Researcher

Heather Mackay

Institute: Department of Human Geography, Lund University
Research area: Agriculture rural development & food security, Environment and climate change, Equitable economic growth, Gender equality, Health, Migration, Urban development / City planning
Research region: Africa
Open to collaboration with: All

Professional experience

Lecturing
Supervision of Master’s students
Supervision of Bachelor’s students

Other experience

Lecturing and workshops
Survey creation and analysis

Personal institution page

Publications

Teenagers and contraception

BMJ
Carbon monoxide poisoning in a former mining community.

BMJ
Double enteric infection (‘la fièvre typhoïde intriquée’). An account of an epidemic

Epidemiology and Infection
P027 THE EMOTIONAL EXPERIENCE OF IBD: ARE THEY ALL DEPRESSED OR ARE WE MISSING SOMETHING?

Gastroenterology
P054 WHAT ARE THEY WORRIED ABOUT?: FINDINGS FROM THE IBD DISTRESS SCALE

Inflammatory Bowel Diseases
Protection and management of groundwater-dependent ecosystems: emerging challenges and potential approaches for policy and management

Australian Journal of Botany
The Effect of Age on a Short-Term Auditory Storage Process

Gerontology
Rights of Next of Kin

BMJ
A rise is a rise is a rise

BMJ
A feminist geographic analysis of perceptions of food and health in Ugandan cities

Gender, Place & Culture
Planned Adaptation Measures in Industrialised Countries: A Comparison of Select Countries Within and Outside the EU

Developing Adaptation Policy and Practice in Europe: Multi-level Governance of Climate Change
Special issue introduction: geographical perspectives on food and nutrition insecurity in the global South

Geographical Research
Research for City Practice

Cities & Health
Getting invasive species on the political agenda: agenda setting and policy formulation in the case of ash dieback in the UK

Biological Invasions
Doing things their way? Food, farming and health in two Ugandan cities

Cities & Health
Mapping and characterising the urban agricultural landscape of two intermediate-sized Ghanaian cities

Land Use Policy
Food sources and access strategies in Ugandan secondary cities: an intersectional analysis

Environment and Urbanization
A feminist geographic analysis of perceptions of food and health in Ugandan cities

Gender, Place & Culture
Of fatness, fitness and finesse: experiences and interpretations of non-communicable diseases in urban Uganda

Cities & Health
Will there be lunch? Wry reflections on research-feedback challenges in Uganda, from a newly-minted academic

Cities & Health