Public Health Research (Faculty of Health, Social Care and Medicine) – Edge Hill University
Professor Paola Dey
Professor Dey’s research focuses on health inequalities, with a particular emphasis on cancer inequalities and access to services, promoting activity in younger obese adults, interdisciplinary research into the language of public health messages and the implementation and evaluation of public health interventions.
Dr Stephen Clayton
Dr Clayton has research interests in employment/welfare and health (inequalities) and the politics of health and social policy formulation and implementation.
Dr Nicola Relph
Dr Relph has research interests in epidemiology of sports injuries, incidence of musculoskeletal injuries in physical activity initiatives, particularly novice researchers, injury screening and prevention.
Dr Marian Peacock
Dr Peacock has research interests in the sociology of public health, the impacts of life in unequal societies and the place of neoliberalism. Her most recent research has concerned the older prisoner population and end of life care and the associated ethics and justice questions.
Dr Phillip Gichuru
Dr Gichuru is a medical statistician with interests in analysis of large health related datasets, subgroup classification and psychometric test evaluation in child assessment tools.