Dr Marcia Gibson

Investigator Scientist (MRC/CSO Social & Public Health Sciences Unit)
Affiliate (School of Health & Wellbeing)

telephone: 01413537500
email: Marcia.Gibson@glasgow.ac.uk

MRC/CSO Social and Public Health Sciences Unit, Clarice Pears Building, University of Glasgow, 90 Byres Road, Glasgow, G12 8TB

Import to contacts

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7479-9228

Biography

Marcia is a researcher at the SPHSU with a focus on systematic reviews of the health impacts of complex social interventions. The role of the welfare state and social protection in determining health is a particular substantive focus. She has led a Cochrane review of health impacts of welfare to work interventions on lone parents and their children, a systematic review of qualitative welfare to work studies, and a scoping review of studies evaluating the effects of interventions which are similar to basic income. She also contributed to an evaluation of the health effects of requiring lone parents of younger children to meet work-related requirements.

She is currently collaborating on a scoping review of the wider impacts of benefit sanctions, and developing further projects on basic income and on lone parent work requirements. She has also led a number of evidence submissions to parliamentary consultations, and is keen to engage with policy makers and practitioners. Methods of evaluating policy-level and whole-system interventions are also one of Marcia’s interests.

Publications

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Number of items: 46.

2023

Gibson, Marcia ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7479-9228 (2023) Basic income is a popular idea, but small pilots cannot produce generalisable evidence. British Medical Journal, 383, p. 2304. (doi: 10.1136/bmj.p2304) (PMID:37848199)

Cheetham, Mandy, Gibson, Marcia ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7479-9228, Morris, Steph, Bambra, Clare and Craig, Peter ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7653-5832 (2023) The Mental Health Effects of Universal Credit: Qualitative Findings from a Mixed Methods Study. Society for Social Medicine Annual Scientific Meeting, Newcastle, UK, 06-08 Sep 2023. (doi: 10.1136/jech-2023-SSMabstracts.26)

Albers, P. N. et al. (2023) Natural experiments for the evaluation of place-based public health interventions: a methodology scoping review. Frontiers in Public Health, 11, 1192055. (doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2023.1192055) (PMID:37427271) (PMCID:PMC10323422)

Brown, H. et al. (2023) Exploring the health and sociodemographic characteristics of people seeking advice with claiming universal credit: a cross-sectional analysis of UK citizens advice data, 2017–2021. BMC Public Health, 23, 595. (doi: 10.1186/s12889-023-15483-4) (PMID:36997889) (PMCID:PMC10060933)

2022

Rizvi, Anita, Welch, Vivian, Gibson, Marcia ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7479-9228, Labelle, Patrick R., Pollard, Christina, Wells, George A. and Kristjansson, Elizabeth (2022) Protocol: rffects of guaranteed basic income interventions on poverty‐related outcomes in high‐income countries: a systematic review. Campbell Systematic Reviews, 18(4), e1281. (doi: 10.1002/cl2.1281) (PMID:36908842) (PMCID:PMC9538708)

Walsh, David ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3390-5039, Dundas, Ruth ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3836-4286, McCartney, Gerry ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6341-3521, Gibson, Marcia ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7479-9228 and Seaman, Rosie ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1400-4048 (2022) Bearing the burden of austerity: how do changing mortality rates in the UK compare between men and women? Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, 76(12), pp. 1027-1033. (doi: 10.1136/jech-2022-219645) (PMID:36195463) (PMCID:PMC9664129)

Cheetham, M., Atkinson, P.J., Gibson, M. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7479-9228, Katikireddi, S.V. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6593-9092, Moffatt, S., Morris, S., Munford, L., Shenton, F., Wickham, S. and Craig, P. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7653-5832 (2022) Exploring the mental health effects of Universal Credit: a journey of co-production. Perspectives in Public Health, 142(4), pp. 209-212. (doi: 10.1177/17579139221103178) (PMID:35833554) (PMCID:PMC9284081)

Pattaro, Serena ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3422-4443, Bailey, Nick ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1618-5949, Williams, Evan ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3673-5714, Gibson, Marcia ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7479-9228, Wells, Valerie ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7283-6208, Tranmer, Mark ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4779-1570 and Dibben, Chris (2022) The impacts of benefit sanctions: a scoping review of the quantitative research evidence. Journal of Social Policy, 51(3), pp. 611-653. (doi: 10.1017/S0047279421001069)

Craig, P. et al. (2022) Evaluation of the mental health impacts of universal credit: protocol for a mixed methods study. BMJ Open, 12(4), e061340. (doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2022-061340) (PMID:35396318) (PMCID:PMC8996017)

2021

Danson, Mike, Gibson, Marcia ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7479-9228 and Miller, Annie (2021) Basic Income Network Scotland: Review of Citizens’ Basic Income Feasibility Study. Discussion Paper. Basic Income Network Scotland, Glasgow.

