The Public Health Institute is influencing health service design and delivery. Our research interests include drugs and alcohol, violence, the environment and more. Find out about our research, the courses available within the School and career opportunities.
We have the latest specialist facilities for sport scientists. Find out about the laboratories and equipment we are using.
The Public Health Institute delivers the intelligence and evidence to inform public health policy and practice.
Find out about the school-centred research the School of Education are involved in including Practitioner Research Labs for teachers, our Centre for Educational Research, as well as some of our educational research highlights.
Public Health Institute provides insight into drug use. We support evidence based drugs policy through epidemiology, monitoring, evidence review, intervention evalution and research.
The Public Health Institute investigates interventions with the aim of reducing tobacco use. We look at the relationship between smoking behaviours and demographics, income, parental smoking, leisure activities and alcohol consumption.
The School of Biological and Environmental Sciences conduct interdisciplinary and collaborative research with a number of large organisations across the globe within the areas of genetics, neurobiology, anthropology, medical entomology, ecology, evolution, and the environment.
At the Public Health Institute we provide advice to policymakers in consideration of the relationship between the environment and public health. Projects include: the use of parks, climate change, economic benefits of green infrastructure and evaluation of green projects for the community.
Astrophysics Research Institute
As a World Health Organization Collaborating Centre for Violence Prevention, the Public Health Institute works to support effective violence prevention by helping partners understand the impacts of violence, identify risk groups, choose preventative measures and evaluate the effectiveness of interventions.