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Play and Physical Activity – Child Wellbeing and Play: The role of income, love and environment
Child Wellbeing and Play: The role of income, love and environment. What makes life better for children in our cities? To find out more click here for our policy brief or here to view our video
Job Vacancy – Research Fellow, University College London
This is an exciting opportunity for a Research Fellow to support a longitudinal ethnographic research project funded by NIHR and sitting within the SRI’s Thomas Coram Research Unit. The project is examining how and in what ways community food assets (CFAs) may best prevent the need for emergency food aid within families. CFAs are organisations […]
Healthy Places – Overcrowding affects children’s wellbeing
Overcrowding affects children’s wellbeing – Finding solutions in Tower Hamlets; a briefing from the Healthy Places theme. To find out more click here for our policy brief or here to view our video
ActEarly Methods Club: A GIS approach to measuring environmental exposure | 21st June 2023 | 11:00 – 12:00pm
Abstract: Environmental exposures (EE) are increasingly recognised as important determinants of health and well-being. Understanding the influences of EE on health is critical for effective policymaking, but better-quality spatial data is needed. In this seminar, Dr Kimon Krenz will outline the theoretical and technical foundations for the construction of longitudinal individual-level environmental exposure measurements for […]
Healthy Livelihoods – Universal Basic Income
The potential of basic income schemes to promote and protect young people’s mental health. To find out more please click here or watch our new video here
NEW – May ActEarly e-Bulletin
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Tower Hamlets ‘Festival of Family Wellbeing, 15th March 2023
On 15th March 2023, ActEarly researchers took part in the Spring Festival of Family wellbeing in Tower Hamlets, London organised by Bromley by Bow Centre. Approximately 360 people attended the community and family event, taking part in interactive sessions. To read more, click here
NEW – April ActEarly e-Bulletin
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Telling a story or reporting the facts in qualitative health research? | 19 April 2023 | 11:00 – 12:00pm
Telling a story or reporting the facts? The potential for interpretation vs the dominance of description in applied qualitative health research analyses? Abstract: Interpretative analysis of qualitative data has been likened to a form of creative storytelling. However, analysis of qualitative health research data is often subject to concerns derived from quantitative empiricism such as replicability, […]
Spring Festival of Family Wellbeing, 15th March 2023
On 15th March 2023, ActEarly researchers took part in the Spring Festival of Family wellbeing in Tower Hamlets, London organised by Bromley by Bow Centre. Approximately 360 people attended the community and family event, taking part in interactive sessions. To read more, click here t
NEW – March ActEarly e-Bulletin
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Research Assistant (Qualitative/ Mixed Methods Health Researcher)
The postholder will provide qualitative/ mixed method research support to academics on the ActEarly research project. ActEarly is a 5-year UKPRP funded research programme (finishing in August 2024) which aims to co-produce, implement and evaluate multiple novel early life interventions to prevent disease and reduce inequalities. In the last 17 months of the project there are several […]
ActEarly Methods Club: Introduction to causal graphs for study design & analysis | 15th March 2023 | 2:00 – 3:00pm
A casual introduction to causal graphs for study design and analysis: what are they, how do we build them, and why should we care? Abstract: Graphical causal models, such as directed acyclic graphs or DAGs, are a valuable tool for synthesizing the known and unknown relationships relevant to our research questions. Using these tools can help […]
ActEarly Methods Club: Measuring Social Trust in the Community | 17th January 2023 | 12:00 – 13:15
Measuring Social Trust in the Community Abstract: Stronger Communities has been funded by the Council of Europe to test/develop a mechanism for measuring, and acting upon, levels of Social Trust in neighbourhoods throughout the Bradford District. The work is led by the Social Trust Collaboratory in Canada, but co-designed and delivered here. Bradford is the […]
