System-science Informed Public Health and Economic Research for Non-communicable Disease Prevention (the SIPHER Consortium)
Lead Research Organisation:
University of Glasgow
Department Name: College of Medical, Veterinary, Life Sci
Abstract
THE PROBLEM
There is strong evidence that the social and economic conditions in which we grow, live, work and age determine our health to a much larger degree than lifestyle choices. These social determinants of health, such as income, good quality homes, education or work, are not distributed equally in society, which leads to health inequalities. However, we know very little about how specific policies influence the social conditions to prevent ill health and reduce health inequalities. Also, most social determinants of health are the responsibility of policy sectors other than "health", which means policymakers need to promote health in ALL their policies if they are to have a big impact on health. SIPHER will provide new scientific evidence and methods to support such a shift from "health policy" to "healthy public policy".
OUR POLICY FOCUS
We will work with three policy partners at local, regional and national level to tackle their above-average chronic disease burden and persistent health inequalities: Sheffield City Council, Greater Manchester Combined Authority and Scottish Government. We will focus on four jointly agreed policy priorities for good health:
- Creating a fairer economy
- Promoting mental wellbeing
- Providing affordable, good quality housing
- Preventing long-term effects of difficult childhoods.
OUR COMPLEX SYSTEMS SCIENCE APPROACH
Each of the above policy areas is a complex political system with many competing priorities, where policy choices in one sector (e.g. housing) can have large unintended effects in others (e.g. poverty). There is often no "correct" solution because compromises between different outcomes require value judgements. This means that to assess the true benefits and costs of a policy in relation to health, policy effects and their interdependencies need to be assessed across a wide range of possible outcomes. However, no policymaker has knowledge of the whole system and future economic and political developments are uncertain. Ongoing monitoring of expected and unexpected effects of policies and other system changes is crucial so failing policies can be revised or dropped.
We propose to use complex systems modelling, which has been developed to understand and make projections of what might happen in complex systems given different plausible assumptions about future developments. Our models will be underpinned by the best available data and prior research in each policy area. Our new evidence about likely policy effects across a wide range of outcomes will help policy partners decide between alternative policies, depending on how important different outcomes are to them (e.g. improving health or economic growth). We will develop support tools that can visualise the forecasts, identify policies that achieve the desired balance between competing outcomes and update recommendations when new information emerges. Whilst new to public health policy, these methods are well-established in engineering and climate science.
We will
1. Work with policy partners to understand the policy systems and evidence needs
2. Bring together existing data and evidence on each policy system (e.g. links between policies and outcomes, interdependencies between outcomes)
3. Explore citizens' preferences for prioritising when not all outcomes can be achieved
4. Link policies and their health and non-health effects in computer models to analyse benefits and costs over time
5. Build an interactive tool to help policy decision-making, inform advocacy action and support political debate.
SIPHER's MAIN OUTCOME
We will provide policymakers with a new methodology that allows them to estimate the health-related costs and benefits of policies that are implemented outside the health sector. This will be useful to our partners, and others, who want to assess how scarce public sector resources can be spent to maximise the health and wellbeing benefits from all their activities.
There is strong evidence that the social and economic conditions in which we grow, live, work and age determine our health to a much larger degree than lifestyle choices. These social determinants of health, such as income, good quality homes, education or work, are not distributed equally in society, which leads to health inequalities. However, we know very little about how specific policies influence the social conditions to prevent ill health and reduce health inequalities. Also, most social determinants of health are the responsibility of policy sectors other than "health", which means policymakers need to promote health in ALL their policies if they are to have a big impact on health. SIPHER will provide new scientific evidence and methods to support such a shift from "health policy" to "healthy public policy".
OUR POLICY FOCUS
We will work with three policy partners at local, regional and national level to tackle their above-average chronic disease burden and persistent health inequalities: Sheffield City Council, Greater Manchester Combined Authority and Scottish Government. We will focus on four jointly agreed policy priorities for good health:
- Creating a fairer economy
- Promoting mental wellbeing
- Providing affordable, good quality housing
- Preventing long-term effects of difficult childhoods.
OUR COMPLEX SYSTEMS SCIENCE APPROACH
Each of the above policy areas is a complex political system with many competing priorities, where policy choices in one sector (e.g. housing) can have large unintended effects in others (e.g. poverty). There is often no "correct" solution because compromises between different outcomes require value judgements. This means that to assess the true benefits and costs of a policy in relation to health, policy effects and their interdependencies need to be assessed across a wide range of possible outcomes. However, no policymaker has knowledge of the whole system and future economic and political developments are uncertain. Ongoing monitoring of expected and unexpected effects of policies and other system changes is crucial so failing policies can be revised or dropped.
We propose to use complex systems modelling, which has been developed to understand and make projections of what might happen in complex systems given different plausible assumptions about future developments. Our models will be underpinned by the best available data and prior research in each policy area. Our new evidence about likely policy effects across a wide range of outcomes will help policy partners decide between alternative policies, depending on how important different outcomes are to them (e.g. improving health or economic growth). We will develop support tools that can visualise the forecasts, identify policies that achieve the desired balance between competing outcomes and update recommendations when new information emerges. Whilst new to public health policy, these methods are well-established in engineering and climate science.
We will
1. Work with policy partners to understand the policy systems and evidence needs
2. Bring together existing data and evidence on each policy system (e.g. links between policies and outcomes, interdependencies between outcomes)
3. Explore citizens' preferences for prioritising when not all outcomes can be achieved
4. Link policies and their health and non-health effects in computer models to analyse benefits and costs over time
5. Build an interactive tool to help policy decision-making, inform advocacy action and support political debate.
SIPHER's MAIN OUTCOME
We will provide policymakers with a new methodology that allows them to estimate the health-related costs and benefits of policies that are implemented outside the health sector. This will be useful to our partners, and others, who want to assess how scarce public sector resources can be spent to maximise the health and wellbeing benefits from all their activities.
Technical Summary
BACKGROUND: Systems science reframes public policies as active components of a complex, dynamic, policy system that includes mechanisms such as feedback between interrelated effects, effect delay and system adaptation. In public health, systems science has challenged and helped to change infectious disease policy, including vaccination strategies for poliomyelitis and measles. However, it has not yet realised its potential impact on non-communicable disease (NCD) policy, in part due to a lack of compatible methods to appraise policy effectiveness and cost-effectiveness.
VISION: SIPHER will be a world-leading centre of excellence for innovative, public health and health economics focused systems science. During UKPRP, it will catalyse a shift from health policies to whole-systems, healthy public policy.
