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.
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.
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
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 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
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 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
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
Prof. Adetayo Kasim
Biostatistics and statistical bioinformatics
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
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
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