Dr Elisabeth Garratt
School of Education
Senior Lecturer in Quantitative Methods
elisabeth.garratt@sheffield.ac.uk
The Wave
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Dr Elisabeth Garratt
School of Education
The Wave
2 Whitham Road
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S10 2AH
School of Education
The Wave
2 Whitham Road
ºù«Ӱҵ
S10 2AH
- Profile
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Understanding homelessness & food poverty - Meet Dr Elisabeth Garrett Beth is an interdisciplinary social scientist, joining the ºù«Ӱҵ Methods Institute as a Lecturer in Quantitative Methods in September 2019. Before this, she was a Research Fellow at the Centre for Social Investigation, Nuffield College, Oxford. She completed her PhD in Social Statistics at the University of Manchester in 2015, exploring the role of income on mental health in 3-12 year-old British children and their parents. She also holds an MSc in Social Research Methods and Statistics (University of Manchester) and a BA in Psychology with Philosophy (University of Oxford).From April 2023, Beth is serving as Principal Investigator on an ESRC-funded project entitled 'Navigating food insecurity and environmental sustainability on a low income: A case study of ºù«Ӱҵ mothers'. The project explores mothers' experiences of day-to-day food provisioning on a low income, incorporating novel considerations about the role played by environmental sustainability practices in everyday food provisioning. This feminist, qualitative research project involves 15 months of longitudinal fieldwork with 15 low-income families in ºù«Ӱҵ, combining in-depth interviews with ethnographic elements. More information about the project is available .
Beth is also currently writing up findings from an earlier qualitative research project exploring people’s experiences of homelessness in the city of Oxford, where she also served as the Principal Investigator. This project used in-depth interviews and life history mapping to explore people’s housing and homelessness biographies over the lifecourse. Its particular focus is on the long-term causes of homelessness and people's trajectories through different experiences of homelessness over time.Beth holds a PGCert in Teaching for Learning in Higher Education and is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.
- Research interests
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- Homelessness
- Housing exclusion
- Food insecurity and food poverty
- Emergency food
- Mental health
- Poverty
- Welfare policy
- Quantitative methods
- Qualitative methods
- Publications
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Books
- Social Progress in Britain. Oxford University Press.
Journal articles
- . Public Health Nutrition, 27(1).
- . Nutrition Bulletin.
- . Appetite, 203, 107650-107650.
- . Qualitative Research.
- . Disability & Society, 1-27.
- . Geoforum, 116, 140-148.
- . Journal of Social Policy, 49(4), 785-809.
- . The Clinical Teacher, 17(4), 415-417.
- . British Food Journal, 121(3), 658-674.
- . Significance, 15(6), 8-8.
- . BMC Public Health, 17(1).
- . Child Development, 88(4), 1302-1320.
- . Sociology, 50(6), 1072-1088.
- . Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology, 51(10), 1361-1372.
- . Academic Psychiatry, 40(4), 659-666.
- . Oral Presentations, A33.1-A33.
- . Housing Studies, 39(7), 1813-1831.
Chapters
- Life mapping In Barron A, Browne AL, Ehgartner U, Hall SM, Pottinger L & Ritson J (Ed.), Methods for Change: Impactful social science methodologies for 21st century problems (pp. 142-150). Manchester: Aspect & The University of Manchester..
Book reviews
- . People, Place and Policy, 18(1), 59-61.
- . Sociology, 56(6), 1241-1242.
- . Social Policy & Administration, 56(3), 538-539.
Reports
- Homelessness in Oxford : risks and opportunities across housing and homeless transitions
- #stillhungry : who is hungry, for how long, and why?
- The childhood origins of social mobility : socio-economic inequalities and changing opportunities
- Trading places : worklessness dynamics in Greater Manchester
- Understanding the worklessness dynamics and characteristics of deprived areas
- English indices of deprivation 2010 : technical report
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- Social Progress in Britain. Oxford University Press.
- Teaching activities
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In the 2024-25 academic year, I am teaching on the following modules:
- SMI11002 Foundations of Social Science - An introduction to social research: key methods, major theories, and the practicalities of doing research in the real world. This module is taken by level 1 undergraduates studying for a BA in Applied Social Sciences.
- SMI622 - Principles of Research Design II (module convenor) - This module examines principles of good research design, with a focus on what actually happens during and after the process of conducting research. In doing so it covers topics including research ethics, sampling and recruitment, collaboration with other researchers, data analysis, and research dissemination. This module is taken by students studying for an MA in Social Research.
- FCS601 - Research ethics and integrity (module convenor) - This module provides a brief introduction to the key principles of research ethics, and to integrity in academic research. This module is taken by all postgraduate research students across the Faculty of Social Sciences, and students studying for an MA in Social Research.
- Guest teaching - I am also delivering to guest teaching sessions on the following modules: level 1 Principles in PPE; level 2 Case Studies in PPE; level 3 dissertation / advanced project module, and MA Principles of Research Design I.
- PhD Supervision
- Rhiannon Williams: Tackling homelessness in the UK: a data analytics approach (with Prof Gwilym Price and Dr Andy Bell). ESRC-funded Data Analytics and Society CDT, in partnership with Shelter, completed 2023
I am interested in supervising enthusiastic and motivated research students in the areas matching my research interests.
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