Qualitative SIG

Dr Steph Scott

Role(s) within the University: Lecturer in Public Health Inequalities and Qualitative Methods; ECR lead for the Public Health and Health Inequalities (PHHI) theme within PHSI; co-lead for the PHHI monthly seminar series; Management/Steering group roles across both NENC ARC and Fuse. 

Background 

Steph is a social scientist with inter-disciplinary expertise across applied public health, sociology and criminology.

She holds a Trustee role with the charity NE Youth and has secured research income with a total value of over £3.7 million, most recently including the award of a prestigious ESRC New Investigator grant. Her research interests include marginalisation, stigma and health inequalities, particularly in relation to justice-involved families, young people, vulnerable populations and those experiencing multiple, complex needs. Methodologically, Steph is a highly experienced qualitative researcher with particular expertise in advanced qualitative skills such as longitudinal methods, co-produced data collection and analysis and visual or creative methodologies such as diary elicitation.

Current work focuses on: young people’s longitudinal experiences of the COVID-19 pandemic; emotional wellbeing, health and health inequalities in children and young people with an incarcerated family member; the impact of stigma on the health of marginalised groups; prison food environments; food insecurity amongst those experiencing severe mental illness; and first-time offenders of domestic violence and abuse.

 Areas of interest: 

  • Health Inequalities
  • Marginalised and Minoritised Communities
  • Young people
  • Justice-involved communities
  • Prison-based research
  • Patient and Public Involvement
  • Co-production
  • Sensitive and emotionally distressing research
  • Longitudinal Qualitative Methods
  • Creative and visual methods

Supervision and Teaching: 

Steph co-leads the Masters-level module ‘Fundamentals of Research’ and is also module lead for ‘Public Policy, Health and Health Inequalities’. She has also developed and facilitates an Introduction to Qualitative Methods in Health Research’ session for the PGR training and induction programme within FMS.

Steph supervises numerous PhD, masters and undergraduate projects; she is also an internal assessor for several PhD students.

Twitter: @StephanieO18