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Wolfson Research Institute for Health and Wellbeing

The Wolfson Fellowship

The Institute's Fellows come from a diverse range of disciplinary and professional backgrounds across Durham University and organisations with which we collaborate. To help you identify collaborators and experts relevant to your interests, you can search the Fellows database by using the search engine at the right of this page. For futher details of the support given to fellows please click the link here.

The purpose of Fellowship is to create a research community that subscribes to the Institute's aims and has the opportunity to share in its activities, resources, support and collective reputation. Criteria for Fellowship may be viewed here. as well as our online application. If you have an enquiry about Fellowship please contact the Institute Director here.

The Institute now offers Postgraduate students the opportunity to become Postgraduate Associates of the Wolfson Research Institute for Health and Wellbeing. For further details on this and how to apply please click here.

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Ablett-Spence, Ingrid, Dr Cancer and public health
Adams, John, Dr Cognitive development and its relation to educational attainment
Ambler, Carrie, Dr Biomedical and Cell Science
Archibald, Elizabeth, Professor
Arnott, Bronia Mindmindedness in mothers and fathers; attachment - child and adult
Atkins, Peter, Professor Geographies of food and drink
Atkinson, Anthony, Dr Social cognitive neuroscience
Atkinson, Sarah, Dr Social science for medical humanities
Ayub, Muhammad, Dr Genetics of mental disorders and Intellectual Disability, psychological consequences of trauma.

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Ball, Helen, Professor Behaviour and physiology of infant sleep
Bambra, Clare, Professor Labour markets and the relationships between work, worklessness and health
Banks, Sarah, Professor Professional ethics, community development
Bashir, Rumaisa, Dr Skeletal Muscle Biology
Beckmann Jens, Dr Cognitive Abilities
Beckmann, Nadin, Dr Educational Psychology
Bentley, Gillian, Professor Developmental Effects on Reproductive Function in Migrant Bangladeshi Women
Berry, David, Dr
Beverton, Sue, Dr English teaching across transfer from primary to secondary school
Boliver, Vikki, Dr Educational inequalities, especially social class and ethnic inequalities of access to higher status universities, social stratification and mobility, quantitative research methods
Booth, Mark, Dr Epidemiology of infectious and non-infectious diseases
Boothroyd, Lynda, Dr Evolutionary Social and Developmental Psychology
Boyne, Roy, Professor Questions of cultural strategy
Brabban, Alison, Dr CBTp (training, implementation and practice) and Early Intervention for Psychosis
Brown, Sally, Dr Qualitative research, young people's health, men's health
Budgen, David, Professor Software service-based brokering technologies
Burges-Watson, Duika, Dr Absence of analysis of culture in public health discourse
Burt, Mike, Dr Perception of facial expressions
Byrne, David, Professor Case based methods, Complexity theory

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Cairns-Nagi, Jo-Marie Health inequalities, health promotion
Callaghan, Gill, Dr Participation, citizenship and social capital
Callard, Felicity, Dr <span >Mental health, history of psychiatry, medical humanities
Calmeiro, Luis, Dr Cognitive and emotional states in sport, appraisals and coping in sport, expert performance, performance enhancement interventions, social physique anxiety, adolescents' health behaviours
Campbell, Anne, Professor Sex differences in aggression
Cann, Martin, Dr Cell biology of bicarbonate and carbon dioxide
Carro-Ripalda, Susana, Dr Children's experiences of parental migration
Carter, Madeline, Dr Application of the principles and methods from organisational psychology to the workplace
Castelli, Michele, Dr Health care systems analysis and comparison
Cavina-Pratesi, Christiana, Dr How the brain uses visual information to perceive, recognize and act upon objects
Charnley, Helen Community Care policy and practice in the UK
Chazot, Paul, Dr Characterisation and validation of novel drug targets
Close, Helen, Dr Investigations in the areas of cardiovascular disease, gastrointestinal disorders, and mental illness
Cobb, Steven, Dr Development of new peptide agents for the neglected tropical disease Leishmaniasis, development of new sanitation technologies
Collins, Peter J, Dr Aesthetics, Britain, Kenya, Hospitals
Connolly, Jason, Dr
Cook, Chris, Professor Spirituality and psychiatry
Coolen, Frank, Professor Statistics; decision support
Coolen-Maturi, Tahani, Dr Developing statistical methodology for practical problems
Cooper, Gillian, Dr Appetite and body weight regulation, hormone research
Craig, Gary, Professor 'Race' and ethnicity, local governance, community development, children and young people, poverty and deprivation
Creswell, Mark, Dr Sociology of Medicine and Psychiatry
Curtis, Sarah, Professor Geographical dimensions of inequalities of health and health care
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Davies, Douglas, Professor Death, ritual and belief, Mormon religion
De Londras, Fiona Human rights, constitutionalism, abortion, LGBT rights, gender & armed conflict
Denny, Paul, Dr The role of lipid biosynthesis and membrane trafficking in host-pathogen interactions
Dietz, Graham, Dr Trust in the employment relationship
Dobson, Christina, Diabetes, Evolutionary Medicine, Health Interventions, Obesity and Reproductive Function and Infants
Dominelli, Lena, Professor Projects in social work, social policy and probation
Drewett, Robert, Dr Health psychology and in related aspects of developmental psychopathology
Dunn, Chris, Dr Relationships between human disease and the physical and human-made environments
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Easton, Alex, Dr, Animal Models of Episodic Memory, Cognitive Neuroscience of Learning and Memory
Ekers, David, Dr Mental Health Research
Ellison, Amanda, Dr Neuroscientific basis of vision; neuronal disruption in migraine headache; visuomotor systems
Erskine, Jonathan Health system planning; capital investment; European health systems; health facilities and assets
Evans, Martyn, Professor Philosophy of Medicine and Medical Humanities