THEORY OF CHANGE: SIPHER's policy partners seek to reduce NCDs and health inequalities (HI) by incorporating health considerations into non-health sectors. Academic and policy partners will co-produce complex systems decision modelling and evaluate its effectiveness in supporting policy design in four focus areas: inclusive economic growth; housing; adverse childhood experiences; and mental health.
RESEARCH: Eight interwoven workstrands will investigate: how policymakers think about and use evidence; iterative evidence synthesis; working securely with sensitive data and building simulated populations; individual- and population-level dynamic models; values and preferences for equitable outcomes; identification of win-wins, best-buys, and adaptable policies across sectors; process evaluation.
USER ENGAGEMENT: Co-production across local, regional and national government and knowledge transfer support by influential partners.
BENEFITS: SIPHER will deliver scalable and transferable methods and tools to design, target, advocate for, implement and monitor policy strategies that maximise NCD prevention and health inequality reductions.
This grant is funded by the UK Prevention Research Partnership (UKPRP) which is administered by the Medical Research Council on behalf of the UKPRP's 12 funding partners: British Heart Foundation; Cancer Research UK; Chief Scientist Office of the Scottish Government Health and Social Care Directorates; Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council; Economic and Social Research Council; Health and Social Care Research and Development Division, Welsh Government; Health and Social Care Public Health Agency, Northern Ireland; Medical Research Council; Natural Environment Research Council; National Institute for Health Research; The Health Foundation; The Wellcome Trust.
VISION: SIPHER will be a world-leading centre of excellence for innovative, public health and health economics focused systems science. During UKPRP, it will catalyse a shift from health policies to whole-systems, healthy public policy.
THEORY OF CHANGE: SIPHER's policy partners seek to reduce NCDs and health inequalities (HI) by incorporating health considerations into non-health sectors. Academic and policy partners will co-produce complex systems decision modelling and evaluate its effectiveness in supporting policy design in four focus areas: inclusive economic growth; housing; adverse childhood experiences; and mental health.
RESEARCH: Eight interwoven workstrands will investigate: how policymakers think about and use evidence; iterative evidence synthesis; working securely with sensitive data and building simulated populations; individual- and population-level dynamic models; values and preferences for equitable outcomes; identification of win-wins, best-buys, and adaptable policies across sectors; process evaluation.
USER ENGAGEMENT: Co-production across local, regional and national government and knowledge transfer support by influential partners.
BENEFITS: SIPHER will deliver scalable and transferable methods and tools to design, target, advocate for, implement and monitor policy strategies that maximise NCD prevention and health inequality reductions.
This grant is funded by the UK Prevention Research Partnership (UKPRP) which is administered by the Medical Research Council on behalf of the UKPRP's 12 funding partners: British Heart Foundation; Cancer Research UK; Chief Scientist Office of the Scottish Government Health and Social Care Directorates; Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council; Economic and Social Research Council; Health and Social Care Research and Development Division, Welsh Government; Health and Social Care Public Health Agency, Northern Ireland; Medical Research Council; Natural Environment Research Council; National Institute for Health Research; The Health Foundation; The Wellcome Trust.
Planned Impact
THE PUBLIC
SIPHER's ultimate beneficiaries will be communities, initially in our partner jurisdictions and then more widely, through reductions in NCDs and health inequalities, and associated increases in wellbeing, resulting from the more evidence-informed, joined-up approaches to decision-making and policy debate that our research enables.
POLICY MAKERS, POLICY ADVISORS AND POLICY ANALYSTS
SIPHER's consortium members include policy organisations who wish to develop cost-effective and implementable policy proposals that maximise gains across various policy priorities, including reducing NCDs and health inequalities. SIPHER supports our policy colleagues by addressing four central problems that have restricted UK policy progress despite a strong and growing evidence-base about the upstream causes of ill health:
1) Policy makers struggle to articulate and defend the case for taking upstream, equity orientated action to prevent downstream health crises. Combining policy studies, public health, economic and modelling expertise, SIPHER will address this by two key means: a) working in close partnership with policy organisations (e.g. embedding SIPHER analysts) to provide policy makers with a trusted and accessible means of demonstrating the the costs and benefits of specific upstream preventative policy options compared to more downstream, responsive activities; and b) providing new evidence of public preferences regarding necessary trade-offs between different policy options and across relevant health and non-health outcomes, enabling advisors to provide policy makers with a more informed sense of likely public responses.
2) Policy makers repeatedly bemoan the lack of evidence on 'best buys' for policy investment, particularly in conditions of uncertainty. SIPHER will transform the policy utility of available evidence: it brings together what scientists, policy makers and communities know about a policy area, and uses models to test causal pathways and provide the kind of quantified projections that policymakers seek. This enables them to assess multiple different scenarios where major uncertainties about future developments (e.g. Brexit) exist, and adapt policies as uncertainties resolve.
3) While the complexity and interdependencies of systems linking upstream determinants to health outcomes are widely recognised, decision-makers often regard this complexity as difficult to navigate and therefore paralysing. Our systems science approach captures the dynamics of systems in our policy areas to facilitate joined-up decision-making and budget allocations through making visible the simultaneous impacts of policy options on multiple cross-sectoral policy outcomes.
4) Policy actors consistently cite the lack of timeliness of research as a key barrier to its use. The flexible, adaptive nature of our modelling will enable SIPHER to provide policy projections that can be rapidly adjusted to incorporate shifts in policy context and priorities.
POLITICIANS, PUBLIC HEALTH NGOs AND INTEREST GROUPS
Politicians, NGOs and others (e.g. media, professional bodies) will be able to access, independently assess and employ SIPHER's outputs, tools, and evidence base via the familiar channels of our KT partners (including PHE, LGA, NHSHS), enabling advocacy efforts for policy options that are demonstrably good for public health. Given the crucial role of politics and interests in decision-making, SIPHER's efforts to ensure that these wider policy networks can understand, access and employ our outputs will be crucial to achieving long-term impacts in hotly contested policy areas.
SCIENTISTS AND ANALYSTS
Having shown the policy utility of systems science, SIPHER will scale up its impact ambitions radiating from our investigator's networks to embed our freely accessible methods and tools into policy analysis across and beyond the UK, helping others carry out research to realise widespread reductions in NCDs and health inequalities.