2020

Gibson, Marcia ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7479-9228, Hearty, Wendy and Craig, Peter ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7653-5832 (2020) The public health effects of interventions similar to basic income: a scoping review. Lancet Public Health, 5(3), e165-e176. (doi: 10.1016/S2468-2667(20)30005-0) (PMID:32113520) (PMCID:PMC7208547)

2019

Pattaro, Serena ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3422-4443, Bailey, Nick ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1618-5949, Williams, Evan ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3673-5714, Gibson, Marcia ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7479-9228, Wells, Valerie ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7283-6208, Wright, Sharon ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6312-6052, Tranmer, Mark ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4779-1570 and Dibben, Chris (2019) Labour Market and Wider Impacts of Benefit Sanctions: A Scoping Review. 17th Annual ESPAnet Conference, Stockholm, Sweden, 5-7 Sept 2019.

Pattaro, Serena ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3422-4443, Bailey, Nick ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1618-5949, Williams, Evan ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3673-5714, Gibson, Marcia ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7479-9228, Wells, Valerie ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7283-6208, Wright, Sharon ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6312-6052, Tranmer, Mark ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4779-1570 and Dibben, Chris (2019) Labour Market and Wider Impacts of Benefit Sanctions: A Scoping Review [Review Protocol]. Documentation. UNSPECIFIED. (Unpublished)

2018

Gibson, Marcia ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7479-9228, Hearty, Wendy and Craig, Peter ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7653-5832 (2018) Potential Effects of Universal Basic Income: a Scoping Review of Evidence on Impacts and Study Characteristics. The Lancet 392(S2):S36. Meeting abstract: Public Health Science 2018, Belfast, Northern Ireland, 23 Nov 2018. (doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(18)32083-X)

Gibson, Marcia ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7479-9228, Hearty, Wendy and Craig, Peter ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7653-5832 (2018) Universal basic income: a scoping review of evidence on impacts and study characteristics. Project Report. What Works Scotland.

Katikireddi, Srinivasa Vittal ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6593-9092, Molaodi, Oarabile R., Gibson, Marcia ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7479-9228, Dundas, Ruth ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3836-4286 and Craig, Peter ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7653-5832 (2018) Effects of restrictions to Income Support on health of lone mothers in the UK: a natural experiment study. Lancet Public Health, 3(7), e333-e340. (doi: 10.1016/S2468-2667(18)30109-9) (PMID:29976327) (PMCID:PMC6038023)

Craig, Peter ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7653-5832, Gibson, Marcia ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7479-9228, Campbell, Mhairi ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4416-7270, Popham, Frank ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7263-7954 and Katikireddi, Srinivasa Vittal ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6593-9092 (2018) Making the most of natural experiments: What can studies of the withdrawal of public health interventions offer? Preventive Medicine, 108, pp. 17-22. (doi: 10.1016/j.ypmed.2017.12.025) (PMID:29288780) (PMCID:PMC6711756)

Gibson, M. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7479-9228, Thomson, H. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6810-9948, Banas, K., Lutje, V., McKee, M.J., Martin, S.P., Fenton, C. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2516-9956, Bambra, C. and Bond, L. (2018) Welfare-to-work interventions and their effects on the mental and physical health of lone parents and their children. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, 2017(8), CD009820. (doi: 10.1002/14651858.CD009820.pub3) (PMID:28823111) (PMCID:PMC6483471)

2017

Dundas, Ruth ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3836-4286, Molaodi, Oarabile, Gibson, Marcia ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7479-9228, Katikireddi, S. Vittal ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6593-9092 and Craig, Peter ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7653-5832 (2017) Health Impacts of UK Lone Parent Obligations: A Natural Experiment Study Using Data from the UK Household Panel Survey, Understanding Society. The Lancet 390(S3):S2. Meeting abstract: Public Health Science 2017, London, UK, 24 Nov 2017. (doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(17)32937-9)

Katikireddi, S. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6593-9092, Molaodi, O., Gibson, M. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7479-9228, Dundas, R. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3836-4286 and Craig, P. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7653-5832 (2017) Evaluating the Health Impacts of Restrictions to Income Support for Lone Parents: A Natural Experiment Study Using Understanding Society. Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health 71(Suppl. 1):A38. Society for Social Medicine, 61st Annual Scientific Meeting, Manchester, UK, 5-8 Sept 2017. (doi: 10.1136/jech-2017-SSMAbstracts.75)

Gibson, Marcia ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7479-9228 (2017) Policy Brief. Welfare to Work Interventions and the Health of Lone Parents and their Children. Documentation. MRC/CSO Social and Public Health Sciences Unit, University of Glasgow, Glasgow.

