Academic Publications

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2025

Coggon, J. (2025) The boundaries and goals of legal scholarship within health of the public research. Northern Ireland Legal Quarterly 76(1), pp. 75–102. doi: 10.53386/nilq.v76i1.1150.
Turnbull, S.L., Jordan, M., Linnett, R.J., Black, D., Knibb, H., Sharpe, Z. and Bondy, K. (2025) Development and optimisation of an intervention to increase the intention to act on health and health equity within the private sector of urban development: an evidence, theory and Person-Based Approach. BMC Public Health 25(1). doi: 10.1186/s12889-025-22559-w.
Le Gouais, A. (2025) A qualitative study exploring how local politicians influence healthy local planning policies. Cities & Health, pp. 1–11. doi: 10.1080/23748834.2025.2493409.
Beshir, H.A. and Fichera, E. (2025) “And Breathe Normally”: Impacts of low emission zones on sick leave and mental well-being. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 234, p. 106994. doi: 10.1016/j.jebo.2025.106994.
Ayres, S., Newman, J., Sandford, M., Barnfield, A. and Bates, G. (2025) How democratically elected mayors can achieve mission-oriented policies in turbulent times. Regional Studies 59(1), pp. 1–14. doi: 10.1080/00343404.2025.2472014.
Barnfield, A. and Bates, G. (2025) Coding with a transdisciplinary team – A project exploring unhealthy urban development. Area. doi: 10.1111/area.12998.
Linnett, R.J., Bondy, K., Jordan, M., Black, D. and Turnbull, S. (2025) Development and evaluation of an intervention designed to increase the prioritisation of health by professionals working in the private sector of urban development: study protocol. Cities & Health, pp. 1–14. doi: 10.1080/23748834.2024.2447120.
Ayres, S., Newman, J., Bates, G., Le Gouais, A., McClathey, R. and Pearce, N. (2025) Are we any closer to tackling health inequalities in England? Contemporary Social Science 19(4), pp. 531–554. doi: 10.1080/21582041.2024.2430586.
Black, D., Bates, G., Gibson, A., Pain, K., Rosenberg, G. and White, J. 2025. What is “good” co-production in the context of planetary health research, and how is it enabled? Earth System Governance 23, p. 100229. doi: 10.1016/j.esg.2024.100229.

2024

Coggon, J. (2024) Defining global health law. Journal of Global Health Law 1(2), pp. 150–176. doi: 10.4337/jghl.2024.02.02.
Bates, G., Barnfield, A., Pearce, N. and Ayres, S. (2024) Why didn’t the ‘critical juncture’ of the COVID-19 pandemic lead to the re-integration of public health into urban development policy in England? Cities & Health, pp. 1–13. doi: 10.1080/23748834.2024.2442840.
Le Gouais, A., Eaton, E., Hanss, K. and Kidger, J. 2024. Using health evidence to influence healthier urban development: a qualitative evaluation of a researcher–practitioner collaboration. Cities & Health, pp. 1–14. doi: 10.1080/23748834.2024.2412436.
Black, D., Bates, G., Callway, R., Pain, K. and Kirton-Darling, E. (2024) Short-termism in urban development: The commercial determinants of planetary health. Earth System Governance 22, p. 100220. doi: 10.1016/j.esg.2024.100220.
Newberry, P., Kwon, H.R. and Carhart, N. (2024) A systems approach to improving health consideration in UK urban development: a real estate perspective. Cities & Health, pp. 1–16. doi: 10.1080/23748834.2024.2389351.
Papastavrou Brooks, C., Kidger, J., Hickman, M. and Le Gouais, A. (2024) The role of emotion in urban development decision-making: A qualitative exploration of the perspectives of decision-makers. Health & Place 89, p. 103332. doi: 10.1016/j.healthplace.2024.103332.
Eaton, E. and Hunt, A. (2024) Does Willingness to Pay Differ for Mental and Physical Health? Value in Health 27(10), pp. 1417–1425. doi: 10.1016/j.jval.2024.06.009.
Le Gouais, A. and Cooper, M. (2024) Who can influence healthy urban development? Cities & Health, pp. 1–13. doi: 10.1080/23748834.2024.2362508.
Stewart-Evans, J., Koksal, C. and Chang, M. (2024) Can the implementation of net gain requirements in England’s planning system be applied to health? The Lancet Planetary Health 8(3), pp. e188-e196. doi: 10.1016/s2542-5196(24)00001-9.
Hasan, M.N. and Bondy, K. (2024) Reframing Informal Institutional Voids as the Attempted Remaking of Contested Social Spaces: Evidence from England. Journal of Management Inquiry 34(2), pp. 203–221. doi: 10.1177/10564926241242045.

