Dr Emma Stewart

  • SPHSU Business Manager (MRC/CSO Social & Public Health Sciences Unit)

Biography

Emma Stewart is a Research Associate working with Ruth Dundas on MatCHNet - the Maternal and Child Health Network, as part of the Inequalities in Health Programme. MatCHNet aims to harness cross-country administrative data to evaluate national policy impacts on maternal, infant and child health and health inequalities across the 4 UK nations.

Emma holds a MA (Hons) First Class in Geography and a PhD in Geography, both from the University of Dundee. Her PhD thesis focused upon the multiple scales of exclusion faced by refugee doctors, including professionally and socially. After her PhD, she taught briefly at the University of Dundee, before taking up the post of Lecturer in Human Geography at the University of Strathclyde for 10 years. Following a short career break, she worked as a Researcher in the Safeguarding Health through Infection Prevention (SHIP) Research Group at Glasgow Caledonian University before joining the SPSHU.

Research interests

Emma's longstanding research interests are in the field of population studies, with a focus upon refugee and migration flows. Adopting a mixed methods approach, her ESRC funded projects have examined refugee mobility, evaluated UK dispersal policy and explored refugee integration. She has worked collaboratively with refugee organisations to develop understanding of citizenship and Britishness. She also led a UK-wide study into the internal/onward migration of dispersed refugees to highlight the importance of place, sense of belonging, and identity.

As part of MatCHNet, her current work focuses upon mapping policy variations across the 4 UK nations, with a specific focus upon the social determinants of health. She is interested in understanding how geographical differences in social, economic and environmental policies impact upon child health and health inequalities.

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Publications

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2024

Martin, Jack G., Stewart, Emma ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4447-9522, Lodge, Heather and MacLachlan, Alice ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8222-4221 (2024) Research Manifesto Guidance & Template. Project Report. UK Prevention Research Partnership.

Martin, Jack G., Stewart, Emma ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4447-9522, Lodge, Heather and MacLachlan, Alice ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8222-4221 (2024) Stakeholder Engagement Activities of UKPRP Funded Projects. Project Report. UK Prevention Research Partnership.

2023

Stewart, E. et al. (2023) Using administrative data to evaluate national policy impacts on child and maternal health: A research framework from the Maternal and Child Health Network (MatCHNet). Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, 77(11), pp. 710-713. (doi: 10.1136/jech-2023-220621) (PMID:37463771) (PMCID:PMC7615194)

Stewart, E. et al. (2023) Identifying opportunities for upstream evaluations relevant to child and maternal health: a UK policy-mapping review. Archives of Disease in Childhood, 108(7), pp. 556-562. (doi: 10.1136/archdischild-2022-325219) (PMID:37001969) (PMCID:PMC10314013)

Stewart, Emma ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4447-9522 (2023) Maternal and Child Health Network: Methods Briefing 1. Project Report. University of Glasgow, Glasgow. (doi: 10.36399/gla.pubs.289434).

2022

Stewart, Emma ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4447-9522 and Shaffer, Marnie (2022) Ethical challenges of depositing refugee transcripts in the UK Data Archive. [Website]

Stewart, Emma ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4447-9522 (2022) Maternal and Child Health Network Policy Report 1: Welfare Grants in Pregnancy and Early Childhood. Project Report. University of Glasgow, Glasgow. (doi: 10.36399/gla.pubs.270469).

Stewart, Emma ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4447-9522 (2022) Maternal and Child Health Network Policy Report 2: Early Years Education and Childcare. Project Report. University of Glasgow, Glasgow. (doi: 10.36399/gla.pubs.270472).

Stewart, Emma ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4447-9522 (2022) Maternal and Child Health Network Policy Report 3: Universal Credit and Welfare Policies. Project Report. University of Glasgow, Glasgow. (doi: 10.36399/gla.pubs.270474).

