Dr. Emma Stewart

Biography

Emma holds dual roles as a member of the Social Public Health Sciences Unit (SPHSHU) Transition Team and serves as Business Manager. In this capacity, she leads research support operations. As a Research Associate in Public Health, Emma currently collaborates with the Scottish Parliament Information Centre (SPICe) as an Academic Fellow. Her research focuses on an evidence review examining the impact of cash and in-kind transfers received in the first 1001 days of life on child health outcomes and health inequalities in high-income countries. She previously coordinated the MatCHNet - Maternal Child Health Network. Emma has a background in Geography (MA Hons), and her doctoral research explored the multiple scales of exclusion experienced by refugee doctors, both professionally and socially, culminating in her PhD in Geography. She briefly taught at the University of Dundee before spending a decade as a Lecturer in Human Geography at the University of Strathclyde. After a short career break, she joined the Safeguarding Health Infection Prevention (SHIP) Research Group at Glasgow Caledonian University before coming to the University of Glasgow. Emma's research sits at the intersection of population studies and social justice, with a longstanding commitment to understanding how policy, place, and identity shape lived experiences. Her ESRC-funded projects have explored refugee mobility, evaluated UK dispersal policy, and examined pathways to refugee integration. She has worked closely with refugee organizations to deepen the understanding of citizenship and Britishness, leading a UK-wide study on internal onward migration of dispersed refugees and highlighting the roles of place, belonging, and identity in these contexts.

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