Dr Hannah Fairbrother
PhD, MA Cantab, PgDipHE, BMedSci, SFHEA
Nursing and Midwifery, School of Allied Health Professions, Nursing and Midwifery
Senior Lecturer in Public Health
+44 114 222 2044
Full contact details
Nursing and Midwifery, School of Allied Health Professions, Nursing and Midwifery
Room 104
362 Mushroom Lane
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- Research interests
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My research focuses on socioeconomic inequalities in health and well-being, particularly as they relate to children, young people and families. This is a longstanding interest and stems from my upbringing in ºù«Ӱҵ, a city of contrasts in health and wealth, visiting family in Liverpool and through voluntary work in Cambridge with young mothers and with children in an underserved area of Paris.
I am particularly interested in:
- Work to understand and address the environmental, social and political influences on health.
- Public perspectives, particularly children's and young people’s perspectives, on and understandings of health inequalities and their relationship with broader societal inequalities
- The role of activism geared towards improving planetary health and promoting social justice
I mobilise a variety of different methods to explore these key interests, including critical policy analysis, systematic and narrative literature review, participatory interviews, creative workshops, observation and systems mapping.
I am on the leadership team for the , with a particular focus on public involvement and engagement work.
I co-lead the for the University of ºù«Ӱҵ, with my colleague Dr Jill Thompson.
I am the ºù«Ӱҵ representative for .
- Publications
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Journal articles
- . BMC Public Health, 24.
- . European Journal of Public Health, 34(Supplement_2).
- . BMC Public Health, 24.
- . Health Promotion International, 39(4).
- . BMC Public Health, 24(1), 2018.
- . PLoS ONE, 19(6).
- . BMC Public Health, 24(1).
- . PLOS ONE, 19(1).
- . Public Health Research, 11(13).
- . Preventive Medicine Reports, 36.
- . BMC Medical Research Methodology, 23(1).
- . Journal of Advanced Nursing.
- . Health and Place, 82.
- . BMC Public Health, 23.
- . SSM - Qualitative Research in Health, 3.
- . Journal of Youth Studies.
- . BMJ Open.
- . BMC Public Health, 23.
- . New Media & Society.
- . Health and Social Care in the Community.
- . International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 19(20).
- . International Journal of Drug Policy, 108.
- . BMC Public Health, 22(1), 1084.
- . International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 19(6), 3679-3679.
- . International Journal of Drug Policy, 102.
- . BMC Public Health, 21.
- . Qualitative Research Journal.
- . BMC Public Health, 21(1).
- . BMC Public Health, 21(1).
- . PLoS One, 16(2), e0245577.
- . Drug and Alcohol Review.
- . International Journal of Qualitative Methods, 19.
- . European Journal of Public Health, 30(Supplement_5).
- . European Journal of Public Health, 30(Supplement_5).
- . Journal of Advanced Nursing.
- . Addiction.
- . Global Health Promotion, 27(4), 141-144.
- . Health Education Journal, 79(6), 686-699.
- . Addiction.
- . Families, Relationships and Societies, 8(2), 213-229.
- . Health and Place, 57, 157-164.
- . Health Education Journal, 78(1), 96-107.
- . Children's Geographies.
- . Public Health, 158, 71-85.
- . SSM - Population Health, 2, 476-484.
- . Health and Place, 40, 51-57.
- . Public Health, 127(2), 194-194.
- . Teaching in Higher Education, 17(3), 353-358.
- . Children & Society, 26(2), 168-169.
- . Health & Social Care in the Community, 20(5), 528-536.
- . Journal of Public Health, 33(4), 634-635.
- . Drug and Alcohol Review.
- . European Journal of Public Health.
- Exploring the potential of a school-based online health and wellbeing screening tool: Young people’s perspectives. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health.
- Exploring the potential of a school-based online health and wellbeing screening tool professional stakeholders’ perspectives and experiences. BMC Public Health.
- . Obesity Reviews.
- Migrant children within Europe: a systematic review of children’s perspectives on their health experiences. Public Health.
Chapters
- , Families, Intergenerationality, and Peer Group Relations (pp. 149-168). Springer Singapore
- In Punch S, Vanderbeck R & Skelton T (Ed.), Families, Intergenerationality and Peer Group Relations (pp. 1-20). Singapore: Springer.
