Fellows

Wolfson Research Institute for Health and Wellbeing

Fellows

The Institute's Fellows come from a diverse range of disciplinary and professional backgrounds across Durham University and organisations with which we collaborate. To help you identify collaborators and experts relevant to your interests, you can contact us, or view our list of fellows.

Fellowship is open to all academic and research staff of the University who subscribe to the Institute’s aims and undertake and publish research using an Institute affiliation. It is recognised that Fellows will have other affiliations, especially their home Department/School. Given the Institute’s roles in contributing to projects that often have several stakeholders, and promoting Durham’s research on health and wellbeing as a common enterprise with a major profile, it will often be the case that a Fellow’s work is associated with more than one reporting arrangement, such as both Department/School and Institute web sites.

The purpose of Fellowship is to create a research community that subscribes to the Institute's aims and has the opportunity to share in its activities, resources, support and collective reputation.

If you would like to apply to become a Fellow please complete this form.

The Institute also offers Postgraduate students the opportunity to become Postgraduate Associates (PGA) of the Wolfson Research Institute for Health and Wellbeing. The Institute’s Postgraduate Associates scheme is open to all Postgraduates, from any department within the University, who subscribe to the aims of the Institute and undertake to acknowledge the Institute when presenting or publishing their work.

Our fellows

Fellow	Discipline
Dr Nasmia Akhter	Health inequality, Nutritional assessment, Obesity, Evaluation of intervention, Bangladeshi Diaspora in the UK, Food security and livelihood
Dr Ben Alderson-Day	Psychological continuities between clinical and non-clinical populations who hear voices
Dr Carrie Ambler	Biomedical and Cell Science
Prof. Elizabeth Archibald
Dr Andrea Armstrong	Community-based participatory research, urban transformations and community energy.
Dr Anthony Atkinson	Social cognitive neuroscience
Prof. Sarah Atkinson	Social science for medical humanities
Prof. Helen Ball	Behaviour and physiology of infant sleep
Dr Jennifer Badham	Complex systems, computational methods, models as communication tools, participatory and interdisciplinary methods
Prof. Sarah Banks	Professional ethics, community development
Prof. Jens Beckmann	Cognitive Abilities
Dr Nadin Beckmann	Educational Psychology
Prof. Gillian Bentley	Developmental Effects on Reproductive Function in Migrant Bangladeshi Women
Dr Vikki Boliver	Educational inequalities, especially social class and ethnic inequalities of access to higher status universities, social stratification and mobility, quantitative research methods
Dr Lynda Boothroyd	Evolutionary Social and Developmental Psychology
Paul Braidford
Dr Toby Breckon	Computer vision and image processing
Dr Hannah Brown	Zoonotic diseases. Care, nursing, HIV/AIDS, Viral Haemorrhagic Fevers, hospitals
Emeritus Prof. David Budgen	Software service-based brokering technologies
Dr Steven Burrell	Men, Masculinities, violence, gender norms, inequalities
Dr Mike Burt	Perception of facial expressions
Dr Camila Caiado	Bayesian approaches to modelling and uncertainty quantification
Dr Martin Cann	Cell biology of bicarbonate and carbon dioxide
Dr Soazig Casteau	Visual attention and saccadic eye movements
Prof. Brian Castellani	Complexities of place and health, Communities and global civil society, Computational modelling and mixed-methods, Complexity theory and policy evaluation, Big data and digital sociology
Prof. Emma Cave	Medical law and ethics, human rights
Helen Charnley	Community Care policy and practice in the UK
Dr Atanu Chaudhuri	Evaluation of applicability of digital technologies like 3D printing and artificial intelligence in healthcare
Dr Paul Chazot	Characterisation and validation of novel drug targets
Prof. Charlotte Clarke	Executive Dean in the Faculty of Social Sciences and Health
Dr Steven Cobb	Development of new peptide agents for the neglected tropical disease Leishmaniasis, development of new sanitation technologies
Prof. Chris Cook	Spirituality and psychiatry
Prof. Frank Coolen	Statistics and decision support
Dr Tahani Coolen-Maturi	Developing statistical methodology for practical problems
Dr Judith Covey
Robert Cramb	Quantitative measurements of physical activity can be used to help underpin health-based interventions
Dr Helen Cramman	Education evaluation, widening participation and access to STEM subjects including gender equality in STEM subjects
Prof. Richard Crisp	Social psychology, from stereotyping to social influence, from attitudes to attraction
Dr Vincent Croset	Measuring how nutrition affects gene expression in the brain, at the single-cell level
