Completed projects
A list of all completed projects previously undertaken by the Health Equity and Inclusion Group.
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Addressing health inequalities in the night-time economy
The night-time economy can negatively affect our health and wellbeing, it can also cause more harm to some than others. This research helped improve our understanding about how alcohol and gambling link together on English high streets.Findings are helping to inform local councils when making decisions about businesses and implementing measures to tackle health inequalities.
Chief investigator: Katie Powell
Funding body: NIHR
Austerity and Altered Life-Courses: Socio-Political Ruptures to Family, Employment and Housing Biographies Across Europe
Austerity has had direct and devastating impacts on young people's life-course biographies across Europe since 2008. This has been particularly acute for those now aged 35 and under, experiencing significant disruption ('socio-political ruptures') throughout their formative years. This includes interconnected impacts on family childbearing decisions, employment opportunities, and housing arrangements. These vary depending on context.
To investigate these issues, this project focused on three European devolved or autonomous regions: Greater Manchester (UK), Barcelona Province (Catalonia, Spain) and Sardinia (Italy). It aimed to understand how austerity policies have impacts that are felt on the ground long after implementation. As a form of redress, this project proposes thinking about austerity not as a point in time, society or space, but as constantly being formed and reshaped, and in dialogue with experiences, histories and futures.
Chief investigator: Sarah Marie Hall
Funding body: UKRI
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Building an anti-poverty research community
This project embeded long-term collaborative working with grassroots leads across Manchester, to re-frame anti-poverty debates in the city to be more creative, progressive and community led. It has strengthened mutually beneficial relationships between the project partners and scoped out possibilities for future collaborations, co-learning and impact.
Chief investigator: Sarah Marie Hall
Funding body: UKRI and ESRC
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Enabling children and young people’s involvement in whole system action to reduce inequalities in the social determinants of health
Chief investigator: Hannah Fairbrother
Funding body: NIHR
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Physical activity insecurity’ as experienced by LGBTQ+ children and young people living with deprivation: what would safe spaces for physical activity look like for this community?
This project will provide evidence about the needs of LGBTQ+ young people in designing and facilitating safe and inclusive physical activity spaces. This will help inform policy change at a local level. The evidence will also be used to update national training and professional guidance provided by physical activity and sports organisations.
Chief investigator: Caroline Dodd-Reynolds
Funding body: NIHR SPHR
PRAMS Project - Perinatal Redesign for Accessing Mental Health Services
Perinatal mental health (PMH) disorders refer to the ill mental health experienced by women during pregnancy and one year postpartum (the perinatal period). While this is common, in recent research, women from underserved groups, such as those from ethnic minority backgrounds or living in deprived areas, have been shown to experience barriers to accessing mental health care for appropriately meeting their needs.
Delays or difficulties in accessing mental health support are problematic when considering the resulting potential for negative impact on women’s health as well as on their children’s development.
Chief investigator: Kelly Mackenzie
Funding body: NIHR Three Schools Mental Health Programme