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Dr Jordan Mullard

Senior Research Associate

Background

Biography

Dr Jordan Mullard (she/her) is an interdisciplinary social scientist and ethnographer specialising in the qualitative study of intersectional disadvantage and the social determinants of health and health inequalities. She is interested in the impact of multiple 'crises' (Covid/ pandemics, environmental and cost of living) on the health of ethnic minority and marginalised communities. Her most recent role includes providing academic leadership to the new NIHR Health Determinants Research Collaboration in Gateshead Council's public health team and as a Senior Researcher in the Population Health Sciences Institute.


Recently, Jordan has explored the intersections of inequality, race, and marginality highlighted in the recent pandemic and its relationship to our understanding and treatment of Long Covid on the NIHR LOCOMOTION project at Leeds Institute for Health Sciences and Nuffield Centre for International Health and Development at Leeds University. She has also carried out ethnographic work that explores the intersections of identity (race & mixed race, class, caste, religion, gender, and place) and the impact of identity labour on health. To this end, Jordan is also interested in the role of cultural heritage, anti-racism, and creativity in shaping people's understanding of place, health and belonging.


Prior to joining Â鶹´«Ã½, Jordan developed extensive teaching and module convening experience at Durham University across UG level 1, 2, 3, PGT and PGR in the sociology and anthropology of health and health inequalities, including dissertation supervision and PGR mentoring. She remains an active member of the Centre for Social Justice and Community Action and the Wolfson Institute for Health and Wellbeing at Durham where she is a Fellow. Jordan is also a Research Associate in the Centre for Philosophy of Epidemiology, Medicine and Public Health at the University of Johannesburg.


In addition to her academic research and teaching experience, Jordan has had an applied consultancy career in community-led approaches, anti-racism, race equality, and Equality Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) learning, development and policy where she co-designed and led large scale race equality, cross-cultural knowledge, and EDI consultancy projects across private, public and not-for-profit sectors both nationally and internationally. She has also worked as a consultant for Black-Led community development initiatives and as a research and evaluation consultant in health and social care at the local and national level.


Jordan has received academic funding from the NIHR, ESRC, UKRI/AHRC, and The Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, New York.

Teaching

Current PhD Students

Yasmin Zhuang-Mackie (9 DTP doctoral candidate ESRC 1+3): The medicalisation of race and culture: Inequalities and organ donation in the UK. Co-Supervised with Durham University, Geography Department


I am accepting PhD students interested in race and ethnicity; equity; health inequalities; social determinants of health; place, culture and environment; health and social justice; and other areas that fit my profile.

Publications

  • Articles

    • Mullard J. . Anthropological Theory 2025, 25(4), 421-428.
    • Mir G, Mullard J, Parkin A, Lee C, Clarke J, De Kock JH, Prociuk D, Darbyshire JL, Evans S, Sivan M. . Health Expectations 2025, 28(4), e70336.
    • O'Connor R, Parkin A, Mir G, Mullard J, Baley S, Ceolta-Smith J, Rayner C. . BMJ 2024, 385, e076508.
    • Greenwood DC, Mansoubi M, Bakerly ND, Bhatia A, Collett J, Davies HE, Dawes J, Delaney B, Ezekiel L, Leveridge P, Mir G, Muhlhausen W, Rayner C, Read F, Scott JT, Sivan M, Tucker-Bell I, Vashisht H, Ward T, O'Connor DB, Dawes H, for the LOCOMOTION Consortium. . The Lancet Regional Health - Europe 2024, 46, 101082.
    • Darbyshire J, Greenhalgh T, Bakerly ND, Balasundaram K, Baley S, Ball M, Bullock E, Cooper R, Davies H, De Kock JH, Echevarria C, Elkin S, Evans R, Falope Z, Flynn C, Fraser E, Halpin S, Jones S, Lardner R, Lee C, Lovett A, Masey V, Master H, Mir G, Mosley A, Mullard J, O'Connor RJ, Parkin A, Pick A, Scott J, Smith N, Tucker E, Williams P, Winch D, Wood C, Sivan M. . Clinical Medicine 2024, 24(5), 100237.
    • Kwon J, Milne R, Rayner C, Rocha Lawrence R, Mullard J, Mir G, Delaney B, Sivan M, Petrou S. . The European Journal of Health Economics 2024, 25, 1095–1115.
    • Mullard J. . Anthropological Theory 2024, 24(2), 111-135.
    • Mullard J, Mir G, Herbert C, Evans S, LOCOMOTION Consortium. . Sociology of Health & Illness 2024, 46(8), 1602-1625.
    • Mullard J, Kawalek J, Parkin A, Rayner C, Mir G, Sivan M, Greenhalgh T. . Social Science & Medicine 2023, 320, 115669.
    • Mullard J. . Medicine Anthropology Theory 2021, 8(1), 1-18.
    • Russell A, Tupper L, Keegan A, Akhter H, Mullard J. . Teaching Anthropology 2021, 10(3), 38-45.

  • Book Chapter

    • Mullard, J. Low Caste Elites and Re-Traditionalised Responses: Identity, Status, and Reciprocity in an Economically Uncertain Time. In: C. Still, ed. Mobility or Marginalisation: Dalits in Neo-Liberal India. Routledge, 2014.

  • Online Publications

    • Mullard J. . Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2021. Available at: .
    • Mullard J. Enabling social care to thrive in an integrated environment. 2016. Available at: https://www.researchinpractice.org.uk/adults/publications/2016/october/enabling-social-care-to-thrive-in-an-integrated-environment-leaders-briefing-2016/.
    • Mullard J. Supporting successful integration - improving outcomes in social care and health (CHART): Frontline Briefing. RiPfA. Research in Practice, 2015. Available at: https://www.researchinpractice.org.uk/adults/publications/2015/march/supporting-successful-integration-improving-outcomes-in-social-care-and-health-chart-frontline-briefing-2015/.

  • Report

    • Mullard J. The effective use of evidence: Using data to drive improvement in the delivery of care provider services. Research in Practice for Adults, 2017.