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Dr Karyn Morrissey

Senior Lecturer

01872 258158

Knowledge Spa

University of Exeter Medical School, Knowledge Spa, Royal Cornwall Hospital, Truro, TR1 3HD

Dr Karyn Morrissey is a Senior Lecturer in the European Centre for Environment and Human Health whose research focuses on understanding the impact of socio-economic and environmental inequalities on health outcomes, using data both big and small.

An economist by background and having worked in a Department of Geography, her multi-disciplinary approach centres on the application of computational methodologies such as simulation models, econometric models and geo-computation models.

Karyn is interested in the science-policy interface and has been a rapporteur for an OECD Workshop on the Future of Maritime Spatial Planning and Ocean Monitoring. She was an invited speaker at the Second Irish Maritime and Energy Resource Cluster Annual Conference in Cork in 2013, and an invited keynote speaker at the National Ocean Forum in Mauritius in 2012.

Karyn has also held a University of Liverpool knowledge exchange voucher with the Health and Safety Executive, is membership secretary of the British and Irish Regional Science Association, and an editorial board member of the Journal of Ocean and Coastal Economics and Marine Policy.

Increasingly frustrated by existing research in population health outcomes, Karyn is interested in moving away from cross-sectional models – which focus on just one point in time – to a life course analysis based on longitudinal and cohort datasets – which follow people over time.

Qualifications

2000-2003: BA in Economics, Sociology and Politics, National University of Ireland, Galway

2005-2006: MA in Economics: policy and Practice, National University of Ireland, Galway

2007-2009: PhD Geography and Economics: Access to Health Care services in Rural Ireland, University of Leeds

Research

Research interests

An economist by background I am interested in multi-disciplinary research, particularly the application of spatial and regional analysis to population health and natural resource management. I am particularly interested in developing and applying geo-computational models, such as spatial microsimulation and spatial interaction models for policy analysis.

VIDEO: Dr Karyn Morrissey talks about her research and why she believes it's important for society.

Research projects

June 2011-September 2011 Impact of Networks on Marine Water Based Activity Businesses, Border, Midlands, West General Assembly, €5,000

December 2011-July, 2012 An Economic Valuation of Marine Commercial Activity in the UK, University of Liverpool, pump-priming, £5,000

December 2012-July, 2013: Develop an r-based census data tool, University of Liverpool, pump-priming, £5,000

March 2013- August 2013 University College Cork: evaluating the impact of IMERC on the maritime sector in Ireland, £7,800

March 2013-Sepember, 2014 ESRC Secondary Data Initiative, A Spatial Microsimulation Model of Co-Morbidity, £200,000

September 2013-May 2014 Knowledge Exchange Voucher with the Health and Safety Executive, £10,000

June 2015-January 2016 OECD Discussion paper and Report, the economics of marine spatial planning for OECD countries, €10,000

RESEARCH GRANTS: CI

March 2016 – March 2019 ‘Innovations in Small Area Estimation Methodologies’, NCRM, Co-I (850,000)

May 2015 to April 2016 Death and disability: the vulnerability of older people in Malaysia to urbanisation and climate change, Newton-Omar, (Co-I), £150,000

September 2011 to August 2016 Adaptation and Resilience of Coastal Energy Supply (ARCoES), EPSRC, (Co-I with Andy Plater PI), £1.6million

September 2013- January 2014 UKDS Innovation award, £18,000 to develop a script driven software for accessing (Co-I with Paul Williamson P-I)

January 2015-April 2015 UKDS Innovation award, £48,000 to develop a script driven software for accessing (Co-I with Paul Williamson P-I)

Research grants

2016 Economic and Social Research Council
Small Area Estimation (SAE) is concerned with the development of methodologies for performing estimation at fine spatial scales for which survey data are either non-existent or too sparse to provide direct estimates of acceptable precision.

Key publications

Watts N, Amann M, Ayeb-Karlsson S, Belesova K, Bouley T, Boykoff M, Byass P, Cai W, Campbell-Lendrum D, Chambers J, et al (In Press). The Lancet Countdown on health and climate change: from 25 years of inaction to a global transformation for public health. Lancet, 391(10120), 581-630. Author URL.