Price, Lesley, Gozdzielewska, Lucyna, Alejandre, Julius Cesar, Jorgenson, Annelysse, Stewart, Emma ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4447-9522, Pittet, Didier and Reilly, Jacqui (2022) Systematic review on factors influencing the effectiveness of alcohol-based hand rubbing in healthcare. Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control, 11, 16. (doi: 10.1186/s13756-021-01049-9) (PMID:35073993) (PMCID:PMC8785453)

Stewart, Emma ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4447-9522 (2022) Maternal and Child Health Network Policy Briefing 1: Welfare Grants in Pregnancy and Early Childhood. Project Report. University of Glasgow, Glasgow. (doi: 10.36399/gla.pubs.270470).

Stewart, Emma ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4447-9522 (2022) Maternal and Child Health Network Policy Briefing 2: Early Years Education and Childcare. Project Report. University of Glasgow, Glasgow. (doi: 10.36399/gla.pubs.270473).

Stewart, Emma ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4447-9522 (2022) Maternal and Child Health Network Policy Briefing 3: Universal Credit and Welfare Policies. Project Report. University of Glasgow, Glasgow. (doi: 10.36399/gla.pubs.270475).

2021

Stewart, Emma ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4447-9522, Pearce, Anna ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0085-5263, Given, Joanne, Gilbert, Ruth, Broph, Sinead, Cookson, Richard, Hardelid, Pia, Harron, Katie, Leyland, Alastair ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3741-7099 and Wood, Rachael (2021) Mapping UK policies and strategies relevant to child and maternal health to identify opportunities for upstream evaluations: Initial findings from the maternal and child health network (MatCHNet). SSM Annual Scientific Meeting 2021, Online, 15-18 Sep 2021. (doi: 10.1136/jech-2021-SSMabstracts.75)

Stewart, Emma ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4447-9522 and Shaffer, Marnie (2021) The ethical and practical challenges of archiving refugee accounts: reflections from two research projects in the UK. Bulletin of Sociological Methodology = Bulletin de Méthodologie Sociologique, 150(1), pp. 51-69. (doi: 10.1177/0759106321995707)

Shaffer, Marnie and Stewart, Emma ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4447-9522 (2021) Refugees on the move: resettlement and onward migration in 'final' destination countries. In: Cohen, Jeffrey H. and Sirkeci, Ibrahim (eds.) Handbook of Culture and Migration. Series: Elgar Handbooks in Migration. Edward Elgar, pp. 341-350. ISBN 9781789903454 (doi: 10.4337/9781789903461.00037)

Shaffer, Marnie and Stewart, Emma ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4447-9522 (2021) Refugees on the move: resettlement and onward migration in ‘final’ destination countries. In: Cohen, Jeffrey H. (ed.) Handbook of Culture and Migration. Series: Elgar handbooks in migration. Edward Elgar Publishing, pp. 341-351. ISBN 9781789903454

2015

Stewart, Emma ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4447-9522 (2015) Moving on? Dispersal policy, onward migration and integration of refugees in the UK. Geographer: The Newsletter of the Royal Scottish Geographical Society, 15-16(Winter), p. 23.

Stewart, Emma ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4447-9522 and Shaffer, Marnie (2015) Moving On? Dispersal Policy, Onward Migration and Integration of Refugees in the UK. Project Report. University of Strathclyde, Glasgow.

2014

Stewart, Emma ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4447-9522 and Mulvey, Gareth ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9132-1672 (2014) Seeking safety beyond refuge: the impact of immigration and citizenship policy upon refugees in the UK. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 40(7), pp. 1023-1039. (doi: 10.1080/1369183X.2013.836960)

2012

Stewart, Emma S. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4447-9522 (2012) UK dispersal policy and onward migration: mapping the current state of knowledge. Journal of Refugee Studies, 25(1), pp. 25-49. (doi: 10.1093/jrs/fer039)

2011

Stewart, Emma ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4447-9522 and Mulvey, Gareth ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9132-1672 (2011) Becoming British Citizens? Experiences and Opinions of Refugees Living in Scotland. Project Report. Scottish Refugee Council, Glasgow, UK.

