Inclusive Health and Implementation Research Group
Bringing together a network of researchers dedicated to health inequalities.
Research into health inequalities
The Inclusive Health and Implementation (IHI) Research Group provides a network for researchers who are working in the following themes:
- Life transitions: including maternity care, childhood research and chronic diseases
- Capacity development: We have a long history of supporting aspiring researchers to develop their research careers and access research training support and fellowships. We have strong links with the NIHR S London ARC capacity development and Implementation and Improvement Science theme, and one of our members is an NIHR training lead for S London ARC and our research group members also have other national NIHR roles.
- Implementation and Improvement Science: This theme includes researchers who are tackling questions about moving evidence into practice, through quality improvement work or by undertaking research which explores implementation in health and social care contexts.
- Rare and unusual conditions: Our theme includes research amongst people with rare and unusual conditions, and links with groups in UK and Europe who are seeking to ensure that research is undertaken with and for people who have rare conditions.
Members and research students
- Professor Tushna Vandrevala
- Dr Kirstie Coxon
- Dr Dimitra Nikoletou
- Professor Fiona Ross, Emerita Professor of Health and Social Care
- Professor Priscilla Harries, Head of Graduate Research School
- Professor Vari Drennan MBE, School of Nursing, FHSSCE
- Professor Rick Hood, Department of Social Work and Social Care, FHSSCE
- Dr Melania Calestani, Senior Lecturer, Department of Midwifery, FHSSCE
- Dr Richard Boulton, Research Fellow, FHSSCE
- Dr Mary Halter, Associate Professor
- Dr Chao Wang, Senior Lecturer in Statistics, FHSSCE
- Ali O'Shea, Researcher, Centre for Health and Social Care Research
- Farrukh Akhtar, Associate Professor, School of Nursing
- Linday Gillman, Associate Professor, School of Education, Midwifery and Social Work
- Kristin Hanson, Department of Psychology
- Cristina Martinelli, Department of Psychology
- Dora Stroumpouki, Senior Lecturer, School of Nursing
- Grace Magani, PhD student
- Melaet Habaty, PhD student
- Shreya Arora, PhD student
- Professor Mike Hurley, Centre for Health and Social Care Research, St George's, University of London
- Dr Gita Ramdharry, Visiting Professor, Consultant Allied Health Professional in Neuromuscular Diseases UCLH
- Dr Deborah Harding, Associate Professor, Centre for Allied Health, St George's, University of London
- Dr Andrew Walker, Health Improvement Network
- James Alexander, Senior Lecturer, Centre for Allied Health, St George's, University of London
- Richard Kain, Senior Lecturer, Centre for Allied Health, St George's, University of London
- Caitlin Beavis-Hardy, Senior Lecturer, Centre for Allied Health, St George's, University of London
- Gill Mein, Senior Lecturer, Centre for Allied Health, St George's, University of London
- Fiona Leggat, Research Associate, LISTEN Project, Centre for Applied Health and Social Care Research
Paulo Chalo
- Project title: Understanding the factors affecting the academic success of doctoral students: a cross-cultural study
- Supervisor: Dimitra Nikoletou
Magdalena Dudziec
- Project title: Rehabilitation strategies to improve balance and prevent falls in people with Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease.
- Supervisor: Dimitra Nikoletou
Brian Lally
- Project title: The quality of leadership in low-resource, non-formal refugee education programmes
- Supervisor: Melania Calestani
Craig Mortimer
- Project title: How do changes in blood glucose levels during the nebulisation of Salbutamol impact on objectively measured health outcomes in patients presenting with an exacerbation of asthma: a pragmatic quantitative study
- Supervisor: Dimitra Nikoletou
Jenny Cunningham
- Project title: Understanding weight stigma and its impact on women's experiences of maternity care – a mixed methods study
- Supervisor: Kirstie Coxon
Liz Livingstone
- Project title: Exploring access to self-management support across a stroke pathway; an ethnographic study.
- Supervisor: Fiona Jones
Louise Shaxson
- Project title: Understanding a whole-department approach to evidence-informed policy.
- Supervisor: Rick Hood
Jo Skinner (amendments)
- Project title: Behind closed doors: Patients' and carers' experiences of gaining access to district nursing services.
- Supervisor: Cilla Harries
Jonathan Breckon
- Project title: Power, politics and evidence: the role of UK professional bodies as intermediaries between research and practice
- Supervisor: Rick Hood
Jahnine Davis
- Project title: Lost in narratives and missing in research: Black African-Caribbean adolescent girls' experiences of child sexual exploitation in England
- Supervisor: Rick Hood
Helen Ross-Blundell
- Project title: Understanding spread and sustainability of self-management support across stroke and neurological services in England
- Supervisor: Fiona Jones
Brendan O'Donovan
- Project title: Understanding and responding to a citizen's nominal value in people-centred systems
- Supervisor: Rick Hood
Paul McLaughlin (SGUL)
- Project title: Exercise-based rehabilitation for pain management in people with haemophilia – a feasibility study
- Supervisor: Mike Hurley
Learn more
We welcome inquiries and discussions about our research. For further information or to request accessible versions of the reports, please contact Professor Rick Hood.
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