Gibson, Marcia ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7479-9228, Hearty, Wendy, Craig, Peter ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7653-5832 and Watson, Nicholas ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0364-427X (2017) Review Protocol. The Impact of Universal Basic Income: A Scoping Review of Evaluations and Outcomes. Documentation. MRC/CSO Social and Public Health Sciences Unit, University of Glasgow, Glasgow.

2016

Taulbut, Martin, Davis, Marion, Egan, James, Gibson, Marcia ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7479-9228, Scobie, Graeme and Campbell, Sheena (2016) Lone Parents in Scotland: Work, Income and Child Health: In-work Progression: and the Geography of Lone Parenthood. Project Report. NHS Health Scotland.

Campbell, Mhairi ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4416-7270, Thomson, Hilary ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6810-9948, Fenton, Candida ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2516-9956 and Gibson, Marcia ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7479-9228 (2016) Lone parents, health, wellbeing and welfare to work: a systematic review of qualitative studies. BMC Public Health, 16(1), 188. (doi: 10.1186/s12889-016-2880-9) (PMID:26911510) (PMCID:PMC4766630)

Bambra, Clare and Gibson, Marcia ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7479-9228 (2016) Case study of public health. In: Biondi-Zoccai, Giuseppe (ed.) Umbrella Reviews: Evidence Synthesis with Overviews of Reviews and Meta-Epidemiologic Studies. Springer: Cham, pp. 343-362. ISBN 9783319256535 (doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-25655-9_20)

2015

Campbell, Mhairi ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4416-7270, Thomson, Hilary ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6810-9948, Fenton, Candida ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2516-9956 and Gibson, Marcia ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7479-9228 (2015) Health and Wellbeing of Lone Parents in Welfare to Work: a Systematic Review of Qualitative Studies. The Lancet 386(S2):S27. Meeting abstract: Public Health Science, London, UK, 13 Nov 2015. S27. (doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(15)00865-X)

Campbell, Mhairi ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4416-7270, Thomson, H. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6810-9948 and Gibson, Marcia ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7479-9228 (2015) Qualitative Systematic Review of the Health and Wellbeing of Lone Parents in Welfare to Work. European Journal of Public Health 25(S3): 157. 8th European Public Health Conference Health in Europe, Milan, Italy, 14-17 Oct 2015. (doi: 10.1093/eurpub/ckv171.072)

2014

Gibson, M ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7479-9228, Banas, K., Lutje, V., McKee, M., Martin, S., Thomson, H. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6810-9948, Bambra, C., Fenton, C. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2516-9956 and Bond, L. (2014) The Effects of Welfare to Work Interventions on the Health and Well-Being of Lone Parents and their Children–a Systematic Review of Randomised Controlled Trials. European Journal of Public Health 24(S2): 54-55. 7th European Public Health Conference, Glasgow, UK, 19-22 Nov 2014. (doi: 10.1093/eurpub/cku161.010)

Gibson, M ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7479-9228, Banas, K., Lutje, V., McKee, M., Martin, S., Thomson, H. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6810-9948, Bambra, C., Fenton, C. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2516-9956 and Bond, L. (2014) OP96 Welfare to Work Interventions and their Effects on Health and Well-Being of Lone Parents and their Children - a Systematic Review of Randomised Controlled Trials. Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health 68(S1): A47. Society for Social Medicine 58th Annual Scientific Meeting, Oxford, UK, 10-12 Sep 2014. (doi: 10.1136/jech-2014-204726.98)

2013

Campbell, Mhairi ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4416-7270, Gibson, Marcia ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7479-9228, Thomson, Hilary ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6810-9948 and Egan, Matthew (2013) Lone Parents and Welfare to Work Interventions: Synthesis of Qualitative Studies [Review Protocol]. Other. University of Glasgow, Glasgow. (Unpublished)

2012

Gibson, Marcia ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7479-9228, Thomson, Hilary ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6810-9948, Banas, Kasia, Bambra, Clare, Fenton, Candida ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2516-9956 and Bond, Lyndal (2012) Welfare to work interventions and their effects on health and well-being of lone parents and their children (protocol). Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, 2012, (doi: 10.1002/14651858.CD009820)

