Staff Profile
Mrs Joanne-Marie Cairns-Nagi
Contact Mrs Joanne-Marie Cairns-Nagi (email at j.m.cairns@durham.ac.uk)
Biography
2009 - 2012: PhD Geography, University of Durham (ESRC funded CASE studentship with the North East Public Health Observatory).
2008 - 2009: MA in Research Methods (Geography), University of Durham.
2005 - 2008: BA (Combined Honours), University of Durham.
Jo Cairns is a teaching fellow in Geography and a research associate at the Wolfson Research Institute for Health & Wellbeing. Jo completed her PhD and MA in the Geography department, Durham University. Her doctoral research explored the concept of ‘health resilience’.
Jo’s current research interests include health inequalities, health promotion, assets-based approaches, community capacity building, risk and resilience particularly in relation to (ill)health, social capital, and social (in)justice issues.
Teaching commitments:
Academic advisor and dissertation supervisor
Level 2 Social Research Methods
Level 3 Geographies of Health & Health Care
Level 4 Understanding Risk
Professional Membership
- Associate of the Higher Education Academy
- Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) - Geography of Health Research Group.
- British Sociological Association.
Research Groups
Research Projects
- ROBUST: Regeneration Of Brownfield Using Sustainable Technology, EPSRC, £1 million
- Tackling Inequalities in Obesity
Selected Publications
Journal papers: academic
- Cairns, J.M., Curtis, S.E. & Bambra, C. Defying Deprivation: A Cross-Sectional Analysis of Area Level Health Resilience in England. Health and Place. 2012;18:928-933.