
Leadership Team


Dr Rachel Brown
Short Course Lead & Co-Lead for EDI

Prof Rhiannon Evans
Deputy Director & Co-Lead for Equality, diversity and inclusion

Dr Jemma Hawkins
Assistant Director & Lead for Stakeholder Engagement

Dr Sara Jones
Centre Manager & Professional Services Lead

Prof James Lewis
International Engagement Lead

Zoe Macdonald
Administration Team Manager

Prof Graham Moore
Director

Dr Honor Young
RIDG & Staff Development Lead
Academic Co-Investigators

Dr Sara Long
academic lead for partnership with Public Health Wales

Dr Kelly Morgan
Co-lead, Population Health theme

Dr Hayley Reed
Lead for Integration of Science and Public Involvement Activity

Dr Jeremy Segrott
Centre for Trials Research Partnership Deputy & Co-Lead, Methodological Innovation theme

Dr Yulia Shenderovich
Co-Lead, Health Inequalities theme

Prof James White
Centre for Trials Research Lead, Co-Lead, Population Health theme
Public Contributors

Praveena Pemmasani
Public Contributor

Martin Rolph
Public Contributor
Policy Co-Investigators

Ashley Gould
Director of Behavioural Science Unit,
Public Health Wales

Chris Emmerson
Consultant, Health Improvement Division, Public Health Wales
Academic Staff

Dr Jonathan Ablitt
Research Associate

Dr Rebecca Anthony
Research Associate

Dr Max Ashton
Research Assistant

Dr Rabeeah Aslam
Research Associate

Dr Elinor Coulman
Research Associate

Dr Caitlyn Donaldson
Research Associate

Amy Edwards
Research Assistant

Dr Samantha Garay
Research Associate

Oishee Kundu
Research Associate

Jessica Lennon
Research Assistant

Shujun Liu
Research Associate

Edna Ogada
Research Assistant

Safia Ouerghi
Research Assistant

Dr Nick Page
Research Associate

Dr Swetha
Sampathkumar
Research Associate

Jordan Van Godwin
Research Associate
Professional Services

Lindsey Allan
Research Co-Ordinator

Lianna Angel
School Health Research Network Operations Manager

Maria Boffey
Knowledge Exchange and External Affairs Manager

Rory Chapman
Digital Communications & Events Officer (SHRN)

Sarah Collins
Administrative Assistant

Lucy Griffiths
Communications and Events Assistant

Umera Mahmood
Administrative Assistant (SHRN)

Clare Olson
Communications Officer

Nicola Trigg
Administrative Assistant

Charlotte Wooders
Engagement Manager (SHRN)
PhD Students

Sophie Borgia
The perspectives, experiences and perceived impacts of social and school policies in relation to the inclusion or marginalisation of gender minority students: a mixed methods case study in Wales (Working title)

Nicole Gelfert
Models & Theories of Emergent School-Based Health Innovation in Wales

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

Caitlin Jackson
Impacts on child dietary behaviours and health: Exploring school policy responses to the rise in cost of living (Working title)

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

Kara Smythe
Exploring the uptake and provision of Long-Acting Reversible Contraception (LARC) among ‘vulnerable’ groups: a mixed-methods study
