Researcher

Heather Mackay

Institute: Department of Human Geography, Lund University
Research area: Agriculture rural development & food security, Environment and climate change, Equitable economic growth, Gender equality, Health, Migration, Urban development / City planning
Research region: Africa
Open to collaboration with: All

Professional experience

Lecturing
Supervision of Master’s students
Supervision of Bachelor’s students

Other experience

Lecturing and workshops
Survey creation and analysis

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Publications

A feminist geographic analysis of perceptions of food and health in Ugandan cities

Gender, Place & Culture
Planned Adaptation Measures in Industrialised Countries: A Comparison of Select Countries Within and Outside the EU

Developing Adaptation Policy and Practice in Europe: Multi-level Governance of Climate Change
Research for City Practice

Cities & Health
Special issue introduction: geographical perspectives on food and nutrition insecurity in the global South

Geographical Research
Getting invasive species on the political agenda: agenda setting and policy formulation in the case of ash dieback in the UK

Biological Invasions
Doing things their way? Food, farming and health in two Ugandan cities

Cities & Health
Mapping and characterising the urban agricultural landscape of two intermediate-sized Ghanaian cities

Land Use Policy
Food sources and access strategies in Ugandan secondary cities: an intersectional analysis

Environment and Urbanization
A feminist geographic analysis of perceptions of food and health in Ugandan cities

Gender, Place & Culture
Of fatness, fitness and finesse: experiences and interpretations of non-communicable diseases in urban Uganda

Cities & Health
Will there be lunch? Wry reflections on research-feedback challenges in Uganda, from a newly-minted academic

Cities & Health
Similar, yet different! Comparing Ugandan secondary cities’ food system and nutritional transformations to findings from African primary cities

Urban Transformations
Analysing Diet Composition and Food Insecurity by Socio-Economic Status in Secondary African Cities

Transforming Urban Food Systems in Secondary Cities in Africa