2010

Smyth, Geri, Stewart, Emma ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4447-9522 and Da Lomba, Sylvie (2010) Introduction: critical reflections on refugee integration: lessons from international perspectives. Journal of Refugee Studies, 23(4), pp. 411-414. (doi: 10.1093/jrs/feq043)

Maddern, Joanne and Stewart, Emma ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4447-9522 (2010) Biometric geographies, mobility and disability: biologies of culpability and the biologised spaces of (post)modernity. In: Chouinard, Vera, Hall, Edward and Wilton, Robert (eds.) Towards Enabling Geographies: 'Disabled' Bodies and Minds in Society and Space. Ashgate: Farnham, Surrey, pp. 237-252. ISBN 9780754675617

2008

Stewart, Emma ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4447-9522 (2008) Exploring the asylum-migration nexus in the context of health professional migration. Geoforum, 39(1), pp. 223-235. (doi: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2007.04.002)

2007

Stewart, Emma ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4447-9522 (2007) Addressing the challenges facing refugee doctors in the UK. Local Economy, 22(4), pp. 409-417. (doi: 10.1080/02690940701736868)

Findlay, Allan, Fyfe, Nicholas and Stewart, Emma ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4447-9522 (2007) Changing places: voluntary sector work with refugees and asylum seekers in core and peripheral regions of the UK. International Journal on Multicultural Societies, 9(1), pp. 54-74.

2006

Stewart, Emma ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4447-9522 (2006) Refugee doctors – a valuable resource. British Medical Journal, 332, s73. (doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7539.s73-a)

2005

Stewart, Emma ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4447-9522 (2005) Exploring the vulnerability of asylum seekers in the UK. Population, Space and Place, 11(6), pp. 499-512. (doi: 10.1002/psp.394)

2004

Stewart, Emma ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4447-9522 (2004) Deficiencies in UK asylum data: practical and theoretical challenges. Journal of Refugee Studies, 17(1), pp. 29-49. (doi: 10.1093/jrs/17.1.29)

2003

Stewart, Emma ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4447-9522 (2003) A Bitter Pill to Swallow: Obstacles Facing Refugee Doctors in the UK. Working Paper. Evaluation and Policy Analysis Unit, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, Geneva.

2002

Findlay, A.M., Stockdale, A. and Stewart, E. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4447-9522 (2002) Professional and managerial migration from core to periphery: the case of English migration to Scottish cities. International Journal of Population Geography, 8(3), pp. 217-232. (doi: 10.1002/ijpg.257)

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Articles

Stewart, E. et al. (2023) Using administrative data to evaluate national policy impacts on child and maternal health: A research framework from the Maternal and Child Health Network (MatCHNet). Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, 77(11), pp. 710-713. (doi: 10.1136/jech-2023-220621) (PMID:37463771) (PMCID:PMC7615194)

Stewart, E. et al. (2023) Identifying opportunities for upstream evaluations relevant to child and maternal health: a UK policy-mapping review. Archives of Disease in Childhood, 108(7), pp. 556-562. (doi: 10.1136/archdischild-2022-325219) (PMID:37001969) (PMCID:PMC10314013)

Price, Lesley, Gozdzielewska, Lucyna, Alejandre, Julius Cesar, Jorgenson, Annelysse, Stewart, Emma ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4447-9522, Pittet, Didier and Reilly, Jacqui (2022) Systematic review on factors influencing the effectiveness of alcohol-based hand rubbing in healthcare. Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control, 11, 16. (doi: 10.1186/s13756-021-01049-9) (PMID:35073993) (PMCID:PMC8785453)

Stewart, Emma ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4447-9522 and Shaffer, Marnie (2021) The ethical and practical challenges of archiving refugee accounts: reflections from two research projects in the UK. Bulletin of Sociological Methodology = Bulletin de Méthodologie Sociologique, 150(1), pp. 51-69. (doi: 10.1177/0759106321995707)

Stewart, Emma ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4447-9522 (2015) Moving on? Dispersal policy, onward migration and integration of refugees in the UK. Geographer: The Newsletter of the Royal Scottish Geographical Society, 15-16(Winter), p. 23.

