Centre for Health Promotion Research (School of Health & Community Studies) – Leeds Beckett University
Professor Jane South – Professor of Healthy Communities & National Advisor-Communities, PHE
Jane’s research focuses on volunteering, health assets and community engagement. Her portfolio includes participatory research with disadvantaged communities as well as studies on lay health workers, volunteering roles, community resilience and empowerment interventions. Jane works with Public Health England as an expert advisor on community-centred approaches for health and wellbeing.
Dr James Woodall – Reader and Subject Head for Health Promotion
Dr James Woodall is a Reader and also Head of Subject in Health Promotion at Leeds Beckett University. James’ research interest is the health promoting prison and how values central to health promotion are applied to the context of imprisonment. James has published more broadly on health promotion theory and practice including empowerment approaches.
Anne-Marie Bagnall – Professor of Health & Wellbeing Evidence and Director of the Centre for Health Promotion Research
Anne-Marie is currently the Director of the Centre for Health Promotion Research at Leeds Beckett. With over 20 years’ experience of evidence synthesis and evaluation, her interests lie in developing and using innovative methods to determine “what works, for whom and in what circumstances” to improve people’s health and wellbeing and reduce health inequalities. She is an Associate Lecturer for Cochrane UK Learn & Teach Faculty, and a member of the What Works for Wellbeing Centre’s Methods Advisory Group.
Professor Mark Gamsu – Professor
Mark Gamsu is a professor at Leeds Beckett University and a fellow of the Faculty for Public Health. He has a specific interest in local democracy, health inequality and the relationship that members of the public have with their local health system. Mark brings policy expertise having worked at a national and regional government level including in the Department of Health and he is currently a lay member on Sheffield Clinical Commissioning Group.
