Healthy people, healthy places

Nutrition

The aims of the nutrition theme are to understand the role of nutrition in healthy ageing, to design and develop nutrition interventions that tackle diseases associated with ageing and multi-morbidity, and to use novel approaches and technology to support healthy lifestyle choices. 

The workstream welcomes new members with an interest in nutrition and collaboration with other research groups, institutions and industry.

Interests of the workstream members include:

• Diabetes and dietary approaches for the modulating of blood glucose
• Frailty and sarcopenia and the contribution of diet
• Sustainable approaches to improving nutritional status
• Use of technology to improve dietary intake
• Eating behaviour in childhood
• Dietary assessment
• Randomised control nutritional intervention trials
• Functional assessment of frailty
• Trial design

If you are interested in contributing to the nutrition theme, please contact Dr Liz Williams.

Healthy places

This theme supports and promotes multidisciplinary research and knowledge mobilisation with local government and community partners across Sheffield and the Sheffield City Region.

We bring together academic colleagues from all the university faculties with our practitioner colleagues across all sectors which have an impact on population health and health inequalities to develop new collaborations for research and knowledge mobilisation.

Our aims

We aim to build local and regional public health research capacity and deliver place-based cross-disciplinary research programmes and projects that are co-produced with local government, third sector and community colleagues 

Our expertise

We have particular strengths in some key public health priority areas including inequality and inclusion, housing, air pollution and commercial determinants of health, particularly tobacco, alcohol and gambling. We have a strong track record in working closely with policy makers and commissioners to evaluate complex public health programmes and policies using system-wide and co-production based methods. 

If this is of relevance to your own work and you are interested in contributing to this workstream please contact  Prof Liddy Goyder.

Employment and health

How the health of individuals is influenced by, among other things, their employment status, earnings, work environment, workloads, use of technology and the extent and intensity of their working time.

This theme is concerned with connections between work and employment and physical and mental health. We are interested in how the health of individuals is influenced by, among other things, their employment status, earnings, work environment, workloads, use of technology and the extent and intensity of their working time. The theme is concerned with how these various work and employment phenomena affect workers’ health in the short and longer-term, and at different points in their life course. Equally, we are interested in how existing health conditions influence the ability of individuals to access, remain and progress in employment and the relationship between the quality of their health and the quality of their working lives. 

At the heart of all our activities are two linked questions of practical significance: firstly, how can the negative impacts of work on health be reduced and, secondly, how can the positive contribution that work might make to a healthy lifespan be enhanced? As such, the activities and outputs of the workstream are likely to be of interest to regional and national policy makers, international organisations, employers, trade unions and other work and employment stakeholders. The theme aims to engage with such organisations so as to share knowledge and collaborate in ways that have the potential to contribute to sustainable improvements in workers’ health across their lifespans.

This theme's research activities involve the use of quantitative and qualitative methodologies.