Watts N, Adger WN, Ayeb-Karlsson S, Bai Y, Byass P, Campbell-Lendrum D, Colbourn T, Cox P, Davies M, Depledge M, et al (In Press). The Lancet Countdown: tracking progress on health and climate change. Lancet, 389(10074), 1151-1164.

The Lancet Countdown: tracking progress on health and climate change is an international, multidisciplinary research collaboration between academic institutions and practitioners across the world. It follows on from the work of the 2015 Lancet Commission, which concluded that the response to climate change could be "the greatest global health opportunity of the 21st century". The Lancet Countdown aims to track the health impacts of climate hazards; health resilience and adaptation; health co-benefits of climate change mitigation; economics and finance; and political and broader engagement. These focus areas form the five thematic working groups of the Lancet Countdown and represent different aspects of the complex association between health and climate change. These thematic groups will provide indicators for a global overview of health and climate change; national case studies highlighting countries leading the way or going against the trend; and engagement with a range of stakeholders. The Lancet Countdown ultimately aims to report annually on a series of indicators across these five working groups. This paper outlines the potential indicators and indicator domains to be tracked by the collaboration, with suggestions on the methodologies and datasets available to achieve this end. The proposed indicator domains require further refinement, and mark the beginning of an ongoing consultation process-from November, 2016 to early 2017-to develop these domains, identify key areas not currently covered, and change indicators where necessary. This collaboration will actively seek to engage with existing monitoring processes, such as the UN Sustainable Development Goals and WHO's climate and health country profiles. The indicators will also evolve over time through ongoing collaboration with experts and a range of stakeholders, and be dependent on the emergence of new evidence and knowledge. During the course of its work, the Lancet Countdown will adopt a collaborative and iterative process, which aims to complement existing initiatives, welcome engagement with new partners, and be open to developing new research projects on health and climate change.

Abstract. Author URL. Full text.

Morrissey K (2017). Economics of the Marine Modelling Natural Resources., Rowman & Littlefield International. Abstract.

Morrissey K, Espuny F, Williamson P, Higgins S (2016). A small area estimation model of comorbidity for England. The Lancet, 388, S80-S80. Full text.

Morrissey K, Kinderman P, Pontin E, Tai S, Schwannauer M (2016). Web based health surveys: Using a Two Step Heckman model to examine their potential for population health analysis. SOCIAL SCIENCE & MEDICINE, 163, 45-53. Author URL. Full text.

Morrissey K, Espuny F, Williamson P (2015). A multinomial model for comorbidity in England of long-standing cardiovascular disease, diabetes and obesity. Health & Social Care in the Community, 24(6), 717-727.

Publications by category

Books

Morrissey K (2017). Economics of the Marine Modelling Natural Resources., Rowman & Littlefield International. Abstract.

Ballas D, Clarke G, Hynes S, Morrissey K, O Donoghue C (2013). Introduction. Abstract.

O'Donoghue C, Ballas D, Clarke G, Hynes S, Morrissey K (2012). Spatial Microsimulation for Rural Policy Analysis., Springer Science & Business Media. Abstract.

Journal articles

Abstract. Author URL. Full text.

Brown JM, Morrissey K, Knight P, Prime TD, Almeida LP, Masselink G, Bird CO, Dodds D, Plater AJ (2018). A coastal vulnerability assessment for planning climate resilient infrastructure. Ocean and Coastal Management, 163, 101-112. Abstract.

Hinchliffe S, Jackson M, Wyatt K, Barlow A, Barreto M, Clare L, Deplege M, Durie R, Fleming L, Groom N, et al (2018). Healthy publics: Enabling cultures and environments for health. Palgrave Communications Full text.

Morrissey KM (2018). Market Failures, the Environment, and Human Health. Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Environmental Science, 1-13. Full text.

Morrissey KM, plater A, dean M (2018). The cost of electric power outages in the residential sector: a willingness to pay approach. Applied Energy, 212, 141-150.

Espuny-Pujol F, Morrissey K, Williamson P (2017). A global optimisation approach to range-restricted survey calibration. Statistics and Computing, 28(2), 427-439. Full text.

Morrissey KM, Abo-Zaid G (2017). Examining the association between C-Reactive protein and obesity by using the fractional polynomial approach; applying on NHANES dataset from 2001 to 2010. Journal of Medical Statistics and Informatics, 5 Full text.

