This project aims to investigate the trends in local government budgets, with particular interest in cultural, environmental, and planning services, to determine how the changing pattern of resources will influence health inequalities.
This project will offer an analysis of how male service users experience a rapidly growing community intervention referred to as social prescribing.
This project aims to develop and use systems theory to describe the complexity of the public health dietary behaviour and obesity system in relation to commercial food systems.
October 2018 - September 2021
The ‘ethnic density effect’ is a phenomenon which is observed when individuals from a minority ethnic group live in an area with a higher proportion of people from the same ethnic group. This project aims to better understand the pathways behind the ethnic density effect on mental ill health.
October 2018 - September 2020
The aim of this project is to better understand the nature and extent of interactions between companies that produce unhealthy products and local government.
December 2019 - March 2022
This is the knowledge exchange (KE) work package for the Places & communities programme (P&C). ‘Knowledge exchange’ translates research evidence into practice for public and practitioner audiences and endorses collaborative work between researchers, decision-makers and members of the public. It also includes a study designed to test how local authorities are translating programme findings into policy and practice.
January 2019 - March 2022
Work Package 4 (WP4) seeks to understand how local authorities (LAs) use their local resources to tackle health inequalities in a context of constrained finances.
June 2019 - September 2021
This project will develop a new practical guide aimed at local and national public health practitioners and will discuss when (and when not) to conduct natural experiments, how they could be designed, what different methods are available for analyses, and how the results of these place-based natural experiments should be interpreted.
April 2019 - September 2020
This project aims to explore what place-centred Local Authority resource investment approaches are effective at improving health and reducing health inequalities.
January 2019 - March 2022
This project aims to inform local level decision-making on delivering place-based strategies to improve health and reduce inequalities during times of economic insecurity.
April 2019 - September 2020