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Fernandes, Kiran, Professor Operations management, innovation diffusion, complex systems
Fernyhough, Charles, Dr Cognitive-developmental approaches to psychosis and other disorders
Flynn, Emma, Dr Processes and mechanisms of change within the individual or across individuals
Forrest, Simon, Dr The sexual attitudes and behaviour of young people, sexual health promotion and education, sexuality and gender, especially young masculinities, the social and cultural context of emotional experience
Fuat, Ahmet, Dr Heart failure diagnosis in at risk populations
Fuller, Sara, Dr Environmental justice and inequalities

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Gallant, Andrew, Dr Micromachining, RF MEMS, THz technology, Wafer level packaging
Garde, Amandine, Dr Lifestyle risk regulation, obesity prevention, tobacco and alcohol control policies
Garthwaite, Kayleigh Health and disability, worklessness
Gill, Jason, Dr Molecular therapeutics
Gowland, Rebecca, Dr Health and demography in the Roman world, Skeletal ageing and age as an aspect of social identity,
Graham, Leslie, Dr Strategy, change management and leadership
Greener, Ian, Dr Social policy and public management
Girkin, John, Professor Advanced photonics and optical technology
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Hackett, Simon, Professor Interpersonal violence; child maltreatment and child welfare
Hadi, Manizha 
Hall, Christopher, Dr Child welfare research
Hall, Nicola Health-related beliefs and behaviours, gastrointestinal disorders
Hampshire, Kate, Dr Health, well-being and mobility
Hancock, Helen, Dr Inequalities and inequities of care in cardiovascular medicine
Harburn, Jonathan, Dr Medical devices, Drug Design and Synthesis, Nanotheranostics
Haswell, Gayle Health Information Analyst
Henderson, Emily, Dr Obesity as a multi-factorial health issue
Heywood, Charles, Professor Cortical processes in colour vision
Higgins, Steve, Professor ICT and digital technologies in schools, educational philosophy of Pragmatism and the implications for teaching and learning.
Hillier, Frances Dietary and physical activity assessment, behaviour change, intervention evaluation and health inequalities
Holliman, Nick, Dr 3D display systems, Computer graphics, imaging technology
Horwell, Claire, Dr Volcanic health hazards
Howse, Jennifer Dr Optometry and diabetes
Hudson, Bob, Professor Implementation theory and practice
Hudson, Ray, Professor Economic & social regeneration in 'old' industrial regions
Hungin, Pali, Professor Early disease markers, investigative services, gastrointestinal disorders
Hunter, David, Professor European health policy, Health care reform, UK and internationally
Husband, Andrew Medicines use optimisation and pharmacy education
Hutchison, Chris, Professor, Structure, Function and Biogenesis of the Nuclear Envelope
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Illing, Jan, Professor Research in general and medical education


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Jobe, Alison, Dr Adult Deafness, and Identity
Johnson, Karen, Dr Passive treatment of contaminated waters and soils

