This CHAD seminar on the Natural Environment and Health took place on Wednesday May 17th at Staffordshire University, Leek Road Campus, Stoke-on-Trent. More than 30 delegates attended, including those from academia, voluntary organisations, local authority and NHS. Dr Christopher Gidlow and Dr Gemma Hurst provided an introduction to the association between exposure to natural environment…
This seminar on Social Value and Participatory Research Methods took place on Wednesday the 5th April 2017, 45 persons attended the seminar with a good mixture of internal and external people. Get Talking – the power of participatory research. Penny Vincent (pictured above), Senior Lecturer for Community Engagement and Community Partnerships, kicked off the proceedings with a…
CHAD were honoured to have a visiting guest lecture delivered by Professor Aliko Ahmed, Chair of Public Health Africa, and current Director of Public Health England for the East of England. Previously the Director of Public Health for Staffordshire NHS and County Council, and a founding member of CHAD. The lecture entitled ‘Global Health Interdependencies…
We held our first CHAD seminar of 2017 on Wednesday 1st February, focussing on homelessness in Stoke-on-Trent. The seminar was well attended by representatives from the Council, Clinical Commissioning Group, Police and Charity organisations as well as staff and students from the University. Dr Rachel Massie, Research Associate at CHAD, was our first speaker. She…
Well done to Kostas Spyropoulos, a PhD student within CHAD, who was invited to speak at a lunchtime research seminar at Staffordshire University on Wednesday 18/1/2017. This series of research seminars has been organized by Chris Gidlow (Academic Director of CHAD and Associate Professor at Staffordshire University) providing PhD students the opportunity to present their…
CHAD is committed to carrying out research that is locally relevant and accessible. The purpose of our seminar series is to share local research with a wide audience in order to stimulate discussion and debate. This includes practitioners, service providers, voluntary and community groups and other academics – everyone is welcome. The seminar on Mental…
We are delighted that the CHAD seminar series has now launched! The first seminar of 2016 took place on Wednesday 19th October 2016. The topic was ‘Healthy Ageing’ and we heard about two studies that focused on alcohol use in retirement, and ageing without children respectively. Our two speakers were Fiona McCormack, Research Officer at…