TRIUMPH’s vision was to facilitate a transdisciplinary, solution-focused, co-production approach to betterunderstand and address youth public mental health, identify opportunities and challenges for the field, and facilitate new research collaborations to strengthen the UK evidence base and, ultimately, to improve mental health and wellbeing among young people across the UK.
TRIUMPH Network Investigators
Jo Inchley (Network Director)
UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW.
Jo is a behavioural scientist and public health researcher, specialising in child and adolescent health. Her research interests include:
- Adolescent mental health
- The role of schools in health improvement
- Adolescent physical activity
- Sleep
- Social media use
- Spiritual health
Laurence Moore
(Deputy Director)
UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW
Laurence is a social scientist and statistician with a track record in the development and evaluation of interventions to improve public health. His research interests include:
- Evaluation of complex interventions
- Adolescent health
- Inequalities in health
Simon Murphy
(Deputy Director)
Cardiff University
Simon is a social scientist with a focus on health improvement, particularly in relation to children and young people and health behaviours.
His research interest include:
- Young people’s health and wellbeing within their social context
- Development of complex interventions for health improvement
- Evaluation of theoretically driven complex public health improvement initiatives
- Randomised controlled trials
Email: MurphyS7@cardiff.ac.uk
Kay Tisdall
University of Edinburgh
Kay has a background in childhood studies, and particularly children’s human rights. Her research interests include:
- children’s rights and citizenship
- disability issues affecting children
- education and schooling
- family law
- social media and children’s privacy
- children’s participation in research and policymaking
Chris Bonell
London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Chris has a background in public health and sociology, with a focus on adolescent health, sexual health and evaluation methodology. His research interests include:
- school-based interventions to support young people’s health
- social determinants of adolescent sexual health behaviours and outcomes
- theorising and evaluating intervention harms
- realist trials
- systematic reviews
Email: Chris.Bonell@lshtm.ac.uk
Mark McCann
UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW
Mark is a psychologist interested in social network analysis and systems science methods, and how they can help to understand and improve health. His research interests include:
- Mental health, suicide, and self-harm.
- Family, friend, social and cultural influences on health and health behaviours.
- Social isolation, social support, and health.
- Substance use, dependence, and recovery.
- Systems thinking methods and visualising complex causal processes.
- Social network analysis and statistical methods.
Email: Mark.McCann@glasgow.ac.uk
Pauline Adair
Queen's University Belfast
Mark is a psychologist interested in social network analysis and systems science methods, and how they can help to understand and improve health. His research interests include:
- Mental health, suicide, and self-harm.
- Family, friend, social and cultural influences on health and health behaviours.
- Social isolation, social support, and health.
- Substance use, dependence, and recovery.
- Systems thinking methods and visualising complex causal processes.
- Social network analysis and statistical methods.
Rhys Bevan-Jones
Cardiff University
Rhys is a psychiatrist and researcher with training in child/adolescent and adult psychiatry. His research interests include:
- Mental health difficulties during the transition from adolescence to adult
- The role of visual and digital media in mental health
- Development of digital interventions to support mental health.
Email: BevanJonesR1@cardiff.ac.uk
Rhiannon Evans
Cardiff University
Rhiannon has a background in social science and health, with a focus on the improvement of mental health and wellbeing among children and young people. Her research interests include:
- Children and young people
- Mental health, social and emotional learning, and wellbeing
- Self-harm and suicide
- Domestic violence
- School-based intervention
- Family-based intervention, notably in kinship care, foster care and residential care
- Development, adaptation, evaluation and implementation of interventions
- Qualitative research methods
- Complex-systems informed, mixed-method systematic reviews
- Global health (particularly in relation to intervention adaptation)
Email: EvansRE8@cardiff.ac.uk
Andrea Taylor
THE GLASGOW SCHOOL OF ART
Andrea has a background in interaction design and visual communication design, and expertise in using design methods and tools. Her research interests include:
- digital technologies for health and care
- participatory and co-design for health and care
- delivery of health and care at a distance.
Email: A.Taylor@gsa.ac.uk
Sharon Simpson
UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW
Sharon has a background in behavioural sciences and health, with a track record in leading randomised controlled trials and developing and testing complex interventions. Her research interest include:
- Lifestyle behaviours
- Healthy aging
- Mental health
- Social network-based interventions
- Complex systems thinking
- Mobile health technologies
- Process evaluation
Email: Sharon.Simpson@glasgow.ac.uk
Ruth Lewis
UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW
Ruth is a sociologist interested in how social relationships affect health. Her research interests include:
- Adolescent and young adults’ health
- Sexual health and wellbeing
- Mental health and wellbeing
- Co-production and participatory approaches
- Systems thinking
- Qualitative methodologies
- Process evaluation
Email: Ruth.Lewis@glasgow.ac.uk
