Dr Jill Stewart is a Senior Lecturer in Environmental Health and Housing.
Jill's environmental health and housing career started in local government for around 10 years before taking her first lecturing post in a London university in 1999. Her work has been widely recognised and features across a range of publications, including books, chapters and papers as well as conference presentations. She is a founding member of the Environmental Health Research Network and her Amazon Author Page is available by clicking here. Jill's housing Twitter account is @Jill_L_Stewart and her website focusing on housing and the humanities with links to further resources is available here.
Her qualifications are as follows:
Jill's main lecturing and professional interests are in housing and health, including environmental and public health and housing's potential in tackling inequalities. She is particularly interested in the effectiveness of housing and regeneration interventions as well as the history of public health and housing policy.
Her wider research and enterprise interests include housing and community regeneration; energy efficiency and fuel poverty; housing support and provision in the developing world; housing and regeneration in deprived seaside towns; use of evidence based practice in housing and public health; and health and social care for an ageing population. She is particularly interested in novel methods of dissemination to capture wider audiences and how we can encourage wider interest in and sensitivity to housing issues through the humanities.
Jill was appointed to Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (SFHEA) in August 2019 in recognition of her contribution to teaching and learning.
Co-founder of Centre for Public Health and Risk Management Research Group (PHaRM) https://www.mdx.ac.uk/our-research/centres/centre-for-public-health-and-risk-management
Interested in: effectiveness of housing and environmental health interventions; meaning of home; interrelationships of the arts, health and housing; ageing, dementia and housing; histories of public health; seaside towns and regeneration.
Contributor to the Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology POSTNote on Health in Private Rented Housing (2018).
Currently co-supervising DProf on the subject of hoarding behaviours and MRes on technology in the home to support those living with dementia.
Stewart, Jill and Hendon, Zoë (2022) A Walk through Housing History. In: Creative History in the Classroom [workshop series], October 2022, University of Derby and Liverpool John Moores University. (Accepted/In press)
Stewart, Jill (2022) Transforming the rented sector: home and regulation. In: Matastreet Digital Summit, 28 April 2021, Virtual. (Accepted/In press)
Stewart, Jill (2022) Housing as a process of change: international perspectives on understanding and addressing inequity. In: Colonizing Futurities Symposium, Panel 2 | How we live: Health and Housing | Perspectives from the local level of racial justice: equitable access to health, housing, and education, 10 June 2022, Cornell University, New York (Virtual presentation). (Accepted/In press)
Stewart, Jill and Moffatt, Russell (2022) Regulating the privately rented sector: what should the workforce look like? In: HSA 2022 - Housing Studies Association Annual Conference: Disruption and innovation in housing: working across boundaries in theory, research, and practice, 04-06 Apr 2022, Sheffield, UK. (Accepted/In press)
Stewart, Jill (2022) Meeting the private sector housing condition and adaptation needs of older people: responses from environmental health and other services in London. Housing, Care and Support , 25 (1). pp. 1-12. ISSN 1460-8790 (Published online first)
Since joining Middlesex University:
Current grants:
1) 2020 (ongoing): NIHR School for Public Health Research Public Health Practice Evaluation Scheme (PHPES): Private landlord licensing policy in the London Borough of Hackney. PI Prof Matt Egan, I am Co-I
2) 2020 (ongoing) Review of Housing Health and Safety Rating System: PI for Training Elements Review (with RHE)
3) 2022 Multidisciplinary SAT Equipment bid (March 2022) to jointly work with other practice-based professions.
Recently completed grants and other knowledge exchange activity:
Funded research and enterprise activities prior to joining Middlesex University:
2012-13: PI: Hotel or home at the seaside? Social, health and wellbeing outcomes for young families living in Margate, funded by School of Health and Social Care, University of Greenwich
2009-11: Secured and led enterprise funded project from CIEH to design and development the online Private Sector Housing Evidence Base.
2010: Funded by DoH via CIEH Environmental Health in the wellbeing agenda: an initial qualitative study, based around the Confident Communities: brighter futures framework
2005-6: PI: Housing as a health determinant: Is there consensus from public health partnerships on a way forward? Research grant funding from the Chartered Institute of Environmental Health
2004: Part of Interreg III: Health and Health Behaviours in SE England and Northern France (joint University of Kent, Greenwich and Catholic Lille Universities): An investigation of views and perceptions of health determinants, status and opportunities for health improvement in Kent, Medway and Nord Pas de Calais: a qualitative study
2003-4 Encouraging and enabling owner-occupiers to maintain their homes in the London Borough of Southwark: a qualitative study. Research commissioned by the Private Sector Housing Renewal Team, Bellenden Renewal Area, London Borough of Southwark
