UK Higher Education Institutions and their research interests - Wales

In March 2012, we wrote to every UK Higher Education Institution which offers a healthcare related course, asking them for details of their areas of research interest. The list below provides details of those who responded from Wales.

Bangor University

Special areas of research activity

Children and young people with disabilities and their families: health and wellbeing research group
Jane Noyes: jane.noyes@bangor.ac.uk and Richard hastings: r.hastings@bangor.ac.uk
IMPLEMENT @BU - implementation research programme
Jo Rycroft-Malone: j.rycroft-malone@bangor.ac.uk and Chris Burton: c.burton@bangor.ac.uk
Service user perspectives and experiences research
Dr Siôn Williams: s.williams@bangor.ac.uk
Bangor Evidence Synthesis Hub (BESH)
jane.noyes@bangor.ac.uk

Website: Bangor University

Cardiff University

Special areas of research activity:

Emotions in midwifery and maternity care
Prof Billie Hunter, email: Hunterb1@cf.ac.uk
Impact and experience of illness - primarily in the context of cancer and palliative care
Prof Daniel Kelly, email: Kellydm@cf.ac.uk
Supportive, palliative and end of life care
Prof Jane Hopkinson, email: Hopkinsonjb@cf.ac.uk
Organisation and delivery of health and social services
Prof Davina Allen, email: allenda@cf.ac.uk
Chronic illness in childhood
Dr Lesley Lowes, email: lowes@cf.ac.uk
Patient Safety. The interface between policy and practice
Dr Annette Lankshear, email: lankshearaj@cf.ac.uk
The sociology of biomedical knowledge
Dr Katie Featherstone, email: Featherstonek@cf.ac.uk

Website: Cardiff University

University of Glamorgan

Special areas of research activity:

Centre for Research and Innovation in Care Sciences
Professor Maggie Kirk, email: mkirk@glam.ac.uk
Care Sciences Research Unit
Professor Donna Mead, email: dmead@glam.ac.uk
Developments in Acute Care
Dr Allyson Lipp, email: alipp@glam.ac.uk
Enduring Health Needs
Dr Christine Shaw, email: cshaw@glam.ac.uk
Equality and Diversity
Dr Roiyah Saltus, email: rsaltus@glam.ac.uk
Health Professional Education
Professor Colin Torrance, email: ctorrance@glam.ac.uk
Primary Care
Professor Joyce Kenkre, email: jkenkre@glam.ac.uk
Violence and healthcare
Professor Paul Rogers, email: progers@glam.ac.uk
Genomics Policy Unit
Professor Maggie Kirk, email: mkirk@glam.ac.uk
Health Professional Education
Professor Keith Weeks, email: kweeks@glam.ac.uk
Public Engagement in Genetics
Dr Rachel Iredale, email: riredale@glam.ac.uk
Health Economics Policy Research Unit
Professor David Cohen, email: dcohen@glam.ac.uk
Unit for Development in Intellectual Disability
Professor Ruth Northway, email: rnorthwa@glam.ac.uk

Website: University of Glamorgan

Swansea University

Special areas of research activity

Innovative Ageing
Professor Vanessa Burholt (v.burholt@swansea.ac.uk)
With an unashamedly positive view of ageing and older people, this theme pursues a philosophy of translating research into practice, achieved through active interaction with policy makers, managers and practitioners
Brain and Behaviour
Professor David Benton (d.benton@swansea.ac.uk)
Integrating neuroscience and behaviour research within the themes of 'brain chemistry', 'neuropsychology and brain injury' and 'psychophysiology' particularly EEG, this group has strengths in the effects of nutrition and drug use on cognition, mood & behaviour; dyslexia and closed head injury; and sleep disorders
Children and Young People's Health and Well-Being
Dr Non Thomas (n.e.thomas@swansea.ac.uk)
Focussing on improving health and wellbeing across a variety of areas such as obesity, inactivity, health promotion, mental health, looked after children, child abuse and neglect, and disabled children. The rights of children and young people, along with issues relating to their migration, are also priorities
Cognition and Perception
Professor Toby Lloyd-Jones (t.j.lloyd-jones@swansea.ac.uk)
Adding to expertise in the areas of attention and perception, reading and language, memory and implicit learning with a range of techniques which include mathematical modeling, eye movement recording, neuropsychological testing, electroencephalography and functional magnetic resonance imaging
Evolutionary Behavioural Science
Dr Steve Stewart-Williams (s.stewart-williams@swansea.ac.uk)
Studying the evolutionary origins of behaviour and mind - in particular, human behaviour and the human mind, focusing on such areas as altruism, kinship, and mating behaviour
Health Economics
Professor Ceri Phillips (c.j.phillips@swansea.ac.uk)
Delivering a first class research and consultancy service to organisations in the healthcare sector, aiming to bridge the gap between academia and industry in Wales and the UK
Health, History and Culture
Professor Anne Borsay (a.borsay@swansea.ac.uk)
Leading the way in medical humanities by applying the concepts and methods of history, literature and the visual arts to the analysis of health and healthcare
Health Services Research
Professor David Hughes (d.hughes@swansea.ac.uk)
Ensuring the systems underpinning a range of health service areas such as healthcare organization, policy and patient involvement are evaluated and enhanced
Learning and Behaviour
Dr Louise McHugh (l.mchugh@swansea.ac.uk)
Examining the mechanisms that allow behaviour and thoughts to adapt to the environment, and investigating the role of learning processes in generating such flexible and adaptive behaviours. The occasional negative consequences of these otherwise adaptive processes and the resulting psychopathological states are also a major focus of work
Nursing, Midwifery and Healthcare Practices
Professor Joy Merrell (j.a.merrell@swansea.ac.uk)
Committed to transferring research from 'the bench to bedside', this theme addresses the issues of professional working and contributions to patient care which cut across traditional boundaries
Philosophy, Ethics & Law in Healthcare
Professor Mike McNamee (m.j.mcnamee@swansea.ac.uk) & Professor Steve Edwards (s.d.edwards@swansea.ac.uk)
Concentrating on the scrutiny of the philosophical, ethical and legal aspects underpinning healthcare theory and practice across the breadth of medicine, nursing and sport
Psychology Applied to Health & Medicine
Dr Phil Tucker (p.t.tucker@swansea.ac.uk)
Using research into areas such as diet, exercise, sleep, working conditions and brain injury to examine the ways in which brain and behavior affect, and are affected by, our physical and psychological well-being
Social Work and Social Care Research
Professor Peter Huxley (p.j.huxley@swansea.ac.uk)
Generating new knowledge about the changes affecting the social care workforce and service provision, including the issues surrounding social care education and development

Website: Swansea University

Previous and non-responders

This is an annual review. For completeness, we list below the Universities who, whilst not responding to the 2012 survey, have responded to a previous survey. Any university without a link has not responded to this survey since its inception in 2008.