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16
August
2024
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15:15
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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

Dr Jack Benton

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.