CHPR Blog December 2018 - Louise Warwick-Booth, James Woodall, Anne-Marie Bagnall and Jane South We recently held a small gathering of former colleagues, friends and supporters to celebrate the 21st birthday of the Centre for Health Promotion Research. This was an opportunity to review the diverse range of research projects that we have carried out … Continue reading Celebrating 21 years of the Centre for Health Promotion Research
More and better research-practice collaboration in health and wellbeing
Summary of a project to scope a public health research-practice ‘hub’ at Leeds Beckett University Collaboration between academics and practitioners and policy makers is increasingly seen as a way of producing better and more useful knowledge. In this blog, Kris Southby reflects on how we might facilitate better research-practice collaboration around health, wellbeing, and communities … Continue reading More and better research-practice collaboration in health and wellbeing
Creating Participatory Research
Louise Warwick-Booth, Susan Coan, Anne-Marie Bagnall, 5th May 2021. In previous blog posts, we have discussed some of the methods that we use to collect data when we are doing research. Mark Gamsu discussed the importance of gathering patient feedback using different mechanisms in his blog in January 2019 (https://chprblog.com/2019/01/14/using-peoples-experiences-to-improve-health-services/). Ruth Cross discussed doing interviews … Continue reading Creating Participatory Research
Agile, connected and caring: the response of Space to Connect projects to COVID-19
At the beginning of the first lockdown, we interviewed 31 of the community organisation funded through the Space to Connect programme about the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on their projects and about their adaptions and responses to changing needs within communities. (More information about Space to Connect is available here). We found that the … Continue reading Agile, connected and caring: the response of Space to Connect projects to COVID-19
People Living in Deprived Areas have Less Good Quality Green Space to Access
Jenny Woodward, 9th April 2020 Our parks and green spaces have rarely received as much attention. As the coronavirus ‘lockdown’ continues in the UK and the spring sun makes an appearance, people are heading to their local green spaces for daily exercise and wellbeing. Government guidance allows for visits to local parks and green spaces, … Continue reading People Living in Deprived Areas have Less Good Quality Green Space to Access
Space to Connect Enhance learning workshop
This blog provides some summary reflections and learning from the event first workshop for the 11 Enhance Projects, funded by the Co-op Foundation and DCMS ‘Spaces to Connect’ programme, held in London on the 13th Feb 2020.
Mind the Widening Health Gap: The Marmot Report 2020
Prof. Anne-Marie-Bagnall reflects on the recent publication of the 'Marmot Review 10 Years On' and how it relates to what we do in CHPR. On Tuesday 25th February a new report was launched from the Institute of Health Equity, to mark 10 years since the publication of the Marmot Report “Fair Society, Healthy Lives”. The … Continue reading Mind the Widening Health Gap: The Marmot Report 2020
Evaluating services that are linked to health-related stigma
CHPR Blog November 2019 - Louise Warwick-Booth Earlier this year, a number of us working in the Centre for Health Promotion Research completed an evaluation of a local maternal stop smoking service. Our evaluation methods usually involve gathering the views of those who use services, as this is of course central to finding out about … Continue reading Evaluating services that are linked to health-related stigma
Research Interviews
CHPR Blog April 2019 - Ruth Cross I recently facilitated a session about interviewing with our MSc students here at Leeds Beckett University. Interestingly, some of the students did not turn up to the session because they had assumed that it was about preparing for job interviews but in fact we were talking about interviewing … Continue reading Research Interviews
Using Young Dads’ Experiences to Change Services That Support Families
CHPR Blog March 2019 - Susan Coan The Centre for Health Promotion Research have recently completed an evaluation of a project supporting young fathers which aimed to not only develop the skills and confidence of the young men involved, but also influence organisations working with them and national policy around young fathers. The project staff … Continue reading Using Young Dads’ Experiences to Change Services That Support Families
The dynamics of on-going social inequality
CHPR Blog February 2019 - Louise Warwick-Booth Social inequality is a pervasive issue across all societies globally, and there is a large and ever-growing evidence base detailing the myriad of ways in which it exists. UK inequality levels are high compared to many other countries and this is negative for all of us – even … Continue reading The dynamics of on-going social inequality
