Follow Up Team: University of Glasgow
Institute of Health and Wellbeing
DR CINDY GRAY
Research Interests: Cindy’s research interests include using sociological and psychological theory to develop understandings of how to engage high risk groups in sustained health behaviour change. She is also interested in the development and evaluation of mobile technologies (e.g. smart phone apps) for promoting healthy lifestyles.
Role on Project: Chief Investigator
PROFESSOR ANDREW BRIGGS
Research Interests: Andrew’s expertise is in health economic evaluation, with a particular focus on statistical methods for cost-effectiveness analysis. This includes both statistical methods for estimation of parameters for cost-effectiveness models as well as statistical analysis of cost-effectiveness alongside clinical trials. He also has a more general interest in epidemiological methods.
Role on Project: Co-Investigator
DR CHRIS BUNN
Research Interests: Chris is a sociologist with a special interest in health and well-being. His substantive areas of work include physical activity, diabetes, men’s health, obesity, football-based health improvement programmes, urban agriculture, third sector collaborations, and group dynamics.
Role on Project: Co-Investigator
ELEANOR GRIEVE
Research Interests: Eleanor’s research interests include economic evaluation of public health and complex interventions, both trial-based and using decision analytic modelling; with a particular research interest in low- and middle-income countries.
Role on Project: Co-Investigator
PROFESSOR KATE HUNT
Research Interests: Kate is Professor of Gender and Health at Glasgow University. Until 2014 she led the MRC/CSO Social and Public Health Sciences Unit’s Gender and Health programme, reflecting her longstanding interest in how social constructions of gender shape and influence health outcomes for men and women. She now leads SPHSU’s programme on Understanding and Improving Health within Settings and Organisations, which aims to understand settings and organisations as contexts for: influencing social position and identity, behaviour, health and well-being; and facilitating health improvement through development, piloting and evaluation of new interventions and/or adaptations of existing interventions to novel settings.
Role on Project: Co-Investigator
SUZANNE LLOYD
Research Interests: Suzanne is a Statistician in Biostatistics
Role on Project: Suzanne was a grant holder and contributed to the study design and grant application. She led the statistical input on this project with support from Alex McConnachie until June 2015.
DR ALICE MACLEAN
Research Interests: Alice’s research interests centre around investigating the ways in which health improvement programmes delivered through organisations can reach wider populations through the diffusion of health behaviour change. In particular, she is interested in exploring how health behaviour change takes place within families, and specifically how one family member’s attempts to make changes are affected by and affect other family members.
Role on Project: Co-Investigator
DR ALEX McCONNACHIE
Research Interests: Alex is the Assistant Director of Biostatistics at the Robertson Centre for Biostatistics, with particular interest in the design and analysis of randomised trials and observational studies in various areas, including cardiovascular disease, mental health, child development, surgery, exercise, obesity, social deprivation and health inequalities.
Role on Project: Co-Investigator (Senior Statistician)
PROFESSOR COLIN McCOWAN
Research Interests: Colin’s research interests are in the use of existing routine data within epidemiological studies and in the support of clinical trials and other research methods.
Role on Project: Co-Investigator
PROFESSOR SALLY WYKE
Research Interests: Sally is a social scientist who applies social scientific theory and methods to complex interventions to improve health and well-being. She also has expertise in developing pragmatic approaches to robust evaluation of complex interventions using comparative designs and mixed methods and applies her skills to support health in community and primary care settings. Sally is Deputy Director of the Institute of Health and Wellbeing.
Role on Project: Co-Investigator
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