Health & Wellbeing
Research under this theme brings together social scientists whose work is directly relevant to health and wellbeing. The overall aim of this grouping is to better understand and improve health and wellbeing through the use of social science theories and methodologies. It adopts an interdisciplinary approach and uses mixed methods to address relations in power and health inequalities. It has close links with colleagues from the Institute of Health and Wellbeing.
Examples of work included under this theme include Sally Wyke and Cindy Grey’s work on complex interventions to improve health such as community weight loss programmes and their work on rabies prevention, Alicia Davies’ work on Antimicrobial Resistance in Tanzania, Sharon Wright’s work assessing the impact of benefit sanctions on people’s health, Anne Kerr’s work on bioethics and cancer treatment and the work of Gerda Reith and the Gambling Research Group, which seeks to explore the social impacts of gambling and the expansion of commercial gambling.