Rob Oxley
PHD Researcher
Profile
Biography
Rob is a PhD researcher within the Public Health Nutrition team at the University of York. He has recently joined the NIHR PHIRST REACH team, which evaluates public health interventions to generate evidence on their implementation, effectiveness and impact. Rob has a strong interest in reducing inequalities and improving health outcomes through complex systems approaches to public health, nutrition and school food. He previously worked on the free school meal auto-enrolment workstream of the FixOurFood research programme.
Rob is also a Communications and Policy Officer at the Association for the Study of Obesity, and a Registered Associate Nutritionist. Before joining the university, Rob worked as a Senior Research Assistant at Northumbria University on several nutrition and inequality-focused projects, including an evaluation of the Family Gateway project aiming to reduce youth reoffending in Newcastle upon Tyne.
Rob is also a Communications and Policy Officer at the Association for the Study of Obesity, and a Registered Associate Nutritionist. Before joining the university, Rob worked as a Senior Research Assistant at Northumbria University on several nutrition and inequality-focused projects, including an evaluation of the Family Gateway project aiming to reduce youth reoffending in Newcastle upon Tyne.
Qualifications
MSc Health and Social Care, Teesside University
BSc (Hons) Applied Sport and Exercise Science (First-Class), Northumbria University
BSc (Hons) Applied Sport and Exercise Science (First-Class), Northumbria University
Research
Overview
Rob is broadly interested in improving health outcomes through systems and policy change. He is also interested in the wide impact of food insecurity, from individual households to the wider community and healthcare system. Alongside public
health research, Rob has an interest in dietary interventions to improve health outcomes.
Memberships:-
- Association for the Study of Obesity (4389)
- Association for Nutrition (39085)
Projects
- PHIRST REACH
- Fix our Food in Schools: A Yorkshire based experimental school cohort supporting the co-design, implementation and
evaluation of strategies aiming to transform food systems -
Implementation and evaluation of auto-enrolment processes for Free School Meals across Yorkshire and beyond: A legacy project to inform and influence regional and national policy
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Exploring parents’ perspectives on shame and stigma associated with free school meals
Research group(s)