Gustaysson M, Riley M, Morrissey K, Plater AJ (2017). Exploring the socio-cultural contexts of fishers and fishing: Developing the concept of the 'good fisher'. JOURNAL OF RURAL STUDIES, 50, 104-116. Author URL. Full text.

Morrissey KM (2017). It’s not just a Blue Economy moment…. Dialogues in Human Geography, 7(1), 42-44. Abstract. Full text.

Morrissey K, Espuny F, Williamson P, Higgins S (2016). A small area estimation model of comorbidity for England. The Lancet, 388, S80-S80. Full text.

Morrissey K, Cummins V (2016). Measuring relatedness in a multisectoral cluster: an input–output approach. European Planning Studies, 24(4), 629-644. Full text.

Vega A, Kilgarriff P, O’Donoghue C, Morrissey K (2016). The Spatial Impact of Commuting on Income: a Spatial Microsimulation Approach. Applied Spatial Analysis and Policy, 10(4), 475-495.

Morrissey KM (2015). An Urban-Rural Exploration of Depression, CVD and their Comorbidity in Ireland. Irish Geography, 47(1), 77-94. Full text.

Knight PJ, Prime T, Brown JM, Morrissey K, Plater AJ (2015). Application of flood risk modelling in a web-based geospatial decision support tool for coastal adaptation to climate change. Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences, 15(7), 1457-1471. Abstract.

Knight PJ, Prime T, M. Brown J, Morrissey K, Plater AJ (2015). Application of flood risk modelling in a web-based geospatial decision support tool for coastal adaptation to climate change. Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences Discussions, 3(2), 1615-1642. Full text.

Morrissey K (2015). Exploring Spatial Variability in the Relationship between Long Term Limiting Illness and Area Level Deprivation at the City Level Using Geographically Weighted Regression. AIMS Public Health, 2(3), 426-440. Full text.

Morrissey K (2015). Gender Differences in the Association between Common Mental Disorders and Regional Deprivation in Ireland. The Professional Geographer, 68(1), 129-137. Full text.

Watts N, Adger WN, Agnolucci P, Blackstock J, Collins M, Cox PM, Hunter A, Quinn T, Gong P, Montgomery H, et al (2015). Lancet Commission on Health and Climate Change: Policy Responses to Protect Public Health. Lancet Full text.

Morrissey K, Clarke G, Williamson P, Daly A, O'Donoghue C (2015). Mental Illness in Ireland: Simulating its Geographical Prevalence and the Role of Access to Services. Environment and Planning B: Planning and Design, 42(2), 338-353. Full text.

Farrell N, Donoghue CO, Morrissey K (2015). Quantifying the uncertainty of wave energy conversion device cost for policy appraisal: an Irish case study. Energy Policy, 78, 62-77.

Morrissey K (2014). A location quotient approach to producing regional production multipliers for the Irish economy. Papers in Regional Science, 95(3), 491-506.

Morrissey K (2014). An inter and intra-regional exploration of the marine sector employment and deprivation in England. The Geographical Journal, 181(3), 295-303.

Morrissey K (2014). Producing regional production multipliers for Irish marine sector policy: a location quotient approach. Ocean & Coastal Management, 91, 58-64.

Morrissey KM (2014). Spatial Microsimulation Modelling: a Review of Applications and Methodological Choices. The International Journal of Microsimulation, 7(1), 26-75. Full text.

Morrissey KM (2014). Using geo-computation methods to evaluate public policy. Evaluator, 13-14. Full text.

Morrissey K (2014). Using secondary data to examine economic trends in a subset of sectors in the English marine economy: 2003–2011. Marine Policy, 50, 135-141.

Morrissey K, O'donoghue C, Farrell N (2013). The Local Impact of the Marine Sector in Ireland: a Spatial Microsimulation Analysis. Spatial Economic Analysis, 9(1), 31-50.

Sigfusson T, Arnason R, Morrissey K (2013). The economic importance of the Icelandic fisheries cluster—Understanding the role of fisheries in a small economy. Marine Policy, 39, 154-161.

Morrissey K, O'Donoghue C (2013). The potential for an Irish maritime transportation cluster: an input–output analysis. Ocean & Coastal Management, 71, 305-313.

Morrissey K, O’Donoghue C (2013). The role of the marine sector in the Irish national economy: an input–output analysis. Marine Policy, 37, 230-238.

