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Public health and social policy

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Staff within the School have established work streams and research programmes which examine public health and social policy across all dimensions of health.

  • Professor Vasilios Ioakimidis is the academic leading this research group and will be co-ordinating a range of meetings and activities with a range of staff and PGR students. Most of Professor Ioakimidis鈥檚 research revolves around the broad theme of Social Work in Extremis, exploring social work practice in the context of unpredictable and extraordinary political, social, economic, and environmental change.
  • Other researchers in the School are involved in a 5-year project funded a collaboration between Peterborough and Cambridge NHS Trust, and the university of Cambridge, East Anglia, Hertfordshire, and 糖心Vlog. Professor Joffe is a standing member of the Management Executive Group, and Professor Ewen Speed is the implementation lead for the theme called 鈥淚nclusive Involvement in Research for Practice Led Health and Social Care鈥� and Professor Gill Green.
  • is a national lottery funded programme which responds to the link between economic deprivation and poor life chances. A team of senior research officers are working on a range of community projects which include a formative evaluation lead by Professor Vicky Joffe with Dr Aaron Wyllie and a summative evaluation led by Professor Anuj Kapilashrami. The School is working with a number of strategic partners in the region including Southend Borough Council, Southend Police and Southend NHS Trust, and leading on an inter-disciplinary research team undertaking all research and evaluation activities for the research programme.
  • Academic Research Consortium is a strategic collaboration between the universities of East Anglia, 糖心Vlog, and Kent. The Eastern ARC have also launched a mentoring scheme. Professor Ewen Speed is a co-investigator on a UKRI collaborative project across 4 universities looking at differences in the volunteering response across the 4 UK jurisdictions.
  • Professor Anuj Kapilashrami, Director of Global Engagement and Partnerships, is the founding chair and leading a programme of research on migration and heath via the .
  • The brings together academics and practitioners with relevant expertise and experience in six institutions across four countries. The group will develop an evidence-informed intervention to provide on-going support to migrants in precarious situations in SA and India, and border spaces in Myanmar and Zimbabwe. The research group will establish a programme of work to generate new knowledge, improved understandings, and co-designed training and public health solutions. HSCs contribution will be led by Professor Anuj Kapilashrami
  • Professor Mariachiara Di Cesare is the Director of the Institute of Public Health and Wellbeing which is committed to supporting the next generation of researchers in public health and wellbeing.

Group lead

Professor Vasilios Ioakimidis

Professor Vasilios Ioakimidis

Professor of Social Work

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Dr Konstantinos Roussos
Dr Konstantinos Roussos

Co-lead

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Our projects

Evaluating recurrent care and edge of care services

Evaluating recurrent care and edge of care services

Evaluation of A Better Start Southend

Foundation Report for the British Association of Social Workers Human Rights Advisory Group

This project will create a written document that highlights human rights within the context of social work practice.
Gendered violence & poor mental health among migrants in precarious situations (GEMMS)

Gendered violence & poor mental health among migrants in precarious situations (GEMMS)

Resilience and delivery of HIV care in areas of violence and crime in South Africa

This Health and Social Care project examines how care of HIV patients can be carried out in areas with a high crime rate and endemic gang-related violence.

Postgraduate Research

We welcome postgraduate applicants who are interested in developing their expertise around area of public health and global health perspectives through a research degree.

You can find out more about the work of Anuj Kapilashrami in Global Public Health, international perspectives in social work by Vasilios Ioakimidis, and the work of the wider team by browsing the profiles listed below.

We also have links with researchers and post-doctoral researchers in in the Institute of Public Health and Wellbeing led by Mariachiara Di Cesare and the team.

Studentships

Current opportunities

We do not have any studentships available at the moment.  Should opportunities arise, we will post them here. 

Current doctoral research

Exploring social inclusion and participation: assessing the impact of the Care Act (2014) on the social experience of being a carer

Applying a mixed methodology design this project aims to understand the extent to which the new provision for carers under the Care Act (2014) can promote their wellbeing, participation and inclusion through the use of direct payments. It draws on secondary analysis of carer specific national datasets and insights form carers.

Kathryn Chard

A critical examination of the political construction and development of social work in Greece with refugees and asylum seekers in the humanitarian non-governmental organisations (NGOs)

The focus of this research is on social work in NGOs, focused particularly on exploring via interviews social workers鈥� experiences and the ethical difficulties they face in the context of their everyday practice.

NGO staff will also be interviewed to identify perceived ideas regarding social work to demystify the interplay between social work practice and the principles of social justice.

Georgios Papaleonidopolous

Our researchers

Academics

Dr Esther Ariyo
Dr Esther Ariyo

Group member

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Sai Bangera
Sai Bangera

Group member

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Dr Kathryn Chard
Dr Kathryn Chard

Group member

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Dr John Day
Dr John Day

Group member

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Professor Mariachiara Di Cesare
Professor Mariachiara Di Cesare

Group member

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Dr Drasko Kascelan
Dr Drasko Kascelan

Lecturer

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Dr Ashish Dwivedi
Dr Ashish Dwivedi

Group member

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Professor Gill Green
Professor Gill Green

Group member

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Dr Peter Hall
Dr Peter Hall

Lecturer

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Dr Valentina Iemmi
Dr Valentina Iemmi

Group member

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Professor Victoria Joffe
Professor Victoria Joffe

Group member

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Professor Anuj Kapilashrami
Professor Anuj Kapilashrami

Group member

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Pelagia Kaplanidou
Pelagia Kaplanidou

Lecturer

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Dr Sarita Panday
Dr Sarita Panday

Group member

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Dr Milagros Ruiz
Dr Milagros Ruiz

Group member

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Professor Ewen Speed
Professor Ewen Speed

Group member

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Dr Antonella Trotta
Dr Antonella Trotta

Group member

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Dr Aaron Wyllie
Dr Aaron Wyllie

Group member

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Dr ZhiMin Xiao
Dr ZhiMin Xiao

Group member

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Also Group Lead for the Physical and Mental Health and Wellbeing across the Lifespan research group.

Research staff

Victor Ashby
Victor Ashby

Group member

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Dr Esther Ariyo
Dr Esther Ariyo

Lecturer

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Sally Burrows
Sally Burrows

Group member

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Dr Ashish Dwivedi
Dr Ashish Dwivedi

Lecturer

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Postgraduate Students

Jana Abdel-Jawadova
Jana Abdel-Jawadova

PhD student

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Timea Putnoki
Timea Putnoki

PhD student

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Nicola Warren
Nicola Warren

PhD student

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Dr Claire Wicks
Dr Claire Wicks

PhD student

School of Health and Social Care, 糖心Vlog

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