Current and recent studies
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Mindset Teams
A multicentre cluster randomised controlled trial to investigate the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of an informal school-based peer-led drug prevention intervention (the FRANK Friends study)
Can alcohol media literacy training for children and young people prevent alcohol related harm? A realist review of what works for whom and in what contexts
CHoosing Active Role Models to INspire Girls (CHARMING)
Integration of health and wellbeing into the school curriculum: a mixed methods investigation of preparations for Wales-wide curriculum reform and its impacts on health and wellbeing
Mental Health Pathfinder: Integrating generic, clinical and phenotypic data to advance stratification, prediction, and treatment in mental health
Optimisation, feasibility testing and pilot randomised trial of Positive Choices: a school based social marketing intervention to promote sexual health, prevent unintended teenage pregnancies and address health inequalities in England
Research Literacy for the Welsh Baccalaureate: Scoping Study
School Holiday Enrichment Programme (SHEP) Evaluation 2017
The impact of peers in relation to alcohol use in adolescence: investigating social influences to inform a peer-led school-based intervention
The JACK Trial: A multi-site cluster randomised trial of an interactive film-based intervention to reduce teenage pregnancy and promote positive sexual health
The School Health Research Network: creating regional-level impact for health, education and social care holders
Understanding alcohol advertising exposure in secondary school pupils: the role of age in media engagement
Wellbeing and health in schools project (WHISP) – Phase 1
WISE (Wellbeing in Secondary Education) project – A cluster randomised controlled trial of an intervention to improve the mental health support and training available to secondary school teachers
Safe sex and relationships in FE (SaFE): mixed-method, multi-case study to develop a comprehensive sexual health intervention for FE settings
Previous studies
Understanding outcomes for Welsh children who are placed in secure accommodation
The Filter FE Challenge: pilot trial and process evaluation of a multi-level smoking prevention intervention in further education settings
PLAN-A: Development and feasibility cluster randomised control trial evaluation of a Peer-Led physical Activity iNtervention for Adolescent girls
Primary School Free Breakfast data augmentation and analysis
Activity and Healthy Eating in Adolescence
Bristol Girls Dance Project: A cluster randomised controlled trial of an after-school dance programme to increase physical activity among 11-12 year old girls
Bristol Girls Dance Project: feasibility study
CHETS – Changes in Child Exposure to Environmental Tobacco Smoke Wales
CHETS 2 – Changes in Child Exposure to Environmental Tobacco Smoke Wales 2: Research into smoking in cars carrying children
Cluster randomised controlled trial to test the effectiveness of an educational intervention to promote hand washing in reducing absenteeism in primary schools
Evaluation of Primary School Free Breakfast Initiative
Evaluation of the Cooking Bus in Wales
Evidence review for NICE public health guidance on ‘Managing overweight and obesity among children and young people: lifestyle weight management services’
Pilot study of alcohol policy and social norms in Welsh universities
Preventing substance misuse: randomised controlled trial of the Strengthening Families Programme 10-14 (UK)
School health and well-being: perceptions of secondary school teachers
School Health Research Network scoping and feasibility study
Supporting socially and emotionally vulnerable young people in schools: an evaluation of Barnardo’s Bounceback service
The effects of schools and school-environment interventions on health: evidence mapping and syntheses
The World Health Organization’s Health Promoting Schools framework for improving the health and well-being of students, and their academic achievement
Preventing alcohol misuse in young people: evaluation and exploratory trial of the Kids, Adults Together programme
Active for Life Year 5: A cluster randomised controlled trial of a primary school-based intervention to increase levels of physical activity, decrease sedentary behaviour and improve diet
Adapting and piloting the ASSIST model of informal peer-led intervention delivery to the Talk to Frank drug prevention programme in UK secondary schools (ASSIST+Frank): intervention development and a pilot trial
ASSIST (A Stop Smoking in Schools Trial): Randomised controlled trial of the effectiveness of a schools-based, peer-led, smoking intervention
Developing and piloting a peer mentoring intervention to reduce teenage pregnancy in looked after children and care leavers
Engage with Research: Exploring the Public Health Potentials of Coproduction
GMI_ALC: Developing a teacher training programme for a group motivational interviewing intervention to prevent alcohol misuse in secondary schools
GW4 Behavioural and Decision Making Sciences in Healthcare GW4 network (BeDMaSH)
How can interventions integrating health and academic education in schools help to prevent substance misuse and violence among young people? A systematic review and evidence synthesis
Increasing physical activity in pre-school aged children: systematic review, individual participant meta-analysis and intervention pilot (PhD)
Initiating change locally in bullying and aggression through the school environment (INCLUSIVE): cluster randomised controlled trial
Investigating the use of mentoring for improving the health, wellbeing, educational outcomes and employability of young people (PhD)