O’Donoghue C, Loughrey J, Morrissey K (2013). Using the EU-SILC to model the impact of the economic crisis on inequality. IZA Journal of European Labor Studies, 2(1), 23-23.

Morrissey K, Daly A, Clarke G, O'Donoghue C, Ballas D (2012). A rural/urban comparison of psychiatric inpatient admissions in Ireland. Journal of Public Mental Health, 11(4), 209-213.

Morrissey K, O’Donoghue C (2012). The Irish marine economy and regional development. Marine Policy, 36(2), 358-364.

Morrissey K, O'Donoghue C, Clarke G, Li J (2012). Using Simulated Data to Examine the Determinants of Acute Hospital Demand at the Small Area Level. Geographical Analysis, 45(1), 49-76.

Morrissey K, O’Donoghue C, Hynes S (2011). Quantifying the value of multi-sectoral marine commercial activity in Ireland. Marine Policy, 35(5), 721-727.

Morrissey K, Hynes S, Clarke G, O'Donoghue C (2010). Examining the factors associated with depression at the small area level in Ireland using spatial microsimulation techniques. Irish Geography, 43(1), 1-22.

Hynes S, Morrissey K, O'Donoghue C, Clarke G (2009). A spatial micro-simulation analysis of methane emissions from Irish agriculture. Ecological Complexity, 6(2), 135-146. Abstract.

Hynes S, Morrissey K, O'donoghue C, Clarke G (2009). Building a static farm level spatial microsimulation model for rural development and agricultural policy analysis in Ireland. International Journal of Agricultural Resources, Governance and Ecology, 8(2-4), 282-299. Abstract.

Hynes S, Morrissey K, O'Donoghue C, Clarke G (2009). Building a static farm level spatial microsimulation model for rural development and agricultural policy analysis in Ireland. International Journal of Agricultural Resources, Governance and Ecology, 8(2/3/4), 282-282.

Morrissey K, Clarke G, Ballas D, Hynes S, O'Donoghue C (2008). Examining access to GP services in rural Ireland using microsimulation analysis. Area, 40(3), 354-364.

Chapters

Gustavsson MC, Morrissey K (2018). The varying economic impacts of Marine Spatial Planning across different geographical scales: a Q methodology study. In Heidkamp PC, Morrissey J (Eds.) Towards Coastal Resilience and Sustainability, Abington: Routledge. Author URL. Full text.

Parajuli J, Haynes KE (2016). An exploratory analysis of new firm formation in new England. In (Ed) Applied Spatial Modelling and Planning, 17-32.

O Donoghue C, Jason L, Karyn M (2014). Microsimulation estimates of the inequality impact of the economic crisis in Ireland. In (Ed) New Pathways in Microsimulation, 29-40.

Ballas D, Clarke G, Hynes S, Lennon J, Morrissey K, O Donoghue C (2013). A review of microsimulation for policy analysis. In (Ed) Advances in Spatial Science, 35-54. Abstract.

O Donoghue C, Ballas D, Clarke G, Hynes S, Lennon J, Morrissey K (2013). Conclusions and next steps. In (Ed) Advances in Spatial Science, 255-264. Abstract.

Hynes S, Morrissey K, O Donoghue C, Clarke G (2013). Farm level spatial microsimulation modelling. In (Ed) Advances in Spatial Science, 103-122. Abstract.

Hynes S, Morrissey K, O Don C (2013). Modelling greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture. In (Ed) Advances in Spatial Science, 143-157. Abstract.

Morrissey K, Ballas D, Clarke G, Hynes S, O Donoghue C (2013). Spatial access to health services. In (Ed) Advances in Spatial Science, 213-230. Abstract.

O Donoghue C, Farell N, Morrissey K, Lennon J, Ballas D, Clarke G, Hynes S (2013). The SMILE model: Construction and calibration. In (Ed) Advances in Spatial Science, 55-86. Abstract.

Clancy D, Breen J, Morrissey K, O Donoghue C, Thorne F (2013). The location economics of biomass production for electricity generation. In (Ed) Advances in Spatial Science, 159-175. Abstract.

O Donoghue C, Morrissey K, Hayes P, Loughrey J, Banks J, Hynes S (2013). The spatial distribution of household disposable income. In (Ed) Advances in Spatial Science, 193-211. Abstract.