Conference proceedings papers
- . SSM Annual Scientific Meeting (pp A47.1-A47)
- . SSM Annual Scientific Meeting (pp A6.3-A7)
- . SSM Annual Scientific Meeting
- . SSM Annual Scientific Meeting
- . SSM Annual Scientific Meeting
- . SSM Annual Scientific Meeting
- . SSM Annual Scientific Meeting
- . SSM Annual Scientific Meeting
- . The Lancet, Vol. 398(Suppl 2) (pp S91-S91). Virtual conference, 26 November 2021 - 26 November 2021.
- Young people's perspectives on inequalities in health in England: a qualitative study. The Lancet
- Exploring young people's perspectives of inequalities in health: a qualitative study. European Journal of Public Health
- . European Journal of Public Health, Vol. 28(suppl_1). Edinburgh, Scotland, 17 May 2018 - 19 May 2018.
Reports
Preprints
- Research group
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I am an active member of the cross-faculty Health Equity Group and the Children and Young People’s Research Theme group in the School of Allied Health Professions, Nursing and Midwifery.
I am interested in supervising students in my research areas and welcome prospective students getting in touch to discuss potential applications.
- Grants
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Principal Investigator Sponsor Title Dates Hurley, K School for Public Health Research (SPHR) National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) 2024-25 Fairbrother, H School for Public Health Research (SPHR), National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR)
2023-25 Mason, W School for Public Health Research (SPHR), National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) 2024-25 Dodd-Reynolds, C School for Public Health Research (SPHR), National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) 2023-24 Winpenny, E National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) 2023-24 Powell, K
Grantham Centre Go Fund Activism for Planetary Health and Equity 2023 Goyder, E Public Health Intervention Responsive Studies Team (PHIRST), National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) 2022-23 Fairbrother, H Research England 2022 Goyder, E Public Health Research, National Institute for Health Research 2022 Fairbrother, H School for Public Health Research, National Institute for Health Research 2020-22 Jago, R & Campbell, R School for Public Health Research, National Institute for Health Research 2020-22 Fairbrother, H & DeVocht, F Public Health Practice Evaluation Scheme, School for Public Health Research, National Institute for Health Research 2020-21 Kipping, R., Powell, K. and Fairbrother, H. School for Public Health Research, National Institute for Health Research 2019-20 Summerbell, C., Wistow, J., Powell, K. and Fairbrother, H. School for Public Health Research, National Institute for Health Research 2019-20 Salami, B. Worldwide Universities Network 2019-20 Fairbrother, H ESRC Festival of the Social Sciences Last orders: why might young people be drinking less alcohol? 2018 Thompson, J Migration Matters Festival Hidden Voices: The Health Experiences of Migrant Children by Abdulazez Dukan 2018 Holmes, J Wellcome Trust Why is youth alcohol consumption failing? A mixed methods investigation of changing drinking cultures across recent generations. 2018-2022 Fairbrother, H & Thompson, J Worldwide Universities Network 2016-2017 Swallow, V White Rose 2016 Blank, L Joseph Rowntree Foundation Relationship between poverty and stress, low level anxiety and depression across the life course 2015-2016 Fairbrother, H Impact, Innovation and Knowledge Exchange (IIKE) University of ºù«Ӱҵ, All ºù«Ӱҵ Me: making sense of health messages in a hands-on exhibition space 2015 Fairbrother, H Research Exchange for the Social Sciences (RESS), University of ºù«Ӱҵ All ºù«Ӱҵ Collaboration: co-producing impact with a community partner 2015
- Teaching activities
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I am committed to promoting educational equity and my approach to teaching is guided by a desire to create meaningful, engaging and constructively aligned programmes of learning to enable students from a wide variety of backgrounds to thrive in Higher Education and beyond.
I enjoy teaching and endeavour to integrate learning from and enthusiasm for my research into my teaching practice. I teach both undergraduate and postgraduate students using face-to-face, distance and blended learning modes.
I lead the Public Health strand of our teaching across our suite of Nursing courses. I am currently involved in teaching related to the Social Determinants of Health, Health Inequalities, Health Promotion and Literature reviewing. I have a Postgraduate Diploma in Teaching and Learning in Higher Education and have been awarded the Senior Fellowship of the Higher Education Academy.
- Professional activities and memberships
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- ºù«Ӱҵ Representative,
- Member of the leadership team for the , with a particular focus on public involvement and engagement work.
- Co-lead for the for the University of ºù«Ӱҵ, with my colleague Dr Jill Thompson.
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