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Executive Team

Dr Rhiannon Evans

reader

Dr Jemma Hawkins

Senior Lecturer

Dr Sara Jones

Centre Manager

Prof Graham Moore

Deputy Director

Dr Kelly Morgan

Senior Lecturer

Prof Simon Murphy

Director

Dr Honor Young

Senior Lecturer

Co-Investigators

Dr Julie Bishop

Director of Health Improvement/Consultant in Public Health

Prof Amanda
Robinson

Professor of Criminology and Deputy Head of School

Prof Mike Robling

Director of Population Health Trials

Dr Jeremy Segrott

Senior Lecturer

Prof James White

Deputy Director of Population Trials

Academic Staff

Lianna Angel

Research Associate

Dr Rebecca Anthony

Research Associate

Dr Rachel Brown

Research Fellow

Dr Elinor Coulman

Research Associate

Dr Caitlyn Donaldson

Research Associate

Amy Edwards

Research Assistant

Dr Samantha Garay

Research Associate

Meg Hamilton

Research Assistant

Zoe Haslam

Research Assistant

Dr Gillian Hewitt

Research Associate

Jessica Lennon

Research Assistant

Dr Sara Long

Research Associate

Dr Sarah MacDonald

Research Associate

Edna Ogada

Research Assistant

Safia Ouerghi

Research Assistant

Dr Hayley Reed

Research Associate

Dr Nick Page

Research Associate

Swetha Sampathkumar

Research Associate

Dr Yulia Shenderovich

Senior Lecturer, Wolfson Centre for Young People’s Mental Health & DECIPHer

Jordan Van Godwin

Research Associate

Professional Services

Lindsey Allan

PA and Research Co-Ordinator

Maria Boffey

SHRN Network
Manager

Sarah Collins

Administrative Assistant

Matt Davies

Research Administrator

Lucy Griffiths

Communications and Events Assistant

Sophie Jones

Senior Public Involvement Officer

Kirsten Mackay

Session Youth Worker (ALPHA)

Zoe McDonald

Administration Manager

Clare Olson

Communications Officer

Nicola Trigg

Administrative Assistant

PhD Students

Amanda Holland

Exploring the implementation of the health visitor observation and assessment of the infant (HOAI) in Wales

Isabel Lang

Exploring societal wellbeing, university student precarity, and the role of social prescribing in reducing uncertainty, financial challenges and improving wellbeing outcomes for young people: a mixed-methods study (working title)

Lucy Maddox

Development of an intervention to reduce compassion fatigue in adolescent mental health ward staff

Emma Noble

The normalisation of adolescent digital dating abuse

Bethan Pell

Theorising
Inter-generational violence between children and parents: a qualitative study in Wales

Shane Powell

Barriers to accessing mental health services among young minoritized adults: a mixed-methods study in South Wales (UK).

Victoria Pugh

No one left out: can the lived experiences of primary pupils feed into an understanding of inclusion for all which can inform policy and practice for health and wellbeing? (working title)

Abbey Rowe

The role of schools in supporting the mental health of neurodivergent young people: A mixed methods study 

Lorna Stabler

What are siblings’ lived experiences of providing kinship care? Identifying pathways to improving kinship care outcomes

Collaborators

Professor Linda Bauld, Bruce and John Usher Chair of Public Health, Usher Institute for Population Health Sciences and Informatics, University of Edinburgh

Doctor Vashti Berry, Senior Research Fellow, NIHR CLAHRC, South West Peninsula (PenCLAHRC), Child Health

Professor Chris Bonell, Professor of Public Health, Sociology & Social Policy, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine

Doctor Paulina Bravo, Associate Professor, Director of Research and Doctoral Programme, Pontificia Universidad

Professor Rona Campbell, Professor of Public Health Research and Head of the Centre for Public Health Research, Bristol Medical School, Population Health Sciences, University of Bristol

Suzanne Cass, Chief Executive, ASH Wales Cymru

Professor Stephan Collishaw, Professor of Child and Adolescent Mental Health, Personal Chair, Division of Psychological Medicine and Clinical Neurosciences, School of Medicine, Cardiff University

Ruth Conway, Deputy Director for Support for Learners Division, Welsh Government, Education Directorate

Doctor Alisha Davies, Head of Research and Development, Public Health Wales

Professor Dr. Med Freia De Bock, Head of Early Prevention and Health Promotion, Medical Faculty Mannheim, Heidelberg University

Professor Adrian Edwards, Professor of General Practice and Co-Director, Division of Population Medicine. Cardiff University; Director of Prime Centre Wales.

