Dr Gillian Fergie

  • Research Fellow (Public Health)
  • Associate (School of Social & Political Sciences)

email: Gillian.Fergie@glasgow.ac.uk

School of Health and Wellbeing, Clarice Pears Building, Infirmary Way, Glasgow, United Kingdom, G11 6EW

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ORCID iDhttps://orcid.org/0000-0001-9693-0357

Biography

My current role is Research Fellow in Public Health in the School of Health and Wellbeing. I am also an Associate of the School of Social and Political Sciences. My interests span population health and social science.

I am involved in research and teaching with a core focus on understanding the generation, mitigation and reduction of health inequalities.

My current research focuses on:

  • exploring public perspectives on addressing health inequalities and on policy actions with impacts on the social determinants of health.
  • mapping policy landscapes: analysing the presentation of health inequalities, their causes and potential solutions in policy documents; and exploring policy partners' perspectives on action.
  • understanding and supporting collaboration between evidence producers, third-sector advocates, communities and policy actors working to reduce social inequalities and the health differences that flow from these.

I am interested in the use of participatory research methods, community-engaged research and deliberative research. 

Before joining Public Health, I was a staff member of the MRC/CSO Social and Public Health Sciences Unit, where I also completed my PhD.

Research interests

Research interests: health inequalities, public understandings of health, experiences of health and illness, young people, public policy, evidence use.

Expertise: qualitative methods, participatory research methods, public engagement, media analysis.

Publications

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2025

Baillie, Anna, Fergie, Gillian ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9693-0357, Mackenzie, Mhairi ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3402-322X and Skivington, Kathryn ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3571-1561 (2025) Participatory-deliberative processes in UK policy making related to income insecurity as a determinant of health: a scoping review. Evidence and Policy: A Journal of Research, Debate and Practice, (doi: 10.1332/17442648Y2025D000000053) (PMID:40375924) (PMCID:PMC7617669) (Early Online Publication)

Fergie, Gillian ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9693-0357, Smith, Katherine, Vaczy, Caroline, Mackenzie, Mhairi ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3402-322X and Hilton, Shona ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0633-8152 (2025) Health inequalities and contemporary youth: young people’s accounts of the social determinants of health in an 'austere meritocracy'. Sociology of Health and Illness, 47(1), e13842. (doi: 10.1111/1467-9566.13842) (PMID:39431898)

2024

Lomax, Nik, Archer, Luke, Clay, Rob, Fergie, Gillian ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9693-0357, Heppenstall, Alison ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0663-3437, Meier, Petra ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5354-1933 and Winterbottom, Jo ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0005-4374-4397 (2024) Modelling the Scottish Child Poverty Targets: Estimating the Effect on Adult Mental Health. Project Report. SIPHER Consortium. (doi: 10.36399/gla.pubs.337651).

Baillie, Anna, Skivington, Kathryn ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3571-1561 and Fergie, Gillian ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9693-0357 (2024) An exploration of community food pantries in Scotland: strategic and operational perspectives on addressing food insecurity and health inequalities. BMC Public Health, 24(1), 2881. (doi: 10.1186/s12889-024-20421-z) (PMID:39425062) (PMCID:PMC11490137)

Chambers, Stephanie ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9607-6242, Machray, Kathryn ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9580-1526 and Fergie, Gillian ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9693-0357 (2024) Food insecurity in children and young people in Scotland. Proceedings of the Nutrition Society, 83(3), pp. 157-169. (doi: 10.1017/S0029665124000090) (PMID:38250796) (PMCID:PMC7617109)

2023

Fergie, Gillian ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9693-0357, Vaczy, Caroline, Smith, Katherine, Mackenzie, Mhairi ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3402-322X, Phan, Thu Thuy and Hilton, Shona ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0633-8152 (2023) Young people's perspectives on addressing UK health inequalities: utopian visions and preferences for action. Health Expectations, 26(6), pp. 2264-2277. (doi: 10.1111/hex.13825) (PMID:37427532) (PMCID:PMC10632646)

2022

Miall, Naomi ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7212-6273, Fergie, Gillian ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9693-0357 and Pearce, Anna ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0085-5263 (2022) Health Inequalities in Scotland: trends in deaths, health and wellbeing, health behaviours, and health services since 2000. Project Report. University of Glasgow. (doi: 10.36399/gla.pubs.282637).

