IPEN Research
Teams
United Kingdom
IPEN Adult Research Team
Primary Investigator
Rachel Davey
Orcid ID: 0000-0002-6117-2872
Rachel is the Foundation Director of the Health Research Institute, University of Canberra since 2010. She is also the Flagship Research and Education Director of the $220 million Digital Health Cooperative Centre for the workstream “Changing Health Trajectories’. Before moving to Australia Rachel was formerly employed at Sheffield University and Staffordshire University in the UK.
Rachel has over 30 years of research experience in areas that include preventive health, physical activity for chronic disease, health promotion, social and environmental determinants of health, implementation science, evaluation and health services research. She has designed, delivered, and evaluated many large-scale and complex program interventions. Furthermore, she has conducted large randomised controlled trials and cluster RCTs in primary healthcare, clinical and community settings.
Rachel was the lead investigator of the IPEN UK study (when she was in England). It was funded by a grant from the Medical Research Council UK “An ecological approach to promoting health-enhancing physical activity in a deprived inner-city population”. The project involeved detailed mapping of the environment and evaluation of the relationship between environment, physical activity and health and health outcomes. Her research takes an integrated urban ecosystem approach to evaluating the influences of the built, natural, and social environments on health behaviours, health and health outcomes.
Research Team
Graham Smith
Orcid ID:
Chris Gidlow
Orcid ID: 0000-0003-4990-4572
Christopher Gidlow is the Director of the Centre for Health and Development (CHAD) at Staffordshire University. Here, he runs and oversees a range of health-related research. This research is often done in partnership with partner delivery organisations from the public and third sector. He is also a Fellow of the UK Faculty of Public Health.
Chris became and IPEN member in about 2010. His research interests and activities began in physical activity and health. He later and then focused on consider environmental correlates (particularly natural environments). He has parallel interest in primary care health and lifestyle promotion for CVD prevention. More recently, Chris has been engaged in research around multiple disadvantage and solutions to improve the health and quality of life for those at the extreme edges of social disadvantage. Chris has authored over 90 papers on these topics. He has led projects from a range of funders such as National Institute for Health and Care Excellence, European Commission, UK Government.