Morrissey K, O Donoghue C (2013). Validation issues and the spatial pattern of household income. In (Ed) Advances in Spatial Science, 87-102. Abstract.

Morrissey KM (2012). Linking static spatial microsimulation modelling to macro models: the Relationship between Access to GP services & Long Term Illness. In Edwards K, Tanton R (Eds.) Microsimulation Methods and Models, London: Springer.

Morrissey KM (2012). SMILE - an Applied Spatial Microsimulation Model for Ireland. In stimson R, haynes K (Eds.) Geography at Work: Applying Geographical Analysis to in the Public and Business Domains, Kluwer Academic Publishers: , 200-217.

Morrissey K, O'Donoghue C, Clarke G, Ballas D, Hynes S (2012). Smile: an applied spatial microsimulation model for ireland. In (Ed) Studies in Applied Geography and Spatial Analysis: Addressing Real World Issues, 79-94.

Reports

Depledge MH, Lovell R, Wheeler BW, Morrissey KM, White M, Fleming LE (2017). Future of the Sea: Health and Wellbeing of Coastal Communities. Governtment Office for Science, https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/639432/Health_and_Wellbeing_Final.pdf. Abstract. Full text.

Publications by year

In Press

Abstract. Author URL. Full text.

2018

Morrissey KM (2018). Market Failures, the Environment, and Human Health. Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Environmental Science, 1-13. Full text.

Morrissey KM, plater A, dean M (2018). The cost of electric power outages in the residential sector: a willingness to pay approach. Applied Energy, 212, 141-150.

2017

Espuny-Pujol F, Morrissey K, Williamson P (2017). A global optimisation approach to range-restricted survey calibration. Statistics and Computing, 28(2), 427-439. Full text.

Morrissey K (2017). Economics of the Marine Modelling Natural Resources., Rowman & Littlefield International. Abstract.

Morrissey KM (2017). It’s not just a Blue Economy moment…. Dialogues in Human Geography, 7(1), 42-44. Abstract. Full text.

2016

Morrissey K, Espuny F, Williamson P, Higgins S (2016). A small area estimation model of comorbidity for England. The Lancet, 388, S80-S80. Full text.

Parajuli J, Haynes KE (2016). An exploratory analysis of new firm formation in new England. In (Ed) Applied Spatial Modelling and Planning, 17-32.

Morrissey K, Cummins V (2016). Measuring relatedness in a multisectoral cluster: an input–output approach. European Planning Studies, 24(4), 629-644. Full text.

Vega A, Kilgarriff P, O’Donoghue C, Morrissey K (2016). The Spatial Impact of Commuting on Income: a Spatial Microsimulation Approach. Applied Spatial Analysis and Policy, 10(4), 475-495.

2015

Morrissey KM (2015). An Urban-Rural Exploration of Depression, CVD and their Comorbidity in Ireland. Irish Geography, 47(1), 77-94. Full text.

Morrissey K (2015). Gender Differences in the Association between Common Mental Disorders and Regional Deprivation in Ireland. The Professional Geographer, 68(1), 129-137. Full text.

Farrell N, Donoghue CO, Morrissey K (2015). Quantifying the uncertainty of wave energy conversion device cost for policy appraisal: an Irish case study. Energy Policy, 78, 62-77.

2014

Morrissey K (2014). A location quotient approach to producing regional production multipliers for the Irish economy. Papers in Regional Science, 95(3), 491-506.

Morrissey K (2014). An inter and intra-regional exploration of the marine sector employment and deprivation in England. The Geographical Journal, 181(3), 295-303.

O Donoghue C, Jason L, Karyn M (2014). Microsimulation estimates of the inequality impact of the economic crisis in Ireland. In (Ed) New Pathways in Microsimulation, 29-40.

Morrissey K (2014). Producing regional production multipliers for Irish marine sector policy: a location quotient approach. Ocean & Coastal Management, 91, 58-64.

Morrissey KM (2014). Spatial Microsimulation Modelling: a Review of Applications and Methodological Choices. The International Journal of Microsimulation, 7(1), 26-75. Full text.

Morrissey KM (2014). Using geo-computation methods to evaluate public policy. Evaluator, 13-14. Full text.

Morrissey K (2014). Using secondary data to examine economic trends in a subset of sectors in the English marine economy: 2003–2011. Marine Policy, 50, 135-141.

2013