Members of the cluster include experienced academics, early career researchers and PhD students. There is a strong commitment within the group to influencing policy and practice and ensuring the work of the cluster makes a difference to people’s lives. The expertise covers a wide range of topics including:
- Social and economic determinants of health
- Health inequalities
- Health and human rights
- How health policy is made and implemented
- Mental health and wellbeing
- Violence prevention and health
- Public health approaches to death, dying and bereavement
- Learning disabilities
- Health citizenship
- Ethical issues in the use of technologies in social care
- Personal outcomes
- Migration and health
- History of height, morbidity and mortality
- Public participation in health policy and practice
- Health and care systems
Amongst the group there is an interest in a diverse range of qualitative and quantitative research methods. There is a strong commitment and expertise within the group for community-based participatory research, creating partnerships between academics, practitioners and people with lived experience to develop a shared research agenda.