SIPHER's ultimate beneficiaries will be communities, initially in our partner jurisdictions and then more widely, through reductions in NCDs and health inequalities, and associated increases in wellbeing, resulting from the more evidence-informed, joined-up approaches to decision-making and policy debate that our research enables.
POLICY MAKERS, POLICY ADVISORS AND POLICY ANALYSTS
SIPHER's consortium members include policy organisations who wish to develop cost-effective and implementable policy proposals that maximise gains across various policy priorities, including reducing NCDs and health inequalities. SIPHER supports our policy colleagues by addressing four central problems that have restricted UK policy progress despite a strong and growing evidence-base about the upstream causes of ill health:
1) Policy makers struggle to articulate and defend the case for taking upstream, equity orientated action to prevent downstream health crises. Combining policy studies, public health, economic and modelling expertise, SIPHER will address this by two key means: a) working in close partnership with policy organisations (e.g. embedding SIPHER analysts) to provide policy makers with a trusted and accessible means of demonstrating the the costs and benefits of specific upstream preventative policy options compared to more downstream, responsive activities; and b) providing new evidence of public preferences regarding necessary trade-offs between different policy options and across relevant health and non-health outcomes, enabling advisors to provide policy makers with a more informed sense of likely public responses.
2) Policy makers repeatedly bemoan the lack of evidence on 'best buys' for policy investment, particularly in conditions of uncertainty. SIPHER will transform the policy utility of available evidence: it brings together what scientists, policy makers and communities know about a policy area, and uses models to test causal pathways and provide the kind of quantified projections that policymakers seek. This enables them to assess multiple different scenarios where major uncertainties about future developments (e.g. Brexit) exist, and adapt policies as uncertainties resolve.
3) While the complexity and interdependencies of systems linking upstream determinants to health outcomes are widely recognised, decision-makers often regard this complexity as difficult to navigate and therefore paralysing. Our systems science approach captures the dynamics of systems in our policy areas to facilitate joined-up decision-making and budget allocations through making visible the simultaneous impacts of policy options on multiple cross-sectoral policy outcomes.
4) Policy actors consistently cite the lack of timeliness of research as a key barrier to its use. The flexible, adaptive nature of our modelling will enable SIPHER to provide policy projections that can be rapidly adjusted to incorporate shifts in policy context and priorities.
POLITICIANS, PUBLIC HEALTH NGOs AND INTEREST GROUPS
Politicians, NGOs and others (e.g. media, professional bodies) will be able to access, independently assess and employ SIPHER's outputs, tools, and evidence base via the familiar channels of our KT partners (including PHE, LGA, NHSHS), enabling advocacy efforts for policy options that are demonstrably good for public health. Given the crucial role of politics and interests in decision-making, SIPHER's efforts to ensure that these wider policy networks can understand, access and employ our outputs will be crucial to achieving long-term impacts in hotly contested policy areas.
SCIENTISTS AND ANALYSTS
Having shown the policy utility of systems science, SIPHER will scale up its impact ambitions radiating from our investigator's networks to embed our freely accessible methods and tools into policy analysis across and beyond the UK, helping others carry out research to realise widespread reductions in NCDs and health inequalities.
Organisations
- University of Glasgow (Lead Research Organisation)
- Barnsley Metropolitan Borough Council (Collaboration)
- Manchester University (Collaboration)
- University of Sydney (Collaboration)
- Newcastle University (Collaboration)
- Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust (Collaboration)
- UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE (Collaboration)
- University of Stirling (Collaboration)
- Government of the UK (Collaboration)
- UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW (Collaboration)
- CSART (Collaboration)
- UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS (Collaboration)
- UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX (Collaboration)
Publications
Malleson N
(2022)
Agent-based modelling for Urban Analytics: State of the art and challenges
in AI Communications
Ralston R
(2022)
Levelling up the UK: is the government serious about reducing regional inequalities in health?
in BMJ (Clinical research ed.)
Meier P
(2023)
Bold action is needed to strengthen primary prevention.
in BMJ (Clinical research ed.)
Craig P
(2022)
Evaluation of the mental health impacts of Universal Credit: protocol for a mixed methods study.
in BMJ open
Wallace R
(2022)
Estimating the social and spatial impacts of Covid mitigation strategies in United Kingdom regions: synthetic data and dashboards
in Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society
Gadd S
(2022)
The utility of multilevel models for continuous-time feature selection of spatio-temporal networks
in Computers, Environment and Urban Systems
Kelly-Irving M
(2022)
Falling down the rabbit hole? Methodological, conceptual and policy issues in current health inequalities research
in Critical Public Health
An L
(2021)
Challenges, tasks, and opportunities in modeling agent-based complex systems
in Ecological Modelling
Such E
(2023)
Framing the wider determinants of health and health inequalities: local stakeholder views in England
in Evidence & Policy
Stewart E
(2020)
Opening up evidence-based policy: exploring citizen and service user expertise
in Evidence & Policy
Occhipinti JA
(2022)
Measuring, Modeling, and Forecasting the Mental Wealth of Nations.
in Frontiers in public health
Franklin R
(2022)
Making Space in Geographical Analysis
in Geographical Analysis
Bambra C
(2022)
Placing intersectional inequalities in health.
in Health & place
Bambra C
(2022)
Pandemic inequalities: emerging infectious diseases and health equity.
in International journal for equity in health
Boyd J
(2021)
Beyond Behaviour: How Health Inequality Theory Can Enhance Our Understanding of the 'Alcohol-Harm Paradox'.
in International journal of environmental research and public health
Such E
(2022)
Governance of Intersectoral Collaborations for Population Health and to Reduce Health Inequalities in High-Income Countries: A Complexity-Informed Systematic Review.
in International journal of health policy and management
Elsenbroich C
(2022)
Negotiating a Future that is not like the Past
in International Journal of Social Research Methodology
Whipp A
(2021)
Estimates of the Ambient Population: Assessing the Utility of Conventional and Novel Data Sources
in ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information
Manson S
(2020)
Methodological Issues of Spatial Agent-Based Models
in Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation
McCulloch J
(2022)
Calibrating Agent-Based Models Using Uncertainty Quantification Methods
in Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation
Höhn A
(2023)
Systems science methods in public health: what can they contribute to our understanding of and response to the cost-of-living crisis?
in Journal of epidemiology and community health
Aburto JM
(2021)
Estimating the burden of the COVID-19 pandemic on mortality, life expectancy and lifespan inequality in England and Wales: a population-level analysis.
in Journal of epidemiology and community health
Bambra C
(2020)
The COVID-19 pandemic and health inequalities.