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Karakesisoglou, Iakowos Dr, Cytoskeleton Linker Proteins, Nuclear Envelope Structure and Function, Premature and Physiological Ageing, Laminopathies, Tissue and Animal Morphogenesis
Kasim, Adetayo, Dr Biostatistics and statistical bioinformatics
Kentridge, Bob, Dr How objects and events are represented in the brain
King, Gary, Dr Human-environmental interactions, the bioarchaeology of insect and parasite remains, the spread and evolution of vector-borne diseases
Knight, David, Professor History and bibliography of science between about 1600 and 1900
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Lake, Amelia, Dr Food environment, the environments of young people, the workplace environment and knowledge exchange
Lane, Alison, Dr Neural mechanisms of visual attention and perception
Laws, Jennifer, Dr Notions of work, therapy and mental illness in a culture of back to work
Lawson, Jamie, Dr Human mating strategy and attractiveness
Lever, Colin, Dr Memory and anxiety in animals and humans in youth and age
Lewis, Sue, Dr Socio-cultural determinants of health and health inequalities
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Macnaughton, Jane, Professor Literature and medicine, philosophy and history of medicine
Maehle, Holger, Professor History of medicine and the life sciences
Maier, Rebecca
Manika, Danae, Dr
Marks, Linda, Dr Public health policy and inequalities in health
Mason, James, Professor Economics of behavioural change and implementation
Mawn, Lauren, Dr Psychological interventions in youth mental health
Mawson, John, Professor Local and regional governance; The management of cities and regions
Maxwell, Sharyn, Dr Organisational theory, clinical management, role of service users
Mazanderani, Fadhila, Dr Health-related research
McClive, Cathy, Dr Early modern French social and cultural history
McCormack, Mark, Dr Understanding the effects of decreasing homophobia in Western cultures
McGregor, Anthony, Dr Animal learning and cognition
McKie, Linda, Professor Work, wellbeing, care and families
McMurray, Robert, Dr Professions & professional identity, Inter-organisational collaboration & boundaries, health care organisation & management, nursing & medicine, qualitative methods
McLachlan, John, Professor Medical Education
Medford, Wayne, Dr Therapeutic landscapes and poststructural theories; public health
Meins, Liz, Dr Early infant-mother interaction, attachment security
Merli, Claudia, Dr Medical anthropology, reproductive health, gender, embodiment
Merrell, Christine, Dr Assessment, Evaluation and Effectivenes, Psychological Perspectives and Issues in Education
Milner, David, Professor Cognitive and behavioural neuroscience
Mitchell, Rachel, Dr Cognitive and neural bases of auditory emotion cue decoding
Money, Victoria, Dr X-ray crystallography, viral encoded proteins from highly infectious human and animal pathogens.
Moore, Helen, Dr Development of the SNAPTM (Synchronised Nutrition & Activity Program)
Moreira, Tiago, Dr Formal and 'informal' processes of health technology
Morrow, Gill Dr Medical education
Muñoz Luna, Dr Aggression and violence
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Nixon, Catherine Obesity

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Obara, Boguslaw Biolmage Informatics
O'Malley, Claire Obesity
O'Neill, Maggie, Professor Critical and cultural criminology, sex work, social justice

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Pain, Rachel, Professor Social geography, informed by feminist and participatory theory and practice
Painter, Joe, Professor Prosaic geographies of the state
Pattinson, Shaun, Dr Medical law and ethics
Petrovic, Andrej Dr, Cultural history, Greek epigraphy, Greek religion
Petrovic, Ivana Dr, Dr Greek and especially Hellenistic poetry, Greek religion and magic.
Phoenix, Jo, Professor Youth justice and sex and regulation
Pohl, Emke, Dr Unraveling the three-dimensional structures of proteins associated with virulence and disease
Pollard, Tess, Dr Evolutionary perspectives on 'western' diseases
Powell, Hilary Dr History of Medieval medicine

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Quinlan, Roy, Professor, Animal cell biology, cararact and amyloidosis, motor neurone disease, protein chaperones, the cytoskeleton and the eye lens and the aging process

