Dr Rachel Casiday
Contact Details
School of BusinessFaculty of Arts and Social Studies
Tel: 01570 424785
E-mail: r.casiday@trinitysaintdavid.ac.uk
Campus
Lampeter CampusJob Title
TutorRole in the University
To be updatedBackground
Rachel has a diverse background including chemistry, health, international studies and anthropology.
After completing her BA at Washington University in St. Louis (USA) she worked developing on-line learning chemistry materials, and moved to the UK in 1999.
After a break to start a family, she undertook post-graduate studies in medical anthropology at Durham University and completed her PhD in 2005. She has taught a variety of courses at undergraduate and Master’s level and been involved with the development of distance-learning materials.
Academic Interests
Rachel has research interests, broadly speaking, in the social context of risk, children’s health, and the health impacts of poverty and inequality – all topics of relevance to many areas of the voluntary sector. Her PhD research examined concepts of risk and parental decision-making about the MMR vaccine.
Rachel has also done work on infant feeding, including an NGO consultancy on child malnutrition in sub-Saharan Africa during the 2005-6 famine in the Sahel region.
Rachel is currently working on a systematic review commissioned by Volunteering England, on the health impacts of volunteering.
