Academic Partners

Leeds Beckett University

Research expertise:

Health & wellbeing: diet & nutrition, health inequalities, mental health, obesity, older people, offender health, physical activity. Determinants of health: food & nutrition, individual behaviour, psychological determinants, social determinants. Outcomes: disabilities, long term conditions. Management & interventions: management & policy, services. Populations: beliefs, communities, cultural identity, organisations, relationships.

Key Contact:  Professor Jane South, Centre for Health Promotion Research, Leeds Beckett University or Dr James Woodhall

Email: J.South@leedsbeckett.ac.uk or J.Woodall@leedsbeckett.ac.uk

Leeds Trinity University

Research expertise:

Health & wellbeing: children & young people, crime & violence, health inequalities, mental health, obesity, older people, offender health, physical activity. Determinants of health: food & nutrition, individual behaviour, psychological determinants, social determinants. Outcomes: injuries, mental & behavioural disorders, mortality. Management & interventions: healthcare & healthcare services, management & policy. Populations: communities, gender, groups, households, organisations.

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Sheffield Hallam University

Research expertise:

Health & wellbeing: alcohol, children & young people, diet & nutrition, health inequalities, obesity, older people, physical activity. Determinants of health: food & nutrition, individual behaviour, psychological determinants, social determinants.  Populations: communities.

Key Contact: Catherine Homer

Email: c.homer@shu.ac.uk

University of Bradford

Research expertise:

Childhood obesity, Ethnic differences in maternal and childhood outcomes, cohort studies, Quality and safety research
Local authority evaluation (air pollution, green space, fast food outlets), Ageing

Key Contact: Dawn Clarke

Email: d.clarke5@bradford.ac.uk

Bradford Institute for Health Research (BIHR)​

Research expertise:

Child obesity, growth and development, ethnic differences in maternal and child outcomes, cohort studies (Born in Bradford, Born in Bradford Better Start), complex systems approaches to NCD prevention (UKPRP ActEarly), Quality and Safety (Yorkshire Quality and Safety Research Group, Improvement Academy) Ageing and Stroke, Bradford District COVID-19 Scientific Advisory Group, Community Co-production and Citizen Science.

Key Contact: John Wright; Jane West

Email: Jane.west@bthft.nhs.uk

University of Huddersfield

Research expertise:

Physical activity promotion; exercise prescription; children& young people wellbeing, child obesity, health inequalities , socio-ecological determinants of health

Methodologies: evidence synthesis, quantitative and mixed methods studies

Population: infants, children, adolescents. Childcares, schools and community

Key Contact: Dr Liane Azevedo

Email: l.azevedo@hud.ac.uk

University of Hull

Research expertise:

Health & wellbeing: children & young people, diet & nutrition, health inequalities, mental health, obesity, problem gambling, physical activity.  Determinants of health: food & nutrition, individual behaviour, psychological determinants, social determinants. Outcomes: all causes and morbidity and mortality, long term conditions.  Management & interventions: healthcare & healthcare services. Populations: beliefs, communities, cultural identities, gender.

Key Contact: Professor Mark Hayter

Email: m.hayter@hull.ac.uk

University of Leeds

Research expertise:

Key Contact: Professor Laura Stroud

Email: L.Stroud@leeds.ac.uk

University of Sheffield

Research expertise:

Alcohol research; food and nutrition; global research management and policy; health and the environment; health equity and inclusion; knowledge into action. Physical activity  (National Centre for Sports and Exercise Medicine)

Key Contact: Professor Liddy Goyder

Email: e.goyder@sheffield.ac.uk

University of York

Research expertise:

Health and wellbeing: Global public health, maternal, child and adolescent health, violence and injuries, mental health, sexual and reproductive health.

Determinants of health: Social determinants, structural inequalities, gender-based violence, access to services, health systems.

Outcomes: Mental health and wellbeing, injuries, sexual and reproductive health, access to health and social services.

Management and interventions: randomised controlled trials, evidence synthesis (Cochrane reviews/systematic reviews/meta-ethnography), mixed methods research, policy research.

Populations: Mothers, infants, children, adolescents. Primary care, emergency care, communities, and schools.

Key Contact: Dr Amanda Mason-Jones

Email: amanda.mason-jones@york.ac.uk

York St John University

Research expertise:

School of Health Sciences: Biomedical Sciences, Occupational Therapy, Physiotherapy, and Health related Continuing Professional Development. Majority of research relates to primary, secondary and / or tertiary health care, social care or occupational science – rather than to public health. So staff research mainly relates to people with existing health conditions. Some staff in Biomedical sciences are working with colleagues in the School of Sport on studies with a public health focus. School of Psychology and Social Sciences: counselling psychology, examination of health inequalities using large scale data, Cognitive Control Training as an intervention for reduction of anxiety and depression, Complementary and alternative medicines (CAM), medical education, pain management with virtual reality, CBT. School of education: gambling behaviours. School of Sport: mental health, physical activity and cardiovascular health. Computer science: online gambling behaviour.

Key Contact: Dr Alison Laver-Fawcett

Email: a.laverfawcett@yorksj.ac.uk