Research projects

Our research projects are carefully selected from ideas and projects submitted from our health and care community. They fall under our themes of healthier childhoods, mental health, public health and prevention, and integrated and optimal care.

Showing 25 projects in "Healthier childhoods"

The Behaviour in Schools Study: How does school discipline affect pupil mental health and wellbeing?

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School behaviour management strategies ineffective and may impact mental health

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Disciplinary behaviour management strategies in schools and their impact on student psychosocial outcomes: A systematic review

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Think Family: does data sharing across organisational boundaries help schools support children?

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Trauma-focused cognitive behavioural therapies for children in care

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Access to best-evidenced mental health support for care-experienced young people: Learnings from the implementation of cognitive therapy for PTSD

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Building research capacity in children’s social care: the SEEDS project

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Interventions for children exposed to domestic violence: an evidence synthesis

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IMPRoving Outcomes for children exposed to domestic ViolencE (IMPROVE): an evidence synthesis

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Supporting children exposed to domestic violence: call for stronger evidence base

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Create to Collaborate: Can we make working relationships between researchers and the public more open and engaging?

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Create to Collaborate: using creative activity and participatory performance in online workshops to build collaborative research relationships

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Diversity in diabetes

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Developments in the design and delivery of self-management support for children and young people with diabetes: A narrative synthesis of systematic reviews

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Educating parents to prevent abusive head trauma in babies: A review and analysis of the evidence

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Educational interventions to prevent paediatric abusive head trauma in babies younger than one year old: A systematic review and meta-analyses

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Developing online support to improve sleep and mental health for young people

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Identifying which children are most at risk of post-concussion syndrome

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Factors related to adverse long-term outcomes after mild traumatic brain injury in children: a scoping review

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Reducing abusive head injuries in babies: Evaluating the ICON programme

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Overcoming Barriers: a film to promote culturally sensitive services to support Somali families affected by autism

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Inside, outside and in‐between: The process and impact of co‐producing knowledge about autism in a UK Somali community

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Overcoming Barriers: Autism in the Somali Community

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Preventing childhood obesity: updating the Cochrane Review

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Interventions for preventing obesity in children

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Preventing childhood obesity: updating the Cochrane review

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Working with the Bristol Somali community to improve outcomes for children with autism

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“It was like walking without knowing where I was going”: A qualitative study of autism in a UK Somali migrant community

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Working with the Bristol Somali community to improve outcomes for children with autism

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Analysing the studies behind Cochrane’s ‘Interventions for Preventing Obesity in Children’ review

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A secondary analysis of the childhood obesity prevention Cochrane Review through a wider determinants of health lens: implications for research funders, researchers, policymakers and practitioners

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Do pooled budgets help children with complex needs?

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How gender construction impacts English and Ghanaian young people

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Which types of mental health support offer best value to help children and young people who have experienced abuse or neglect?

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ReThink: Mental health and transitions for care-experienced young people

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How can schools help prevent childhood overweight and obesity? A realist review

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Preventing Childhood Obesity in Primary Schools: A Realist Review from UK Perspective

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