Publications and Reports

Browse and download a range of research publications and reports associated with the ActEarly programme.

Featured Publication

2019

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ActEarly: a City Collaboratory approach to early promotion of good health and wellbeing

Wright J, Hayward A, West J, Pickett K, et al

2024

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Woman of the North: Inequality, health and work

Bambra C, Davies H, Munford L, Taylor-Robinson D, Pickett K et al

2024

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Rapid review: Ten ways to improve support for minoritised informal adult carers at local government policy level to redress inequalit

Barnes, A, Phillips F, Pickett K, et al

2024

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Study reveals that children who grow up near green spaces have healthier lungs

co-authored by our ActEarly UKPRP Consortium

2024

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Short communication: Five ways UK European Capitals and cities of culture have connected cultural activities with nature and their impacts on health and wellbeing, wider determinants of health and inequality

Barnes A, Brain K, Phillips F

2024

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Exploring the feasibility of evaluating a community alliance welfare advice programme co-located in primary care in Bradford: an uncontrolled before and after study

Reece S, Moss RH, Tanveer Z, Hammad M, Pickett K, Dickerson J

2023

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Examining research systems and models for local government: a systematic review

Hock, E. S., Scope, A., & Booth, A

2023

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The long-term impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on financial insecurity in vulnerable families: Findings from the Born in Bradford Covid-19 longitudinal study

Reece S, Dickerson J, Kelly B, McEachan RRC, Pickett KE

2023

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Potential for England’s statutory school entry assessment to identify special educational needs and reveal structural inequalities: a population-based study

Wood ML, Gunning L, Relins S, et al

2023

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Designing basic income pilots for community development: What are the key community concerns? Evidence from citizen engagement in Northern England

Howard N, Gregory G, Johnson EA, Goodman C, Coates J, Robson I, et al

2023

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Weighing up the future: a meta-ethnography of household perceptions of the National Child Measurement Programme in England

Hawking M, Dezateux C, Swinglehurst D

2023

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Addressing Education and Health Inequity: Perspectives from the North of England

A report prepared for the Child of the North All-Party Parliamentary Group

2022

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Clustering of adverse health and educational outcomes in adolescence following early childhood poverty: implications for UK’s ‘levelling up’ agenda

Villadsen A, Asaria M, Skarda I, Mon-Williams M, et al

2022

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The Impact of the Pandemic on Mental Health in Ethnically Diverse Mothers: Findings from the Born in Bradford, Tower Hamlets and Newham COVID-19 Research Programmes

McIvor C, Vafai Y, Kelly B, O’Toole SE, Heys M, Badrick E, et al

2022

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Compliant citizens, defiant rebels or neither? Exploring change and complexity in COVID-19 vaccine attitudes and decisions in Bradford, UK: Findings from a follow-up qualitative study

Lockyer B, Moss RH, Endacott C, Islam S, Sheard L, et al

2022

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Young children’s lives in East London through the pandemic: Relationships, activities and social worlds

Cameron, C., Hauari, H., Hollingworth, K., O′Brien, M., & Whitaker, L

2022

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Exploring relationships between exposure to fast food outlets and childhood obesity at differing spatial resolutions: results from the Born in Bradford cohort study

Krenz K, McEachan R, Subiza-Pérez M, Watmuff A, Yang T, Vaughan L

2022

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Are free school meals failing families? Exploring the relationship between child food insecurity, child mental health and free school meal status during COVID-19: national cross-sectional surveys

Yang TC, Power M, Moss RH, Lockyer B, Burton W, Doherty B, et al

2021

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Ethnicity, pre-existing comorbidities, and outcomes of hospitalised patients with COVID-19

Santorelli G, McCooe M, Sheldon TA, Wright J, Lawton T

2021

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Spaces for children’s wellbeing: The intersection of the home inside and outside

Holmes K, Singh P, Begum Rouf S, Mead N, Godward C, Ucci M, et al

2021

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A whole system approach to increasing children’s physical activity in a multi-ethnic UK city: a process evaluation protocol

Hall J, Bingham D, Seims A, et al

2021

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What Family Circumstances, During COVID-19, Impact on Parental Mental Health in an Inner City Community in London?

Whitaker L, Cameron C, Hauari H, Hollingworth K, O’Brien M

2021

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Research priority setting in obesity: a systematic review

Iqbal, H., McEachan, R.R.C., West, J. et al

2021

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Developing and validating a school-based screening tool of Fundamental Movement Skills (FUNMOVES) using Rasch analysis

Eddy LH, Preston N, Mon-Williams M, Bingham DD, Atkinson JMC, Ellingham-Khan M, et al.

2020

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The validity and reliability of observational assessment tools available to measure fundamental movement skills in school-age children: A systematic review

Eddy LH, Bingham DD, Crossley KL, Shahid NF, Ellingham-Khan M, Otteslev A, et al

2020

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Using a multi-stakeholder experience-based design process to co-develop the Creating Active Schools Framework. International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity. 2020 2020/02/07;17(1):13

Daly-Smith A, Quarmby T, Archbold VSJ, Corrigan N, Wilson D, Resaland GK, et al.

2020

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COVID-19 in-patient hospital mortality by ethnicity [version 1; peer review: 2 approved]. Wellcome Open Res 2020, 5:86

Santorelli G, Sheldon T, West J et al.

2020

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Twin epidemics of covid-19 and non-communicable disease. BMJ (Clinical research ed). 2020 Jun 30;369:m2618

Sheldon TA, Wright J

2020

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The Born in Bradford COVID-19 Research Study: Protocol for an adaptive mixed methods research study to gather actionable intelligence on the impact of COVID-19 on health inequalities amongst families living in Bradford [version 1; peer review: 3 approved]

McEachan RRC, Dickerson J, Bridges S et al

2020

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The power of local intelligence – a scientific advisory group for Bradford. Local Government Chronicle 2020;13 Oct

England K, Wright J.

2019

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ActEarly: a City Collaboratory approach to early promotion of good health and wellbeing

Wright J, Hayward A, West J, Pickett K, et al

2019

ActEarly: a City Collaboratory approach to early promotion of good health and wellbeing [version 1; peer review: 1 approved]. Wellcome Open Research. 2019;4(156).

Wright J, Hayward A, West J, Pickett K, McEachan R, Mon-Williams M, et al

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