Lorna Porcellato

Lorna Porcellato

L.A.Porcellato@ljmu.ac.uk

Room 3.49, Henry Cotton Building.

Senior Lecturer in Public Health.

I arrived in the UK in 1993 having completed my undergraduate and masters degrees in Canada. In 1994 I began my PhD here at LJMU which involved the development and implementation of the primary phase of the Liverpool Longitudinal Study on Smoking. I worked on various other projects as a research fellow before moving to the University of Salford in 2002 where I held a joint post - as programme leader for the Masters in Public Health and Society and Qualitative Lead for Heath R& D Northwest in the Centre for Public Health Research. During this time, I was also the Qualitative lead on an ESF funded project on age discrimination in the workplace conducted by the Salford Business School. I rejoined LJMU in 2007 as a senior lecturer in public. I teach on both the undergraduate and post graduate programmes and am involved in a range of research projects.

Qualitative Research Methods.
Public Health Promotion.
Community Participation.

Understanding health-related behaviour, developing effective health enhancing strategies, research with children and young people, community-based participatory research and qualitative research methodology.

Porcellato, L; Carmichael, F; Hulme, C; Ingham B and Prashar A (in press) Giving Older Workers a Voice: constraints on the employment of older people in the North West of England. Work, Employment and Society.

Dugdill, L, Coffey,M., Coufopoulus, A., Byrne, K and Porcellato,L (2009) Developing New Community Health Roles: can reflective learning drive professional practice? Reflective Practice,10:1,121-130.

Milton B, Dugdill L, Porcellato L, Springett J, (2007) Kids who smoke think that they can be adults as well: children's smoking and transitions to adulthood - Children and Society.

Mair M, Barlow A, Woods SE, Keirans C, Porcellato L (2006) Lies, Damned Lies and Statistics? Reliability and personal accounts of smoking among young people’ - Social Science and Medicine. 62 (4) :1009-21.

Porcellato L, Dugdill L, Springett J (2005) A Longitudinal Study Exploring Primary Schoolchildren’s Perspectives on Smoking: Results from the Early Years Phase - Childhood: A Global Journal of Child Research. 12(4) :425-443.

Woods S, Springett J, Porcellato L, Dugdill L (2005) “Stop it, it’s bad for you and me”: Experiences of and Views on passive smoking among primary schoolchildren in Liverpool - Health Education Research. 20(6) :645-655.

Milton B, Cook P, Dugdill L, Porcellato L, Springett J, Woods SE (2004) Why do primary school children smoke? A longitudinal analysis of predictors of smoking uptake during preadolescence - Public Health. 118(4) :247-255.

Porcellato L, Dugdill L, Springett J (2002) Using Focus Groups to Explore Children’s Perceptions of Smoking: Reflections on Practice - Health Education. 102(6) :310-320.

Porcellato L, Dugdill L, Springett J, Sanderson F, (1999) Primary schoolchildren's perceptions of smoking: implications for health education - Health Education Research :14 (1) 71-83.

PhD