2011

Gibson, M. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7479-9228, Banas, K., Thomson, H. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6810-9948, Bambra, C., Bond, L., McKee, M., Lutje, V. and Fenton, C. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2516-9956 (2011) Welfare to Work Interventions and their Effects on the Health and Well-Being of Lone Parents and their Children. European Journal of Public Health 21(S1): 200. 4th European Public Health Conference, Copenhagen, Denmark, 09-12 Nov 2011. (doi: 10.1093/eurpub/ckr119)

Gibson, M. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7479-9228, Thomson, H., Kearns, A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3198-8392 and Petticrew, M. (2011) Understanding the psychosocial impacts of housing type: qualitative evidence from a study of housing relocation. Housing Studies, 26(4), pp. 555-573. (doi: 10.1080/02673037.2011.559724)

Gibson, M. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7479-9228, Banas, K., Thomson, H. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6810-9948, Bambra, C., Bond, L., McKee, M., Lutje, V. and Fenton, C. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2516-9956 (2011) Welfare to Work Interventions and their Effects on the Health and Well-Being of Lone Parents and their Children. Other. Scottish Government Health Directorates Chief Scientist Office.

Gibson, M. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7479-9228, Petticrew, M., Bambra, C., Sowden, A.J., Wright, K.E. and Whitehead, M. (2011) Housing and health inequalities: A synthesis of systematic reviews of interventions aimed at different pathways linking housing and health. Health and Place, 17(1), pp. 175-184. (doi: 10.1016/j.healthplace.2010.09.011)

2010

Bambra, C., Gibson, M. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7479-9228, Sowden, A., Wright, K., Whitehead, M. and Petticrew, M. (2010) Tackling the wider social determinants of health and health inequalities: evidence from systematic reviews. Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, 64(4), pp. 284-291. (doi: 10.1136/jech.2008.082743)

2009

Bambra, C., Gibson, M. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7479-9228, Sowden, A.J., Wright, K., Whitehead, M. and Petticrew, M. (2009) Working for health? Evidence from systematic reviews on the effects on health and health inequalities of organisational changes to the psychosocial work environment. Preventive Medicine, 48(5), pp. 454-461. (doi: 10.1016/j.ypmed.2008.12.018)

Gibson, Marcia ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7479-9228, Thomson, Hilary ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6810-9948, Petticrew, Mark and Kearns, Ade ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3198-8392 (2009) My Own Front and Back Door; Impacts On Well-Being Of Moving To New-Build Social Housing. In: European Network of Housing Research Conference, Prague, Czech Republic, 28 Jun - 1 Jul 2009,

2008

Gibson, M. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7479-9228, Bambra, C., Petticrew, M., Sowden, A., Whitehead, M. and Wright, K. (2008) Tackling the Wider Determinants of Health and Health Inequalities: Evidence from Systematic Reviews. European Journal of Public Health 18(S1): 115-116. 16th Eupha Conference, Lisbon, Portugal, 06-08 Nov 2008. (doi: 10.1093/eurpub/ckn503)

Bambra, C., Gibson, M. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7479-9228, Petticrew, M., Sowden, A., Whitehead, M. and Wright, K. (2008) Tackling the Wider Social Determinants of Health and Health Inequalities: Evidence From Systematic Reviews. Project Report. Social and Public Health Sciences Unit, York.

Gibson, M. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7479-9228, Thomson, H. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6810-9948, Petticrew, M. and Kearns, A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3198-8392 (2008) Health and Housing in the SHARP Study: Qualitative Research Findings. Technical Report. Scottish Government Social Research, Edinburgh, UK.

Petticrew, M., Kearns, A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3198-8392, Hoy, C., Mason, P. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6477-0803, Gibson, M. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7479-9228 and Whitley, E. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0297-9078 (2008) The SHARP Study: Findings of a Controlled Study of the Effects of Housing and Neighbourhood Change on Health and Well-Being. Technical Report. Scottish Government, Edinburgh, UK.

Petticrew, Mark, Kearns, Ade ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3198-8392, Hoy, Caroline, Gibson, Marcia ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7479-9228 and Mason, Phil ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6477-0803 (2008) The SHARP Study: Objectives, Design and Methodology. Project Report. Scottish Government Social Research, Edinburgh.

2007

Hills, D. et al. (2007) The Evaluation of the Big Lottery Fund Healthy Living Centres Programme: Final Report. Project Report. Big Lottery Fund, London.

2006

Gibson, Marcia ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7479-9228 and Petticrew, Mark (2006) Healthy Living Centre Evaluation Report On Managers’ Survey. Project Report. Big Lottery Fund, London.

Gibson, Marcia ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7479-9228 and Petticrew, Mark (2006) Healthy Living Centre Evaluation Report On Stakeholders’ Survey. Project Report. Big Lottery Fund, London.

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