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Name: Dr Leslie Carlin, Ph.D. (Anthropology)
Academic position: Research fellow 
Research: Nutritional anthropology; medical anthropology; health, society, and technology
Contact details:
Room 323 Mayfield House
Brighton and Sussex Medical School
Falmer, Brighton, BN1 9PH, UK
Tel: +44 (0) 1273 644 766
Fax: +44 (0) 1273 644 440
Email: L.Carlin@bsms.ac.uk
Biography:
- A.B., Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley, 1981, magna cum laude
- Ph.D., Anthropology, University of Pennsylvania, 1996.
(Thesis: Vitamin A deficiency and food habits in children of rural West Java, Indonesia)
- Teaching assistant, Department of Anthropology, University of Durham, 1994-1996.
- Research associate, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University of Newcastle, 1996-1997.
- Lecturer, Department of Anthropology, University of Durham, 1997-1998.
- Senior research associate, Department of Medicine and Human Nutrition Research Centre, University of Newcastle, 1999-2003.
- Research fellow, Division of Primary Care and Public Health, Brighton and Sussex Medical School, January 2007- present.
Research focus:
My research has moved from a focus on nutritional issues around undernutrition and micronutrients (vitamin A deficiency in West Java) to those around surfeit of macronutrients (overweight, obesity) in the developing world (rural to urban migrants in Tanzania) and in the UK (including the ‘FAST’ dietary assessment of schoolchildren project in Newcastle and the ‘Net.weight’ project in Brighton (http://research.cmis.brighton.ac.uk/netweight/)). The Net.weight work led me to further investigation of the links among health, society and technology and I am currently exploring some ramifications of PACS (picture archiving and communication systems) for doctors and patients with particular reference to primary care in England. In Brighton I work closely with Prof. Helen Smith at BSMS and with Prof. Flis Henwood at the University of Brighton.
Current professional activities:
- Biosocial Society executive committee (publicity officer)
- Society for the Anthropology of Food and Nutrition (vice-president)
- Member of editorial review board, Journal of Hunger & Environmental Nutrition
- Peer reviewer for various professional journals
- Judge for student awards (Biosocial Society bursary; SAFN ‘Christine Wilson Award’)
- Book reviewer for various professional journals
- Member of Brighton and Hove Food Partnership
Selected publications and reports:
Carlin, L., Smith, H. Henwood, F., Flowers, S., Jones, A., Prentice, R. and Miles, K. Double vision: a qualitative study exploring radiologists’ and general practitioners’ views on Picture Archiving and Communication Systems (PACS) in primary care. Submitted for review (April2009).
Unwin, N., McLarty, D., Machibya, H., Aspray, T., Tamin, B., Carlin, L., Patel, S., Walker, M., Alberti, K.G.M.M. Changes in blood pressure and lipids associated with rural to urban migration in Tanzania. Journal of Human Hypertension 20:704-706. 2006.
Coleman, S.M. and L.E. Carlin(eds). Cultures of Creationism: Anti-Evolution in English-Speaking Countries. Ashgate. 2004.
Coleman, S.M. andL.E. Carlin. Introduction. The Cultures of Creationism. Ashgate Press. 2004
Pollard TM, Carlin LE, Bhopal R, Unwin N, White M, Fischbacher C. Social networks and coronary heart disease risk factors in South Asians and Europeans in the UK.
Ethn Health. 8 (3):263-75. 2003.
Griffiths, J.M., Adamson, A.J., Carlin, L.E., Matthews, J. The development and validation of a concise, simple tool to assess dietary intake of large groups of primary schoolchildren living in the UK. Final report for the Department of Health, September 2002.
Carlin, L., T. Aspray, R. Edwards, L. Hayes, H. Kitange, N. Unwin. Civilization and its discontents: non-communicable disease, metabolic syndrome and rural-urban migration in Tanzania. Urban Anthropology and Studies of Cultural Systems and World Economic Development 30 (1): 51-70. 2001.