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
Details to follow – see £5 million awarded to reduce health inequality.
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.
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
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)
Funders The Fostering Network More information Step Up Step Down page on The Fostering Network website
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
DECIPHer regularly contributes to consultations on major issues in public health and education. This ensures that we engage with key debates on public health improvement,… Read More »DECIPHer contributes to Welsh Parliament consultation on peer-on-peer sexual harassment among learners
Lead Investigator Prof Stephen Collishaw, Prof Frances Rice Co Investigators Prof Graham Moore, Prof Simon Murphy, Prof Sir Michael Owen, Prof Anita ThaparProf Ann John,… Read More »Wolfson Centre for Adolescent Mental Health in Wales
Website: https://popdatasci.swan.ac.uk/centres-of-excellence/datamind/
Lead Investigator Graham Moore Co Investigators Simon Murphy, Jemma Hawkins, Kelly Morgan, Lianna Angel, Jordan Van Godwin, Kelly Buckley, Lauren Copeland, Joan Roberts Background TBA… Read More »Primary school expansion of SHRN: SHRN Primary Network-Extending the School Health Research Network into primary schools in Wales to support mental health and wellbeing throughout childhood and adolescence (Phase 2)
Lead Investigator Kara Smythe Co Investigators Gareth Thomas, Honor Young Background Long-Acting Reversible Contraceptives (LARC) are methods of birth-control used for an extended period without… Read More »Exploring the uptake and provision of Long Acting Reversible Contraception (LARC) among ‘vulnerable’ groups: A mixed-methods study
Lead Investigator EJ Renold Co Investigators Jessica Ringrose, Sara Bragg, Vicky Temperley, Honor Young, Ester McGeene Funders NSPCC Further information and publications “We have to… Read More »Research exploring what and how adolescents learn about sex and relationships and their associated helpseeking behaviours
Principal Investigator Dr Rhiannon Evans Co-investigators Dr Helen Morgan; Dr Rob Trubey; Dr Sarah MacDonald; Ms Simone Willis; Prof G.J. Melendez-Torres; Prof Jane Noyes; Prof… Read More »Care-experienced cHildren and young people’s Interventions to improve Mental health and wEllbeing outcomes (CHIMES): Systematic review
Principal Investigator Dr. Kelly Morgan Co-investigators Prof Simon Murphy; Prof Frank de Vocht (University of Bristol) Background Winning Scotland’s flagship programme Mindset Teams is an intervention which… Read More »Mindset Teams in the Scottish education system
Working with DECIPHer has allowed me to develop my personal research interests while strengthening the link between Public Health Wales and higher education institutions in… Read More »Julie Bishop (continued)