Stewart, Emma ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4447-9522 and Mulvey, Gareth ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9132-1672 (2014) Seeking safety beyond refuge: the impact of immigration and citizenship policy upon refugees in the UK. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 40(7), pp. 1023-1039. (doi: 10.1080/1369183X.2013.836960)

Stewart, Emma S. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4447-9522 (2012) UK dispersal policy and onward migration: mapping the current state of knowledge. Journal of Refugee Studies, 25(1), pp. 25-49. (doi: 10.1093/jrs/fer039)

Smyth, Geri, Stewart, Emma ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4447-9522 and Da Lomba, Sylvie (2010) Introduction: critical reflections on refugee integration: lessons from international perspectives. Journal of Refugee Studies, 23(4), pp. 411-414. (doi: 10.1093/jrs/feq043)

Stewart, Emma ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4447-9522 (2008) Exploring the asylum-migration nexus in the context of health professional migration. Geoforum, 39(1), pp. 223-235. (doi: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2007.04.002)

Stewart, Emma ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4447-9522 (2007) Addressing the challenges facing refugee doctors in the UK. Local Economy, 22(4), pp. 409-417. (doi: 10.1080/02690940701736868)

Findlay, Allan, Fyfe, Nicholas and Stewart, Emma ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4447-9522 (2007) Changing places: voluntary sector work with refugees and asylum seekers in core and peripheral regions of the UK. International Journal on Multicultural Societies, 9(1), pp. 54-74.

Stewart, Emma ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4447-9522 (2006) Refugee doctors – a valuable resource. British Medical Journal, 332, s73. (doi: 10.1136/bmj.332.7539.s73-a)

Stewart, Emma ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4447-9522 (2005) Exploring the vulnerability of asylum seekers in the UK. Population, Space and Place, 11(6), pp. 499-512. (doi: 10.1002/psp.394)

Stewart, Emma ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4447-9522 (2004) Deficiencies in UK asylum data: practical and theoretical challenges. Journal of Refugee Studies, 17(1), pp. 29-49. (doi: 10.1093/jrs/17.1.29)

Findlay, A.M., Stockdale, A. and Stewart, E. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4447-9522 (2002) Professional and managerial migration from core to periphery: the case of English migration to Scottish cities. International Journal of Population Geography, 8(3), pp. 217-232. (doi: 10.1002/ijpg.257)

Book Sections

Shaffer, Marnie and Stewart, Emma ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4447-9522 (2021) Refugees on the move: resettlement and onward migration in 'final' destination countries. In: Cohen, Jeffrey H. and Sirkeci, Ibrahim (eds.) Handbook of Culture and Migration. Series: Elgar Handbooks in Migration. Edward Elgar, pp. 341-350. ISBN 9781789903454 (doi: 10.4337/9781789903461.00037)

Shaffer, Marnie and Stewart, Emma ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4447-9522 (2021) Refugees on the move: resettlement and onward migration in ‘final’ destination countries. In: Cohen, Jeffrey H. (ed.) Handbook of Culture and Migration. Series: Elgar handbooks in migration. Edward Elgar Publishing, pp. 341-351. ISBN 9781789903454

Maddern, Joanne and Stewart, Emma ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4447-9522 (2010) Biometric geographies, mobility and disability: biologies of culpability and the biologised spaces of (post)modernity. In: Chouinard, Vera, Hall, Edward and Wilton, Robert (eds.) Towards Enabling Geographies: 'Disabled' Bodies and Minds in Society and Space. Ashgate: Farnham, Surrey, pp. 237-252. ISBN 9780754675617

Research Reports or Papers

Martin, Jack G., Stewart, Emma ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4447-9522, Lodge, Heather and MacLachlan, Alice ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8222-4221 (2024) Research Manifesto Guidance & Template. Project Report. UK Prevention Research Partnership.

