Outputs (54)

Greater Manchester Social Housing Quality Fund: Tenant Research (2024)
Report
Sherriff, G., Kelly, S., Martin, P., & Pink, J. (2024). Greater Manchester Social Housing Quality Fund: Tenant Research. Greater Manchester Combined Authority

The Social Housing Quality Fund

The University of Salford have conducted social research in order to provide insights on the implementation and impact of the Greater Manchester Social Housing Quality Fund (SHQF). With a particular focus on damp, m... Read More about Greater Manchester Social Housing Quality Fund: Tenant Research.

Better Housing Better Health: A qualitative study of energy advice and support in Oxfordshire (2024)
Report
Sherriff, G., & Young, D. (2024). Better Housing Better Health: A qualitative study of energy advice and support in Oxfordshire. Oxfordshire County Council

The Better Housing Better Health (BHBH) service is provided by the National Energy Foundation (NEF) across Oxfordshire and other locations in the south of England. Delivering advice and support to residents to help them stay warm and healthy in their... Read More about Better Housing Better Health: A qualitative study of energy advice and support in Oxfordshire.

Understanding energy justice through lived experiences in Zimbabwe (2023)
Thesis

The study aims to understand energy justice through the lived experiences
of householders from Harare Metropolitan Province. In addition, the study
further explores the energy services and drivers of energy poverty rarely
accounted for within ener... Read More about Understanding energy justice through lived experiences in Zimbabwe.

Your Home Better Customer Research (2023)
Report
Sherriff, G. (2023). Your Home Better Customer Research. Salford: Greater Manchester Combined Authority

Greater Manchester Combined Authority (GMCA) wished to gain insights into issues that might be affecting uptake of their Your Home Better (YHB) programme of support for householders interested in making energy efficiency improvements to their homes.... Read More about Your Home Better Customer Research.

Getting around Leigh: Social research with older and disabled people (2023)
Report
Sherriff, G., & Cookson, I. (2023). Getting around Leigh: Social research with older and disabled people. Salford: Transport for Greater Manchester

There are many reasons for those who make decisions about neighbourhoods to be interested in transport and mobility. People rely on transport provision to get around. Whether crossing the city to get to work or making a quick trip on foot to the loca... Read More about Getting around Leigh: Social research with older and disabled people.

‘Why would you swap your nice warm van, where you can eat your butties and listen to the radio?’ Mainstreaming a niche of cycle logistics in the United Kingdom (2023)
Journal Article
Sherriff, G., Blazejewski, L., & Davies, N. (in press). ‘Why would you swap your nice warm van, where you can eat your butties and listen to the radio?’ Mainstreaming a niche of cycle logistics in the United Kingdom. Energy Research and Social Science, 99, 103062. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.erss.2023.103062

Due to a high level of dependency on fossil fuels, transport is not only a priority for decarbonsation but also a particularly challenging sector to decarbonise. Significant low-carbon energy transitions in mobility will require changes in practices,... Read More about ‘Why would you swap your nice warm van, where you can eat your butties and listen to the radio?’ Mainstreaming a niche of cycle logistics in the United Kingdom.

A Micromobility Buffet: E-Scooters in the Context of Multimodal Spaces and Practices in Greater Manchester (2023)
Journal Article

We use the Capabilities Approach to understand the ways in which e-scooters, as transportation resources, provide qualities that contribute to the ability of the transport system to enable people to participate in society. Government-led trials have... Read More about A Micromobility Buffet: E-Scooters in the Context of Multimodal Spaces and Practices in Greater Manchester.

Mobility at the neighbourhood scale: interim report (2023)
Report
Cookson, I., & Sherriff, A. (2023). Mobility at the neighbourhood scale: interim report

In this interim report, we present and discuss the initial findings of a review of literature and policy and a set of expert interviews with older and disabled people and those working with them or on their behalf. We begin by exploring the challenge... Read More about Mobility at the neighbourhood scale: interim report.

Homes and health in the Outer Hebrides: A social prescribing framework for addressing fuel poverty and the social determinants of health (2022)
Journal Article
Lawler, C., Sherriff, G., Brown, P., Butler, D., Gibbons, A., Martin, P., & Probin, M. (2023). Homes and health in the Outer Hebrides: A social prescribing framework for addressing fuel poverty and the social determinants of health. Health and Place, 79, 102926. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.healthplace.2022.102926

Health services are increasingly being reshaped with reference to addressing social determinants of health (SDoH), with social prescribing a prominent example. We examine a project in the Outer Hebrides that reshaped and widened the local health serv... Read More about Homes and health in the Outer Hebrides: A social prescribing framework for addressing fuel poverty and the social determinants of health.

E-scooters in Greater Manchester (2022)
Journal Article
Sherriff, A., Blazejewski, L., & Lomas, M. (2022). E-scooters in Greater Manchester

This report presents the !ndings of a University of
Salford study focused on the shared e-scooter trial
taking place in Greater Manchester and launched in
autumn 2020. Sharing schemes are services that make
vehicles, such as e-scooters, available... Read More about E-scooters in Greater Manchester.