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- Deakin University
- Facts4Life
- Nepal Injury Research Centre
- North Bristol NHS Trust
- Public Health England
- South Somerset District Council
- Sustrans UK
- The Centre for Diet and Activity Research (CEDAR)
- University of Cambridge
- University College London
- University Hospitals Bristol NHS Trust
- University of Bristol
- University of Edinburgh
- University of Oxford
- South Gloucestershire Council
- Sirona care and health
- Bristol City Council
- North Somerset Council
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- Qualifications:BSc (HONS); MSc; FHEA; DPhil
- Position:Senior Lecturer in Public Health
- Department:HAS - Health and Social Sciences
- Telephone:+441173288449
- Email:Emma.Bird@uwe.ac.uk
About me
Emma Bird is a Senior Lecturer in Public Health at UWE Bristol. Emma's background is in psychology, obtaining BSc Psychology (with Honours) from the University of Liverpool in 2008 and MSc Health Psychology (with Distinction) from UWE Bristol in 2010. She completed her doctoral studies in 2020, which focused on physical activity intervention development, evaluation, and implementation in community settings.
Emma is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (HEA), and has more than 15 years' experience of teaching at UWE Bristol. She contributes to teaching and learning on numerous undergraduate and postgraduate programmes across the university, including MSc Public Health and BSc Public Health Practitioner Degree Apprenticeship. Emma previously led modules Health Promotion, Principles of Evidence Based Public Health, and Dissertation in Public Health. She currently acts as ‘Critical Friend’ on the Postgraduate Certificate Learning and Teaching in Higher Education (PGCert LTHE), which involves mentoring and supporting junior teaching staff.
Emma is a primary member of the Centre for Public Health and Wellbeing. She leads the theme Healthy and sustainable places, which includes research on the environment and salutogenic spaces, and she is a member of the Centre’s Management Group. Emma has broad research interests in health and place, conducting projects which examine health promoting interventions and strategies in a range of neighbourhood and community settings. She has successfully secured more than £500k in funding as Principal Investigator or Co-Investigator and authored more than 50 publications. She has expertise in surveys and in-depth interviews and is highly experienced in conducting evidence synthesis and public health evaluation.
Emma’s research is underpinned by strong networks across academia and practice, including collaborations with OHID, TCPA, and local authorities across England. She has successfully supervised one doctoral candidate to completion as Director of Studies and currently serves as second supervisor for three others. Emma is co-author of Research Methods for Public Health (McClean et al., 2019), authoring chapters Evidence synthesis and Mixed methods research and evaluation design. She is also an experienced journal reviewer and grant reviewer.
Emma is the UK Training and Capacity Strengthening lead for the SafeTrip Nepal project, where she is responsible for enhancing research leadership skills among Nepal-based UWE researchers. She is an accredited Academic Supervisor at UWE for the South West Public Health Speciality Training Programme, where she provides academic and research guidance to Public Health Registrars. Emma is the UWE Bristol lead for the South West Public Health Workforce Development Sponsorship Scheme, and she is an honorary Public Health Academic with the Office for Health Improvement and Disparities (OHID) (formerly Public Health England).
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