2023

Eaton, E., Hunt, A. and Black, D. (2023) Developing and testing an environmental economics approach to the valuation and application of urban health externalities. Frontiers in Public Health 11. doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2023.1070200.
Ige-Elegbede, J., Powell, J. and Pilkington, P. (2023) A systematic review of the impacts of extreme heat on health and wellbeing in the United Kingdom. Cities & Health 8(3), pp. 432–446. doi: 10.1080/23748834.2023.2283240.

Kirton-Darling, E. (2023) Death, social reform and the scrutiny of social welfare provision: the role of the contemporary inquest. Journal of Social Welfare and Family Law 45(4), pp. 363–386. doi: 10.1080/09649069.2023.2281847.

Bates, G., Hasan, M.N., Barnfield, A. and Bondy, K. (2023) Urban policies and the creation of healthy urban environments: A review of government housing and transport policy documents in the United Kingdom. Journal of Urban Affairs, pp. 1–19. doi: 10.1080/07352166.2023.2260029.

Newberry, P. and Carhart, N. (2023) Constructing causal loop diagrams from large interview data sets. System Dynamics Review 40(1). doi: 10.1002/sdr.1745.
Ayres, S., Barnfield, A., Bates, G., Le Gouais, A. and Pearce, N. (2023) What needs to happen to ‘level up’ public health? Contemporary Social Science 18(3-4), pp. 500–526. doi: 10.1080/21582041.2023.2232765.

Wong, C., Pain, K., Rain Kwon, H., Koksal, C. (2023) Urban Planning and Public Health. Built Environment (49)2, special edition editorial.

Koksal, C., & Wong, C. (2023). Beyond public health, beyond spatial planning: Boundary-spanning policy regime of urban health in England. Built Environment, 49(2), pp. 166-186.

Kwon, H., Pain, K. (2023) Searching for Health and Wellbeing: Commercial Real Estate Actor Encounters with Planning in the Urban Decision-making ‘Black Box’. Built Environment, 49(2) pp. 229-247.

Burnett, A. and Pain, A (2023). Linking environmental and human health in English urban development decision-making: the human health literacy of environmental policy. Built Environment. 49(2), pp. 187-206.

Emeghe, I., & Pain, K. (2023). Mental Wellbeing, Housing Provision and Social Valuation in a United Kingdom Context: A Planning Issue? Built Environment49(2), pp. 286-303.

Peake-Jones, S., Le Gouais, A. (2023). Meaningful Engagement An Approach to Healthier Urban Development and Planning. Built Environment 49(2), pp. 304-321.

Black, D., Bates, G., Ayres, S., Bondy, K., Callway, R., Carhart, N., Coggon, J., Gibson, A., Hunt, A., Rosenberg, G. (2023) Operationalising a large research programme tackling complex urban and planetary health problems: a case study approach to critical reflection. Sustainability Science 18(5), pp. 2373–2389. doi: 10.1007/s11625-023-01344-x.
Hasan, M.N., Koksal, C., Montel, L., Le Gouais, A., Barnfield, A., Bates, G. and Kwon, H.R. (2023) Developing shared understanding through online interdisciplinary collaboration: Reflections from a research project on better integration of health outcomes in future urban development practice. Futures 150, p. 103176. doi: 10.1016/j.futures.2023.103176.
Bates, G., Ayres, S., Barnfield, A. and Larkin, C. (2023) What types of health evidence persuade policy actors in a complex system? Policy & Politics, pp. 1–27. doi: 10.1332/030557321×16814103714008.

Le Gouais, A., Bates, G., Callway, R., Rain Kwon, H., Montel, L., Peake-Jones, S., White, J., Nazmul Hasan, M., Koksal, C., Barnfield, A., Bondy, K., Ayres, S. (2023) Understanding how to create healthier places: A qualitative study exploring the complex system of urban development decision-making. Health & Place 81, p. 103023. doi: 10.1016/j.healthplace.2023.103023.
Barnfield, A. (2023) How value is enacted by public actors within urban development funding and the implications for levelling up in England. Environment and Planning F 3(4), pp. 323–342. doi: 10.1177/26349825231155880.
Callway, R., Le Gouais, A., Bird, E.L., Chang, M. and Kidger, J. (2023) Integrating Health into Local Plans: A Comparative Review of Health Requirements for Urban Development in Seven Local Planning Authorities in England. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 20(5), p. 4079. doi: 10.3390/ijerph20054079.
Eaton, E., Hunt, A. and Black, D. (2023). Developing and testing an environmental economics approach to the valuation and application of urban health externalities. Frontiers in Public Health 11. doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2023.1070200.

