Social Networks Health and Wellbeing
Our research focuses on understanding how engagement with social networks, local communities, and meaningful activities shapes people’s health and Wellbeing. Exploring the everyday life settings and experiences of people living with long-term conditions our group aims to improve self-management support by engaging with and reshaping relationships, local environments, and technologies. Our approach is multidisciplinary and is aimed at developing an understanding of processes operating on the level of individuals, their personal community, local organisational and institutional networks, and wider social structures. Our current research falls within three key areas.