in Journal of epidemiology and community health
Urquhart R
(2022)
Last-Mile Capacity Constraints in Online Grocery Fulfilment in Great Britain
in Journal of Theoretical and Applied Electronic Commerce Research
Yang Y
(2022)
Understanding the impacts of public transit disruptions on bikeshare schemes and cycling behaviours using spatiotemporal and graph-based analysis: A case study of four London Tube strikes
in Journal of Transport Geography
Angus C
(2020)
Visualising the spread of COVID-19 across England
in People, Place and Policy Online
Naik Y
(2021)
Fiscal and monetary policies: the cutting edge of advocacy and research on population health and climate change.
in Perspectives in public health
Hill O'Connor C
(2023)
Integrating evidence and public engagement in policy work: an empirical examination of three UK policy organisations
in Policy & Politics
Hill O'Connor C
(2023)
Operationalizing inclusive growth: Can malleable ideas survive metricized governance?
in Public Administration
Such E
(2023)
Framing the wider determinants of health: Reflections and learning from a knowledge mobilisation exercise with an English local authority.
in Public health in practice (Oxford, England)
Kieu LM
(2020)
Dealing with uncertainty in agent-based models for short-term predictions.
in Royal Society open science
Bambra C
(2022)
Levelling up: Global examples of reducing health inequalities.
in Scandinavian journal of public health
Barton CM
(2020)
Call for transparency of COVID-19 models.
in Science (New York, N.Y.)
Wu G
(2022)
A synthetic population dataset for estimating small area health and socio-economic outcomes in Great Britain.
in Scientific data
McGill E
(2021)
Evaluation of public health interventions from a complex systems perspective: A research methods review.
in Social science & medicine (1982)
Collyer TA
(2020)
An atlas of health inequalities and health disparities research: "How is this all getting done in silos, and why?".
in Social science & medicine (1982)
Brand-Correa L
(2022)
Economics for people and planet-moving beyond the neoclassical paradigm.
in The Lancet. Planetary health
Erikainen S
(2022)
Towards a feminist philosophy of engagements in health-related research
in Wellcome Open Research
Bambra C
(2021)
The Unequal Pandemic: COVID-19 and Health Inequalities
| Description | APPG on Medical Research - Health Disparities Inquiry |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Participation in a guidance/advisory committee |
| URL | https://www.amrc.org.uk/pages/faqs/category/appg-on-medical-research |
| Description | All Member Briefing: Wellbeing Economy and Community Wealth Building (Clackmannanshire Council) |
| Geographic Reach | Local/Municipal/Regional |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| URL | https://www.clacks.gov.uk/document/meeting/1/1046/6880.pdf |
| Description | Citation for SIPHER paper by Chief Medical Officer for Wales in special report on COVID response |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Citation in other policy documents |
| URL | https://gov.wales/sites/default/files/publications/2021-01/chief-medical-officer-for-wales-special-r... |
| Description | Citation for SIPHER paper by Public Health Wales report on COVID and Inequalities |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Citation in other policy documents |
| URL | https://phw.nhs.wales/news/placing-health-equity-at-the-heart-of-coronavirus-recovery-for-building-a... |
| Description | Citation for SIPHER paper in WHO policy brief for World Heath Day 2021 |
| Geographic Reach | Multiple continents/international |
| Policy Influence Type | Citation in other policy documents |
| URL | https://cdn.who.int/media/docs/default-source/documents/social-determinants-of-health/who-multicount... |
| Description | Citation in Scottish Parliament Health, Social Care and Sport Committee policy report on Tackling health inequalities in Scotland |
| Geographic Reach | Local/Municipal/Regional |
| Policy Influence Type | Citation in other policy documents |
| URL | https://sp-bpr-en-prod-cdnep.azureedge.net/published/HSCS/2022/9/28/c2d290be-c302-4d47-8443-90394391... |
| Description | Contribution to Paper on the Social Determinants of Health for the All Party Parliamentary Group for Longevity |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| URL | https://appg-longevity.org/health-of-the-nation |
| Description | Influence on Sheffield City Council's Covid recovery coordination planning |
| Geographic Reach | Local/Municipal/Regional |
| Policy Influence Type | Participation in a guidance/advisory committee |
| Description | Postgraduate Student Seminar at the University of Sheffield |
| Geographic Reach | Multiple continents/international |
| Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
| Description | Professor Kat Smith - Invited Expert, providing the Scottish Parliament's Health & Sport Committee with an overview of evidence on public health & health inequalities |
| Geographic Reach | Local/Municipal/Regional |
| Policy Influence Type | Participation in a guidance/advisory committee |
| URL | https://www.scottishparliament.tv/meeting/health-social-care-and-sport-committee-september-21-2021 |
| Description | Professor Petra Meier - Engagement with Scottish Government National Strategy for Economic Transformation (Wellbeing Economy Monitor) |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to new or improved professional practice |
| Description | Professor Petra Meier - Invited expert to give evidence to the Health, Social Care and Sport Committee of the Scottish Parliament's inquiry into health inequalities. |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| URL | https://www.parliament.scot/chamber-and-committees/committees/current-and-previous-committees/sessio... |
| Description | Professor Petra Meier - National Performance Framework Expert Advisory Group |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Participation in a guidance/advisory committee |
| URL | https://nationalperformance.gov.scot/national-outcomes |
| Description | Ruth Lupton - member of the Greater Manchester Independent Inequalities Commission |
| Geographic Reach | Local/Municipal/Regional |
| Policy Influence Type | Participation in a guidance/advisory committee |
| URL | https://www.greatermanchester-ca.gov.uk/what-we-do/equalities/independent-inequalities-commission/ |
| Description | SIPHER Response to 'Developing the Health Index for England' |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| URL | https://consultations.ons.gov.uk/external-affairs/consultation-on-the-health-index-beta-release/supp... |
| Description | SIPHER Response to DHSC Consultation on "Advancing our health: prevention in the 2020s" |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| URL | https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/advancing-our-health-prevention-in-the-2020s |
| Description | SIPHER evidence influenced Greater Manchester Prosperity Review |
| Geographic Reach | Local/Municipal/Regional |
| Policy Influence Type | Citation in other policy documents |
| URL | https://www.greatermanchester-ca.gov.uk/media/6714/gmipr-evidence-update-health-inequalites.pdf |
| Description | SIPHER influenced development of Scottish Government Wellbeing Economy Toolkit |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Citation in other policy documents |
| URL | https://www.gov.scot/publications/wellbeing-economy-toolkit-supporting-place-based-economic-strategy... |
| Description | SIPHER paper infographic produced by EU policy think tank and circulated to their 10,000 members |
| Geographic Reach | Multiple continents/international |
| Policy Influence Type | Citation in other policy documents |
| URL | https://eurohealthnet.eu/sites/eurohealthnet.eu/files/CHAIN_infographic%20_covid19_and_inequalities_... |
| Description | SIPHER response to Australian government Measuring What Matters consultation |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| URL | https://treasury.gov.au/consultation/measuring-what-matters-2022 |
| Description | SIPHER response to BEIS inquiry into post pandemic economic growth |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| URL | https://sipher.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/SIPHER-response-to-BEISS-consultation-on-post-pandem... |
