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Staff Profile

Dr Jordan Mullard

Senior Research Associate

Background

Biography

Dr Jordan Mullard (she/her) is an interdisciplinary social scientist 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 minoritised 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, 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 Newcastle, 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 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