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health + well-being
engaged research
creating healthy publics
health + well-being
engaged research
Together, members of the Centre will explore how experiences of health, illness and medical knowledge are shaped by cultural practices and beliefs, and will investigate how evidence from the humanities and social sciences can be used to help to develop and evaluate innovative and effective public health initiatives.
13 January 2020
Professor Judith Green, Dr Des Fitzgerald and Dr Martin Moore will be joining the Wellcome Centre for Cultures and Environments of Health in 2020, following a rigorous and robust recruitment campaign in the latter part of last year. The Centre spent much of 2019 involved in preparing a recruitment campaign to attract staff with interdisciplinary […]
Continue reading...Professor Judith Green, Dr Des Fitzgerald and Dr Martin Moore will be joining the Wellcome Centre for Cultures and Environments of Health in 2020, following a rigorous and robust recruitment campaign in the latter part of last year. The Centre spent much of 2019 involved in preparing a recruitment campaign to attract staff with interdisciplinary […]
Continue reading... View all newsOur research associate Dr Ayesha Nathoo was featured on a BBC radio programme, Resting and Rushing, alongside Claudia Hammond, Matthew Smith and Sarah Cook. The full podcast can be downloaded or listened to online here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m000bp2c
Continue reading... View all newsOn Friday 29th November Rebecca Sandover was an expert witness in the Devon Net Zero Taskforce’s hearings to gather evidence towards creating a Devon Carbon Plan. Rebecca focussed on measures to bring more, affordable local food to local markets and local food procurement, drawing on evidence from her recent research, including including her WCCEH-funded project Devon […]
Continue reading... View all newsWe’re delighted to share the news that the European Centre for Environment and Human Health has been designated as a Collaborating Centre on Natural Environments and Health by the World Health Organization. This achievement recognises the Centre’s significant contribution to science and policy-making from a decade of interdisciplinary research. We congratulate our colleagues Lora Fleming […]
Continue reading... View all newsPeople with anxiety or depression who go to see the GP are often given a leaflet with numbers for psychological services and advised to give them a call. This system of “self-referral” for common mental health problems has been in place for more than 10 years. In sheer numbers terms, it appears to have been […]
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