Dr Sarah-Anne Muñoz
Research Fellow
University of the Highlands and Islands
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Biography
Sarah-Anne has been a Research Fellow with the Centre for Rural Health Health since 2009. Her background is in population/health geography and she is interested in how different types of rural 'spaces' interact with individual and community health and wellbeing - including nautural environments and different types of 'community' spages. Sarah-Anne has research interests in the potential of Third Sector organisations to deliver health services, as well as wider wellbeing, to rural communities. She is interested in the contribution of social enterprise to sustaining rural communities and empowering marginalised and excluded groups. Recently, Sarah-Anne has been involved in work to develop new and innovative ways to capture the impact of rural social enterprise.
Research Interests
Health and Place
Social enterprise, community voluntarism and health
Outdoors, greenspace, natural environments and health
Community engagement, particpation/co-production in health services
Participatory, mobile and creative research methods
Qualifications
2012 CPD GIS and Spatial Analysis, University of Newcastle
2007 PhD (Human Geography), University of Dundee
2003 MSc (Distinction), Applied Population Geography, University of Dundee
2002 MA (Hons, 1st class), Geography, University of Dundee
Current Projects
Community Engagement in Developing Models of Care for Older Rural Residents, East Kintyre Community Council (Principle Investigator)
Facilitating Engagement with Hospital Grounds Greenspace Design, Development and Maintenance, AHRC-SFC Healthier Scotland Knowledge Exchange Programme (Principle Investigator)
Selected Past Projects
Communities in History: harnessing the creative power of people to improve health and wellbeing, AHRC Connected Communities Programme (Co-Investigator)
Identifying the Health and Wellbeing Impacts of Rural Social Enterprise, La Trobe Rural Health School Visiting Fellowship 2011
O4O - Older People for Older People, funded under the EU Northern Periphery Programme (Research Fellow)
PhD Supervision
Sarah Bowyer, Topic: Participatory Mapping as a Tool for Anticipatory Rural Health Services Planning
Clare Daly, Topic: Social Inclusion and Mental Health Service Provision in Remote and Rural Areas
Peer Reviewed Publications
Farmer, J., Muñoz, S., Daly C., (in press) 'Being Rural in Rural Health Research', Health and Place, in press corrected proof, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.healthplace.2012.05.002
Farmer, J., Muñoz, S., Threkeld, G., (2012) 'Theory in Rural Health', The Australian Journal of Rural Health, 20, pp. 185 - 189
Muñoz, S., Steinerowski, A., Farmer, J., Stephen, K., (2011) 'Social enterprise as a response to the needs of ageing rural populations', Journal of Social Management, 9 (2), pp. 23 - 44
Muñoz, S., (2011) 'Etho-faith-burbs: religious affiliation and residential patterns of Indian ethnic populations of Dundee and Glasgow', Journal of Intercultural Studies, 32 (2), pp. 115 - 131
Muñoz, S., (2011) 'Health service provision through social enterprise: the opportunities and barriers identified by social entrepreneurs and procurement professionals', Internatinal Journal of Entrepreneurship and Innovation, 12 (1), pp. 39 - 53
Farmer, J., Clark, A., Muñoz, S., (2010) 'Is a global rural and remote health research agenda desirable or is context supreme?', The Australian Journal of Rural Health, 18, pp. 96 - 101
Muñoz, S., Towards a Geographical Research Agenda for Social Enterprise. Area, 42 (3), pp. 302 - 312
Muñoz, S., Geographies of Faith: the differing residential patterns of the Indian-Hindu, Indian-Sikh and Indian-Muslim populations of Dundee and Glasgow, Population, Space and Place, 42 (3), pp. 302 - 312
Muñoz, S., (2009) Social Enterprise and Public Sector Voices on Procurement, Social Enterprise Journal, 5 (1), pp. 69 – 82.
Muñoz, S., Tinsley, S., (2008) 'Selling to the Public Sector: prospects and problems for social enterprise in the UK', The Journal of Corporate Citizenship, 32, pp. 43 – 62
Muñoz, S., (2006) Divided by faith? The impact of religious affiliation on ethnic segregation, Scottish Geographical Journal, 122 (2), pp. 85 – 99.
