Dr Oliver Clackson Bonnington

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Senior Lecturer in Public Health

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Qualifications:PhD, BA, AFHEA
Position:Senior Lecturer in Public Health
Department:College of Health, Science and Society
Telephone:+44117 965 6261

About me

I am a social scientist with degrees in Geography (UCL) and Sociology as Applied to Medicine (KCL). Before joining UWE Bristol in 2023, I was Assistant Professor at LSHTM (2013-2023) within the Faculty of Public Health. Prior to this, I completed a PhD and held a research post within the NIHR-funded SAPPHIRE Programme on mental illness-related stigma and discrimination at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience, KCL.

I am Co-Principal Investigator on a NIHR Mental Health Development Award (2024-2025) titled 'West of England collaboration to prioritise local mental health research'. Ultimately, this project seeks to develop a programme of research focused on the needs of people with lived experience of diagnosable mental health conditions living in the West of England. During the project, we will engage with a range of stakeholders, including people with lived experience of diagnosable mental health conditions and carers to understand their needs and priorities. Additionally, we will talk with people who (i) provide mental health services, (ii) commission those services and (iii) work in community, voluntary and charitable sectors to support people with poor mental health to understand their perspectives too.

I am Co-Programme Lead for the BSc Public Health Practitioner Degree (Apprenticeship). Within this course, I Module Lead Introduction to Health Promotion (Year 1) and the End Point Assessment (Year 3), and I contribute to teaching across the programme.

Within the MSc Public Health, I supervise dissertations and teach on the Qualitative Health Research module.

Area of expertise

I have expertise in the sociology of health and illness, the sociology of mental health, public health (especially health promotion, research design for public health and health policy), social and structural determinants of health, stigma and discrimination, and qualitative methods.

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