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Research Associate

Ms Margaret Fox

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Research Fellow  M dot Fox at uea dot ac dot uk
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Career

Professional Qualifications and professional memberships

  • Bachelor of Arts, Economic and Social Studies, School of economic and Social Studies, University of East Anglia: Major Sociology, split minor History and Philosophy (2:1 in 1994)
  • Master of Arts, Medical Sociology,  School of economic and Social Studies, University of East Anglia (Distinction in 1996)

Research interests

  • Background in Medical Sociology, Philosophy and History and developing skills in Health Economics
  • I am particularly interested in designing research methods to measure socioeconomic impacts of health, to assess demands for formal and informal care and to develop instruments using patient reported outcomes to evaluate health and social care interventions.
  • I use a combination of qualitative and quantitative  methods to design, conduct and evaluate research
  • I am interested in a broad range of research topics, including the socioeconomic impact of food allergy; inequalities in health; socioeconomic determinants of health; equality and diversity issues in health and social care for users and providers of services
  • I have experience of conducting research at the local, national and international level; I enjoy working on projects in collaboration with colleagues in other countries, and am currently working on an EU Framework 6 project with partners across Europe and in India and Australia to develop an and protocol to measure the social and economic costs of food allergies

Career summary

Research Associate, School of Economic and Social Studies (SOC), University of East Anglia 1996 - 1999  

Personal tutor: students with disabilities (various schools within the UEA) 1996-1998

Associate Tutor: undergraduates and post graduates in SOC  1996-1999

Senior Research Officer, Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service, London SE1 1LW 1999-2006

Senior Research Associate January 2006 to date; Europrevall EU Framework 6 Integrated Project to assess the economic and social impact of food allergies for individuals and households across Europe

 

Key Research Interests

Selected Publications

Fox, M (2004) Timing of contact in wages protection and breach of contract cases - Scottish project, Acas. Availabity: http://www.acas.org.uk/CHttpHandler.ashx?id=326&p=0)

Fox, Margaret. (2005) Gender Differences in Enforcing Employment Rights [online]. International Employment Relations Review; Volume 10, Issue 1; 2004; 81-94. Availability: http://search.informit.com.au/documentSummary;dn=165348394158432;res=IELHSS ISSN: 1324-1125. [cited 06 Jan 09].(can also be found at: http://www.acas.org.uk/CHttpHandler.ashx?id=560&p=0)

Fox, M (2005) Evaluation of the Acas Pilot of Mediation, Appeals and Employment Law Visits in Small firms, Acas Availability: http://www.acas.org.uk/CHttpHandler.ashx?id=533&p=0

Fox, M., Mugford, M., Voordouw J., Cornelisse-Vermaat, J., Antonides, G., and Frewer L.,(forthcoming) Social and economic costs of food allergies in Europe: the development of a socioeconomic impact questionnaire (accepted in Journal of Health Services Research, subject to revisions)

Corby, S., Stanworth, C., Long, S. and Fox, M. (2005) Gender and the Labour Market in South East England, Volume 1: The Context, London: University of Greenwich. Availability: http://www.ugbs.org/weru/pub/corby.et.al.2005.vol1.pdf


Conference presentations:

Teenage pregnancies and fertility trends in the UK, M.R.C. Medical Sociology Conference, 1996

Gender inequalities in enforcing employment rights, 71st International Association of Employment Rights Conference, June 2003

Key note speech: Does Mediation work in employment disputes in Small Firms? Dispute Resolution Conference, 2005

Discussant at the Health Economics Study Group 2006 - Inequalities in health outcomes for Smokers (drafted by Alastair Fischer)

Socioeconomic impacts of Food Allergy, Health Economic Study Group 2007

Development of socioeconomic questionnaire to measure the social and economic impact of Food allergies, 7th European Conference on Health Economics, Rome, June 2008


Teaching Interests

  1. Problem Based Learning (MBBS)
     
  2. Portfolio Marking (MBBS)
     
  3. Sociology of Illness and Healing
     
  4. Introduction to Sociology
     
  5. Research Methods
     
  6. A level sociology

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Article

Fox, M, Mugford, M, Voordouw, J, Cornelisse-Vermaat, J, Antonides, G, de la Hoz Caballer, B, Cerecedo, I, Zamora, J, Rokicka, E, Jewczak, M, Clark, AB, Kowalski, ML, Papadopoulos, N, Knulst, AC, Seneviratne, S, Belohlavkova, S, Asero, R, de Blay, F, Purohit, A, Clausen, M, Flokstra de Blok, B, Dubois, AE, Fernandez-Rivas, M, Burney, P, Frewer, LJ and Mills, CEN (2013) Health sector costs of self-reported food allergy in Europe: a patient-based cost of illness study. The European Journal of Public Health. ISSN 1101-1262

Fox, M, Mugford, M, Voordouw, J, Cornelisse-Vermaat, J, Antonides, G, de la HozCaballer, B, Cerecedo, I, Zamora, J and Jewczak, M (2013) Health sector costs of self-reported food allergy in Europe: a patient based cost of illness study. European Journal of Public Health. (In Press)

Voordouw, Jantine, Antonides, Gerrit, Fox, Margaret, Cerecedo, Inmaculada, Zamora, Javier, Hoz Caballer, Belen, Rokicka, Ewa, Cornelisse-Vermaat, Judith, Jewczak, Maciej, Starosta, Pawel, Kowalska, Marek L., Jędrzejczak-Czechowicz, Monika, Vázquez-Cortés, Sonia, Escudero, Cano, Blok, Bertine Flokstra, Dubois, Anthony, Mugford, Miranda and Frewer, Lynn J. (2011) Subjective Welfare, Well-Being, and Self-Reported Food Hypersensitivity in Four European Countries: Implications for European Policy. Social Indicators Research. ISSN 0303-8300

Voordouw, J, Fox, M, Cornelisse-Vermaat, J, Antonides, G, Mugford, M and Frewer, L (2010) Household costs associated with food allergy: an exploratory study. British Food Journal, 112 (11). pp. 1205-1215.

Fox, M, Voordouw, J, Mugford, M, Cornelisse-Vermaat, J, Antonides, G and Frewer, L (2009) Social and economic costs of food allergies in Europe: development of a questionnaire to measure costs and health utility. Journal of Health Service Research, 44 (5.1). pp. 1662-1678.

Fox, Margaret (2004) Gender Differences in Enforcing Employment Rights. International Employment Relations Review, 10 (1). pp. 81-94.

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