Psychology student Emma Wassell looks back on her placement at DECIPHer, where she polished her data research skills on international project FLOURISH. I have always wanted… Read More » ‘More than just a placement’ – Emma’s year at DECIPHer
Frederik Martiny is a medical doctor by background, currently working as a PhD student at the University of Copenhagen. He recently visited DECIPHer for six… Read More »‘An amazing environment where everybody is just as nerdy as me about complex interventions.’ Frederik on his DECIPHer research visit
Three students look back on their time with the DECIPHer team ‘This internship allowed me to contribute to a real-world public health initiative.’ Grace Hummerston… Read More »Our summer internships – Grace, Raquel and Sophie
The teaching, visits and collaborations that took us around the globe this academic year powered by Proxi September 2022 – DECIPHer welcomed three Danish academics… Read More »International Links 2022-23
Dr Jemma Hawkins and Prof Graham Moore discuss a productive and rewarding research trip In June this year, we made our first trip to Peru… Read More »Visiting Peru for launch of dementia research study ‘IMPACT Salud’
Prof James Lewis feeds back on the June 2024 course ‘Development, Evaluation, Adaptation and Implementation’. I started working with DECIPHer in October last year, and… Read More »Prof James Lewis: Thoughts on the 2024 DECIPHer Short Course
The School Health Research Network (SHRN) is delighted to have received funding from the Welsh Government to help build the next phase of their ambitious… Read More »New Funding Announcement – The School Health Research Network (SHRN)
The committee funds studies evaluating the impact of real-world interventions on health and health inequalities in the UK. From July 2024, Graham Moore, a professor… Read More »DECIPHer professor becomes new chair of NIHR Public Health Research Funding Committee
Two members of DECIPHer’s youth research group, ALPHA, tell us what it means to them. Plus, they take us behind the scenes of ALPHA’s new… Read More »‘We are all so unique but somehow our ideas all fall into place like a jigsaw puzzle.’ Catching up with team ALPHA
Dr Max Ashton joined DECIPHer in April 2024 as Research Assistant at The School Health Research Network (SHRN). Here he explains how his health research… Read More »Meet the Researcher: Max R. Ashton on complexity and pluralism in relationships and sexuality education (RSE) and health research
Principal Investigator Professor Mike Robling Background HDR UK is the national institute for health data science, established in 2018 by a consortium of nine UK… Read More »TOP-CAT: Towards Optimising Practice: Courses for heAlth systems data in Trials
Team Director: Prof G.J. Melendez-Torres Deputy Director: Dr Rhiannon Evans Co-Investigators: Associate Professor Joht Chandan, Prof Jo Thompson-Coon, Prof Ruth Garside, Dr Kath Maquire, Ms… Read More »NIHR Public Health Review Team
Principal Investigator Prof James White Co-Investigators Ms Yvonne Moriarty, Dr Rebecca Cannings-John, Prof Alison L Weightman, Dr Meg Kiseleva, Prof G. David Batty Background People… Read More »Mortality among people who have experienced homelessness: A systematic review and meta-analysis
As part of their evaluation of the whole-school approach to emotional and mental wellbeing, DECIPHer researchers asked teachers about wellbeing in schools In 2021, Welsh… Read More »Changes and challenges: How are teachers experiencing wellbeing in schools?
Principal Investigator Dr Sara Long Co-Investigators Dr Rachel Brown, Dr Nick Page, Dr Hayley Reed, Prof Simon Murphy, Prof Graham Moore Background Health and wellbeing… Read More »Advancing knowledge in the use of health and wellbeing data and evidence: A package of training for Healthy Schools Co-ordinators (ADEPT – HSC)
The report explores learners’ experiences of abuse and their perception and experience of college-level policies and procedures The report, which can be read here, was… Read More »New study on peer-on-peer abuse in colleges
A new mapping study looks at barriers experienced by Gypsy, Roma and Traveller communities when accessing health services and makes key suggestions to improve uptake. The study, which… Read More »How are health services in Wales supporting Gypsy, Roma and Traveller communities?
Where can an early-career research post at DECIPHer take you? Three researchers describe their career trajectories Dr Caitlyn Donaldson: ‘I have found the transition from… Read More »DECIPHer and beyond
In 2023, DECIPHer researchers spoke with pupils and asked them to create posters around the topic of feeling ‘safe’ in their schools. In 2021, Welsh… Read More »Safe as… schools? Where and with whom do pupils feel most secure?
Dr. Anthony was one of 30 researchers chosen to take part in the early career researcher leadership development programme GW4 announced the new cohort in… Read More »‘Future research leader’ Dr. Rebecca Anthony selected for GW4 Crucible 2024
A new report by Welsh Parliament’s Equality and Social Justice Committee looks at how we can help to end the epidemic of violence against women.… Read More »New Senedd report asks: How can we stop gender based violence?
DECIPHer PhD student Isabel Lang writes about her three-month placement in the Children, Young People and Education research team within Senedd Research My passion for… Read More »My internship at Welsh Parliament’s Senedd Research
DECIPHer Research Assistant Jess Lennon updates on the SCeTCH project, which asks: Could providing free e-cigarette starter kits in homeless services aid smoking cessation? Up… Read More »Reflections on SCeTCH – where are we now?
There was a substantial increase in emotional problems among young people in Wales in the years immediately before the pandemic, research from Cardiff University shows.… Read More »Emotional problems in young people were rising rapidly even before the pandemic
The worldwide teaching, visits and collaborations so farthis academic year powered by Proxi September 2023 – Dr Yulia Shenderovich delivered training in Moldova on process… Read More »International Links 2023 – 24
Details to follow – see £5 million awarded to reduce health inequality.
£5 million has been awarded to Rhondda Cynon Taf Council by the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR), with the aim of reducing… Read More »£5 million awarded to reduce health inequality
The School-Level Digital Dashboard is one of three projects to make it through to the Sustainability Phase. The aim of the School Level Digital Dashboard is to empower schools… Read More »SHRN Data Dashboard Project one of three winners of the Mental Health Data Prize
Lead Investigators Dr Sharon Cox, Prof. Lynne Dawkins Co-Investigators Prof. Linda Bauld, Dr Rachel Brown, Dr Allison Ford, Prof. Caitlin Notley, Mr Steve Parrott, Dr… Read More »Evaluating the effectiveness of e-cigarettes compared with usual care for smoking cessation when offered to smokers at homeless centres: A multi-centre cluster randomised controlled trial in Great Britain (SCeTCH)
Public Health Wales has published new guidance for secondary schools to help tackle the rise in youth vaping The guidance, which can be read here, provides… Read More »SHRN data informs Public Health Wales vaping guidance
