Special Interest Groups

The Wolfson Research Institute for Health and Wellbeing supports a number of Special Interest Groups (SIGs). These are interdisciplinary groups of research active staff who share a common interest in a specific theme (e.g climate change), methodology (e.g. randomised controlled trials) or specific disease (e.g. diabetes), but where there is no formal arrangement (e.g. research centre) to which their theme, methodology or disease already belongs. The aim of this scheme is to seed new enterprises with the potential to develop and become self-sustaining. We aim to support 6-8 groups each year with a maximum of 2 years funding per group.

These groups bring together an interdisciplinary team of academics and researchers under the initial topics of;

• Randomised Controlled Trials and Systematic Reviews - Carole Torgerson, School of Education
• Smoking - Andrew Russell, Dept of Anthropology
• Pain - Paul Chazot, School of Biological and Biomedical Sciences
• International Health,  Mark Booth, School of Medicine and Health
• Belief and Health, Ivana Petrovic,Classics and Ancient History 
• Qualitative Research Methods - Sally Brown, School of Medicine and Health

Contact the Wolfson generic email address wolfson@durham.ac.uk for further details