Prof. Sarah Curtis	Geographical dimensions of inequalities of health and health care
Prof. Douglas Davies	Death, ritual and belief, Mormon religion
Dr Paul Denny	The role of lipid biosynthesis and membrane trafficking in host-pathogen interactions
Dr Michelle de Gruchy	Climate, landscape, settlement and society
Dr Caroline Dodd-Reynolds	Energy regulation and weight management both physical activity and dietary perspectives
Prof. Alex Easton	Animal Models of Episodic Memory, Cognitive Neuroscience of Learning and Memory
Prof. Amanda Ellison	Neuroscientific basis of vision, neuronal disruption in migraine headache, visuomotor systems
Prof. Olga Epitropaki	Social cognition, identity and dyadic/group processes related to leadership.
Prof. Kiran Fernandes	Operations management, innovation diffusion, complex systems
Prof. Charles Fernyhough	Cognitive-developmental approaches to psychosis and other disorders
Prof. Andrew Gallant	Micromachining, RF MEMS, THz technology, Wafer level packaging
Dr Lian Gan	Experimental fluid mechanics: turbulence & vortex dynamics, Particle Image Velocimetry: application & technique development
Prof. Stephen Gorard	Education and social justice, Equity and effectiveness in lifelong education, Quality of education research
Prof. Rebecca Gowland	Health and demography in the Roman world, Skeletal ageing and age as an aspect of social identity,
Prof. Leslie Graham	Strategy, change management and leadership
Dr Helen Gray	Practical science lessons in secondary schools
Dr Patrick Gray	PTSD
Prof. John Girkin	Advanced photonics and optical technology
Prof. Simon Hackett	Interpersonal violence, child maltreatment and child welfare
Prof. Kate Hampshire	Health, well-being and mobility
Dr Mary Hanley	Social attention, cognition and neurodevelopmental disorders
Dr Markus Hausmann	Psychoneuroendocrinology, Neuropsychology of sex and gender
Mr Spencer Hedger	Labour markets and the relationship between work, worklessness and health
Mr Peter Henderson	Labour markets and the relationship between work, worklessness and health
Prof. Steve Higgins	ICT and digital technologies in schools, educational philosophy of Pragmatism and the implications for teaching and learning.
Dr Karen Hind	Osteoporosis, bone, health, body composition, physical Activity and Athelete Health
Dr Claire Horwell	Volcanic health hazards
Prof. Ray Hudson	Economic & social regeneration in 'old' industrial regions
Dr Fusako Innami	The body, senses, love and intimacy, affect, sleep and performative language
Dr Kimberly Jamie	Patient beliefs about health and wellbeing and the impact of this on behaviours such as exercise and medicines use
Dr Alison Jobe	Adult Deafness, and Identity
Prof. Karen Johnson	Passive treatment of contaminated waters and soils
Dr Laura Johnston	En'light'en project
Karen Jones	RCTs and Quantitative Research methods
Dr Iakowos Karakesisoglou	Cytoskeleton Linker Proteins, Nuclear Envelope Structure and Function, Premature and Physiological Ageing, Laminopathies, Tissue and Animal Morphogenesis
Dr Bob Kentridge	How objects and events are represented in the brain
Dr Matthew O. Kitching	Biological principles in synthetic chemistry to achieve temporal and spatial patterning of reactivity and materials
Dr Alison Lane	Neural mechanisms of visual attention and perception
Dr Colin Lever	Memory and anxiety in animals and humans in youth and age
Dr Sue Lewis	Socio-cultural determinants of health and health inequalities
Dr Stephanie Lichtenfeld	Emotion, Emotion Regulation, Motivation, Elementary School Students Wellbeing, Forgiveness
Dr Jane Lidstone	Cognitive development and mental health in autism spectrum disorder
Prof. Steve Lindsay
Dr Iain Lindsey	Health, wellbeing and social change through engaging young people in sport and physical activity programme
Prof. Gordon Love	Optics and Photonics
Prof. Jane Macnaughton	Literature and medicine, philosophy and history of medicine
Dr Lindsay Macnaughton	Body composition and athlete wellbeing Improving sport nutrition practice Resting Metabolic Rate (RMR) as a tool to measure recovery from Relative Energy Deficiency in Sport (RED-S)
Prof. Holger Maehle	History of medicine and the life sciences
Dr Laura Mazzoli Smith	Narrative-based learning in healthcare education, evaluation in healthcare implementation and education, patient/citizen voice in healthcare, impact of poverty on health and wellbeing
Prof. Anthony McGregor	Animal learning and cognition
Mrs Victoria Menzies	Wellbeing related to education, research synthesis, evaluation of educational interventions and peer monitoring
Dr Victoria Money	X-ray crystallography, viral encoded proteins from highly infectious human and animal pathogens.
Dr Tiago Moreira	Formal and 'informal' processes of health technology
Dr Kate O'Brien	Inequalities and crime: health consequences of austerity policies on Britain's low income populations
Dr Emily Oliver	Psychological factors involved in elite performance, and in the initiation and regulation of human behaviours with a focus on those that contribute to health and wellbeing
