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Dr Eman Zied

Research Associate

  • Email: eman.zied-abozied@ncl.ac.uk
  • Address: Population health Sciences Institute
    5th Floor Ridley 1 Building
    Newcastle University,
    Newcastle upon Tyne
    NE1 7RU
Background

I am a research associate at the Newcastle University Population Health Sciences Institute and the Spatial Analytics and Modelling Lab (SAM@Newcastle). My work focuses on cities and urban areas, at the nexus of urban planning and human geography with a strong focus on evidence based decision making support. My primary research interests include the complex interplay between social, spatial and digital inequalities, as well as how cities’ spatial structure can influence mobility and access to opportunities such as employment, schools and amenities.

I am part of the Population Health and Health Inequalities theme, conducting research on the effect of place on health inequalities. I am currently working on two projects;

  1. "Ghost Towns" which aims to create a comprehensive overview of the changes in amenities over the last decade in cities, towns and high streets, and study the relationship of such decline on health outcomes.
  2. The Impact of Climate related severe weather on health outcomes, which uses CPRD (Clinical Practice Research Datalink) to examine the associations between recent severe weather events on health within the framework of established regional health inequalities.

Previously, I have worked on the project "Impact of the Environment and Pollution on Cognitive Health" (EPOCH) and I was a Research Associate at the Centre for Urban and Regional Development Studies (CURDS) on the project "Spatial Inequality in the Smart City". I completed my PhD in Architecture and Built Environment (ABE) at Northumbria University, Newcastle Upon Tyne in 2021 and a BSc (Hons) in Architectural Engineering and Environmental Design at the Arab Academy for Science, Technology and Maritime Transport, Cairo, Egypt in 2016.

 I am an Associate Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (AFHEA) and a member of the Regional Studies Association (RSA)

 

 

Research

My main areas of interest are research informed urban policy and planning, spatial modelling and statistical analysis of urban environments, and place-based research in population health. My current research focuses on the complex relationship between place, climate and health oucomes. Previously, I have worked on modelling the built and natural environment around individuals in cohort studies, developing measures of environment and performing statistical analysis to uncover the influence of the environment on cognitive health. I have also worked on the development of a decision making support tool for stakeholders to decide on optimised sensor placement in the city.


My PhD research in has primarily focused on studying informal settlement as a mode of production in the global south with the aim of creating a classification framework to be used to inform urban policy. I use quantitative spatial analysis and statistical analysis to study the socio-spatial configurations present in informal areas and find implicit spatial and social rules to inform classification.

Teaching

I am an Associate Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (AFHEA) and I have taught on a number of varied modules. I have several years experience in teaching Architectural Design Studio (2014 - 2020), and more recently I have contributed guest lectures for the Advanced Social Determinants of Health module titled Neighbourhoods as Exposure (2024), and externally for the Research in Architectural Media Group at AASTMT titled Spatial Analytics in the Real and Unreal (2022). 



Publications