Professor Susie Sykes
London South Bank University
PHIRST South Bank
PHIRST South Bank is led by London South Bank University and is a collaboration between 3 of our research centres across health, psychology, sports science, engineering, and social sciences. This team of academics has a wealth of experience of working with local authorities and the voluntary sector researching public health and health inequalities. The interdisciplinary approach of the PHIRST South Bank team means it is well placed to respond to the multidimensional nature of public health priorities and the complex interventions designed to address them.
Our evaluations are co-produced with our local partners through a series of participatory workshops that: clarify the aims and processes of the intervention; establish a logic model and theory of change underpinning the intervention; and identify the existing evidence and gaps in knowledge. Through this process we are able to agree an evaluation question that is feasible and useful both to the local stakeholders but also to the wider public health community, and to design a robust evaluation that can be undertaken within a timescale that is useful for local decision making.
Important to our approach is ensuring that patient and public involvement is built into decisions at both a Centre level and locally in the design and delivery of each evaluation.
We are supported through an advisory group consisting of Directors of Public Health, Public Health Wales, Healthy Belfast, University of Glasgow, Chapter One and Gambling with Lives, Local Government Association, UCL and Shaping People’s Lives.
Evaluations
- A realist evaluation of a public health community of practice advocacy project to restrict outdoor advertising of high fat, salt, and sugar foods.
- Evaluation of the impact of Essex Community Action Site upon Attitudes, Behaviour and public health Systems during the COVID-19 pandemic.
- Evaluation of the development of a behaviour change unit and its contribution to local government
- Evaluation of a public health pathway for alcohol and substance users in the criminal justice setting in Nottinghamshire
- Greater Manchester Communities Addressing Gambling Harms
- An evaluation of the change from face-to-face to telephone specialist smoking cessation service and its effects on underserved communities in Bedford, Central Bedfordshire and Milton Keynes
- Reducing inequalities in exercise participation: Evaluation of the novel ‘Bracknell Forest Health and Well-Being Locality Service’ (BFHWBS)
- An evaluation of a programme for young people in need of mental health support (16–25-year-olds living in Central Bedfordshire)
- A process evaluation of the development and early implementation of a complex strategy to reduce serious youth violence in Lambeth
- Evaluation of how 'hybrid' public health posts in local government support the delivery of healthier places in the Oxford-Cambridge Arc
- Health Impact Assessment in Spatial Planning: a theory-building process evaluation of established practice in Wakefield District and Borough of Doncaster
- Be Active Birmingham: An evaluation of equity, value, and future options for a programme offering universal free access to leisure facilities
South Bank members
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Professor Patrick CallaghanLondon South Bank University
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Professor Issa ChaerLondon South Bank University
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Professor Daniel FringsLondon South Bank University
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Professor Nicola MartinLondon South Bank University
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Professor Jane WillsLondon South Bank University
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Associate Professor Rita de OliveiraLondon South Bank University
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Dr Thomas MillsLondon South Bank University
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Dr Jessica OwughaLondon South Bank University
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Dr Gemma BridgeLondon South Bank University
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Dr Catherine JenkinsLondon South Bank University
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Krishnan Puri SudhirLondon South Bank University
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Emma DoohanLondon South Bank University
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Temitope OnasanyaLondon South Bank University
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Anita HoqueLondon South Bank University
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