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Dr Leo Westbury PhD

Lecturer

Research interests

  • Lifecourse epidemiology
  • Musculoskeletal disorders
  • Medical statistics

Email: lw@mrc.soton.ac.uk

Address: Southampton General Hospital, Tremona Road Shirley, SO16 6YD

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Professor Lucy Green

Professorial Fellow-Enterprise

Research interests

  • Fetal physiology and nutrition
  • Developmental Origins of Health and Disease (DOHaD)
  • Equality and diversity in research, education and public engagement

Accepting applications from PhD students

Email: l.r.green@soton.ac.uk

Address: Southampton General Hospital, Tremona Road Shirley, SO16 6YD

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Dr Mark Burton

Research Fellow

Email: m.a.burton@soton.ac.uk

Address: Southampton General Hospital, Tremona Road Shirley, SO16 6YD

Emeritus Professor Mark Hanson

Email: m.hanson@soton.ac.uk

Address: Southampton General Hospital, Tremona Road Shirley, SO16 6YD

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Professor Mary Barker PhD, C Psychol

Prof of Psychology & Behavioural Science

Research interests

  • Mary Barker is Professor of Psychology and Behavioural Science. She has a joint appointment in both the Faculty of Medicine and the School of Health Sciences, Faculty of Environmental and Life Sciences, University of Southampton UK.  Mary runs a programme of work in both the UK and in low-income countries aiming to engage young people in improving their sense of agency, well-being and mental health, to benefit their health in general but their diets and physical activity habits more specifically. Her team’s approach is participatory and combines social activism focused on engaging young people in the climate change and health agenda and testing methods of one-to-one support and digital resources including smartphone games. Much of this work takes place as part of her NIHR Programme Grant for Applied Research EACH-B (Engaging Adolescents in Changing Behaviour). She partners in this activity with the TALENT network of colleagues with interests in adolescent health and well-being based in institutions in low-and-middle-income countries. Her team also ran a five-country, longitudinal qualitative study with young people throughout the pandemic exploring their experience, mental health, well-being and resilience, data from which supported UK local and national government COVID messaging to young people. She is adjunct professor at the University of Agder, Norway, and has honorary appointments at the University of Witwatersrand, South Africa, and University College London.

Email: meb@mrc.soton.ac.uk

Address: Southampton General Hospital, Tremona Road Shirley, SO16 6YD

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Miss Naomi Leonard

Enterprise Fellow

Dr Nicholas Fuggle

Associate Professor in Rheumatology

Professor Nicholas Harvey

Director/Professor

Research interests

  • Lifecourse epidemiology of osteoporosis and fragility fractures
  • Understanding mechanism and development of novel interventions across lifecourse to prevent fragility fractures

Email: nch@mrc.soton.ac.uk

Address: Southampton General Hospital, Tremona Road Shirley, SO16 6YD

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Dr Philip Titcombe

Statistician/Statistical Geneticist

Email: pt@mrc.soton.ac.uk

Address: Southampton General Hospital, Tremona Road Shirley, SO16 6YD

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Mrs Preeti Dhuria

Senior Research Assistant

Research interests

  • Public Health Nutrition
  • Food Environment
  • Food Policy

Email: pd@mrc.soton.ac.uk

Address: Southampton General Hospital, Tremona Road Shirley, SO16 6YD

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