| Description | SIPHER response to Indices Futures: Updating the English Indices of Deprivation (IoD) - consultation |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| URL | https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/indices-futures-updating-the-english-indices-of-deprivat... |
| Description | SIPHER response to Office of National Statistics (ONS) Review of the Measures of National Wellbeing consultation |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| URL | https://sipher.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/SIPHER-wellbeing-measures-consultation-response.pdf |
| Description | SIPHER response to the Scottish Parliament Health, Social Care and Sport Committee's inquiry |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| Description | SIPHER submission to Department for Health and Social Care Committee's inquiry on Prevention in health and social care. |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| URL | https://committees.parliament.uk/work/7205/prevention-in-health-and-social-care/ |
| Description | Systems Mapping Guidance for Tower Hamlets Local Authority |
| Geographic Reach | Local/Municipal/Regional |
| Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
| Description | ACSE PhD Studentship |
| Amount | £69,018 (GBP) |
| Organisation | University of Sheffield |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 10/2019 |
| End | 03/2023 |
| Description | ACSE PhD Studentship |
| Amount | £69,018 (GBP) |
| Organisation | University of Sheffield |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 10/2020 |
| End | 03/2024 |
| Description | Delivering a Climate Resilient City through City-University Partnership: Glasgow as a Living Lab Accelerating Novel Transformation (GALLANT) |
| Amount | £10,227,122 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | NE/W005042/1 |
| Organisation | Natural Environment Research Council |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 01/2022 |
| End | 01/2027 |
| Description | Developing Methods for Systemic Health Impact Assessments (System-HIA ) |
| Amount | £156,522 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | NIHR153474 |
| Organisation | National Institute for Health Research |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 03/2023 |
| End | 12/2023 |
| Description | Does place matter? An examination of geographical inequalities in COVID-19 in England |
| Amount | £171,000 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Health Foundation |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 01/2021 |
| End | 12/2021 |
| Description | Evaluating a 'Minimum Income Guarantee' and modelling major income supplementation policies: A development award |
| Amount | £153,119 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | NIHR154243 |
| Organisation | National Institute for Health Research |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 03/2023 |
| End | 02/2024 |
| Description | Evaluation of the health impacts of Universal Credit: a mixed methods study |
| Amount | £1,574,836 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | NIHR131709 |
| Organisation | National Institute for Health Research |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 05/2021 |
| End | 08/2025 |
| Description | Expanding Research Awareness, understanding and accessibility in Sheffield around the wider social determinants of health |
| Amount | £31,700 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | 022/23 - 039 |
| Organisation | UK Clinical Research Network (UKCRN) |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 04/2022 |
| End | 03/2023 |
| Description | Exploring the consequences of the `cost of living' crisis on health inequalities |
| Amount | £30,021 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Alan Turing Institute |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 12/2022 |
| End | 03/2023 |
| Description | Glasgow PhD Studentship |
| Amount | £52,139 (GBP) |
| Organisation | University of Glasgow |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 10/2021 |
| End | 09/2024 |
| Description | Improving the integration of qualitative 'lived experience' insights with metricised evidence for policy audiences |
| Amount | £2,422 (GBP) |
| Organisation | University of Strathclyde |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 07/2022 |
| End | 11/2022 |
| Description | Inclusive Growth Expert Research Capacity |
| Amount | £6,920 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF) |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 09/2019 |
| End | 12/2019 |
| Description | Intervention development for community-based self-referred social prescribing |
| Amount | £179,708 (GBP) |
| Organisation | MRC Public Health Intervention Development Scheme |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 06/2021 |
| End | 11/2022 |
| Description | Jennifer Boyd Wellcome Trust Transition Award |
| Amount | £26,000 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Wellcome Trust |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 04/2023 |
| End | 09/2023 |
| Description | Leeds PhD Studentship |
| Amount | £63,861 (GBP) |
| Organisation | University of Leeds |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 10/2020 |
| End | 09/2023 |
| Description | QR Policy Support Fund |
| Amount | £19,829 (GBP) |
| Organisation | University of Sheffield |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 11/2022 |
| End | 05/2023 |
| Description | QR Strategic Priorities Fund (KE Delivery) |
| Amount | £51,004 (GBP) |
| Organisation | United Kingdom Research and Innovation |
| Department | Research England |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 10/2020 |
| End | 03/2021 |
| Description | QR Strategic Priorities Fund (KE Delivery) |
| Amount | £145,835 (GBP) |
| Organisation | United Kingdom Research and Innovation |
| Department | Research England |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 01/2020 |
| End | 03/2020 |
| Description | Quantifying Utility and Privacy Preservation in Synthetic Populations (QUiPP) |
| Amount | £408,611 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | TPS2019\100019 |
| Organisation | Alan Turing Institute |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 10/2019 |
| End | 03/2021 |
| Description | Research and Knowledge Transfer Practitioner Post |
| Amount | £39,492 (GBP) |
| Organisation | UK Clinical Research Network (UKCRN) |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 03/2021 |
| End | 03/2022 |
| Description | SPHSU/MRC EU - Participatory Systems Mapping |
| Amount | £158,000 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | MC_PC_20039 |
| Organisation | Medical Research Council (MRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 01/2021 |
| End | 12/2021 |
| Description | ScHARR PhD Studentship |
| Amount | £70,000 (GBP) |
| Organisation | University of Sheffield |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 10/2020 |
| End | 03/2024 |
| Description | Strathclyde PhD Studentship |
| Amount | £60,000 (GBP) |
| Organisation | University of Strathclyde |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 10/2020 |
| End | 09/2023 |
| Description | Systems Science Research in Public Health (SysSci) |
| Amount | £1,000,000 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | MC_UU_00022/5 |
| Organisation | Medical Research Council (MRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 08/2020 |
| End | 03/2025 |
| Description | Thriving Cities Portrait |
| Amount | £73,680 (GBP) |
| Organisation | University of Glasgow |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 10/2021 |
| End | 03/2023 |
| Description | UKPRP Community of Practice Oct 2020 |
| Amount | £299,951 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | MR/V035495/1 |
| Organisation | Medical Research Council (MRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 01/2021 |
| End | 12/2023 |
| Description | UKRI Covid Mitigation Fund |
| Amount | £5,501 (GBP) |
| Organisation | University of Edinburgh |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 08/2021 |
| End | 10/2021 |
| Description | Understanding the impacts of income and welfare policy responses to COVID-19 on inequalities in mental health: A microsimulation model |
