Healthy & Sustainable Settings Unit – UCLAN
Professor Mark Dooris – Professor in Health & Sustainability
Mark has a background in health promotion, public health, community development and environmental policy – and has worked within the health service, voluntary sector, local government and higher education. He is Chair of the International Health Promoting Universities & Colleges Steering Group, Co-Chair/Co-ordinator of the UK Healthy Universities Network, former Chair of the International Union for Health Promotion and Education’s Global Working Group on Healthy Settings and a member of the Food Research Collaboration’s National Advisory Board.
Dr Alan Farrier – Research Fellow
Alan is an experienced qualitative researcher who has worked on a variety of health and wellbeing research projects concerning nature and wellbeing with young offenders, people with mental health issues and other socially excluded and marginalised groups. He is interested in a range of psychosocial research methods, including narrative-based interviewing and analysis. Alan has a PhD in Education, examining cultural constructions of masculinity in educational contexts outside of the mainstream. Based in UCLan’s Healthy and Sustainable Settings Unit, he has previously worked in the Psychosocial Research Unit at UCLan, the Medical Services Research department at the University of Liverpool and the Post-16 Studies Unit at the University of Manchester.
Dr Michelle Baybutt – Senior Research Fellow / Prisons Programme Lead
Michelle is a qualitative researcher with extensive knowledge and experience in the areas of prisoner health, prisons as settings for health and public health in prison and wider criminal justice fields. Based in UCLan’s Healthy and Sustainable Settings Unit, she is the Prison Strand Lead for the UCLan Criminal Justice Partnership – a multidisciplinary and collaborative approach to real world research in the field of criminal justice. Michelle is a member of the North West Regional Programme Board for the Rehabilitative Culture of Prisons. Committed to improving the health of the socially excluded or marginalised, and to addressing the inequalities faced by such groups, she has a strong public health background working with prisoners, offenders in the wider community and vulnerable groups, and has worked on issues relating to young people, prisoners and wider justice-related partnerships.
Dr Ursula Pool – Research Fellow
Ursula has an academic background in cognitive and behavioural science. She is currently working on issues in the area of governance for integrated health and wellbeing. She is located in UCLan’s Healthy and Sustainable Settings Unit and is also active within the Applied Policy Science Unit research group.