Martin, Jack G., Stewart, Emma ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4447-9522, Lodge, Heather and MacLachlan, Alice ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8222-4221 (2024) Stakeholder Engagement Activities of UKPRP Funded Projects. Project Report. UK Prevention Research Partnership.

Stewart, Emma ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4447-9522 (2023) Maternal and Child Health Network: Methods Briefing 1. Project Report. University of Glasgow, Glasgow. (doi: 10.36399/gla.pubs.289434).

Stewart, Emma ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4447-9522 (2022) Maternal and Child Health Network Policy Report 1: Welfare Grants in Pregnancy and Early Childhood. Project Report. University of Glasgow, Glasgow. (doi: 10.36399/gla.pubs.270469).

Stewart, Emma ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4447-9522 (2022) Maternal and Child Health Network Policy Report 2: Early Years Education and Childcare. Project Report. University of Glasgow, Glasgow. (doi: 10.36399/gla.pubs.270472).

Stewart, Emma ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4447-9522 (2022) Maternal and Child Health Network Policy Report 3: Universal Credit and Welfare Policies. Project Report. University of Glasgow, Glasgow. (doi: 10.36399/gla.pubs.270474).

Stewart, Emma ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4447-9522 (2022) Maternal and Child Health Network Policy Briefing 1: Welfare Grants in Pregnancy and Early Childhood. Project Report. University of Glasgow, Glasgow. (doi: 10.36399/gla.pubs.270470).

Stewart, Emma ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4447-9522 (2022) Maternal and Child Health Network Policy Briefing 2: Early Years Education and Childcare. Project Report. University of Glasgow, Glasgow. (doi: 10.36399/gla.pubs.270473).

Stewart, Emma ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4447-9522 (2022) Maternal and Child Health Network Policy Briefing 3: Universal Credit and Welfare Policies. Project Report. University of Glasgow, Glasgow. (doi: 10.36399/gla.pubs.270475).

Stewart, Emma ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4447-9522 and Shaffer, Marnie (2015) Moving On? Dispersal Policy, Onward Migration and Integration of Refugees in the UK. Project Report. University of Strathclyde, Glasgow.

Stewart, Emma ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4447-9522 and Mulvey, Gareth ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9132-1672 (2011) Becoming British Citizens? Experiences and Opinions of Refugees Living in Scotland. Project Report. Scottish Refugee Council, Glasgow, UK.

Stewart, Emma ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4447-9522 (2003) A Bitter Pill to Swallow: Obstacles Facing Refugee Doctors in the UK. Working Paper. Evaluation and Policy Analysis Unit, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, Geneva.

Conference or Workshop Item

Stewart, Emma ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4447-9522, Pearce, Anna ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0085-5263, Given, Joanne, Gilbert, Ruth, Broph, Sinead, Cookson, Richard, Hardelid, Pia, Harron, Katie, Leyland, Alastair ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3741-7099 and Wood, Rachael (2021) Mapping UK policies and strategies relevant to child and maternal health to identify opportunities for upstream evaluations: Initial findings from the maternal and child health network (MatCHNet). SSM Annual Scientific Meeting 2021, Online, 15-18 Sep 2021. (doi: 10.1136/jech-2021-SSMabstracts.75)

Website

Stewart, Emma ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4447-9522 and Shaffer, Marnie (2022) Ethical challenges of depositing refugee transcripts in the UK Data Archive. [Website]

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Professional activities & recognition

Research fellowships

  • 2009 - 2010: ESRC Third Sector Placement Fellowship

External engagement

Public lecture or talk

  • 2021 (Ongoing): Maternal and Child Health Network (MatCHNet) Webinar Series: Policy Evaluations in the Early Years