Fellowships
Fellowships play a vital role in developing research careers and capacity, supporting future research leaders and advancing public health knowledge. Here we highlight the current and recent fellowship research, achievements and career development of Centre for Public Health staff.
Click on the names below to find out more about each fellowship.
- Dr Lucy AndersonLucy’s NIHR SPHR Transdisciplinary Fellowship examined the intersections between climate change and public health, focusing on how local climate and air quality interventions can affect mental health and health inequalities within communities.
- Dr Michael DalyMichael’s NIHR Three Schools Prevention Programme postdoctoral fellowship focused on co-producing a primary care-based preconception health intervention to help women and their partners improve their health before pregnancy, with particular attention to reducing health inequalities.
- Dr Katrina d'ApiceDuring her NIHR Three Schools Prevention Programme Post-Doctoral Fellowship, Katrina is exploring how nature-based group activities could support mental health and wellbeing during pregnancy, with the aim of developing and adapting outdoor programmes for pregnant women and birthing people.
- Professor Judi KidgerJudi’s NIHR Population Health Career Scientist Award focuses on developing and evaluating a whole-systems approach to improving young people’s mental health and supporting better pathways into adulthood, particularly for those at risk of poor outcomes.
- Dr Rachael McClatcheyRachael McClatchey’s NIHR Senior Clinical and Practitioner Research Award focuses on understanding how the built and natural environment influence health and health inequalities, and on improving the use of evidence across government to create healthier places and policies.
- Dr Joanna McLaughlinJoanna’s NIHR Development and Skills Enhancement Award focuses on developing expertise in digital health technologies, including AI tools, to support health improvement for patients waiting for planned hospital care while reducing, rather than widening, health inequalities.
- Hannah RobinsonHannah’s NIHR Three Schools Pre-Doctoral Fellowship focuses on improving the mental health and wellbeing of children and young people, with particular emphasis on how schools, communities and wider social and environmental factors can support mental health and prevent self-harm and suicide.
- Dr Kerstin SellKerstin’s Walter Benjamin Fellowship investigates the wider health impacts of Germany’s nationwide public transport pass (the Deutschlandticket), using systems thinking and natural experiment methods to understand how transport policies affect public health and to improve policy evaluation approaches.
- Dr Lizzy WinstoneLizzy’s NIHR SPHR Postdoctoral Launching Fellowship explored how social media platforms, recommendation algorithms and digital environments influence young people’s mental health and health inequalities, and how these systems can be improved through policy, regulation and education.