| Josephine Baxter |
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Josephine Baxter brings experience of researching and working with rural communities. She carried out research (for Lancaster University Institute for Health Research) on ‘The Health and Social Consequences of the 2001 Foot and Mouth Epidemic in North Cumbria’. She previously worked for the institute as a support worker on the ‘Farmers’ Health Project’ in rural Lancashire / South Lakeland. Both projects involved extensive longitudinal research with rural communities that might usually be considered 'hard-to-reach'. She is an Honorary Research Fellow of the Institute for Health Research at Lancaster University. She is co-author of a book in preparation (Palgrave Macmillan) on ‘community disasters’. She is also a magistrate. Other creative interests include being part of the ‘Red Sky Writers’ writing collective in Cumbria, whose play “Heft like the Herdwick” was broadcast on Radio 4. |
