Prof Ron Johnston

MA(Manc), PhD (Monash), LLD(Monash), DU(Essex), DLitt(Sheff), DLitt(Bath), AcSS, FBA

Professor of Geography

Contact

Office: 1.9S
Tel: +44 (0)117 928 9116
Fax: +44 (0)117 9287878
Email: r.johnston@bristol.ac.uk

Research interests

Electoral and political geography, urban social geography, and the history of human geography.

Selected publications

Jen, M, Jones, K & Johnston, RJ. 'Compositional and contextual approaches to the study of health behaviour and outcomes: Using multi-level modelling to evaluate Wilkinson's income inequality hypothesis', Health & Place, 15, (pp. 198-203), 2009. ISSN: 1353-8292 10.1016/j.healthplace.2008.04.005

Jen, M, Jones, K & Johnston, RJ. 'Global variations in health: Evaluating Wilkinson's income inequality hypothesis using the World Values Survey', Social Science & Medicine, 68(4), (pp. 643-653), 2009. ISSN: 0277-9536 10.1016/j.socscimed.2008.11.026

Johnston, RJ, Jen, M & Jones, K. 'On inequality, health, scientific progress and political argument: A response to Dorling and Barford', Health & Place, 15, Issue 4, (pp. 1163-1165), 2009. ISSN: 1353-8292 10.1016/j.healthplace.2009.06.004

Harris, RJ & Johnston, RJ. 'Primary Schools, Markets and Choice: Studying Polarization and the Core Catchment Areas of Schools', Applied Spatial Analysis and Policy, 1 (1), (pp. 59-84), 2008. ISSN: 1874-463X 10.1007/s12061-008-9002-8