Health & Wellbeing
Our research embraces the physical, psychological and social dimensions of health and wellbeing and the political and economic context in which societies provide for these.
It is concerned with different stages of the life cycle: childhood and adolescence; the world of work; wellbeing and dignity at the end of life. It is international in its perspective, examining for example the relationship between wellbeing, poverty and development. Our research is concerned with policies and practices for health and wellbeing.
We seek to improve the evidence base on which practitioners and policy makers can draw: for example in regards to alleviation of chronic pain; exercise, nutrition and obesity; disability. We expose the role of the international tobacco, food and alcohol companies in shaping public health agendas.
Our research extends into the Faculties of Science and Engineering, for example in our concerns with prosthetics, and the influence of the built environment on healthy living.
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Research summaries
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Publications
- Global Health Governance and the Commercial Sector: a documentary analysis of tobacco company strategies to influence the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (Gilmore, 2012)
- The Limits of Corporate Social Responsibility: techniques of neutralization, stakeholder management and political CSR (Gilmore, 2013)
- Changes in Smoking Prevalence in 8 Countries of the Former Soviet Union Between 2001 and 2010 (Gilmore, 2012)
- "Working the System” —British American Tobacco's Influence on the European Union Treaty and its Implications for Policy: an analysis of internal tobacco industry documents (Gilmore, 2010)
- Corporate Strategy, Corporate Capture: food and alcohol industry lobbying and public health (Miller, 2010)
- Inequalities in Infant Mortality: patterns, trends, policy responses and emerging issues in Canada, Chile, Sweden and the United Kingdom (Judge, 2009)
- Well-Being, Happiness and why Relationships Matter: evidence from Bangladesh (Devine, 2009)
- Towards a Social Model of End of Life Care (Brown, Walter, 2013)
- Analysing Wellbeing: a framework for development practice (White, 2010)
- Putting ‘The Grave’ into Social Policy: state support for funerals in contemporary UK society (Woodthorpe, 2013)
- Healthy School Meals and Educational Outcomes (James, 2011)
- Junior Doctors' Experiences of Personal Illness: a qualitative study (Rodham, 2011)
- The Case for 'Everyday Politics': evaluating neo-tribal theory as a way to understand alternative forms of political participation, using electronic dance music culture as an example (Riley, Griffin, 2010)
- The Fall of Work Stress and the Rise of Wellbeing (Wainwright, 2011)
- 'Every Time I do it I Absolutely Annihilate Myself': loss of (self-)consciousness and loss of memory in young people's drinking narrative (Griffin, 2009)
