Stuart Gillespie
Biographic Data
| ID | 3951502 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Stuart Gillespie |
| GIVEN NAMES | Stuart |
| FAMILY NAME | Gillespie |
| SIGNATURE | GILLESPIE S |
| AFFILIATIONS | International Food Policy Research Institute |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8501-5943 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 32 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 37 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 27 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 5 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1989 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
The Fettered and the Flea
This contribution explores for the first time a 22‐line poem in a British Library manuscript, ‘To a young lady that kept a flea chay’nd in a box’, which can be convincingly ascribed to Edmund Waller. Its most famous relative is Donne’s ‘The Flea’, but its ancestry differs. Moreover Waller’s is addressed, as a playful compliment, to a child, not a lover. Several traditions combine in it: that deriving from the pseudo‐Ovidian Pulex ; that of ‘multu…
A toxic relationship
BACKGROUND: Among the crises engulfing the world is the symbiotic rise of ultra-processed foods (UPFs) and plastics. Together, this co-dependent duo generates substantial profits for agri-food and petrochemical industries at high costs for people and planet. Cheap, lightweight and highly functional, plastics have ideal properties that enable business models to create demand for low-cost, mass-produced and hyper-palatable UPFs among populations wo…
The effect of electronic job aid assisted one‐to‐one counselling to support exclusive breastfeeding among 0–5‐month‐old infants in rural Bangladesh
Exclusive breastfeeding (EBF) for the first 6 months has established benefits, yet had slow improvements globally. Little is known about electronic job aid-assisted counselling to support EBF. As a secondary outcome of a cluster randomized controlled trial in Bangladesh, we assessed the effect of electronic job aid-supported nutrition counselling and practical demonstration on EBF. We randomized pregnant women to one of five study arms in the tri…
Early Modern Sapphos in France and England
Chapter 24 of The Cambridge Companion to Sappho examines the reception of Sappho’s poetry in early modern France and England, examining figures such as Henri Estienne, Nicolas Boileau, Guy Morillon, Rémi Belleau, Louise Labé, Jean Racine, French literature, English literature, Anne Le Fèvre (Madame Dacier), Sir Philip Sidney, Ambrose Philips, and Joseph Addison.
Historicising global nutrition
The COVID-19 pandemic has provoked a range of economic shocks, food systems shocks, public health crises and political upheavals across the globe, prompting a rethink of associated global systems. Prepandemic anticolonial movements that challenged hierarchies of race, space, gender and expert knowledge in global health took on new meaning in the context of the unequal impacts of the SARS-CoV-2 virus as it moved through different kinds of spaces a…
Trust and responsibility in food systems transformation. Engaging with Big Food
Concentration of power among transnational ‘Big Food’ companies has contributed to food systems that are unsustainable, unhealthy and inequitable for people and planet. Given these commercial determinants of health, if ‘food systems transformation’ is to be authentic—more than a passing narrative—then leveraging Big Food is paramount. To this end, researchers, practitioners and policy-makers are increasingly encouraged to engage with these powerf…
Effect of nutrition counselling with a digital job aid on child dietary diversity
Adequate dietary diversity among infants is often suboptimal in developing countries. We assessed the impact of nutrition counselling using a digital job aid on dietary diversity of children aged 6-23 months using data from a cluster randomised controlled trial in Bangladesh. The trial had five arms, each with 25 clusters. The four intervention arms provided counselling using a digital job aid and different prenatal and post-natal combinations of…
Coherence for nutrition
There is consensus that policy coherence is necessary for implementing effective and sustainable approaches to tackle malnutrition. We look at whether policies and programmes provide a coherent pathway to address nutrition priorities and if programmes are designed to deliver interventions aligned to the nutrition policy agenda in Nigeria and Burkina Faso. A systematic desk review was performed on nutrition-relevant policy and programme documents,…
Food Systems After Covid-19