Baillie, Anna, Skivington, Kathryn ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3571-1561, Fergie, Gillian ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9693-0357 and Mackenzie, Mhairi ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3402-322X (2022) Participatory and Deliberative Processes in the UK Related to Income Insecurity: a Scoping Review. Public Health Science 2021. Lancet 400(Supplement 1). S18, 26 Nov 2021. (doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(22)02228-0)

Leifeld, Philip, Henrichsen, Tim, Buckton, Christina ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6004-4334, Fergie, Gillian ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9693-0357 and Hilton, Shona ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0633-8152 (2022) Belief system alignment and cross-sectoral advocacy efforts in policy debates. Journal of European Public Policy, 29(8), pp. 1225-1248. (doi: 10.1080/13501763.2021.1945131)

2021

Smith, K. E., Macintyre, A., Weakley, S. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0352-7775, Hill, S. E., Escobar, O. and Fergie, G. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9693-0357 (2021) Public understandings of potential policy responses to health inequalities: Evidence from a UK national survey and citizens’ juries in three UK cities. Social Science and Medicine, 291, 114458. (doi: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2021.114458) (PMID:34655938) (PMCID:PMC8711040)

2020

Hilton, Shona ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0633-8152, Buckton, Christina H. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6004-4334, Henrichsen, Tim, Fergie, Gillian ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9693-0357 and Leifeld, Philip (2020) Policy congruence and advocacy strategies in the discourse networks of minimum unit pricing for alcohol and the soft drinks industry levy. Addiction, 115(12), pp. 2303-2314. (doi: 10.1111/add.15068) (PMID:32219917)

Mackenzie, Mhairi ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3402-322X, Skivington, Kathryn ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3571-1561 and Fergie, Gillian ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9693-0357 (2020) "The state they're in": unpicking fantasy paradigms of health improvement interventions as tools for addressing health inequalities. Social Science and Medicine, 256, 113047. (doi: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2020.113047) (PMID:32460096) (PMCID:PMC7306155)

2019

Buckton, Christina H. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6004-4334, Fergie, Gillian ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9693-0357, Leifeld, Philip and Hilton, Shona ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0633-8152 (2019) A Discourse Network Analysis of UK Newspaper Coverage of the ‘Sugar Tax’ Debate Before and After the Announcement of the Soft Drinks Industry Levy. Society for Social Medicine and Population Health and International Epidemiology Association European Congress Annual Scientific Meeting 2019, Cork, Ireland, 4-6 Sept 2019.

Hilton, Shona ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0633-8152, Henrichsen, T., Fergie, Gillian ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9693-0357, Buckton, Christina H. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6004-4334 and Leifeld, Philip (2019) Ideology, Stakeholders and Public Health Policy: A Comparison of Media Discourses on Alcohol and Sugar Pricing Policy in the UK. Society for Social Medicine and Population Health and International Epidemiology Association European Congress Annual Scientific Meeting 2019, Cork, Ireland, 4-6 Sept 2019.

Buckton, Christina ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6004-4334, Fergie, Gillian ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9693-0357, Leifeld, Philip and Hilton, Shona ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0633-8152 (2019) A discourse network analysis of UK newspaper coverage of the 'sugar tax' debate before and after the announcement of the Soft Drinks Industry Levy. BMC Public Health, 19(1), 490. (doi: 10.1186/s12889-019-6799-9) (PMID:31046718) (PMCID:PMC6498658)

Fergie, Gillian ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9693-0357, Leifeld, Philip, Hawkins, Ben and Hilton, Shona ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0633-8152 (2019) Mapping discourse coalitions in the Minimum Unit Pricing for alcohol debate: a discourse network analysis of UK newspaper coverage. Addiction, 114(4), pp. 741-753. (doi: 10.1111/add.14514) (PMID:30475418) (PMCID:PMC6492293)

Hewer, Rebecca, Smith, Katherine and Fergie, Gillian ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9693-0357 (2019) The social functionality of humor in group-based research. Qualitative Health Research, 29(3), pp. 431-444. (doi: 10.1177/1049732318800675) (PMID:30340445) (PMCID:PMC6350176)

2018

Hilton, S. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0633-8152, Buckton, C. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6004-4334 and Fergie, G. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9693-0357 (2018) OP5 #Exploring Industry Influence Across Alcohol and Sugar Pricing Policies in the UK: A Discourse Network Analysis. Society for Social Medicine Annual Scientific Meeting, Glasgow, UK, 5 Sep 2018. A3.1-A3. (doi: 10.1136/jech-2018-SSMabstracts.5)

