I am Professor of Public Health & Sociology at the °®ÍþÄÌapp of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine having previously held professorial appointments at University College London and the University of Oxford. In the Covid-19 pandemic, I advised the UK government and WHO in relation to schools and young people, and in communications strategies. I sit on the Department for Education Science Advisory Council. I am the author of the following books:
Toxic Education: How Schools are Damaging Young People's Health and Wellbeing and How We Can Fix Them. Policy Press. ;
Realist Trials and Systematic Reviews: Rigorous, Useful Evidence for Health Policy. Cambridge University Press (with G.J. Melendez-Torres and Emily Warren). ;
Affiliations
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Research
I specialise in how school environments influence adolescent health and how interventions might modify this. I am particularly interested in sexual health, violence and mental health. I was co-PI for the INCLUSIVE trial which reported the effectiveness of a whole-school intervention across multiple health and educational outcomes including bullying. I have developed realist trials and systematic reviews as a means of rigorously evaluating how and for whom interventions work.
I am interested in taking on doctoral students in the above areas.
Selected Publications
