UK Centre for Tobacco Control Studies
Lead Researchers: Linda Bauld* and Anna Gilmore (Department for Health, Bath)
Funder: UK Clinical Research Collaboration
Duration: January 2008-December 2011
Collaborating institutions: Universities of Nottingham, Birmingham, Edinburgh, Stirling, and Queen Mary College, University of London and University College London.
Summary:
The UK Clinical Research Collaboration (a consortium of funders including the MRC, ESRC, CR-UK and others) has provided £5 million funding to establish a UK Centre for Tobacco Control Studies. UKCTCS is one of five new centres for public health excellence in the UK. It is a strategic partnership of seven university teams who have established reputations in tobacco control research from a range of disciplines, including medicine, psychology, social policy, economics and other fields. The University of Bath’s tobacco control research group, led by Dr. Linda Bauld and Dr. Anna Gilmore in the School for Health. is part of the new centre and will lead work on a number of themes including smoking-related inequalities in health, smoking in pregnancy and the partnership and public engagement work of UKCTCS.
*Linda Bauld is now Professor of Socio-Management at the University of Stirling and a CASP Visiting Fellow