Research themes and projects

Social Determinants and Outcomes

Current Projects

• Supported Volunteering at the Ripon Museum Trust
• Living well with chronic disease: a population-based research programme
• Finding solutions for perinatal loneliness in collaboration with people with lived and practitioner experience

Completed Projects

• The Making Sense? study: How do parents and young adults with Autistic Spectrum Disorders make sense of behaviour problems and mental health difficulties?
• Managing Mental Health and Employment

Social and Policy Interventions

Current Projects

• Managing Mental Health in Small Businesses
• Enhancing the Quality of Psychological Interventions delivered by telephone (EQUITy)
• Evaluating the music group at MHP Wealstun
• Complex early intervention health and social services for vulnerable families and children in Ireland

Completed Projects

• Enhancing social-emotional health and wellbeing in the early years: evaluation of the Incredible Years infant and toddler (0-2) parenting programmes
• The Connect project: Co-Production of Policing Evidence, Research and Training: Focus Mental Health
• Home or care? Pathways and outcome for maltreated children in a multi-ethnic cohort
• Mental health training intervention for North Yorkshire Police
• Social, economic and health impacts of WaveLength's work with loneliness and isolation
• Building social and emotional competence in young high-risk school children: Incredible Years Therapeutic Dinosaur RCT 
• The ClearFear Game: using fun to tackle social anxiety (Contact: Professor Martin Webber)
• Welfare reform in St Helena
• Evaluation of the Fit for Work services pilots
• Health, work and wellbeing co-ordinators and the Challenge Fund
• Personal Health Budget Pilots Evaluation
• National action plans for social inclusion