Jack Benton Awarded Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship
Dr Jack Benton has been awarded a prestigious three-year Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship for his innovative research project, 鈥淐reating Urban Environments for Wellbeing: Advancing Methods and Theory.鈥�
This project aims to develop new tools and insights for understanding how changes in urban environments impact people鈥檚 wellbeing.
He will create innovative camera-based observation methods to assess wellbeing behaviours in urban environments and develop a novel theoretical framework to determine which environmental interventions are most effective in different urban contexts.
These methods and theories will be applied to a real-world environmental intervention in 91直播, which will be evaluated through a 鈥榥atural experiment.鈥�
This highly interdisciplinary project will deliver a step change in generating a robust evidence base for urban policies and practices that enhance population wellbeing and reduce inequalities.
The Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship is a highly competitive grant awarded annually by the Leverhulme Trust to support the work of emerging scholars. The fellowship provides 36 months of full-time research funding, including support for research expenses.
will conduct his research at The University of Manchester鈥檚 , under the mentorship of , starting in October 2024.
Since completing his PhD in 2017, Jack has been based in the School of Health Sciences at The University of Manchester. He previously received a Wellcome Trust pump-priming fellowship in 2021. His work bridges public health, behavioural science, and urban research, with a focus on improving policy and decision-making for healthier cities.