Executive Team
Dr Rachel Brown
Research Fellow
Prof Rhiannon Evans
reader
Dr Jemma Hawkins
Reader
Dr Sara Jones
Centre Manager
Prof James Lewis
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
Reader
Prof James White
Deputy Director of Population Trials
Academic Staff
Lianna Angel
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
Meg Hamilton
Research Assistant
Jessica Lennon
Research Assistant
Shujun Liu
Research Associate
Dr Sara Long
Research Fellow
Dr Sarah MacDonald
Research Associate
Edna Ogada
Research Assistant
Safia Ouerghi
Research Assistant
Dr Hayley Reed
Research Fellow
Dr Nick Page
Research Associate
Dr Swetha
Sampathkumar
Research Associate
Dr Yulia Shenderovich
Reader, 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
Knowledge Exchange and External Affairs Manager
Rory Chapman
Digital Communications & Events Officer (SHRN)
Sarah Collins
Administrative Assistant
Lucy Griffiths
Communications and Events Assistant
Sophie Jones
Senior Public Involvement Officer
Kirsten Mackay
Session Youth Worker (ALPHA)
Umera Mahmood
Administrative Assistant (SHRN)
Zoe McDonald
Administration Manager
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
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.