| Amount | £145,310 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Health Foundation |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 01/2021 |
| End | 12/2021 |
| Description | Unleash Your Data and Software competition |
| Amount | £4,813 (GBP) |
| Organisation | University of Sheffield |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 09/2022 |
| End | 12/2022 |
| Description | Unlocking data to inform public health policy and practice |
| Amount | £147,894 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | NIHR133585 |
| Organisation | National Institute for Health Research |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 04/2021 |
| End | 12/2021 |
| Description | Using Artificial Intelligence to Tackle Multiple Long-Term Conditions - Multi-morbidity in South Yorkshire |
| Amount | £118,550 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | NIHR202649 |
| Organisation | National Institute for Health Research |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 01/2021 |
| End | 12/2021 |
| Title | Aversion to inequality in health and wellbeing facilitation guide and questionnaire |
| Description | We have developed a questionnaire/facilitation guide for use in small focus group discussions which aims: • to explore people's reasons, when discussing with others, for their aversion (or lack of aversion) to inequality (health, measured in life years, and wellbeing, measured in equivalent income); • to elicit quantitative data on aversion to inequality through an online survey tool; and • to examine participants' strategies for deciding on how to respond to the survey tool. Findings from this study (a sub-project of SIPHER's Workstrand 6: Societal Valuation) will feed into tools we are designing to support policy makers examine possible outcomes policies can have. We want policy makers to consider how members of the public value equality and inequality, but it won't be enough for policy makers to take any actions specifically because of the findings from this study alone. Findings will be published in academic journals/ presented at conferences to generate interest, discussion and more research about inequalities. |
| Type Of Material | Physiological assessment or outcome measure |
| Year Produced | 2022 |
| Provided To Others? | No |
| Impact | Data collection has been completed and the findings are being analysed. It will inform development of the SIPHER Decision Support Tool. |
| Title | SIPHER Inclusive Economy Indicators |
| Description | A key topic of interest for SIPHER is the relationship between inclusive economy, or wellbeing economy policies, and wider health outcomes and inequalities. To address this topic, the consortium has developed a set of inclusive economy indicators. These indicators will be useful to others concerned with understanding, promoting and monitoring the development of more inclusive economies. SIPHER's inclusive economy indicators are designed for use in statistical and computational modelling of the complex relationships between economic inclusion and health and wellbeing, at both individual and societal levels. |
| Type Of Material | Physiological assessment or outcome measure |
| Year Produced | 2022 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | We held an initial workshop with our policy partner organisations on 19th January 2022. We are gathering feedback and hope to soon be in a position to promote the tool to local authority policy analysts across the UK. |
| URL | https://sipher.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/SIPHER-Inclusive-Economy-Indicator-set.pdf |
| Title | SIPHER Wellbeing and Equivalent Income Discrete Choice Experiment |
| Description | Since SIPHER-7 is multi-dimensional, we cannot judge if somebody's situation is getting better, if at least one dimension improves while another declines. In order to collapse the seven dimensions into one number, based on the preferences of the members of the public, we conducted a discrete choice experiment (DCE) via an online survey. The DCE data will allow us to calculate the relative importance of each SIPHER-7 dimension, and to convert the level of wellbeing associated with any outcome state described in terms of SIPHER-7 into a money metric known as "equivalent income". Equivalent income is an interpersonally comparable preference-based measure of wellbeing. Equivalent income of a given outcome state can be expressed as: the amount of income that, if combined with the best levels of non-income dimensions, is as good as the outcome state in question. None of the categories above are appropriate for this tool that we have developed, however the choice we have made (physiological assessment or outcome measure) seems the closest fit. |
| Type Of Material | Physiological assessment or outcome measure |
| Year Produced | 2020 |
| Provided To Others? | No |
| Impact | None at the moment. A manuscript outlining the process of development for submission to a peer reviewed scientific journal is currently in preparation. |
| Title | SIPHER-7 |
| Description | In SIPHER, we assume wellbeing is multi-dimensional. Through consultation within the SIPHER team (including the policy partners), we have agreed to focus on seven domains (the effect of physical health, the effect of mental health, feeling lonely and excluded, household disposable income after housing costs, main daily activity, quality of the house, and the safety of the neighbourhood). This set of outcome measures has been named SIPHER-7. SIPHER-7 is a research tool to measure and understand wellbeing outcomes. None of the categories above are appropriate for this tool that we have developed, however the choice we have made (physiological assessment or outcome measure) seems the closest fit. |
| Type Of Material | Physiological assessment or outcome measure |
| Year Produced | 2020 |
| Provided To Others? | No |
| Impact | None at the moment. A report outlining the process of development of the SIPHER-7 is currently in preparation. |
| Title | Work & Health Evidence Gap Map |
| Description | We carried out a review of reviews on employment and health. Having identified 328 reviews, analysis focused on a core group of 176 reviews that report associations between employment-related exposures (18 headings such as shift work, job security, living wage) and wellbeing-related outcome domains (12 physical health, 9 mental health, 3 social/family domains, 11 work outcome domains). An Evidence/Gap Map (EGM) was chosen as an interactive way to map and display the evidence base (including evidence gaps) in a way that might be useful for policy makers. |
| Type Of Material | Improvements to research infrastructure |
| Year Produced | 2021 |
| Provided To Others? | No |
| Impact | The map has been used by SIPHER colleagues in the Scottish Government to inform an evidence report on mental health (gaps in the evidence base) to inform a new policy development process. |
| Title | MINOS Dynamic Microsimulation model |
| Description | We have developed a discrete-time dynamic microsimulation model called MINOS. MINOS is an open source and modular software implementation written primarily in Python. It takes as input longitudinal survey data of individuals and implements transition probability models for a specified set of modules or pathways. This has the effect of transitioning individuals between different states based on their characteristics as they take a random draw from a distribution (for example a transition can be from alive to dead, or employed to unemployed). |
| Type Of Material | Computer model/algorithm |
| Year Produced | 2022 |
| Provided To Others? | No |
| Impact | We are able to model estimate change in SF-12 (Mental component score) under three different scenarios: an uplift to the living wage for low earning employees; an uplift to child benefit, applied universally as £25 per child translated to household disposable income; and the impact that the new energy price 'cap' will have on household disposable income. Initial results have been shared with SIPHER's policy partners in the Scottish government, Public Health Scotland, Greater Manchester Combined Authority and Sheffield City Council. |
| Title | SIPHER Decision Support Tool |
