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- Qualifications:PhD
- Position:Senior Research Fellow (Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow)
- Department:HAS - Health and Social Sciences
- Telephone:+441173287833
- Email:Jo.White@uwe.ac.uk
About me
Senior Research Fellow, I joined UWE in 2015 as Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow, and led a study of gender and sexual relationships amongst 16 -18 year olds, training a team of young researchers. Outputs included relationship and sex education (RSE) materials and the film 'DARE' which received a Special Mention at the UK Seasonal Short Film Festival (2019) and was shortlisted for the Directed by Women Festival (Istanbul, 2019). I subsequently worked on applied studies such as the Bristol Ageing Better programme, (BAB) evaluation, working closely with community researchers, and was PPI Lead on numerous projects.
I am currently UWE Lead on an NIHR-funded project Inclusivity in Stroke Self-Management: Co-designing resources to improve self-management by Black African and Caribbean communities living with stroke in England (ISSMAS). This project is working to address the health inequalities faced by Black people living with stroke, including transforming the support they receive from healthcare professionals, using an experience-based co-production approach. Together with our project partner, Kingston University, we are currently developing a new follow-on project to embed outputs from ISSMAS within NHS services.
Other current responsibilities:
1) Public involvement co-lead on TRUUD: Tackling the Root Causes Upstream of Unhealthy Urban Environments https://truud.ac.uk/ This involves bringing decision-makers closer to lived experiences of disadvantaged communities and promoting understanding of links between the built environment and health and wellbeing through creative co-production. Key outputs from this work are a series of short films (Living in unhealthy places - TRUUD) and a Toolkit on public engagement approaches for urban design.
2) PPI Lead on the TransformHIV project investigating structural factors affecting HIV risk in a set of case study countries including Cote D'Ivoire. Greece, India and Ukraine.
I supervise dissertation students on the UWE MSc Public Health programme and am on four doctoral supervision teams.
As part of UWE's established Public Involvement team, I promote public involvement (PI) in the design and conduct of health research. We believe good PI improves the 'real world' relevance of research, ensuring it addresses the needs of the public, patients and carers. The team works with diverse public contributors in a variety of research settings, employing a range of methodologies. We are a core part of People in Health West of England (PHWE), a UWE-led collaboration which supports the delivery of PI across the West of England.
In terms of my academic background, I completed my PhD and MA studies at Goldsmiths College, University of London. Prior to joining UWE I held a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellowship at the Centre for Research in Anthropology, Lisbon University Institute (CRIA-IUL). Before Much of my professional experience has been outside academia, conducting ethnographic and applied research for HIV, sexual and maternal health service development. I conducted advisory and evaluation work for UNFPA, UNICEF, ITM-Antwerp, SCF-UK and DFID. Countries worked in to date: Cambodia, Vietnam, Botswana, Gambia, Nigeria, Rwanda, Swaziland, Tanzania, Uganda, India, Pakistan.
Area of expertise
Ethnography, qualitative research methods, public involvement, co-production, gender, sexual health, maternal health, HIV, health promotion, health and the built environment.
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