In their research, Charlotte and Maayan have used ethnographic, in-depth qualitative and participatory research designs. They have extensive experience working in sensitive contexts, carefully navigating and making sense of research ethics. They also have training in statistics, economics, and spatial research techniques.
peer reviewed publications
Miles, S., Renedo, A., Kühlbrandt, C., McGowan, C., Stuart, R., Grenfell, P., & Marston, C. (2024). ‘Health risks at work mean risks at home: spatial aspects of COVID‐19 among migrant workers in precarious jobs in England’. Sociology of health & illness, 46(3), 381-398.
Stuart, R., Grenfell, P., Renedo, A., McGowan, C. R., Kühlbrandt, C., Miles, S., & Marston, C. (2023) ‘Necropolitics and Necroresistance: A Qualitative Research with Gypsy, Traveller and Roma Communities during the COVID-19 Pandemic.’ Papers from the British Criminology Conference.
Kühlbrandt, C., McGowan, C. R., Stuart, R., Grenfell, P., Miles, S., Renedo, A., & Marston, C. (2023). 'COVID-19 vaccination decisions among Gypsy, Roma, and Traveller communities: A qualitative study moving beyond “vaccine hesitancy”'. Vaccine, 41(26), 3891-3897.
Renedo, A., Stuart, R., Kühlbrandt, C., Grenfell, P., McGowan, C.R., Miles, S., Farrow, S. and Marston, C.,(2023). ‘Community-led responses to COVID-19 within Gypsy and Traveller communities in England: A participatory qualitative research study’. SSM-Qualitative Research in Health, 3, 100280.
Marston, C., McGowan, C., Stuart, R., Kühlbrandt, C., Miles, S., Grenfell, P., Dix, L. and Renedo, A. (2023). ‘Routes: New ways to talk about COVID-19 for better health. Focus on Gypsy, Roma and Traveller communities and migrant workers’. NIHR.
Cowan H, Kühlbrandt C, Riazuddin H. (2021) ‘A better world for whom? Reordering the machinery of participation with young people’ Sociology of Health and Illness
Kühlbrandt C. ‘Participation as Inclusion and Exclusion: Policing the Boundaries of “Citizenship” in Roma Health Mediation’, (2019), Sociological Review Online.
Kühlbrandt C. (2019), ‘Confronting racism in family planning: a critical ethnography of Roma health mediation’, Reproductive Health Matters, 27.1,
Arora VS, Kühlbrandt C, McKee M. (2016) ‘An examination of unmet health needs as perceived by Roma in Central and Eastern Europe’ European Journal of Public Health, Mar 2. pii.
Risso-Gill I, Balabanova D, Majid F, Ng KK, Yusoff K, Mustapha F, Kühlbrandt C, Nieuwlaat R, Schwalm JD, McCready T, Koon T, Yusuf S and McKee M, (2015) ‘Understanding the modifiable health systems barriers to hypertension management in Malaysia: a multi-method health systems appraisal approach’, BMC Health Services Research. Jul 3;15:254.
Kühlbrandt C, Footman K, Rechel B, McKee M, (2014) ‘An examination of Roma health insurance status in Central and Eastern Europe’, European Journal of Public Health, Feb 5
Kühlbrandt C, Balabanova B, Chikovani I, Petrosyan V, Kizilova K, Ivaniuto O, Danii O, Makarova N, and McKee M, (2014) ‘In search of patient-centred care in middle income countries: The experience of diabetes care in the former Soviet Union.’ Health Policy, 118 (2) 193-200.
Kühlbrandt C, McKee M, (2013) ‘Evidence and ideology as a rationale for light-therapy in Russia: from the Soviet Union to the present day.’ Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine Short Reports, Jul 1;4 (8)
Kühlbrandt C, Basu S, McKee M, Stuckler D (2012) ‘Looking at the Russian health care system: through the eyes of patients with diabetes and their physicians’, British Journal of Diabetes and Vascular Disease, 12 (4), 181-184.