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Dr Jennifer Badham is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at Durham University, with the following key roles:
- Director of the MA Social Research Methods
- Programme Lead for MDS (Health Data Science) in the Faculty of Social Sciences and Health
- Fellow of the Wolfson Research Institute for Health and Wellbeing
Her research interests span computational methods for complex systems, network diffusion, public engagement, and social network structure. She specializes in agent-based modelling and network analysis to investigate how social structure shapes the transmission of ideas, disease, and behaviour. Additionally, she examines the role of models in policy processes and public engagement with data.
Analysis of her recent publications reveals a strong focus on agent-based modelling and network analysis applied to health and social systems. Key trends include the development of synthetic network generation methods, simulation of network interventions for behaviour change, and the integration of participatory approaches in model building. Her work addresses pressing issues such as epidemic planning and health behaviour.
Dr Badham is Principal Investigator on the MRC-funded project "Generating Socially Realistic Synthetic Networks" (2023-2026, £528,850). She supervises postgraduate students, including Tengpeng Zhang, and draws on her prior experience as a senior health policy advisor in Australia to inform her research and teaching.
As a Fellow of the Wolfson Research Institute for Health and Wellbeing, she contributes to interdisciplinary health research. She also leads the Health Data Science strand within the Durham Research Methods Centre.