Books
Farmer, J., Hill, C., Muñoz, S., (2012) Community Co-Production: Social enterprise in remote and rural areas, (Boston: Edward Elgar)
Muñoz, S., (2009) Residential Segregation, Religious Affiliation and Ethnicity: the geographies of Dundee’s and Glasgow’s Indian and Pakistani Faith Groups (Saarbrucken: VDM Verlag Dr. Muller)
Book Chapters
Muñoz, S., Steinerowski, A., (2012) ‘Socially
Entrepreneurial Skills and Capabilities in a Rural Community Context’, in
Farmer, J., Hill., C., Muñoz, S., Community
Co-Production: social enterprise in remote and rural areas, (Boston: Edward
Elgar)
Steinerowski,
A., Bradley, S., Muñoz, S., Farmer, J., Fielding, S., (2011)
‘Participation for Health and Wellbeing: factors associated with older people’s
participation in remote and rural communities’, in Angus, S., Boutsioli, Z., Health Studies: Economic, Management and
Policy, (Athens: Athens Institute for Education and Research), pp. 179 –
192
Farmer,
J., Muñoz, S., Steinerowski, A., Bradley, S., (2011) ‘Participation and
Older People’s Wellbeing in Remote and Rural Scotland’, in Le, Q., ed., Health and Wellbeing: a social and cultural
perspective (New York: Nova)
Recent Conference
Papers
Muñoz, S., Nimegeer, A., (2012) ‘Hospital
Grounds Re-Imagined: Healthcare Greenspace as a Well-being Resource’, RGS-IBG
Annual Conference, Edinburgh, 3rd – 5th July
Nimegeer, A., Muñoz, S. (2012) ‘Service redesign
through engagement: rural primary healthcare improvement tools’, International
Forum on Quality and Safety in Health Care, Paris, 17th – 20th
April
Lyon, F., Muñoz, S., (2011) ‘Supporting the development of social enterprises
in rural areas’, 9th Rural Entrepreneurship Conference, University
of Nottingham, 23rd – 24th June
Muñoz, S., Currie, M., Farmer, J., (2011)
‘Placing the Geography in Rural Health Services Research’, AAG Annual
Meeting, Seattle, 11th – 16th April
Currie, M., Muñoz, S., Farmer, J., (2010) ‘Placing the Geography in Rural
Health Services Research’,
Steinerowski, A., Muñoz, S., Farmer, J., (2010)
‘Bringing Social Innovation and Value Creation through Community Social
Muñoz, S., Steinerowski, A., Stephen, K., Farmer, J.,
(2010) ‘Community social enterprises as a response to the service needs of
ageing rural populations’, ISRICH (International Society for Research on
Innovation and Change in Health Care Systems) Annual Conference, Paris 14th
May
Farmer, J., Steinerowski, A., Muñoz, S., (2009) Social
Innovation in Remote and Rural Areas, International Social Innovation Research
Conference, University of Oxford Said Business School, September
Muñoz, S., (2009) Geographies of faith: the differing
suburbanisation experiences of the Indian and Pakistani populations of Dundee
and Glasgow, RGS-IBG Annual Conference, Manchester, August
Muñoz, S., (2008) Including Social Enterprise in Service
Delivery: Adding Value, Sustainable Scotland Network (SSN) Annual Conference,
Edinburgh
Muñoz, S., (2008) Towards Sustainable Health and Social
Care Provision: the role of social enterprise and community organisations, Sustainability
– Creating the Culture, Inverness, November
Haklay, M., Muñoz, S., Fry, L., (2008) The Landscape of Social Enterprise, RGS-IBG
Annual Conference, London, August
Muñoz, S., (2008) Towards a (Geographical)
Research Agenda for Social Enterprise, RGS-IBG Annual Conference, London,
August
Muñoz, S., George, H., (2008), Social
Enterprise and Public Sector Procurement: voices from social entrepreneurs and
public sector professionals in the UK, 5th Annual Social Enterprise
Research Conference, London South Bank University, June