Naven, L. et al. (2018) Right Here Right Now (RHRN) pilot study: testing a method of near-real-time data collection on the social determinants of health. Evidence and Policy: A Journal of Research, Debate and Practice, 14(2), pp. 301-321. (doi: 10.1332/174426417X14987303892451) (PMID:29973958) (PMCID:PMC6027954)

2017

Hilton, Shona ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0633-8152, Fergie, Gillian ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9693-0357, Hawkins, Ben and Leifeld, Philip (2017) A Discourse Network Analysis of Minimum Unit Pricing for Alcohol: Mapping the Discursive Communities in UK Newspaper Coverage of the Debate. Public Health Science 2017, London, UK, 24 Nov 2017. S8. (doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(17)32943-4)

2016

Fergie, Gillian ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9693-0357, Hunt, Kate ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5873-3632 and Hilton, Shona ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0633-8152 (2016) Social media as a space for support: Young adults' perspectives on producing and consuming user-generated content about diabetes and mental health. Social Science and Medicine, 170, pp. 46-54. (doi: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2016.10.006) (PMID:27750067) (PMCID:PMC5115652)

Patterson, C. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5914-8718, Emslie, C., Mason, O., Fergie, G. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9693-0357 and Hilton, S. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0633-8152 (2016) A content analysis of UK newspaper and online news representations of women’s and men’s ‘binge’ drinking: a challenge for communicating evidence-based messages about single-episodic drinking? BMJ Open, 6(12), e013124. (doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2016-013124) (PMID:28028047) (PMCID:PMC5223657)

Fergie, Gillian ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9693-0357, Hilton, Shona ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0633-8152 and Hunt, Kate ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5873-3632 (2016) Young adults experiences of seeking online information about diabetes and mental health in the age of social media. Health Expectations, 19(6), pp. 1324-1335. (doi: 10.1111/hex.12430) (PMID:26647109) (PMCID:PMC5139057)

Fergie, G. et al. (2016) Right Here Right Now Study: Final Report. Project Report. Glasgow Centre for Population Heath, Glasgow.

Van Bekkum, Jennifer E., Fergie, Gillian ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9693-0357 and Hilton, Shona ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0633-8152 (2016) Health and medical research funding agencies' promotion of public engagement within research: a qualitative interview study exploring the UK context. Health Research Policy and Systems, 14(23), (doi: 10.1186/s12961-016-0093-4) (PMID:27009326) (PMCID:PMC4806422)

2015

Boydell, Nicola ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2260-8020, Fergie, Gillian May ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9693-0357, McDaid, Lisa Margaret ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7711-8723 and Hilton, Shona ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0633-8152 (2015) Understandings of participation in behavioural research: a qualitative study of gay and bisexual men in Scotland. PLoS ONE, 10(8), e0135001. (doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0135001) (PMID:26252480) (PMCID:PMC4529083)

Boydell, Nicola ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2260-8020, Fergie, Gillian ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9693-0357, Hilton, Shona ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0633-8152 and McDaid, Lisa ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7711-8723 (2015) “… Giving Something back to the Gay Community by Taking Part”: Gay and Bisexual Men’s Understandings of Participation in Behavioural Research. BASHH Spring Conference 2015, Glasgow, UK, 1-3 June 2015. A79. (doi: 10.1136/sextrans-2015-052126.233)

2014

Boydell, Nicola ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2260-8020, Fergie, Gillian ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9693-0357, McDaid, Lisa ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7711-8723 and Hilton, Shona ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0633-8152 (2014) Avoiding pitfalls and realising opportunities: reflecting on issues of sampling and recruitment for online focus groups. International Journal of Qualitative Methods, 13, pp. 206-223. (doi: 10.1177/160940691401300109)

2013

Fergie, G. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9693-0357, Hunt, K. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5873-3632 and Hilton, S. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0633-8152 (2013) What young people want from health-related online resources: a focus group study. Journal of Youth Studies, 16(5), pp. 579-596. (doi: 10.1080/13676261.2012.744811)

Fergie, Gillian ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9693-0357, Boydell-Wright, Nicola ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2260-8020, McDaid, Lisa ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7711-8723 and Hilton, Shona ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0633-8152 (2013) Reflecting on the Opportunities and Pitfalls of Online Focus Groups for Qualitative Health Research. 12th Annual Advances in Qualitative Methods Conference, Edmonton, Canada, 21-23 Jun 2013.