| Description | The Decision Support Tool uses SIPHER's synthetic population data to provides a mapping between individual-level data and their geographical location. Each individual is associated with an LSOA for England and Wales, and DZ for Scotland. This population can be seen as a tool for researchers and data practitioners, which allows for the examination of bespoke spatial and sub-group effects of intervention across different policy scenarios, evaluating their implications and equability from within a policy making context. |
| Type Of Material | Computer model/algorithm |
| Year Produced | 2022 |
| Provided To Others? | No |
| Impact | The decision tool is currently focusing on how stimulating employment, good work, and income can lead to improvements in health, wellbeing, and indicators of an inclusive economy. Preliminary data has been provided to SIPHER's policy partner organisations. |
| Title | Synthetic Population Dataset |
| Description | We used static spatial microsimulation to create a synthetic micro dataset for individuals in Great Britain with detailed individual attributes which can be used to model a wide range of health and other outcomes. These attributes are constructed from a range of sources including the United Kingdom Census, survey and administrative datasets. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2021 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | Greater Manchester Combined Authority (GMCA) have started to use the database to help them better understand the health inequalities that exist within the region. For example, it was used to create 'neighbourhood maps' that were incorporated in a report to the Wider Leadership Team at GMCA relating to early years and child development indicators at neighbourhood level geographies in the Stockport council area. |
| URL | https://sipher.ac.uk/videos/ |
| Description | Barnsley Shaping Health Places |
| Organisation | Barnsley Metropolitan Borough Council |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | SIPHER is working with Dr Adam Whitworth in the Department of Geography at the University of Sheffield to co-develop a Shaping Health Places bid with Barnsley Council. Collaborative conversations to date have focused on how we can better connect health and wider social determinants in an area of Barnsley with significant and entrenched problems to drive system change. SIPHER is contributing expertise around participatory systems mapping and theory of change. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Barnsley are leading the development of an integrated system of work-health interventions to improve sustained employment to improve mental and physical health. |
| Impact | We are currently developing a Stage 2 proposal to submit to the Health Foundation and Local Government Association. |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | Co-supervision of PhD student with University of Sydney |
| Organisation | University of Sydney |
| Country | Australia |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Primary supervision of PhD student Shreya Sonthalia by Professor Petra Meier. The PhD project aims to develop a system dynamics model to support public mental health policy in Scotland, focusing on the interactions between social determinants of mental health (such as housing, education, socio-economic status and community cohesion). |
| Collaborator Contribution | Co-supervision of PhD student Shreya Sonthalia by Professor Jo-Ann Occhipinti . Sydney have agreed to provide a placement (in person or virtual) during the course of her studies. |
| Impact | None as yet |
| Start Year | 2021 |
| Description | Collaboration on an evaluation of the mental health impacts of Universal Credit |
| Organisation | Manchester University |
| Country | United States |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Meier provides intellectual input to the collaboration and ensures alignment to SIPHER's work on the health impacts of the economic shock associated with the COVID-19 pandemic. She will sit on the Science Advisory Board for the research. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Sharing of expertise and intellectual input. |
| Impact | Successful NIHR funding application for 'Evaluation of the mental health impacts of Universal Credit: a mixed methods study'. |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | Collaboration on an evaluation of the mental health impacts of Universal Credit |
| Organisation | Newcastle University |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Meier provides intellectual input to the collaboration and ensures alignment to SIPHER's work on the health impacts of the economic shock associated with the COVID-19 pandemic. She will sit on the Science Advisory Board for the research. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Sharing of expertise and intellectual input. |
| Impact | Successful NIHR funding application for 'Evaluation of the mental health impacts of Universal Credit: a mixed methods study'. |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | Collaboration on an evaluation of the mental health impacts of Universal Credit |
| Organisation | University of Glasgow |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Meier provides intellectual input to the collaboration and ensures alignment to SIPHER's work on the health impacts of the economic shock associated with the COVID-19 pandemic. She will sit on the Science Advisory Board for the research. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Sharing of expertise and intellectual input. |
| Impact | Successful NIHR funding application for 'Evaluation of the mental health impacts of Universal Credit: a mixed methods study'. |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | Collaboration with Dr Yannish Naik, Specialty Registrar in Public Health in Yorkshire and Humber |
| Organisation | Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | As described below under outputs, Petra Meier is now the lead supervisor for a Research Fellowship for Health Professionals in Humanities and Social Science application. Visakan Kadirkamanathan is the second supervisor. Meier and Kadirkamanathan have both contributed intellectual input to the development of the work and will provide ongoing intellectual input, staff training and access to wider resources through the SIPHER Consortium. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Over the past 12 months Yannish Naik has worked with SIPHER WS2 to develop complex evidence review methodologies and is supporting the team to test out those methods using a case study review on work and health. Yannish has also collaborated with the SIPHER team to deliver our systems mapping workshops and in the development of our causal system dynamics research in WS4. During this time Yannish has developed his research fellowship application which is closely aligned to SIPHER and will be embedded within our research programme if successful. |
| Impact | The collaboration between Yannish Naik and SIPHER resulted in a Research Fellowship for Health Professionals in Humanities and Social Science application titled 'Macroeconomic modelling for health, health equity and environment'. Unfortunately the application was unsuccessful. Yannish and SIPHER are keen to continue to collaborate in the future as opportunities emerge. |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | Collaboration with UKPRP Networks and Consortia to establish a Community of Practice |
| Organisation | University of Glasgow |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Lucy Gavens has worked with Niamh Fitzgerald and Ruth Dundas to lead the Networks and Consortia to develop a UKPRP Community of Practice. The primary contributions include intellectual input and time and resource to pull together the collaborating partners. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Intellectual input and expertise. |
| Impact | We submitted a funding bit to the UKPRP in October 2020, which was successful. The Community of Practice launched in January 2021. |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | Collaboration with UKPRP Networks and Consortia to establish a Community of Practice |
