Staff Profile
Tim Price is a research associate at Newcastle University. His research focuses on health inequalities, with a particular interest in how social inequity shapes health disparities. He views health inequalities as a matter of social justice, rooted in the need to address fundamental social inequities that disproportionately impact the most vulnerable people in society.
Tim completed his PhD in January 2025. For his PhD research, he conducted an in-depth qualitative study exploring stakeholder and community member understandings of ‘deaths of despair’ – those due to drug, suicide, and alcohol-specific causes – in Middlesbrough and South Tyneside.
Prior to undertaking his PhD, Tim worked at Dartmouth College in the US, supporting research projects studying unwarranted variance in neonatal healthcare outcomes.
Tim holds an MSc in Global Public Health from Newcastle University.
Tim's research interests include:
- Health Inequalities
- Men's Health
- Mental Health
- Inequity
- Social Justice
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Articles
- Price, T. Moralisation, stigmatisation, and downstream interventions: How symbolic violence sustains geographic inequalities in deaths of despair in England. Social Science & Medicine 2025, 383, 118451. In Preparation.
- Price TJ, McGowan VJ. A Cycle of Social Violence: a novel theoretical framework for explaining how structural, slow, and symbolic violence interact to produce and maintain health inequalities in England. Social Science & Medicine 2025, 383, 118438.
- Price T. "They're Lacking Purpose. It's a Recipe for Suicide.": Masculinity and Gender-Based Inequalities in Deaths of Despair in England. American Journal of Men’s Health 2025, 19(2).
- Price T, McGowan V, Visram S, Wildman J, Bambra C. “They're not mentally ill, their lives are just shit”: Stakeholders' understanding of deaths of despair in a deindustrialised community in North East England. Health and Place 2024, 90, 103346.
- Price, T. "They pulled that funding away and we're not recovering. it's getting worse": deaths of despair in post-austerity north east England. International Journal for Equity in Health 2024, 23(1), 242.