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Articles

Baillie, Anna, Fergie, Gillian ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9693-0357, Mackenzie, Mhairi ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3402-322X and Skivington, Kathryn ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3571-1561 (2025) Participatory-deliberative processes in UK policy making related to income insecurity as a determinant of health: a scoping review. Evidence and Policy: A Journal of Research, Debate and Practice, (doi: 10.1332/17442648Y2025D000000053) (PMID:40375924) (PMCID:PMC7617669) (Early Online Publication)

Fergie, Gillian ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9693-0357, Smith, Katherine, Vaczy, Caroline, Mackenzie, Mhairi ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3402-322X and Hilton, Shona ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0633-8152 (2025) Health inequalities and contemporary youth: young people’s accounts of the social determinants of health in an 'austere meritocracy'. Sociology of Health and Illness, 47(1), e13842. (doi: 10.1111/1467-9566.13842) (PMID:39431898)

Baillie, Anna, Skivington, Kathryn ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3571-1561 and Fergie, Gillian ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9693-0357 (2024) An exploration of community food pantries in Scotland: strategic and operational perspectives on addressing food insecurity and health inequalities. BMC Public Health, 24(1), 2881. (doi: 10.1186/s12889-024-20421-z) (PMID:39425062) (PMCID:PMC11490137)

Chambers, Stephanie ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9607-6242, Machray, Kathryn ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9580-1526 and Fergie, Gillian ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9693-0357 (2024) Food insecurity in children and young people in Scotland. Proceedings of the Nutrition Society, 83(3), pp. 157-169. (doi: 10.1017/S0029665124000090) (PMID:38250796) (PMCID:PMC7617109)

Fergie, Gillian ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9693-0357, Vaczy, Caroline, Smith, Katherine, Mackenzie, Mhairi ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3402-322X, Phan, Thu Thuy and Hilton, Shona ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0633-8152 (2023) Young people's perspectives on addressing UK health inequalities: utopian visions and preferences for action. Health Expectations, 26(6), pp. 2264-2277. (doi: 10.1111/hex.13825) (PMID:37427532) (PMCID:PMC10632646)

Leifeld, Philip, Henrichsen, Tim, Buckton, Christina ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6004-4334, Fergie, Gillian ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9693-0357 and Hilton, Shona ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0633-8152 (2022) Belief system alignment and cross-sectoral advocacy efforts in policy debates. Journal of European Public Policy, 29(8), pp. 1225-1248. (doi: 10.1080/13501763.2021.1945131)

Smith, K. E., Macintyre, A., Weakley, S. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0352-7775, Hill, S. E., Escobar, O. and Fergie, G. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9693-0357 (2021) Public understandings of potential policy responses to health inequalities: Evidence from a UK national survey and citizens’ juries in three UK cities. Social Science and Medicine, 291, 114458. (doi: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2021.114458) (PMID:34655938) (PMCID:PMC8711040)

Hilton, Shona ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0633-8152, Buckton, Christina H. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6004-4334, Henrichsen, Tim, Fergie, Gillian ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9693-0357 and Leifeld, Philip (2020) Policy congruence and advocacy strategies in the discourse networks of minimum unit pricing for alcohol and the soft drinks industry levy. Addiction, 115(12), pp. 2303-2314. (doi: 10.1111/add.15068) (PMID:32219917)

Mackenzie, Mhairi ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3402-322X, Skivington, Kathryn ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3571-1561 and Fergie, Gillian ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9693-0357 (2020) "The state they're in": unpicking fantasy paradigms of health improvement interventions as tools for addressing health inequalities. Social Science and Medicine, 256, 113047. (doi: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2020.113047) (PMID:32460096) (PMCID:PMC7306155)

Buckton, Christina ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6004-4334, Fergie, Gillian ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9693-0357, Leifeld, Philip and Hilton, Shona ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0633-8152 (2019) A discourse network analysis of UK newspaper coverage of the 'sugar tax' debate before and after the announcement of the Soft Drinks Industry Levy. BMC Public Health, 19(1), 490. (doi: 10.1186/s12889-019-6799-9) (PMID:31046718) (PMCID:PMC6498658)

Fergie, Gillian ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9693-0357, Leifeld, Philip, Hawkins, Ben and Hilton, Shona ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0633-8152 (2019) Mapping discourse coalitions in the Minimum Unit Pricing for alcohol debate: a discourse network analysis of UK newspaper coverage. Addiction, 114(4), pp. 741-753. (doi: 10.1111/add.14514) (PMID:30475418) (PMCID:PMC6492293)

