The Centre for Health Research (CHR) responds to a broad health agenda through research that spans the continuum from the study of factors maintaining and promoting health and wellbeing, to helping health professionals deal effectively with illness, disease, and recovery trajectories.
The CHR prides itself on its European and international research links and these, together with its close association with NHS researchers through the co-located NIHR Research Design Service South East, provide a vibrant environment for researchers and students who want to carry out research that results in positive changes to policy and practice.
As part of its commitment to research-led practice and a research-informed curriculum, staff from the centre regularly act as external speakers, advisors and experts to national and international bodies, as well as providing lectures and seminars internally. In addition, the centre's research seminars provide an opportunity for staff and students to debate and critique progressive research and methodological positions.
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Latest publications
Talking about Hillsborough: 'Panic' as discourse in survivors' accounts of the 1989 football stadium
disaster – Dr Chris Cocking and John Drury publish paper in the Journal of Community and Applied Social Psychology
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Understanding barriers to sexual health service access among substance-misusing women on the South East coast of England – Natalie Edelman, Senior Research Fellow publishes paper in the Journal of Family Planning and Reproductive Health Care
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Mouth swabs are being taken from volunteers at gay venues in Brighton and Hove to gather new data on HIV risk patterns, prevention needs, and local prevalence, as part of an international research project.
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This work was also recently featured on BBC South East Today and the
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Two new research awards for Professor Angie Hart, other university colleagues and community partners
Professor Angie Hart has been awarded funding for two new research projects:
The social, historical, cultural and democratic context of civic engagement: imagining different communities and making them happen (ESRC)
Creating a UK community partner network (AHRC)
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