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
