Risk, Health and Decision Support Group

At the University of East Anglia, Norwich

Jenna Panter

Environmental influences of physical activity, GIS.

• Institute of Metabolic Sciences
• MRC Epidemiology Unit
• Addenbrookes Hospital (Box 285)
• Hills Road
• Cambridge
• CB2 0QQ
• UK
• +44 01603 591364

Email: jenna.panter ‘at’ mrc-epid.cam.ac.uk

Background and experience

After completing a Bsc in Environmental Sciences at the University of East Anglia (UEA) in 2005, Jenna worked as a Research Associate in the School on a project which examined the importance of green spaces for physical activity. She remained there working on the SPEEDY study (Sport, Physical activity and Eating behaviour: Environmental Determinants in Young people) and completed her PhD in 2010 on the influences of active commuting.

During her time at UEA, Jenna has also collaborated with academics from the University of Oxford and the University of Bristol and has co-authored a key British Government Foresight report on the Obesogenic Environment.

Current Work

Jenna is a Career Development Fellow working on the Commuting and health in Cambridge study, (lead by David Ogilvie) which looks at the health impacts of the Cambridgeshire Guided Busway. She is particularly interested in understanding the relationships around transport, the environment, individual own attitudes and physical activity.

More about my PhD

Research Affiliation

Zuckerman Institute for Connective Environmental
Research (ZICER). http://www.uea.ac.uk/zicer/

School of Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia
http://www1.uea.ac.uk/cm/home/schools/sci/env

MRC Epidemiology Unit, Cambridge
http://www.mrc-epid.cam.ac.uk/

Publications

Panter, J.R., Jones, A.P., van Sluijs, E.F., Griffin, S.J., Attitudes, social support and environmental perceptions as predictors of active commuting behaviour in school children, JECH, In Press

Panter, J.R., Jones, A.P., Attitudes and the environment as determinants of active travel in adults: What do and don't we know? JPAH, In Press

Van Sluijs, E.M., Skidmore, P.M., Mwanza, K., Jones, A.P., Callaghan, A.M., Ekelund, U., Harrison, F., Harvey, I., Panter, J., Wareham, N.J., Cassidy, A., Griffin, S.J. (2008) Physical activity and dietary behaviour in a population-based sample of British 10-year old children: the SPEEDY study (Sport, Physical activity and Eating behaviour: Environmental Determinants in Young people). BMC Public Health, 2008. 8(8).

Panter, J., Jones, A.P., van Sluijs, E., (2008). Environmental determinants of active travel in children: A review and framework for future research. International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity, 5, 34.

Panter, J., Jones, A.P. (2008). Associations between physical activity, perceptions of the neighbourhood environment and access to facilities in an English city. Social Science and Medicine, 67, 1917–1923

Panter, J., Jones, AP, Hillsdon, M. (2008). Equity of access to physical activity facilities in an English city, Preventive Medicine, 46, 4, 303-307.

Hillsdon, M., Panter, J., Foster, C., Jones, A.P., (2007). Equitable Access to Exercise Facilities, American Journal of Preventive Medicine, 32, 6, 506-508.

Jones, A.P., Bentham, G., Hillsdon, M., Foster, C., Panter, J., (2007) Obesogenic Environments Evidence Review: Foresight Tackling Obesities (Long Review)