Montel, L., (2023). ‘Harnessing the power of the law’: a qualitative analysis of the legal determinants of health in English urban planning and recommendations for fairer and healthier decision-making. BMC public health23(1), p.310. doi: 10.1186/s12889-023-15166-0

Bates, G., Le Gouais A., Barnfield, A., Callway, R., Md Nazmul, H., Kwon, H. R., Peake-Jones, S., White, J., Bondy, K., Ayres, S. (2023). Balancing Autonomy and Collaboration in Large-Scale and Disciplinary Diverse Teams for Successful Qualitative Research. International Journal of Qualitative Methods 22. doi: 10.1177/16094069221144594.

 

2022

Black, D., Ayres, S., Bondy, K., Brierley, R., Campbell, R., Carhart, N., Coggon, J., Eaton, E., Fichera, E., Gibson, A., Hatleskog, E., Hickman, M., Hicks, B., Hunt, A., Pain, K., Pearce, N., Pilkington, P., Rosenberg, G., Scally, G. (2022). Tackling Root Causes Upstream of Unhealthy Urban Development (TRUUD): Protocol of a five-year prevention research consortium. Wellcome Open Research 6, p. 30. doi: 10.12688/wellcomeopenres.16382.2.

Beshir, H., & Fichera, E. (2022). “And Breathe Normally”: The Low Emission Zone impacts on health and well-being in England. Health Econometrics Data Group, University of York. (09 ed.) Available from: https://www.york.ac.uk/media/economics/documents/hedg/workingpapers/2022/2209.pdf

Le Gouais, A. and Peake-Jones, S. (2022). Researchers-in-Residence to facilitate co-production: the TRUUD project. Perspectives in Public Health 142(4), pp. 193–195. doi: 10.1177/17579139221103183.

2021

Scally G., Black D., Pilkington P., Williams B., Ige J., Prestwood E. (2021) The Application of ‘Elite Interviewing’ Methodology in Transdisciplinary Research: a Record of Process and Lessons Learned during a 3-year Pilot in Urban Planetary Health Research. Journal of Urban Health 98(3), pp. 404-414. doi: 10.1007/s11524-021-00542-1

Black, D., Pilkington P., Williams B., Ige J., Prestwood E., Hunt A., Eaton E., Scally G., (2021) Overcoming Systemic Barriers Preventing Healthy Urban Development in the UK: Main Findings from Interviewing Senior Decision-Makers During a 3-Year Planetary Health Pilot. Journal of Urban Health 98(3), pp. 415–427. doi: 10.1007/s11524-021-00537-y.

Coggon, J. and Adams, J. (2021). ‘Let them choose not to eat cake.’: Public health ethics, effectiveness and equity in government obesity strategy. Future Healthcare Journal 8(1), pp. 49–52. doi: 10.7861/fhj.2020-0246.

2020

Ige-Elegbede, J., Pilkington, P., Orme, J., Williams, B., Prestwood, E., Black, D. and Carmichael, L. (2020). Designing healthier neighbourhoods: a systematic review of the impact of the neighbourhood design on health and wellbeing. Cities & Health 6(5), pp. 1004–1019. doi: 10.1080/23748834.2020.1799173.
Carmichael, L., Prestwood, E., Marsh, R., Ige, J., Williams, B., Pilkington, P., Eaton, E. and Michalec, A. (2020). Healthy buildings for a healthy city: Is the public health evidence base informing current building policies? Science of The Total Environment 719, p. 137146. doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.137146.
Black, D., Bates, G., Gibson, A., Hatleskog, E., Fichera, E., Hatchard, J., Nazmul, Hasan Md., Rosenberg, G., Larkin, C., Brierley, R., Kidger, J., Bondy, K., Hickman, M., Pain, K., Hicks, B., Scally, G., Verma, A., Carhart, N., Pilkington, P., Hunt, A., and Ireland, P. (2020). Pandemics, vulnerability, and prevention: time to fundamentally reassess how we value and communicate risk? Cities & Health 5, pp. S93-S96. doi: 10.1080/23748834.2020.1811480.
Coggon, J. and Gostin, L.O. (2020). Global Health with Justice: Controlling the Floodgates of the Upstream Determinants of Health through Evidence-Based Law. Public Health Ethics 13(1), pp. 4–9. doi: 10.1093/phe/phaa011.

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