Meet the team

Victoria is a pedagogical researcher in sport, physical activity and health. Her main research area focuses on social media/digital technologies and young people’s health and wellbeing, and she is interested in the professional learning needs of teachers/coaches.

Amie is a researcher in adolescent health and wellbeing. Her main research focus is menstrual health in adolescents, with a particular interest in their lived experience of endometriosis, and she is also interested in young peoples’ use of smartphones and social media. 

Miranda’s research mainly focuses on the health of children and adolescents. She undertakes research in the areas of the epidemiology, prevention and management of overweight and obesity in children, school food provision and environments, and adolescent nutrition, mental wellbeing and physical activity. Her research seeks to improve health at an early stage of the life course to reduce ...

Peymané is a public health physician and Professor of Chronic Disease Epidemiology & Public Health in the Department of Applied Health Sciences, University of Birmingham.  She is also Lead of the PHRESH consortium, part of the NIHR School for Public Health Research.

Her research interests are in chronic disease epidemiology and behavioural medicine. This includes a portfolio ...

Dr Michail is a leading expert in the field of self-harm and suicide prevention. She has been awarded a 3-year Marie Skłodowska-Curie Global Fellowship to explore how systems modelling and simulation can inform strategic decision making for suicide prevention in young people aged 12-25. Dr Michail is the Co-Chair of the International Association for Suicide Prevention Special Interest Group ...

Hareth is a Professor of Health Economics, with a track record of innovation in health economics, and current interest in studying real-world resource allocation decisions. He has experience across a wide range of quantitative and qualitative methods.  Hareth is head of the Health Economics Unit, Associate Editor for Social Science and Medicine, and sits on the shortlisting panel for ...

Dr. Sally Fenton an Associate Professor in Lifestyle Behaviour Change. Her research is focused on the development, delivery and evaluation of theory-based interventions to promote physical activity, with a emphasis on clinical populations. Dr. Fenton also has expertise in the application of device-based assessments of physical activity and sedentary behaviour (e.g. accelerometers, commercial ...

Alice Sitch is an Associate Professor of Biostatistics working in the Department of Applied Health Sciences and leads the Biostatistics, Evidence Synthesis, Test Evaluation and prediction Models (BESTEAM) research group. The team is internationally recognised for their work on test and prediction research and cluster trial methodology. Alice is the deputy lead for the Data, Diagnostics and ...