Department of Geography, University of Sheffield, UK

Dimitris Ballas is an economist by training (1996, University of Macedonia, Thessaloniki, Greece) and also has a Master of Arts (with distinction) in Geographical Information Systems (1997, University of Leeds, UK) and a PhD in Human Geography (2001, University of Leeds, UK). He has worked as a part-time lecturer at Leeds Metropolitan University (1999) and as a teaching assistant at Hull University Business School (2000).

Subsequently, he has been a Research Fellow at the University of Leeds (School of Geography, 2000-2003). In January 2004 he took up his appointment as a lecturer in the Department of Geography, University of Sheffield and was promoted to Senior Lecturer in January 2007.

Health inequalities, Ethnicity, England, Health Survey for England, Logistic regression.