Dr Courtney Franklin
School of Health & Society
Current positions
Research Fellow
Biography
Courtney is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Social Inequality at the Centre for Research on Inclusive Society (CRIS) at the Â׸£ÀûƬ. She is currently working on the UKRI-funded 1.3 million GBP PARA-MOR project (Nov 2024- Nov 2029) investigating whether migrants are living longer lives in worse health than non-migrants are. The project was originally awarded by Horizon Europe and the European Research Council. The 5-year project implements advanced quantitative methods on large-scale administrative register data from several European countries. All of the latest updates from the project can be found on X (@para_mor_ukri) and BlueSky (@para-mor-ukri.bsky.social), alongside official news channels at the School of Health & Society.
Courtney sits within the Equity, Inequalities, and Inclusivity Research theme, which spans the School of Health & Society and additionally includes the Centre for Applied Health Research. She also holds an honorary contract at the University of Liverpool, where she worked as a researcher obtaining her PhD in Health Services Research from 2020 to 2025. During her time, she used mixed methods approaches, informed by a health inequalities framework to investigate inequalities in emergency hospital use associated with paediatric febrile illness in England. This included active involvement from patient and public advisors to maintain the voice of lived experiences throughout the research project. This project was funded through a studentship with the NIHR School for Public Health Research and Applied Research Collaboration North West Coast.
Courtney is a keen quantitative researcher (with a BSc (Hons) in Mathematics), primarily interested in sociology, epidemiology, public health, medical statistics and health inequality. She has also recently adapted novel qualitative methods (which are commonly used in the commercial industry) and applied this to health services research.
Some of Courtney's work and more information on previous projects can be found below:
https://sphr.nihr.ac.uk/trainee/courtney-franklin/
https://arc-nwc.nihr.ac.uk/news/coming-in-hot-phd-student-courtney-franklins-research-on-understanding-parents-and-doctors-views-on-childrens-fevers-in-emergency-department/
Areas of Research
Children, young people & families; Health inequalities; Efficient and equitable health systems; Health services research; Advanced Quantitative Methods; Longitudinal data; Public involvement; Creative methods
Qualifications
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Health Services Research
2020 - 2025 -
BSc (Hons) Mathematics
2016 - 2019