Biography
Dr Ernestina Coast Senior Lecturer in Population Studies Dr Coast's work focuses on the inter-relationship between social context and demographic behaviour, approached using a combination of demographic and ethnographic methods. Recent research has been externally funded by the ESRC, Wellcome Trust and the Nuffield Foundation. She has acted as adviser to a number of organisations, including DFID, UNAIDS, Marie Stopes International and DANIDA, and has been a Visiting Scholar at the African Population and Health Research Centre. Dr Coast's external work includes: Co-chair of the Working Group on Anthropological Demography for the European Association of Population Studies; Research Associate with the Centre for Global Health Population, Poverty and Policy; editorial board member for Globalisation and Health; and, member of the ESRC's Postdoctoral Assessor College. Dr Coast's work focuses on relationships, including union formation, sexual behaviour and HIV/AIDS. Published work focuses on social demography in Kenya, Tanzania, India and the UK. She supervises PhD students with research projects in Indonesia, Thailand, Kenya, Malawi and Cambodia.
Publications
Stillwell, John and Coast, Ernestina and Kneale, Dylan (2009) Fertility, living arrangements care and mobility: Understanding population trends and processes. Springer, Dordrecht, The Netherlands.
Coast, Ernestina (2009) Currently cohabiting: relationship attitudes, expectations and outcomes.| In: Stillwell, John and Coast, Ernestina and Kneale, Dylan, (eds.) Fertility, living arrangements care and mobility. Springer, Dordrecht, The Netherlands.
E. Coast, K. Hampshire & S. Randall (2007) "Disciplining anthropological demography" Demographic Research 16(16): 493-518.
E. Coast (2007) "Wasting semen: the context of condom use among the Maasai" Culture, Health and Sexuality.
E. Coast (2007) "Reproductive health and the MDGs: rhetoric and reality" in M. Agarwal & A. S. Ray (eds.) Globalization and the Millennium Development Goals: negotiating the challenge Bergahn Books.
E. Coast (2006) "Maasai marriage: a comparative study of Kenya and Tanzania" Journal of Comparative Family Studies Vol 37(3): 399-420.
E. Coast (2006) "Local understandings of, and responses to, HIV: rural-urban migrants in Tanzania" Social science and medicine, 63 (4). 1000 -1010.
Coast, E. (2005) "Malthusian Demography" in Forsyth, T. (ed) (2005) Encyclopedia of International Development, London and New York: Routledge.
Coast, E. (2005) "Female genital cutting" in Forsyth, T. (ed) (2005) Encyclopedia of International Development, London and New York: Routledge.
Homewood, K., Coast, E. & M. Thompson (2004) "In-migrants, livelihoods, resource access and exclusion in east African rangeland buffer zones" Africa 74(4).
E. Coast. 'An evaluation of demographers' use of ethnographies.' Population Studies 57, no. 3 (2003), pp.337-346.
Coast, E. (2003) 'HIV/AIDS in Ngorongoro District, Tanzania.' Danish International Development Assistance (DANIDA) .
Coast, E. (2003) "Review of Forced mortality and migration." In Population Studies 57, no. 1.
Coast, E. (2002) "Maasai socio-economic conditions: cross-border comparison" Human Ecology Vol. 30 No. 1 pp.79-105.
Coast, E. (2002) "Marsh Arab Demography" in Nicholson, E. & P. Clark (Eds.) The Iraqi Marshlands: a human and environmental study Politico: London.
Coast, E. (2001) "Population Trends in Developing Countries" in V. Desai and R. Potter (Eds.) The Arnold Companion to Development Studies London: Arnold pp.360-367.
K. Homewood, E. F. Lambin, E. Coast, A. Kariuki, I. Kikula, J. Kivelia, M. Said, S. Serneels, M. Thompson (2001) "Long term changes in African savanna wildlife and land cover: pastoralists or policies?" Proceedings of the National Academy of Science Vol. 98 Issue 22 pp.12544-12549.
Link
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