Profiles
Dr Kerryn Husk
PenCLAHRC Senior Research Fellow in Health Services Research (Quantitative)
Clinical Trials & Health Research - Institute of Translational & Stratified Medicine (Plymouth University Peninsula Schools of M
Qualifications
BSc Sociology/Politics - 2006
MSc Social Research - 2007
PhD Social Research - 2012
Professional membership
Sociology Associate Editorial Board, 2015 - 2018
Sociological Research Online Editorial Board, 2017 - 2020
Affiliate Member - Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (RCPCH)
Google Scholar:
https://scholar.google.co.uk/citations?user=E_XnRewAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao
Research interests
I work for theNIHR CLAHRC South West Peninsula (PenCLAHRC). My interests are largely based around health inequalities, complex public health interventions and research methodology. My previous research includes a systematic review examining the evidence for the health impacts of environmental enhancement activities, assessments of the health implications of various environmental indicators through secondary data linkage and analyses of small ethnic groups in the Census. Methodologically, I am interested in the epistemology and application of both qualitative and quantitative methods in the social sciences. Other recent work has examined the possibility and desirability of ethnicity measurement in social surveys, and the emergent complex narratives uncovered by using rigorous mixed-method approaches.
Key publications are highlighted
Journals
Articles
2017
'Social prescribing offers huge potential but requires a nuanced evidence base'
BMJ Opinion
Publisher Site
2016
'Exploring the relationship between childhood obesity and proximity to the coast: A rural/urban perspective'
Health & Place
40,
129-136
, DOI
PEARL
2016
'Green Exercise. Linking Nature, Health and Well-being, Jo Barton, Rachel Bragg, Carly Wood, Jules Pretty (Eds.). Routledge, London, UK (2016)'
Mental Health and Physical Activity
11,
74-74
, DOI
2016
'Participation in environmental enhancement and conservation activities for health and well-being in adults: a review of quantitative and qualitative evidence'
Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews
(5)
, DOI
PEARL
2016
'What approaches to social prescribing work, for whom, and in what circumstances? A protocol for a realist review'
Systematic Reviews
5,
(1)
1-7
, DOI
PEARL
2015
'Beyond Greenspace: An ecological study of population general health and indicators of natural environment type and quality'
International Journal of Health Geographics
17,
(14)
, DOI
2015
'Indoor fungal diversity and asthma: a metaanalysis and systematic review of risk factors'
Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology
135,
(1)
110-122
2015
'Understanding how environmental enhancement and conservation activities may benefit health and wellbeing: a systematic review'
BMC Public Health
15,
(864)
, DOI
PEARL
2015
'What accounts for ‘England's green and pleasant land’? A panel data analysis of mental health and land cover types in rural England'
Landscape and Urban Planning
142,
(0)
38-46
, DOI
2014
'“I don’t really like the pub […]”: reflections on young people and pre-loading alcohol'
Drugs and Alcohol Today
14,
(2)
58-66
, DOI
2014
'Barriers to and enablers of a workplace support website among SMEs'
International Journal of Small Business and Enterprise Research
2,
64-75
2014
'Environmental conservation activities for health: building on systematic review methods to consider a disparate, dispersed, and limited evidence base'
The Lancet
384,
S46-S46
2014
'Review of Whiteness Fractured'
Sociological Research Online: an electronic journal
19,
(2)
2014
'What are the health and well-being impacts of community gardening for adults and children: a mixed method systematic review protocol'
Environmental Evidence
3,
20-20
2013
'Can we, should we, measure ethnicity?'
International Journal of Social Research Methodology
16,
285-300
2013
'Participation in environmental enhancement and conservation activities for health and well-being in adults (Protocol)'
The Cochrane Library
Art. No.: CD010351.,
(2)
, DOI
2013
'Students and Alcohol: An Exploration of the Student Experience and the University as a Risk Environment'
Plymouth University Student Experience Group and Plymouth City Violence Delivery Group
2012
'Book Review: Malcolm Williams and W Paul Vogt The Sage Handbook of Innovation in Social Research Methods'
Sociology
46,
1230-1231
2012
'Controlling pre-loaders: alcohol related violence in an English night time economy'
Drugs and Alcohol Today
12,
(2)
89-97
, DOI
2012
'Cornish ethnicity and undercounting: utilising the 2001 England and Wales Census to develop an accurate measurement methodology'
Methodological Innovations
7,
1-12
2012
'Elucidating a Cornish Ethnie: The Argument for Mixed Method'
Sociological Research Online
17,
9-9
2012
'The Legitimation of Ethnicity: The Case of the Cornish'
Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism
12,
249-267
2011
'Ethnicity and social exclusion: research and policy implications in a Cornish case study'
Social and Public Policy Review
5,
7-25
2010
'Estimating the Cornish from the 2001 England and Wales census: adjustment and re-analyses'
Local population studies
78-83
2010
'Review of Ethnicity (Key Concepts)'
Sociological Research Online: an electronic journal
15,
(3)
2009
'Accessing education in Cornwall: exploring the structure/agency debate amongst potential students'
Cornish Studies Seventeen