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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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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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

2023

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Making ends meet – relating a self-reported indicator of financial hardship to health status

Homer K, Taylor, J, Miller, A, et al

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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