Hewer, Rebecca, Smith, Katherine and Fergie, Gillian ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9693-0357 (2019) The social functionality of humor in group-based research. Qualitative Health Research, 29(3), pp. 431-444. (doi: 10.1177/1049732318800675) (PMID:30340445) (PMCID:PMC6350176)

Naven, L. et al. (2018) Right Here Right Now (RHRN) pilot study: testing a method of near-real-time data collection on the social determinants of health. Evidence and Policy: A Journal of Research, Debate and Practice, 14(2), pp. 301-321. (doi: 10.1332/174426417X14987303892451) (PMID:29973958) (PMCID:PMC6027954)

Fergie, Gillian ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9693-0357, Hunt, Kate ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5873-3632 and Hilton, Shona ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0633-8152 (2016) Social media as a space for support: Young adults' perspectives on producing and consuming user-generated content about diabetes and mental health. Social Science and Medicine, 170, pp. 46-54. (doi: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2016.10.006) (PMID:27750067) (PMCID:PMC5115652)

Patterson, C. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5914-8718, Emslie, C., Mason, O., Fergie, G. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9693-0357 and Hilton, S. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0633-8152 (2016) A content analysis of UK newspaper and online news representations of women’s and men’s ‘binge’ drinking: a challenge for communicating evidence-based messages about single-episodic drinking? BMJ Open, 6(12), e013124. (doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2016-013124) (PMID:28028047) (PMCID:PMC5223657)

Fergie, Gillian ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9693-0357, Hilton, Shona ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0633-8152 and Hunt, Kate ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5873-3632 (2016) Young adults experiences of seeking online information about diabetes and mental health in the age of social media. Health Expectations, 19(6), pp. 1324-1335. (doi: 10.1111/hex.12430) (PMID:26647109) (PMCID:PMC5139057)

Van Bekkum, Jennifer E., Fergie, Gillian ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9693-0357 and Hilton, Shona ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0633-8152 (2016) Health and medical research funding agencies' promotion of public engagement within research: a qualitative interview study exploring the UK context. Health Research Policy and Systems, 14(23), (doi: 10.1186/s12961-016-0093-4) (PMID:27009326) (PMCID:PMC4806422)

Boydell, Nicola ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2260-8020, Fergie, Gillian May ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9693-0357, McDaid, Lisa Margaret ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7711-8723 and Hilton, Shona ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0633-8152 (2015) Understandings of participation in behavioural research: a qualitative study of gay and bisexual men in Scotland. PLoS ONE, 10(8), e0135001. (doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0135001) (PMID:26252480) (PMCID:PMC4529083)

Boydell, Nicola ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2260-8020, Fergie, Gillian ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9693-0357, McDaid, Lisa ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7711-8723 and Hilton, Shona ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0633-8152 (2014) Avoiding pitfalls and realising opportunities: reflecting on issues of sampling and recruitment for online focus groups. International Journal of Qualitative Methods, 13, pp. 206-223. (doi: 10.1177/160940691401300109)

Fergie, G. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9693-0357, Hunt, K. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5873-3632 and Hilton, S. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0633-8152 (2013) What young people want from health-related online resources: a focus group study. Journal of Youth Studies, 16(5), pp. 579-596. (doi: 10.1080/13676261.2012.744811)

Research Reports or Papers

Lomax, Nik, Archer, Luke, Clay, Rob, Fergie, Gillian ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9693-0357, Heppenstall, Alison ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0663-3437, Meier, Petra ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5354-1933 and Winterbottom, Jo ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0005-4374-4397 (2024) Modelling the Scottish Child Poverty Targets: Estimating the Effect on Adult Mental Health. Project Report. SIPHER Consortium. (doi: 10.36399/gla.pubs.337651).

Miall, Naomi ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7212-6273, Fergie, Gillian ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9693-0357 and Pearce, Anna ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0085-5263 (2022) Health Inequalities in Scotland: trends in deaths, health and wellbeing, health behaviours, and health services since 2000. Project Report. University of Glasgow. (doi: 10.36399/gla.pubs.282637).

Fergie, G. et al. (2016) Right Here Right Now Study: Final Report. Project Report. Glasgow Centre for Population Heath, Glasgow.

