Past Projects and Clients
Team members and our associate consultants have produced a wide range of reports (techincal, advisory, scoping and substantive) for a variety of public and private sector bodies. All have also published in peer-review journals, demonstrating the academic integrity as well as the policy relevance of our work. A selection of recent output is listed below.
Technical, Advisory, Scoping and other Substantive Reports
Gibson, A., Bailey, T. and Fraser, D. (2005) Demographic mapping of the Skills for Life Survey to local areas. Department for Education and Skills. [external link]
Barr, S., et al., (2004) The feasibility and public acceptance of substituting bio-composites for fossil fuel derived plastics (ESRC RELU Networking Project)
Asthana, S., Brigham, P. and Gibson, A. (2002). Health Resource Allocation in England: What Case can be made for Rurality. University of Plymouth. ISBN 1-84102-099-0. [pdf]
Asthana, S., Halliday, J., Brigham, P. and Gibson, A. (2002). Rural Deprivation and Service Need: an Assessment of Indicators for Rural Service Planning. Report published by South West Public Health Observatory. ISBN 0-95413595-4 [external link]
Asthana, S., Gibson, A. and Brigham, P. (2001). Estimating the Prevalence of Coronary Heart Disease at a Practice Level. Series of unpublished reports to 34 primary care organisations. University of Plymouth, September, 2001.
Asthana, S., Gibson, A., Moon, G., Dicker, J. and Brigham, P. (2001). Practice level needs assessment: a comparison of different approaches using routine data. Series of unpublished reports for seven health authorities, University of Plymouth, May, 2001.Gibson, A. and Asthana, S. (2001) Resource Allocation Methodologies for the prevention and treatment of specific diseases: A critical review of the attribution and resource-weighting of condition-specific Indicative Prevalences, Presentation to the Technical Advisory Group, ACRA, 22 May 2001.
Gibson, A. and Asthana, S. (2000) Estimating the socio-economic characteristics of school populations using pupil postcodes and census data, Presentation to the DfES, London, 5th April 2000.Gilg A. W. and Kelly M. P. (2000), Exmoor. A New Rural Arcadia for the 21st Century, WISE, 2000.
Ford, N.J. and Koetsawang, S. (1999). A pragmatic and non-judgemental intervention to promote condom use by sex workers in Thailand, Bulletin of the World Health Organisation, 77(11), pp888-894.
Parsons,
E., Asthana, S. and
Gibson, A. (1997) Characteristics of
fundholding and
non-fundholding practice populations.
Series of unpublished reports to
Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly, North and East Devon,
South and West Devon, Somerset and Gloucestershire Health Authorities,
University of Plymouth, November 1997.
Academic Publications
Barr, S., Gilg, A. W. and Ford, N. J. (2005). The Household Energy Gap: the divide between habitual and purchase-related conservation behaviours, Energy Policy, 33 (11), pp. 1425-1444.Gilg, A. W., Barr, S. and Ford, N. J. (2005) ‘Green Consumption or Sustainable Lifestyles? Identifying the sustainable consumer’, Futures, 37 (6), 481-504.
Gilg, A. W., Barr, S and Ford, N. J. (2005). "Encouraging Environmental Action" by Exhortation: Evidence from a Study in Devon, Journal of Environmental Planning and Management, 48 (4), pp. 593-618.
Asthana, S., Gibson, A., Moon, G., Dicker, J. and Brigham, P. (2004) The demographic and social class basis of inequalities in morbidity: a comparison. Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, 58(4), pp303-307.
Asthana,S., Gibson, A., Moon, G., Dicker, J. and Brigham, P. (2004). The pursuit of equity in NHS resource allocation: should morbidity replace utilisation as the basis for setting health care capitations? Social Science and Medicine, 58(3):539-551.
Barr, S. (2004) Are we all environmentalists now? Rhetoric and reality in environmental decision making, Geoforum, 35 (2), pp. 231-249.
Barr, S. (2004) "What we buy, what we throw away, and how we use our voice". Individual attitudes and waste policy in the UK, Sustainable Development, 11 (1), pp. 32-44.
Kelly, M., Selman, P., and Gilg, A. W. (2004). Taking sustainability forward: Relating practice to policy in a changing legislative environment, Town Planning Review, 75, (3) 2004 pp.309-335.
Asthana, S., Gibson, A., Moon, G. and Brigham, P. (2003) Allocating resources for health and social care: the significance of rurality. Health and Social Care in the Community, 11(6):486-93.
