Dr Natalie Bennett

Natalie joined the Sheffield Methods Institute (SMI) as a Postdoctoral Research Associate in January 2024. Prior to her role at Sheffield, Natalie was an NIHR Applied Research Collaboration North East North Cumbria (ARC NENC) Inequalities Fellow in the Population Health Sciences Institute at Newcastle University, working on a range of projects related to inequalities in health. 

She completed her NIHR SPHR funded PhD at the University of Sheffield in which she studied the role of neighbourhood social characteristics on ethnic inequalities in mental health using advanced quantitative methods.

Natalie is a social epidemiologist with particular interests in health inequalities, intersectionality and geography. In her postdoctoral role in SMI, Natalie is supporting a UKRI funded project on methods for the quantitative study of intersectionality (‘MAIHDA’ modelling) led by Dr Andrew Bell. More information on the project can be found here. 

Additionally, Natalie is working with colleagues at CHAIN (Centre for Global Health Inequalities Research, Norway) on a global systematic review of educational inequalities in cause-specific mortality.

Natalie has designed and delivered material for the Master of Public Health programme at Newcastle University and has also supervised students on undergraduate, MSc and PhD programmes.