We improve the health of the public through research on mental health, social care, health promotion, early intervention, health inequalities, and health communication.
About us
IOE, Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê’s Faculty of Education and Society helps improve the health of the public through its multi-disciplinary research on physical and mental health, the prevention of ill-health and promotion of wellbeing, and the reduction of health disparities. This includes studies on the wider determinants of health, health behaviours and lifestyles, and health care delivery. We are a major partner of Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê Health of the Public and work closely with a range of external partners and stakeholders.
Research themes
- Mental health, wellbeing and education
Children and young people
- Parenting and children's behavioural problems: Micro- and macro-processes at play in the context of intervention
- Improving young people’s mental health
- Etch-a-Sketch Online: Scoping clinical use for adolescents with mental health difficulties
Within schools and further education
- Supporting wellbeing, emotional resilience and learning
- Influencing government policy to improve working life for teachers
- :Ìýimplementing Mental Health Support Teams in Further Education Institutions
- Urban Forest Schools: Designing-in play to urban environments for health and wellbeing
Autism
Adulthood
- Wellbeing of children and families
- Health promotion and early intervention
- NIHR Children and Families Policy Research Unit
- Children, young people and families: Care, education, health and wellbeing
- Children's consumption of energy drinks: a systematic review to inform policy
- Boosting children’s health: the role of inflammation, poverty and children's working memory
- Schools as enabling spaces to improve learning and health-related quality of life for primary school children in rural communities in South Africa
- Prevalence and early-life determinants of midlife multimorbidity
- Creative arts and health
- Eco-Capabilities: Supporting children’s wellbeing through participatory art in nature
- Branching Out: Tackling mental health inequalities in schools with Community Artscapers
- Flock project:Ìýceramic birds helping tell stories of loss, exile, migration and hope
- Beatboxing after laryngectomy, with Shout at Cancer
- Health inequalities and determinants of health
- Where external representations meet embodied experiences: diverse voices in research and practice
- Socioeconomic inequalities across life and premature mortality from 1971 to 2016
- Prevalence and early-life determinants of midlife multimorbidity
- Harnessing evidence to tackle health issues
- Researching the causes of eating disorders: the case of decision-making skills
- Health communication
- Teamwork in healthcare: A close-up view of the frontline
- 'War' as metaphor in the fight against cancer / The language of healthcare
- Consent and shared decision-making in healthcare
- Applying Linguistics in Illness and Healthcare Contexts (Bloomsbury, 2020)
- International Consortium for Communication in Health Care (IC4CH)
- Project:ÌýCollaboration for change: Promoting vaccine uptake
- Project:ÌýQuestioning Vaccination Discourse ('Quo VaDis’)
- Improving health policy
- Covid-19
- Rapid evidence reviews on the impact of closures and disruptions to schools, colleges and universities to inform UK government policy
- Mapping evidence to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic
- The Covid-19 pandemic and its impact on mental health
- Project: COVID-19: Global social trust and mental health
- Families in Tower Hamlets: impacts of COVID-19
- More Covid-19 research at IOE
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Meet the team
Professor Jeff Bezemer, Vice Dean Health