Barr, S. (2003) ‘Strategies for Sustainability: citizens and responsible environmental behaviour’, Area, 35 (3), pp. 227-240.
Barr, S., Ford, N. J. and Gilg, A. W. (2003) ‘Attitudes towards recycling household waste in Exeter, Devon: quantitative and qualitative approaches’, Local Environment, 8 (4), pp. 407-421.
Barr, S., Gilg, A. W. and Ford, N. J. (2003) Who are the environmentalists? Part 1: environmentalism in Britain today, Town and Country Planning, 72 (6) pp. 185-186.
Barr, S., Gilg, A. W. and Ford, N. J. (2003) Who are the environmentalists? Part 2: how do people value the environment, Town and Country Planning, 72 (7), pp. 216-217.
Barr, S., Gilg, A. W. and Ford, N. J. (2003) Who are the environmentalists? Part 3: encouraging environmental action, Town and Country Planning, 72 (7), pp. 218-220.
Barr, S. (2002). The Big Clean Up: Public Rhetoric and Reality, Town and Country Planning, 71 (10), pp. 280-281.
Ford, N.J. and Vieira, E.M. (2002). 'Beyond stereotypes of Brazilian male sexuality: qualitative and quantitative findings from Sao Paulo, Brazil. Culture, Health and Sexuality. 5(1) pp53-69.
Gibson, A., Asthana, S., Brigham, P., Moon, G. and Dicker, J. (2002). Geographies of Need and the New NHS: Methodological Issues in the Definition and Measurement of the Health Needs of Local Populations. Health and Place, 8(1):47-60.
Bailey T.C., (2001), 'Spatial Statistical Analysis in Health', Cadernos de Saude Publica, 17, 5, 1083-1098.
Barr, S., Gilg, A. W. and Ford, N. J. (2001). A conceptual framework for understanding and analysing attitudes towards household waste management, Environment and Planning A, 33(11), pp. 2025-2048.
Barr, S., Gilg, A. W. and Ford, N. J. (2001). Differences between reduction, reuse and recycling behaviour: a study of reported waste management behaviour, Environmental and Waste Management, 4(2), pp. 69-82.
Gibson, A. and Asthana, S. (2000) Estimating the socio-economic characteristics of school populations using pupil postcodes and census data: an appraisal. Environment and Planning A, 32:1267-1285.
Gibson, A. and Asthana, S. (2000). Local markets and the polarization of schools in England and Wales. Transactions of the British Institute of Geographers, 25:303-319.
Gilg, A. W., A welcome re-birth but genetic engineering required: The public examination into the draft RPG for the South West of England, Town and Country Planning, 69, 6, 2000, pp. 174-176.
Gilg, A. W. and Kelly, M., Managing change in the millennium-Fine tuning or radical reform? Town Planning Review, 71, 3, 2000, pp. 269-288.
Gilg, A. W. and Kelly, M., The analysis of public policy: A cautionary tale from the land use planning arena, Planning Practice and Research, 15, 4, 2000, pp. 335-342.
Asthana, S., Gibson, A. and Parsons, E. (1999). The Geography of GP Fundholding in South West England: Implications for the Evolution of Primary Care Groups. Health and Place, 5(4):271-78.
Kelly, M. P. (1999), 'Environmental Capacity and its role in Life Systems Design'. EcoDesign, VI(3), February 1999.
Gibson, A. and Asthana, S. (1998). Schools, pupils and exam results: contextualizing school ‘performance’. British Educational Research Journal, 24(4):269-82.
Gibson, A. and Asthana, S. (1998). 'School performance, school effectiveness and the 1997 White Paper'. Oxford Review of Education, 24(2):195-210.
Kelly, M.P. and Gilg, A. W.(1997), 'The delivery of planning policy in Great Britain'. Environment and Planning C., 15, 19-36.
Gilg, A.W. and Kelly, M. P. (1997), 'Rural Planning in Practice: the case of agricultural dwellings'. Progress in Planning, 47(2).
Gatrell A.C., Bailey T.C. (1996), 'Interactive spatial data analysis in medical geography'. Social Science and Medicine, 42, 6, 843-855.
Gilg, A.W. and Kelly, M. P. (1996), 'The analysis of development control decisions: a position statement and some new insights from recent research in south-west England'. Town Planning Review, 67(2), 203-228.
Kelly, M. P. and Gilg, A. W. (1996), 'Closing the agricultural loophole'. Town and Country Planning, December 1996.