International Links 2022-23
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
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
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
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 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.
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)
Co-Principal Investigators Dr Kelly Morgan and Dr Elinor Coulman (Cardiff University) Co-investigators Dr Samantha Garay (Cardiff University); Prof Frank de Vocht (University of Bristol) Background… Read More »Healthier Advertising in Cardiff and Vale of Glamorgan
Principal Investigators Dr Jemma Hawkins Co-Investigators Dr Sara Long, Professor G.J. Melendez-Torres, Dr Kelly Morgan, Professor Simon Murphy, Mr Jordan Van Godwin Background The COVID-19… Read More »Healthy Working Wales Evaluation Partner
Research Applicants Dr Christopher Butler (Joint Lead Applicant) Professor Jaime Miranda (previous Joint Lead Applicant) Dr Maria Sofia Cuba-Fuentes (current Joint Lead Applicant) Dr Filipa… Read More »IMPACT: Innovations using Mhealth for People with dementiA and Co-morbidiTies
The overall aim of this fellowship is to produce an evidence base about care-experienced children and young people’s social support and perceptions of relationships and their association with mental health and wellbeing.
Principal Investigators Dr Jeremy Segrott Co-investigators Professor Mike Robling, Dr Sue Channon, Dr Elinor Coulman, Dr Rebecca Playle, Dr Lauren Copeland, Professor Stavros Petrou Background… Read More »3P Study – Remote delivery of the Group Triple P parenting programme: Optimisation and a Feasibility Randomised Controlled Trial
DECIPHer is supported by a Public Involvement steering group that draws together expertise from across Wales to develop good practice and value-added activities. This includes… Read More »Public involvement – making a difference to the work we do
Principal Investigators A joint chief investigator model: Dr Jeremy Segrott, Dr Hayley Reed, Dr Nicholas Page Co-investigators Prof Frances Rice, Dr Olga Eyre, Dr Yulia… Read More »Preventing anxiety and depression through increasing school connectedness – exploring existing data to find new insights and co-developing a digital tool to support schools to build mentally healthy environments
Since 2019, DECIPHer and Healthy Working Wales have collaborated to create online health and wellbeing needs assessment tools to understand, inform and evaluate workplace health… Read More »Healthy Working Wales to launch evaluation tools
Principal Investigator Prof Simon Moore Co-investigators Jordan Van Godwin; Prof Graham Moore; Dr David O’Reilly Research Assistant Meg Hamilton Background Violence is a global public… Read More »Implementation and PRocess Evaluation of South Wales Hospital Based Violence Intervention Programmes (PREVIP)
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Chief investigator Professor Graham Moore Co-investigators Dr Britt Hallingberg, Dr Linsay Gray, Ms Anne Marie MacKintosh, Professor Laurence Moore, Professor Linda Bauld, Professor Marcus Munafo, Professor Simon Murphy More information… Read More »Impacts of e-cigarette regulation via the EU Tobacco Products Directive on young people’s use of e-cigarettes : a natural experiment
Lead Investigator Dr. Rocío Herrero Romero, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid Co-Investigators Prof. Cristina del Barrio, Dr. Kevin van der Meulen, Dr. Laura Granizo, Dr Laura… Read More »Strengthening social support systems for migrant and refugee adolescents in secondary education (SURE)
Principal Investigators Dr Rebecca Anthony and Prof Donald Forrester Co-Investigator Dr Sarah Thompson Background Over 3000 UK children were placed for adoption from care during… Read More »Adopted children returning to care in Wales: Social worker perspectives
Lead Investigator Lucy Maddox Supervisor Rhiannon Evans Funded by Wellcome Centre for Cultures and Environments of Health Publications “The team needs to feel cared for”:… Read More »Development of an intervention to reduce compassion fatigue in adolescent mental health ward staff (PhD)
Principal Investigators (in alphabetical order) Prof. Dr. Nevena Calovska, Association of Systemic Therapists Education Center Dr. Rhiannon Evans, Cardiff University Prof. Dr. Heather Foran, University… Read More »FLOURISH: Family-Focused Adolescent & Lifelong Health Promotion
Principal Investigator Dr. Hayley Reed Mentor Yulia Shenderovich Background In Wales, 19 per cent of adolescents report elevated but sub-clinical mental health symptoms. These adolescents… Read More »The SAMA project (School-based Adolescent Mental Health Intervention Adaptation)
DECIPHer collaborates with Bristol University as part of the National Institute for Health Research Public Health Intervention Responsive Studies Teams (PHIRST) as part of PHIRST… Read More »Public Health Intervention Responsive Studies Teams (PHIRST)
Welsh Government research report:
Lead Investigator Amy Mizen Background Mental ill-health and poor wellbeing is a global public health crisis. In Wales, 1 in 10 children between the ages… Read More »Discovering which modifiable characteristics of the built-environment support good adolescent mental health and wellbeing