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Staff Member Biography

Martin McKee

position: Research Assistantprogrammes: Evaluating the Health Effects of Social Interventions, Sexual Health and Families

Contact Details

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phone: 0141 357 3949 (Switchboard)

Address

MRC/CSO Social and Public Health Sciences Unit
4 Lilybank Gardens
Glasgow G12 8RZ

Biography and Interests

Martin joined the SPHSU as a cross-programme Research Assistant in 2010 and is currently providing research support for two of the Unit’s programmes: Sexual Health and Families and Evaluating the Health Effects of Social Interventions.

He has an MA (Hons) in Anthropology and Sociology from the University of Glasgow and an MSc in Social Research, also from the University of Glasgow. His MSc dissertation focused on newspaper reporting of the recent group of suicide deaths in Bridgend, Wales. As well as the social determinants of health, his research interests include aspects of the media and criminological fields and also quantitative and qualitative research methodology.
 

Publications

Gibson M, Banas K, Thomson H, Bambra C, Bond L, McKee M, Lutje V, Fenton C. Welfare to work interventions and their effects on the health and well-being of lone parents and their children. Edinburgh: Chief Scientist's Office, 2011.

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