Measures to slow down the spread of Covid-19 have had profound effects on the food and nutrition security of poor and marginalised households and communities. This article provides an overview of the effects of Covid-19 on food systems across low- and middle-income countries using resilience and political economy lenses, before proposing approaches to build back resilient and equitable food systems. First, future interventions need to target stru…
How climate change interacts with inequity to affect nutrition
Climate change poses a growing threat to the achievement of optimal nutritional status, both directly through affecting food production and indirectly through altering social and economic influences in people's lives. These adverse nutrition outcomes are not evenly distributed across the world, and vulnerable populations are the most impacted. Understanding how different forms of inequity interact with climate change and adverse nutritional outco…
Nutrition and the governance of agri-food systems in South Asia
Classical Presences
Newly Recovered English Classical Translations, 1600-1800
Newly Recovered English Classical Translations, 1600-1800 is a unique resource: a volume presenting for the first time a wide-ranging collection of never-before-printed English translations from ancient Greek and Latin verse and drama of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Transcribed and edited from surviving manuscripts, these translations open a window onto a period in which the full richness and diversity of engagement with classical te…
Countdown to 2030
Leveraging agriculture for nutrition in South Asia
Agriculture and nutrition in India
In India, progress against undernutrition has been slow. Given its importance for income generation, improving diets, care practices, and maternal health, the agriculture sector is widely regarded as playing an important role in accelerating the reduction in undernutrition. This paper comprehensively maps existing evidence along agriculture–nutrition pathways in India and assesses both the quality and coverage of the existing literature. We prese…
Why Worry About the Politics of Childhood Undernutrition
Undernutrition affects over 2 billion people; but most of the global policy focus has been on technical solutions rather than an understanding of nutrition politics. This paper reviews existing literature on nutrition politics and policy. We identify a number of recurring themes surrounding knowledge; politics, and capacities. While the literature on nutrition politics and policy is growing; we demonstrate how there are a number of gaps in our un…
The politics of reducing malnutrition
English Juvenal translations in Bodleian library manuscripts
The manuscript copies of Juvenal translations in the Bodleian Library, University of Oxford, form a cross-section of English versions of Juvenal for the period c. 1630–1760. Some manuscript translations were copied from existing printed texts. Others were themselves the basis of printed texts. Others again have never been printed (or investigated) at all. Taken as a group, they help to reveal how, why, in what forms, and with what emphases Juvena…
Lucretius' Renaissance
The Oxford History of Literary Translation in English
This history runs from the Middle Ages to the year 2000. It is a critical history, treating translations wherever appropriate as literary works in their own right, and reveals the vital part played by translators and translation in shaping the literary culture of the English-speaking world, both for writers and readers. It offers new perspectives on the history of literature in English. As well as examining the translations and their wider impact…
Oxford History of Literary Translation in English, 1550-1660
Classical Literary Careers and their Reception
This is a wide-ranging collection of essays on ancient Roman literary careers and their reception in later European literature, with contributions by leading experts. Starting from the three major Roman models for constructing a literary career - Virgil (the rota Vergiliana), Horace and Ovid - the volume then looks at alternative and counter-models in antiquity: Propertius, Juvenal, Cicero and Pliny. A range of post-antique responses to the ancie…
Adaptation to climate change in Southern Africa
The Southern Upland Way
This paper considers a research project conducted at the University of Glasgow’s Dumfries Campus, between 2004–5. This considered Scotland’s longest long‐distance walking route: the Southern Upland Way. Here, we consider its methodology and main findings, and then focus specifically on the contents of one of our most useful data sources: walkers’ diaries. Our research, ultimately, showed that the ‘Way’ was perceived, by those who walked it, in th…
Why Worry About the Politics of Childhood Undernutrition
Undernutrition affects over 2 billion people; but most of the global policy focus has been on technical solutions rather than an understanding of nutrition politics. This paper reviews existing literature on nutrition politics and policy. We identify a number of recurring themes surrounding knowledge; politics, and capacities. While the literature on nutrition politics and policy is growing; we demonstrate how there are a number of gaps in our un…
