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C21PH BITE

Our monthly in person event focused on informal conversations about research in progress.

About the series

Brown Bag Ideas, Thinking and Exchange (BITE) run by the Centre for 21st Century Public Health is an informal and supportive space for University of Bath researchers to share work in progress, spark interdisciplinary collaborations, and exchange ideas. The seminars are organised around broad research themes, ranging from corporate influence on science, to tobacco, commercial and other structural determinants of health, and healthy environments and sustainable economies.

Sessions will be held in person on a Tuesday. The event itself will begin promptly at 12.15pm, running for approximately one hour. The room will remain booked until 1.30 pm to allow time for informal discussion and networking.

Whether you are developing a paper, planning a grant, or exploring a new research question, these sessions are a great way to connect with colleagues across the University.

Please contact c21ph@bath.ac.uk for information on any of our upcoming sessions.

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Upcoming events

Find out about the events in the series.

24 November 2026

Politicised Scientists, Retractions and Media - Dr Eleonora Alabrese

We study the reputational cost of scientists' political expression on social media. Twitter data on 98,000 U.S. academics (2016--2022) reveal substantial engagement with politically salient issues, although most posts take no political stance. Experiments with 6,000 U.S. respondents and 135 journalists show that scientists who express political views are rated less credible than politically silent ones, with penalties increasing in the strength of expression and concentrated among ideologically opposed audiences. Both politically salient research content and explicit identity cues trigger these penalties. Surveyed scientists anticipate the penalty---indeed overestimate it---and endorse limiting political expression to their domain of expertise.

Eleonora is a lecturer at the Department of Economics working on empirical political economy and the Economics of Science. Her research focuses on misinformation, the role of media and its relationship with science and science communication. Some of her current working papers investigate retractions in science and media coverage, and AI.

Past events

Details of our previous brown bag events.

  • Exploring climate Effects on human development trajectories, Dr Kalyan Kumar Kameshwara
  • Oral nicotine pouches and young people's views, Professor Janet Hoek
  • Learning from real-world health data: From early detection to treatment effectiveness, Dr Theresa Smith
  • Using electronic health records for public health research, Dr Helen McDonald
  • Wastewater based epidemiology and reducing overprescribing, Professor Julie Barnett
  • Mental health in young people, Dr Pamela Jacobsen
  • Homes, health and community wellbeing: Monetising urban design impacts to support better policy making, Dr Eleanor Eaton
  • From experiments to everyday data: A multi-method approach to public health, Professor David Ellis
  • Threats of climate change to governance for health and equity: Taking a commercial determinants and multisectoral policy perspective, Dan Hunt PhD student
  • Economic inequality and local food environment, Ciaran Hay PhD student
  • Gambling with health? The relationship between access to gambling venues and mental health in Australia and England, Dr Lachlan Cameron
  • Understanding how policymakers understand conflicts of interest in climate governance and current approaches to addressing them, Dr Rachel Barry