Our team | University of Essex

Our multidisciplinary team brings together expertise from University of Essex’s Institute for Public Health and Wellbeing, Institute for Social and Economic Research, Department of Sociology and Criminology, and School of Health and Social Care.

In addition we have team members from Kings College London Centre for Society and Mental Health as well as University of Cambridge Department of Psychiatry.

Research team

Staff	Role
Professor Vicky Bird	Mental Health research lead
Professor Susan McPherson	Institution “sponsor”, Programme PI, NIHR Academy training lead
Renee Robey	Programme PPIE Lead, Healthwatch Essex
Dr Lauren O'Connell	Postdoctoral researcher
Dr Alvin Hui	Postdoctoral researcher
Professor Meena Kumari	Director, Institute for Social and Economic Research
Dr Emily Murray	Director, Centre for Coastal Communities
Professor Roisin Ryan-Flood	Professor of Sociology
Dr Cara Booker	Senior Research Fellow, Institute for Social and Economic Research
Caitlin Phillips	Lecturer, Clinical Psychology
Professor Craig Morgan	Professor Social Epidemiology, King’s College London
Professor Tamsin Ford	Professor Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, University of Cambridge

Funders and partners

Our team is supported by a grant from the National Institute for Health and Care research (NIHR). The team also benefits from expert advice, collaboration and strategic guidance from our partners at King’s College London (KCL) and University of Cambridge (UoC).

We are working in partnership with Healthwatch Essex to deliver our Patient and Public Involvement and Engagement strategy.

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