Leveraging agriculture for nutrition in South Asia
Poverty, Food Insecurity, HIV Vulnerability and the Impacts of Aids in sub-Saharan Africa
Throughout this decade, the prevailing narrative on the links between socioeconomic status and HIV portrays poor individuals and households as being more vulnerable to HIV infection ii, and least able to cope with the ensuing impacts of AIDS-related disease and death. While early stages of the epidemic in the 1980s and early 1990s were driven by “mobile men with money”, AIDS is now conventionally perceived as a disease of poverty. But is this too…
Potential impact of Aids on farming systems
Food Systems After Covid-19
Measures to slow down the spread of Covid-19 have had profound effects on the food and nutrition security of poor and marginalised households and communities. This article provides an overview of the effects of Covid-19 on food systems across low- and middle-income countries using resilience and political economy lenses, before proposing approaches to build back resilient and equitable food systems. First, future interventions need to target stru…
How climate change interacts with inequity to affect nutrition
Climate change poses a growing threat to the achievement of optimal nutritional status, both directly through affecting food production and indirectly through altering social and economic influences in people's lives. These adverse nutrition outcomes are not evenly distributed across the world, and vulnerable populations are the most impacted. Understanding how different forms of inequity interact with climate change and adverse nutritional outco…
Adaptation to climate change in Southern Africa
Potential impact of Aids on farming systems
Poets on the Classics
A collection of poetic English writing on the classics, providing a first-hand guide to the relations between classical literature and the English poetic tradition. It contains over two hundred entries, ranging from the Middle Ages to today
The Oxford history of literary translation in English
Food Insufficiency Is Associated with High-Risk Sexual Behavior among Women in Botswana and Swaziland
BACKGROUND: Both food insufficiency and HIV infection are major public health problems in sub-Saharan Africa, yet the impact of food insufficiency on HIV risk behavior has not been systematically investigated. We tested the hypothesis that food insufficiency is associated with HIV transmission behavior. METHODS AND FINDINGS: We studied the association between food insufficiency (not having enough food to eat over the previous 12 months) and incon…
Is poverty or wealth driving HIV transmission?
Evidence of associations between socioeconomic status and the spread of HIV in different settings and at various stages of the epidemic is still rudimentary. Few existing studies are able to track incidence and to control effectively for potentially confounding factors. This paper reviews the findings of recent studies, including several included in this volume, in an attempt to uncover the degree to which, and the pathways through which, wealth …
The Cambridge Companion to Lucretius
Lucretius' didactic poem De rerum natura ('On the Nature of Things') is an impassioned and visionary presentation of the materialist philosophy of Epicurus, and one of the most powerful poetic texts of antiquity. After its rediscovery in 1417 it became a controversial and seminal work in successive phases of literary history, the history of science, and the Enlightenment. In this 2007 Cambridge Companion experts in the history of literature, phil…
Poverty, Food Insecurity, HIV Vulnerability and the Impacts of Aids in sub-Saharan Africa
Throughout this decade, the prevailing narrative on the links between socioeconomic status and HIV portrays poor individuals and households as being more vulnerable to HIV infection ii, and least able to cope with the ensuing impacts of AIDS-related disease and death. While early stages of the epidemic in the 1980s and early 1990s were driven by “mobile men with money”, AIDS is now conventionally perceived as a disease of poverty. But is this too…
The Southern Upland Way
This paper considers a research project conducted at the University of Glasgow’s Dumfries Campus, between 2004–5. This considered Scotland’s longest long‐distance walking route: the Southern Upland Way. Here, we consider its methodology and main findings, and then focus specifically on the contents of one of our most useful data sources: walkers’ diaries. Our research, ultimately, showed that the ‘Way’ was perceived, by those who walked it, in th…
The Oxford History of Literary Translation in English
