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      Dr Jill Stewart

      PhD, MSc, BSc (hons), PGCE (PCET), FCIEH, CEnvH, CIHM, FRSPH, FRGS, SFHEA
      ROLE: Senior Lecturer in Housing & Environmental Health
      SCHOOL: Science & Technology
      DEPARTMENT: Natural Sciences
      TELEPHONE: +44 (0)20 8411 5807
      EMAIL: J.Stewart@mdx.ac.uk
      1. Biography &
        Qualifications
      2. Learning &
        Teaching Interests
      3. Research Outputs &
        Interests
      4. Funded Research &
        Knowledge Exchange Projects
      5. Engagement &
        Impact

      • Biography &
        Qualifications

        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:

        • 2007 PhD Evidence based strategies to enable health promoting housing and communities in the private sector
        • 2001 PGCE (Post Compulsory Education and Training)
        • 1995 MSc Policy Studies
        • 1990 BSc (hons) Environmental Health

        Languages Spoken

      • Learning &
        Teaching Interests

        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.

      • Research Outputs &
        Interests

        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.

        Publication Feed

        Environmental health and the private rental sector: tackling housing conditions that impact health

        Stewart, Jill (2019) Environmental health and the private rental sector: tackling housing conditions that impact health. In: Combating Rogue Landlords: Ensuring Safer And Securer Homes, 19 September 2019, Government Events, London. (Accepted/In press)

        Shining a light on housing services for older people

        Stewart, Jill (2019) Shining a light on housing services for older people. In: CIEH London Housing Study Group Member Forum, 11 Nov 2019, Union Jack Club, Waterloo. (Accepted/In press)

        The sanitary inspectors and ‘the slums’ 1914-1921: what they saw, what they thought and how they influenced the post war housing design and standards

        Stewart, Jill (2019) The sanitary inspectors and ‘the slums’ 1914-1921: what they saw, what they thought and how they influenced the post war housing design and standards. In: Homes Fit for Heroes Centenary Conference: Learning from 1919, 18 Jul 2019, Institute of Historical Research, Malet Street, London.

        Private rented sector and the challenges facing health: an overview

        Stewart, Jill (2019) Private rented sector and the challenges facing health: an overview. In: Public Health Housing Network (Spotlight session PRS and Rogue Landlords), 07 Apr 2019, London.

        From house to home across the life-course

        Stewart, Jill (2019) From house to home across the life-course. In: CIEH London Housing Study Group CPD Day, 27 Mar 2019, CIEH, Waterloo, London.

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      • Funded Research &
        Knowledge Exchange Projects

        Funded research and enterprise activities prior to joining Middlesex University:

        2009-11: Secured and led enterprise funded project from CIEH to design and development the online Private Sector Housing Evidence Base.                   

        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

        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 Behavious 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.

         

        Since joining Middlesex University:

        • 2019: Grant from Association of London Environmental Health Managers (ALEHM) to carry out a small scale project across London to explore private sector housing support to older people with an emphasis on dementia (see https://www.mdx.ac.uk/news/2019/3/middlesex-researchers-investigate-dementia-support-provided-in-london)
        • 2018-19: Worked with Metastreet to develop and deliver CPD L7 course: PRS4117 Advanced Private Sector Housing Regulation (see https://www.mdx.ac.uk/courses/cpd/advanced-private-sector-housing-regulation)

      • Engagement &
        Impact

        • Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Environmental Health
        • Chartered Environmental Health Practitioner
        • Member of the Chartered Institute of Housing
        • Fellow of the Royal Society for Public Health
        • Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society
        • External examiner for the MSc Environmental Health at Birmingham University
        • Member of the CIEH Association of London Environmental Health Managers (ALEHM) London Housing Group
        • Co-Chair of the London Public Health and Housing Network (PHHN)
        • Member of the CIEH Housing Advisory Panel
        • Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy

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