Nigel Smeeton

Nigel Smeeton is a Social Statistician at the University of Hertfordshire's Centre for Research in Public Health and Community Care, part of the School of Health and Social Work. He holds a Visiting Lecturer position at King's College London. With expertise in statistics and epidemiology, his career includes roles at the University of Leeds and the Institute of Psychiatry, London.

His research focuses on nonparametric statistical methods, the role of ethnicity in health outcomes, environmental influences on stroke, and observer agreement statistics. He is principal investigator of a comparative stroke study in Barbados and South London and leads the UK NIHR-funded Connect Public Health Interventions Responsive Studies Team (PHIRST).

Key projects include evaluating public health initiatives like Live Life Better Derbyshire and Green Health Prescriptions. His work emphasizes health equity, atmospheric pollution impacts, and statistical methodologies in healthcare.

Publications include Applied Nonparametric Statistical Methods (5th ed., 2025) and studies on workplace health in SMEs, remote exercise programs during the pandemic, and midwife well-being.