Doctor Adam Fletcher, Head of BHF Cymru, British Heart Foundation

Professor Paul Harper, Director of the Data Innovation Research Institute, Professor of Operational Research, School of Mathematics, School of Mathematics, Cardiff University

Professor Matt Hickman, Professor in Public Health and Epidemiology; Head of Population Health Sciences; Deputy Director of Bristol Medical School at University of Bristol

Doctor Emma Howarth, Senior Research Associate for the Collaboration for Leadership in Applied Health Research Care (CLAHRC), Institute of Public Health, University of Cambridge

Doctor David Humphreys, Associate Professor in Evidence-based Intervention and Policy Evaluation, Oxford University

Doctor Jo Inchley, Reader, MRC/CSO Social and Public Health Sciences Unit, University of Glasgow.

Professor Russell Jago, Professor of Paediatric Physical Activity and Public Health, School for Policy Studies, University of Bristol

Professor Ann John, Professor in Public Health and Psychiatry, Swansea University Medical School.

Professor Frank Kee, Director, UKCRC Centre of Excellence for Public Health Research (NI), Deputy Director for the Centre for Public Health
Queens University Belfast

Doctor Judi Kidger, Senior Research Fellow in Public Health, Bristol Medical School, Population Health Sciences

Doctor Ruth Kipping, Consultant Senior Lecturer in Public Health, Bristol University

Professor Stef Kremers, Professor of Health Promotion, Department of Health Promotion, School of Nutrition and Translational Research in Metabolism (NUTRIM), Maastricht University

Professor James Lewis, Co-Lead and Academic Director of YLab, Cardiff University

Professor Steve Martin, Director, Wales Centre for Public Policy, Cardiff University

Professor Lisa McDaid, Deputy Director (Research) and Professor of Social Sciences and Health at the Institute for Social Science Research, ISSR

Mary-Ann McKibben, PHW Consultant in Public Health, Health Improvement Division, Public Health Wales

Professor G.J. Melendez-Torres, Health Economist and Head of Peninsula Technology Assessment Group (PenTAG), University of Exeter Medical School

Professor Laurence Moore, Director, MRC/CSO Social & Public Health Sciences Unit, MRC/CSO Social & Public Health Sciences Unit, University of Glasgow

Professor Simon Moore, Co-Director, Crime and Security Research Institute
Crime and Security Research Institute, Cardiff University

Doctor Charlotte Overgaard, Associate Professor, Public Health and Epidemiology, Faculty of Medicine, Aalborg University, Denmark

Professor Jonathan Pettigrew, Professor, Human Communication
Hugh Downs School of Human Communication, Arizona State University

Jon Rae, Director of Resources, Welsh Local Government Association (WLGA)

Professor Eva Rehfuess, Professor of Medical Informatics, Biometry and Epidemiology, Faculty of Medicine, Ludwig-Maximilians, Universitat Munchen

Professor Frances Rice, Reader of Psychological Medicine and Clinical Neurosciences, School of Medicine, Cardiff University

Professor Jonathan Scourfield, Professor of Social Work, Specialist policy adviser, Welsh Government, Deputy Director, CASCADE,  Deputy Director of the research partner, What Works Centre for Children’s Social Care.

Professor John Shepherd, Emeritus Professor of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, and Emeritus Professor at the University’s Crime and Security Research Institute.

Professor Danny Smith, Professor of Psychiatry (Mental Health & Wellbeing)
Institute of Health and Wellbeing, University of Glasgow

Professor Mark Tully, Professor of Public Health, Director Institute of Mental Health Sciences and lead for Northern Ireland Public Health Research Network
School of Health Sciences, Ulster University

Professor Stephanie van Goozen, Director Neuroscience & Mental Health Research Institute
School of Psychology, Cardiff University

Graham Williams, Deputy Director Community Sport, Sport Wales

Between 2009 and 2018 DECIPHer was developed as a strategic partnership between Cardiff University (led by Professor Simon Murphy), University of Bristol (led by Professor Rona Campbell) and Swansea University (led by Professor Ronan Lyons), with funding from UKCRC. Since 2020, DECIPHer continues to be led by Professor Simon Murphy, Cardiff University with funding from Health and Care Research Wales.