Healthy Social Relationships

The programme has three central themes:

Family-based intervention / School-based Intervention with Family Component

This theme addresses the development of family-based interventions that can improve the health and well-being of children and young people across a range of outcomes, including smoking, alcohol misuse and mental health. It is particularly interested in improving the connection between schools and families in the realisation of whole school approaches to health promotion. An example of this work is:

• Perceptions of – and exposure to – vaping among primary school pupils, teachers and parents (Chets Wales 3) Principal Investigator: Graham Moore. Co-investigators: Lianna Angel; Linsay Gray (University of Glasgow); Lauren Copeland; Jordan Van Godwin; Britt Hallingberg; Rachel Brown; Sarah MacDonald; Laurence Moore (University of Glasgow) Funder: Cancer Research UK

Domestic Violence and Intimate Partner Violence

This theme is focused on the development and evaluation of interventions to ensure the safety of survivors and their children, in addition to the promotion of mental health and well-being. Examples of this work are:

• Health Pathfinder Evaluation (SafeLives) Principal Investigator: G.J. Melendez-Torres. Co-Investigators: Amanda Robinson; Honor Young; Rhiannon Evans; Heather Trickey; Kelly Buckley; Bethan Pell. Funder: SafeLives
• Family Recovery after Domestic Abuse (FReDA) A feasibility trial and nested process evaluation of a group based psycho-educational intervention for children exposed to domestic violence and abuse Principal Investigator: Emma Howarth (University of Cambridge). Co-Investigators: Graham Moore; Rhiannon Evans; Hannah Littlecott; Sara Long; Kelly Buckley. Funder: NIHR-PHR

Care-experienced Children and Young People

This theme explores the needs and experiences of diverse carers and the children and young people they care for. Research is currently examining risk factors for a range of outcomes, largely through the use of linked data. It is further concerned with identifying, developing/adapting and evaluating interventions to improve mental health and well-being. Examples of this work are:

• Does local authority care make a difference to the lives of vulnerable children? Longitudinal analyses of a retrospective electronic cohort Principal Investigator: Sara Long. Co-investigators: Graham Moore, Jonathan Scourfield, Chris Taylor, David Fone, Daniel Farewell. Funder: ESRC.
• Care-experienced cHildren and young people’s Interventions to improve Mental health and wEllbeing outcomes (CHIMES) Systematic review Principal Investigator: Rhiannon Evans. Co-Investigators: Sarah MacDonald, Catherine Sampson, Ruth Turley, Mike Robling, Jane Noyes (Bangor), G.J. Melendez-Torres (Exeter). Funder: NIHR-PHR