This history runs from the Middle Ages to the year 2000. It is a critical history, treating translations wherever appropriate as literary works in their own right, and reveals the vital part played by translators and translation in shaping the literary culture of the English-speaking world, both for writers and readers. It offers new perspectives on the history of literature in English. As well as examining the translations and their wider impact…
Oxford History of Literary Translation in English, 1550-1660
Classical Literary Careers and their Reception
This is a wide-ranging collection of essays on ancient Roman literary careers and their reception in later European literature, with contributions by leading experts. Starting from the three major Roman models for constructing a literary career - Virgil (the rota Vergiliana), Horace and Ovid - the volume then looks at alternative and counter-models in antiquity: Propertius, Juvenal, Cicero and Pliny. A range of post-antique responses to the ancie…
Adaptation to climate change in Southern Africa
The politics of reducing malnutrition
English Juvenal translations in Bodleian library manuscripts
The manuscript copies of Juvenal translations in the Bodleian Library, University of Oxford, form a cross-section of English versions of Juvenal for the period c. 1630–1760. Some manuscript translations were copied from existing printed texts. Others were themselves the basis of printed texts. Others again have never been printed (or investigated) at all. Taken as a group, they help to reveal how, why, in what forms, and with what emphases Juvena…
Lucretius' Renaissance
Agriculture and nutrition in India
In India, progress against undernutrition has been slow. Given its importance for income generation, improving diets, care practices, and maternal health, the agriculture sector is widely regarded as playing an important role in accelerating the reduction in undernutrition. This paper comprehensively maps existing evidence along agriculture–nutrition pathways in India and assesses both the quality and coverage of the existing literature. We prese…
Why Worry About the Politics of Childhood Undernutrition
Undernutrition affects over 2 billion people; but most of the global policy focus has been on technical solutions rather than an understanding of nutrition politics. This paper reviews existing literature on nutrition politics and policy. We identify a number of recurring themes surrounding knowledge; politics, and capacities. While the literature on nutrition politics and policy is growing; we demonstrate how there are a number of gaps in our un…
Classical Presences
Newly Recovered English Classical Translations, 1600-1800
Newly Recovered English Classical Translations, 1600-1800 is a unique resource: a volume presenting for the first time a wide-ranging collection of never-before-printed English translations from ancient Greek and Latin verse and drama of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Transcribed and edited from surviving manuscripts, these translations open a window onto a period in which the full richness and diversity of engagement with classical te…
Countdown to 2030
Leveraging agriculture for nutrition in South Asia
Nutrition and the governance of agri-food systems in South Asia
How climate change interacts with inequity to affect nutrition
Climate change poses a growing threat to the achievement of optimal nutritional status, both directly through affecting food production and indirectly through altering social and economic influences in people's lives. These adverse nutrition outcomes are not evenly distributed across the world, and vulnerable populations are the most impacted. Understanding how different forms of inequity interact with climate change and adverse nutritional outco…
Early Modern Sapphos in France and England
Chapter 24 of The Cambridge Companion to Sappho examines the reception of Sappho’s poetry in early modern France and England, examining figures such as Henri Estienne, Nicolas Boileau, Guy Morillon, Rémi Belleau, Louise Labé, Jean Racine, French literature, English literature, Anne Le Fèvre (Madame Dacier), Sir Philip Sidney, Ambrose Philips, and Joseph Addison.
Historicising global nutrition
The COVID-19 pandemic has provoked a range of economic shocks, food systems shocks, public health crises and political upheavals across the globe, prompting a rethink of associated global systems. Prepandemic anticolonial movements that challenged hierarchies of race, space, gender and expert knowledge in global health took on new meaning in the context of the unequal impacts of the SARS-CoV-2 virus as it moved through different kinds of spaces a…
Economics (13 works) · Medicine (13 works) · Child Nutrition and Water Access (11 works) · Political science (10 works) · Economic growth (9 works) · Geography (9 works) · Art (8 works) · Business (8 works) · Environmental health (7 works) · Literature (7 works)