Dr Emily Owen	Disadvantaged children and young people, inequalities, complex systems/interventions, and the use of realist evaluation and review approaches
Prof. Joe Painter	Prosaic geographies of the state
Prof. Shaun Pattinson	Medical law and ethics
Dr Cassandra Phoenix	Ageing and Active Mobilities, Everyday Ageism, Weather and Wellbeing, Coastal Blue Space, Health and Wellbeing
Dr Emke Pohl	Unravelling the three-dimensional structures of proteins associated with virulence and disease
Prof. Tess Pollard	Evolutionary perspectives on 'western' diseases
Dr Stacey Pope	Sport and physical activity - how social determinants such as gender and social class impact upon physical activity and health
Dr Emma Poulton	Antisemitism
Mr Michael Priestley	Foucaultian theory to explore the social epidemiology of mental health in a higher education context
Prof. Roy Quinlan	Animal cell biology, cataract and amyloidosis, motor neurone disease, protein chaperones, the cytoskeleton and the eye lens and the aging process
Dr Nadja Reissland	Early mother-infant interaction
Dr Deborah Riby	Social perception, social cognition in neurodevelopmental disorders
Prof. Emeritus Charlotte Roberts	Bioarchaeological approaches to the history of disease and medicine
Dr Steve Robertson	Soil chemistry and the interactions between soil organic matter, contaminants, soil biota
Prof. Martin Roderick	Risk, pain and injury in physical activity
Dr Andrew Russell	Applied anthropology and development
Dr David Sanderson	psychological basis of learning and memory and how these processes are achieved in the brain
Prof. Corinne Saunders	History of ideas and history of women and women's writing
Dr Beng Huat See	Critical thinking skills, parental involvement, teacher demand and supply
Dr Gary Sharples	Molecular mechanisms of genetic recombination
Dr Nadia Siddiqui	Explore educational programmes that can break the cycle of poverty and its impact on young people’s lives
Prof. Bob Simpson	Comparative bioethics
Prof. Dan Smith	Understanding the mechanisms which determine which sensations enter our awareness
Dr Benedict Smith	Moral theory and topics in philosophy of mind and epistemology
Prof. Roger Smith	Childhood, youth justice, participatory methods, social work and power
Prof. Jonathan Steed	Anion binding and sensing, supramolecular gels and crystalline solids including pharmaceuticals and hydrates
Dr Patrick Steel	Development and applications of new methods for organic synthesis, design and synthesis of small molecule probes and modulators of biological processes, applications in applied synthetic biology
Prof. Veronica Strang
Prof. Carolyn Summerbell	Prevention of obesity in children and adults
Dr Sinclair Sutherland	Labour markets and the relationships between work, worklessness and health
Dr Peter Swift	Terahertz radiation application to engineering and biological applications
Dr Catherine Taylor
Dr Jamie Tehrani	Cultural evolution, phylogenetic analysis of culture
Dr Lore Thaler	Human echolocation, visual perception, auditory perception, blindness, planning and control of movements, psychophysics, kinematics, functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI)
Dr Jill Tidmarsh	Interdisciplinary and interprofessional working and learning in social care - children and families
Prof. Carole Torgerson	Experimental Design, Research Synthesis
Prof. Graham Towl	Children and young people and crime
Dr Leanne Trick	Mental health comorbidities in people with long term conditions
Dr Jonathan Tummons	Medical education
Prof. Peter Tymms	Monitoring, assessment, performance indicators, ADHD, reading and research methodology in Education
Dr Julie Van de Vyver	Prosocial behaviour, Pro-environmental behaviour, Prejudice, Good relations and social cohesion, Social identity and intragroup and intergroup relations, Arts engagement, Moral emotions, Behaviour change
Miss Ourania Maria Ventista	Philosophy for Children, Evidence-based Education, School Effectiveness, Social Inequality, Educational Assessment, Non-cognitive skills, Differentiated Instruction, Teacher Education, Teaching Ethics
Dr Milica Vasiljevic	Labelling and advertising affect people’s decisions to eat (un)healthily, drink alcohol, and/or smoke tobacco, evaluating interventions to increase societal equality and egalitarianism
Prof. Nicole Westmarland	Gender and crime, particularly: rape and sexual abuse
Dr Tom Widger	Anthropology of suicide and self-harm, medical philanthropy and pesticides and global health
Dr Jonathan Wistow	Health inequalities, public health, governance, local government
Dr Angela Woods
Prof. Jun Jie Wu	Numerical modelling of natural and synthetic polymers, biomaterials for prostheses bearing surfaces, and functional tissue engineering
Dr Keming Yang	Economic sociology and entrepreneurship, China, statistical methods in social research, social gerontology, social mechanisms and dynamics