Jake Sallaway-Costello
Assistant Professor in Public Health Nutrition, Faculty of Science
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Biography
Jake Sallaway-Costello is an Assistant Professor in Public Health Nutrition, in the Division of Food, Nutrition and Dietetics. He is a public health scientist, specialising in social and behavioural influences on the diet for the development of health promotion practice and intervention. An interdisciplinary social scientist, Jake's teaching and research draws upon perspectives from health psychology, health sociology, public health, and health promotion.
Jake worked as a research assistant for Food Dudes Health, whilst reading health psychology at Bangor University, specialising in psychology of the diet. Upon graduation, he worked in the design of behavioural programmes at the Centre for Activity and Eating Research, developing and evaluating health promotion interventions to increase child fruit and vegetable consumption. Jake later worked as a research associate for the North Wales Economic Ambition Board, before taking a teaching post in public health and health promotion at Birmingham City University, where he undertook doctoral study. He was awarded a PGCHE in 2017, and joined the University of Nottingham in 2019. Jake is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, and is actively engaged in the scholarship of learning and teaching for health promotion, particularly concerning decolonisation in health promotion theory and practice.
An innovative public health professional, Jake has been responsible for the development and implementation of community-based health promotion programmes in the UK, and public health knowledge exchange activity internationally. His primary health promotion activity, an asset-based community nutrition programme in the West Midlands, has produced over 950,000 meals using food destined for waste. Jake is also Co-lead of the IUHPE People-Planet-Health Action Board, a civil society initiative led by the International Union of Health Promotion, reporting community innovations to the World Health Organization to inform planetary health promotion. Jake is an elected member of the IUHPE Global Working Group on Salutogenesis, and serves on the Joint Organising Committee for the 12th IUHPE European Conference on Health Promotion, and the 7th International Conference on Salutogenesis (June 2024).
Teaching Summary
Jake teaches social scientific perspectives on food, nutrition and health, for development of evidence-based health promotion practice and intervention. He teaches on various modules across the BSc… read more
Research Summary
Jake has a PhD in Public Health, from the Department of Public Health and Therapies at Birmingham City University, under the supervision of Dr Kate Thomson and Dr Anne Robbins. His thesis,… read more
Recent Publications
SALLAWAY-COSTELLO, J, 2022. Being Fat: Women, Weight, and Fat Activism in Canada. Sociology of Health & Illness. MARCANO-OLIVIER, M, SALLAWAY-COSTELLO, J, MCWILLIAMS, L, HORNE, P, VICTOR, S and ERJAVEC, M, 2021. Changes in the nutritional content of children’s lunches after the Food Dudes healthy eating programme. Journal of Nutritional Science. 10(40), MEIER-MAGISTRETTI, C, SALLAWAY-COSTELLO, J, FATIMA, S and HARTNOLL, R, 2021. People-Planet-Health: promoting grassroots movements through participatory co-production. Global Health Promotion. 28(4), 83–87 SALLAWAY-COSTELLO, J, CORBETT, M, LARKIN, A, MELLARD, A, MURRAY, L and SELLENS, K, 2021. Vegan faces in anthroparchal spaces: Student reflections on educational experiences of veganism in nutrition sciences. Journal of Vegan Sociology. 1(1), 74-84
Jake teaches social scientific perspectives on food, nutrition and health, for development of evidence-based health promotion practice and intervention. He teaches on various modules across the BSc (hons) Nutrition and MNutr Nutrition & Dietetics programs. Jake also supervises doctoral candidates studying for PhD Nutritional Science.
Jake is Module Convenor for BIOS2113 - Food and Society, a second-year undergraduate module exploring the social construction of the diet, the role of the Registered Nutritionist in the social world, and grassroots salutogenic methods of improving dietary health. He is also Module Convenor for BIOS3043 - Changing Behaviour, Promoting Health, a specialist final-year undergraduate module concerning the psychosocial origins of dietary behaviour, and their application in the professional practice of health promotion.
Jake also teaches on the following modules:
- BIOS2072 - Personal and Professional Skills for Nutritionists
- BIOS3028 - Nutrition across the Lifespan
- BIOS4065 - Research Methods in Nutrition
- BIOS4070 - Public Health Nutrition
Jake is a keen pedagogist and is active in the scholarship of learning and teaching, particularly in the teaching of social science in the allied health professions. His pedagogic interests concern student engagement through axiological teaching practices, and development of authentic assessment. More recently, Jake is exploring the development of sociological imagination for nutrition professionals, using mindset trait concepts to support nutrition and dietetics students to navigate, manipulate and appraise advanced social theory in the design of health promotion interventions.
Jake supervises qualitative student research projects on the BSc and MNutr programmes, in the areas of social and behavioural nutrition, public health nutrition and health promotion.
Current Research
Jake has a PhD in Public Health, from the Department of Public Health and Therapies at Birmingham City University, under the supervision of Dr Kate Thomson and Dr Anne Robbins. His thesis, "Community, culture and meat consumption: A traditional ethnography of meat and the new materialisms for planetary health" was an investigation of the sociocultural meanings of meat in the Western-pattern diet, employing New Materialist Social Inquiry to explore community-level responses to reduced meat consumption and sustainable diets, for policy development and health promotion practice.
An ethnographer, Jake's methodological interests concern the investigation of health cultures through overt participatory methods, particularly through participant-researcher relationships facilitated by social enterprise and community-level health promotion activity. His analytical expertise is in the development of novel post-human analytical tools from post-anthropocentric social theory, and their implementation in health promotion research. Jake is a qualitative and post-qualitative methodologist with broad interests in analytical processes which value the material nature of health and wellbeing.
Jake welcomes inquires about doctoral supervision for qualitative studies in public health and health promotion, employing community-level and participatory approaches.
SALLAWAY-COSTELLO, J, 2022. Being Fat: Women, Weight, and Fat Activism in Canada. Sociology of Health & Illness. MARCANO-OLIVIER, M, SALLAWAY-COSTELLO, J, MCWILLIAMS, L, HORNE, P, VICTOR, S and ERJAVEC, M, 2021. Changes in the nutritional content of children’s lunches after the Food Dudes healthy eating programme. Journal of Nutritional Science. 10(40), MEIER-MAGISTRETTI, C, SALLAWAY-COSTELLO, J, FATIMA, S and HARTNOLL, R, 2021. People-Planet-Health: promoting grassroots movements through participatory co-production. Global Health Promotion. 28(4), 83–87 SALLAWAY-COSTELLO, J, CORBETT, M, LARKIN, A, MELLARD, A, MURRAY, L and SELLENS, K, 2021. Vegan faces in anthroparchal spaces: Student reflections on educational experiences of veganism in nutrition sciences. Journal of Vegan Sociology. 1(1), 74-84 MEIER-MAGISTRETTI, C, SALLAWAY-COSTELLO, J, MARIC, F, ROBERT, A, RIGOTE, G, BERTOLINI, A, MACHADO, A.D, CONTU, P, CHIOU, S, SHILTON, T, MARTIN, O, DEPOUX, A, JOSEPH, A.T and JOSHI, A, 2021. People-Planet-Health: A position paper to support policy development on planetary health and wellbeing by the World Health Organisation. Position papers of the International Union of Health Promotion and Education. 1-12