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Rackley, Erika, Dr Judicial diversity, women and the legal profession, legal regulation of pornography, Tort law, law and literature
Redman, Tom, Professor Age discrimination, HRM, Industrial relations, Organisational commitment, Union commitment and participation
Reed, Beth (Howell), Dr Creativity in English Education
Reilly, Joe, Professor Physical health of people with severe mental illness
Reissland, Nadja, Dr Early mother-infant interaction
Ridgway, Rosie, Miss Special educational needs and learning difficulties, particularly profound and multiple learning disabilities
Roberts, Charlotte Bioarchaeological approaches to the history of disease and medicine
Robertson, Steve, Dr Soil chemistry and the interactions between soil organic matter, contaminants, soil biota
Rosenthal, Harriet, Dr Adult attachment, social support and depressive symptoms
Rothwell, Charlotte, Mrs Medical Education Research Group
Routen, Ash, Mr Objective physical activity measurement in children
Rubin, Greg, Professor Early diagnosis and management of serious disorders
Rudzik, Alanna Dr Medical Anthropology, Women's and Infant's Health
Russell, Andrew, Dr Applied anthropology and development
Russell, Charlotte, Dr Medical Anthropology and Evolutionary Anthropology
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Sauerteig, Lutz, Dr History of Bodies and Sexuality, History of Public Health in the 19th and 20th Centuries
Saunders, Corinne, Professor History of ideas; History of women and women's writing
Sear, Rebecca, Dr Human evolutionary ecology, evolutionary demography
Schaefer, Alex, Dr Human cognition, using a variety of behavioural and neuroimaging methods (EEG/ERP, fMRI)
Sharples, Gary, Dr Molecular mechanisms of genetic recombination
Simpson, Bob, Professor Comparative bioethics
Smith, Dan, Dr Understanding the mechanisms which determine which sensations enter our awareness
Smith, Benedict, Dr Moral theory and topics in philosophy of mind and epistemology
Smith, Roger, Professor Childhood, youth justice, participatory methods, social work and power
Smithson, Hannah, Dr How do the eye and brain process visual information?
Sofianopoulou Eleni Dr, Chronic disease epidemiology and the role of primary care in chronic diseases
Spencer, Ian, Dr Mental Health Research
Steed, Jonathan, Professor Anion binding and sensing, supramolecular gels and crystalline solids including pharmaceuticals and hydrates
Steel, Patrick, Dr Development and applications of new methods for organic synthesis, design and synthesis of small molecule probes and modulators of biological processes, applications in applied synthetic biology
Stain, Helen, Dr Population Health and clinical research, Mental Health Research
Strang, Veronica, Professor
Summerbell, Carolyn, Professor Prevention of obesity in children and adults
Swift, Peter, Dr, Terahertz radiation application to engineering and biological applications

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Thaler, Lore Dr Human echolocation, visual perception, auditory perception, blindness, planning and control of movements, psychophysics, kinematics, functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI)
Thurston, Allen, Dr Science education, peer learning and interaction, ICT and socio-emotional issues surrounding blindness and visual impairment
Tidmarsh, Jill, Dr Interdisciplinary and interprofessional working and learning in social care - children and families
Tiffin, Paul, Dr Mental illness, family assessment and risk evaluation in adolescence.
Todd, Adam , Dr Pharmacy Practice
Torgerson, Carole, Professor, Experimental Design, Research Synthesis
Towl, Graham, Professor Children and young people and crime
Tymms, Peter, Professor Monitoring, assessment, performance indicators, ADHD, reading and research methodology in Education
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Visram, Shelina, Dr Health Inequalities, health-related behaviour change, community-based lifestyle interventions
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Wall, David, Professor, Access to Criminal Justice, Cybercrime, Intellectual Property Crime, Law and Popular Culture, Policing
Ward, Thomas, Professor Mathematics, edcuation, politics, faith and science
Warren, Jon, Dr
Webster, Lisa, Dr Psychological Research
Weis, Susanne, Dr Cognitive neuroscience
Welsh, Patrick, Mental health
Westmarland, Nicole, Dr Gender and crime, particularly: rape and sexual abuse
Williams, David, Dr Autism spectrum disorder, inner speech/verbal thinking, self-awareness, specific language impairment, theory of mind
Wilson, Douglas Community health, endocrinology and chronobiology
Wistow, Gerald, Professor
Wistow, Jonathan, Dr Health inequalities, public health, governance, local government
Wood, Victoria, Dr
Woods, Angela, Dr
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Yang, Keming, Dr Economic sociology and entrepreneurship, China, statistical methods in social research, social gerontology, social mechanisms and dynamics
Yeo, Paul, Dr Cell Biology, Membrane:Protein interactions

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