Conference or Workshop Item

Baillie, Anna, Skivington, Kathryn ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3571-1561, Fergie, Gillian ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9693-0357 and Mackenzie, Mhairi ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3402-322X (2022) Participatory and Deliberative Processes in the UK Related to Income Insecurity: a Scoping Review. Public Health Science 2021. Lancet 400(Supplement 1). S18, 26 Nov 2021. (doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(22)02228-0)

Buckton, Christina H. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6004-4334, Fergie, Gillian ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9693-0357, Leifeld, Philip and Hilton, Shona ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0633-8152 (2019) A Discourse Network Analysis of UK Newspaper Coverage of the ‘Sugar Tax’ Debate Before and After the Announcement of the Soft Drinks Industry Levy. Society for Social Medicine and Population Health and International Epidemiology Association European Congress Annual Scientific Meeting 2019, Cork, Ireland, 4-6 Sept 2019.

Hilton, Shona ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0633-8152, Henrichsen, T., Fergie, Gillian ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9693-0357, Buckton, Christina H. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6004-4334 and Leifeld, Philip (2019) Ideology, Stakeholders and Public Health Policy: A Comparison of Media Discourses on Alcohol and Sugar Pricing Policy in the UK. Society for Social Medicine and Population Health and International Epidemiology Association European Congress Annual Scientific Meeting 2019, Cork, Ireland, 4-6 Sept 2019.

Hilton, S. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0633-8152, Buckton, C. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6004-4334 and Fergie, G. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9693-0357 (2018) OP5 #Exploring Industry Influence Across Alcohol and Sugar Pricing Policies in the UK: A Discourse Network Analysis. Society for Social Medicine Annual Scientific Meeting, Glasgow, UK, 5 Sep 2018. A3.1-A3. (doi: 10.1136/jech-2018-SSMabstracts.5)

Hilton, Shona ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0633-8152, Fergie, Gillian ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9693-0357, Hawkins, Ben and Leifeld, Philip (2017) A Discourse Network Analysis of Minimum Unit Pricing for Alcohol: Mapping the Discursive Communities in UK Newspaper Coverage of the Debate. Public Health Science 2017, London, UK, 24 Nov 2017. S8. (doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(17)32943-4)

Boydell, Nicola ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2260-8020, Fergie, Gillian ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9693-0357, Hilton, Shona ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0633-8152 and McDaid, Lisa ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7711-8723 (2015) “… Giving Something back to the Gay Community by Taking Part”: Gay and Bisexual Men’s Understandings of Participation in Behavioural Research. BASHH Spring Conference 2015, Glasgow, UK, 1-3 June 2015. A79. (doi: 10.1136/sextrans-2015-052126.233)

Fergie, Gillian ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9693-0357, Boydell-Wright, Nicola ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2260-8020, McDaid, Lisa ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7711-8723 and Hilton, Shona ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0633-8152 (2013) Reflecting on the Opportunities and Pitfalls of Online Focus Groups for Qualitative Health Research. 12th Annual Advances in Qualitative Methods Conference, Edmonton, Canada, 21-23 Jun 2013.

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Grants

Grants and Awards listed are those received whilst working with the University of Glasgow.

  • Forging policy coherence for a just and sustainable future in Scotland: Glasgow local policy partnerships case study (GALOPP)
    Economic and Social Research Council
    2023 - 2023
     
  • Developing a platform for evaluating a `Minimum Income Guarantee' policy and modelling major income supplementation reforms
    National Institute for Health Research
    2023 - 2024
     
  • Epidemiology, trends, patterns in life expectancy and risk factors for health inequalities
    The Health Foundation
    2022 - 2022
     
  • SPHSU/MRC EU - Participatory Systems Mapping
    Medical Research Council
    2021 - 2021
     
  • Developing a participatory approach for exploring young people's perspectives on health inequalities
    Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC)
    2019 - 2021
     

Teaching

I currently co-convene a core module of the MSc in Global Health (Global Health in Social Context). I supervise dissertation projects across the MPH, MSc in Global Mental Health, and MSc in Global Health. I also teach qualitative methods on the SHW-wide Research Methods in Health and Wellbeing module.

Research datasets

Jump to: 2022 | 2019
Number of items: 2.

2022

Fergie, G. M. (2022) Creative Insights: Developing a Participatory Approach for Exploring Young People's Perspectives on Health Inequalities, 2019-2022. [Data Collection]

2019

Fergie, G. (2019) Understanding online engagement and health experiences in the age of social media: exploring diabetes and common mental health disorders 2011-2012. [Data Collection]

This list was generated on Mon Sep 15 14:01:50 2025 BST.