September 2014
September 2009 - January 2010
August 2005 - June 2009
Publications
Publications (28)
This article will explore the utility of Swidler’s concepts of cultured capacities and strategies of action in mapping the pathways through which area-based, multiple deprivation and inequality impact upon resources for health, health outcomes and health inequalities. It will be argued that these concepts have the potential to bring the collective...
Initial findings of the evaluation of Sistema Scotland and their 'Big Noise' social intervention.
When an arts-based activity is framed as a social intervention, its underlying processes and its ultimate impacts are often compared with and measured against the impacts of other, non-arts-based social interventions. Moreover, when that arts-based social intervention is framed as having potential benefits for public health, the demands of evaluato...
PhD thesis on the relationship between socio-political change and public health
In this chapter we use the term ‘health inequalities’ to refer to unfair differences in health outcomes between social groups (differences which in other countries are often referred to as ‘health inequities’—see Chapters 1 and 5). The chapter deals particularly with neoliberalism and its impacts in terms of inequalities in general, and health ineq...
Poverty, poor housing and poor health are complexly interconnected in a cycle that has proven resistant to intervention by housing providers or policy makers. Research often focuses on the impacts of the physical housing defects, particularly upon rates of (physical) illness and disease. There has been comparatively little research into the ways in...
Background:
The role of housing as a social determinant of health is well-established, but the causal pathways are poorly understood beyond the direct effects of physical housing defects. For low-income, vulnerable households there are particular challenges in creating a sense of home in a new tenancy which may have substantial effects on health a...
The existing literature on neighbourhood effects suggests that a number of factors within local areas can have an impact on health, including environmental hazards, social networks and the socioeconomic status of the area. However, there is minimal evidence regarding the role of housing organisations in shaping these effects. This article sets out...
This report reviews the evidence on tenant participation and activism in the Private Rented Sector (PRS). It looks at UK and international sources of academic and non-academic evidence to explore how tenant activism works and what its impacts are in different contexts. We define participation and activism as any activity in which tenants come toget...
Housing Associations in many countries exhibit increasing levels of ‘hybridity’, as reductions in state financing for social housing, exacerbated by austerity policies since the 2008 crash, have instigated ‘enterprising’ approaches to maintaining income. Alongside this, hybrid organisations have emerged in the Private Rented Sector (PRS), respondin...
The Housing through Social Enterprise research project examined the impacts of different approaches to housing provision on tenants' health and wellbeing. The project included tenants from social housing and private rented sector (PRS) providers in a three-year, longitudinal, mixed methods study. This document details the recommendations from the r...
Researchers often face problems when trying to unpack the causal pathways embedded in complex social processes, such as between poverty, housing and poor health. Difficulties in pinning down cause and effect relationships and identifying how these relationships work in different contexts make it challenging to understand how one set of circumstance...
Housing is a key driver of public health. Existing evidence clearly demonstrates the
ways in which health is damaged by homelessness and by living in poor quality
housing. However, the routes from housing to health and wellbeing are wider and
more complex than the negative effects of problems with housing. Housing as ‘home’
is not just a physical s...
Glasgow’s neighbourhoods have been undergoing a constant and evolving process
of change, some of which is small and incremental and some of which involves
extensive, planned renewal. It is important to understand what drives these
processes of change and the ways in which they impact on the quality of life, health
and wellbeing of citizens. This pr...
Summary of the findings of the Neighbourhood Change project, which looked at the past, present and future of four parts of Glasgow, Scotland.
We previously contributed a short discussion piece to this section, which described some of the challenges inherent in evaluating the public health impacts of an arts-based social intervention, Sistema Scotland’s’Big Noise’ programmes. This contribution aims to follow-up by exploring two interwoven aspects of these difficulties in more detail. The...
A scoping study explored the potential role of social enterprises in protecting and enhancing the health of low-income and otherwise vulnerable households in Glasgow. We consider how different kinds of social enterprises operating in the housing sector might work to improve access to affordable, stable and good quality homes for those in need. We b...
Background:
The UK has long had a strong commitment to neoliberal policy, the risks of which for population health are well researched. Within Europe, Scotland demonstrates especially poor health outcomes, much of which is driven by high levels of deprivation, wide inequalities and the persistent impacts of deindustrialisation. The processes throu...
The Housing through Social Enterprise project aims to explore the health impacts of social enterprises working in the housing/homelessness sector. The project has two phases – Phase I aims to clarify the key issues through a desk-based evidence review and scoping work with partner organisations, and Phase II examines the impacts of social enterpris...
Purpose
– Previous research emphasises the need for preventative interventions to reduce mental health problems among disadvantaged children and adolescents. There is however little consensus concerning the delivery and impacts of such interventions particularly non-clinical, arts-based models delivered within community settings. The purpose of thi...
Sistema Scotland is a charity that aims to ‘transform lives through music’, by creating neighbourhood-based children’s orchestras in less affluent neighbourhoods. The Glasgow Centre for Population Health, in partnership with Glasgow Caledonian University and Education Scotland, has carried out an evaluation of these programmes in Raploch, Stirling...
Might the declaration of authors’ political affiliations undermine the conditions for rational discourse?
Projects
Projects (3)
The project aims to undertake a systematic review of the evidence regarding tenant participation and activism in the Private Rented Sector (PRS). The review will include all English-language international evidence from peer-reviewed and grey literature sources published since the year 2000. It will focus on three specific objectives:
• To provide a state-of-the-art global summary of tenant participation and activism in PRS contexts
• To review the evidence of ‘what works’ in terms of impacts of tenant participation on policy, practice and outcomes for tenants
• To disseminate these findings to tenant’s rights organisations, policy makers and housing organisations/landlords
The project is funded by the CaCHE Knowledge Exchange Fund.
The Housing through Social Enterprise project aims to explore the health impacts of social enterprises working in the housing/homelessness sector. The project has two phases – Phase I aims to clarify the key issues through a desk-based evidence review and scoping work with partner organisations, and Phase II examines the impacts of social enterprises through direct research with tenants.