| Organisation | University of Stirling |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Lucy Gavens has worked with Niamh Fitzgerald and Ruth Dundas to lead the Networks and Consortia to develop a UKPRP Community of Practice. The primary contributions include intellectual input and time and resource to pull together the collaborating partners. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Intellectual input and expertise. |
| Impact | We submitted a funding bit to the UKPRP in October 2020, which was successful. The Community of Practice launched in January 2021. |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | Collaboration with University of Sydney |
| Organisation | University of Sydney |
| Country | Australia |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Intellectual input and expertise to conversations exploring the potential of expanding an interactive platform (Health Minister for a Day) developed at the University of Sydney to SIPHER's tools to enable innovative policy maker and public engagement. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Expertise in and sharing of the interactive platform, developed by the computer science department at the University of Sydney together with their public health department. |
| Impact | Collaborative conversations have encouraged SIPHER to think innovatively around how we can engage with publics as SIPHER develops. SIPHER's tools were not at the right stage to collaborate with the team in Sydney on Health Minister for a Day, but we have learned a lot about how these process can work, what is required for success and how we might look for similar opportunities in the future. |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | GALLANT Team |
| Organisation | University of Glasgow |
| Department | Scottish Universities Environmental Research Centre |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Petra Meier worked with a cross-university Consortium to develop a large consortium bid to NERC. SIPHER provided a blueprint that informed the shape of an outline and full NERC bid, and in particular the systems science strand in it. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Intellectual input and expertise |
| Impact | We submitted a £10m application to NERC Strategic programme call led by Professor Jamie Toney. |
| Start Year | 2021 |
| Description | Ongoing Collaboration with CSART |
| Organisation | CSART |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | We are working closely with Professor Jo-An Atkinson at the University of Sydney in developing CSART, a not-for-profit transdisciplinary organization working to integrate health and social sciences with computational modelling, data science and systems science. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Sharing of expertise and intellectual input into the development of our research |
| Impact | We are developing a proposal with Jo-An (CSART Managing Director) & colleagues in the US to use systems science to understand the impacts of Covid-19 on mental wellbeing. We are now jointly supervising a PhD student based at University of Glasgow in the Systems Science Programme and SIPHER, working on mental health system dynamic modelling. |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | Proposal to the Wellcome Trust for their commission on workplace mental health |
| Organisation | University of Glasgow |
| Department | Institute of Health and Wellbeing |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | This was a SIPHER-aligned proposal to the Wellcome Trust for their commission on workplace mental health (total amount requested £44,164.65 exclusive of VAT - note this was a commission for a contract not a grant). The proposal built on the existing collaborations developed as part of SIPHER and was focused on a SIPHER-relevant topic, specifically minimum wage increases and mental health outcomes. The aim was to review the evidence for the impact of minimum wage interventions on mental health outcomes and wellbeing measures. It brought together SIPHER's expertise in evidence synthesis, participatory research and policy analysis and applied these to a topic of direct relevance to SIPHER's focus on the economy and health. The proposal was led by SIPHER Research Associate (Macintyre) and involved collaboration with SIPHER colleagues (Chambers, Stewart, Smith) and SIPHER collaborators (Fearfull) as team members and SIPHER PI (Meier) on the expert advisory group, and extended this collaboration to include new collaborators in Meier's home institution (Thomson, Katikireddi). The expression of interest was submitted to the Wellcome Trust in June 2021 and we were short-listed invited to submit a full proposal, which was submitted in August 2021. Unfortunately the full proposal was not successful; but this nevertheless was a successful collaboration, which evidences SIPHER's interdisciplinary skill set and strong working relationships. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Intellectual input and experise. |
| Impact | The expression of interest was submitted to the Wellcome Trust in June 2021 and we were short-listed invited to submit a full proposal, which was submitted in August 2021. Unfortunately the full proposal was not successful; but this nevertheless was a successful collaboration, which evidences SIPHER's interdisciplinary skill set and strong working relationships. |
| Start Year | 2021 |
| Description | Proposal to the Wellcome Trust for their commission on workplace mental health |
| Organisation | University of Strathclyde |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | This was a SIPHER-aligned proposal to the Wellcome Trust for their commission on workplace mental health (total amount requested £44,164.65 exclusive of VAT - note this was a commission for a contract not a grant). The proposal built on the existing collaborations developed as part of SIPHER and was focused on a SIPHER-relevant topic, specifically minimum wage increases and mental health outcomes. The aim was to review the evidence for the impact of minimum wage interventions on mental health outcomes and wellbeing measures. It brought together SIPHER's expertise in evidence synthesis, participatory research and policy analysis and applied these to a topic of direct relevance to SIPHER's focus on the economy and health. The proposal was led by SIPHER Research Associate (Macintyre) and involved collaboration with SIPHER colleagues (Chambers, Stewart, Smith) and SIPHER collaborators (Fearfull) as team members and SIPHER PI (Meier) on the expert advisory group, and extended this collaboration to include new collaborators in Meier's home institution (Thomson, Katikireddi). The expression of interest was submitted to the Wellcome Trust in June 2021 and we were short-listed invited to submit a full proposal, which was submitted in August 2021. Unfortunately the full proposal was not successful; but this nevertheless was a successful collaboration, which evidences SIPHER's interdisciplinary skill set and strong working relationships. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Intellectual input and experise. |
| Impact | The expression of interest was submitted to the Wellcome Trust in June 2021 and we were short-listed invited to submit a full proposal, which was submitted in August 2021. Unfortunately the full proposal was not successful; but this nevertheless was a successful collaboration, which evidences SIPHER's interdisciplinary skill set and strong working relationships. |
| Start Year | 2021 |
| Description | SIPHER-Clackmannanshire Council Collaboration |
| Organisation | Government of the UK |
| Department | Clackmannanshire Council |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | SIPHER is working with Clackmannanshire (Clacks) Council as a case study for the Scottish Government. The collaboration began in summer 2020 and to date our work together has focused on understanding how we can support each other in the inclusive growth agenda. In November 2020 we co-hosted a systems mapping workshop with Clacks Council to map the inclusive growth/economy systems. We anticipate that this will be just the first step in our collaborative relationship. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Clacks Council are facilitating the use of their local area as a case study for SIPHER and actively participated in the design and delivery of the participatory systems mapping workshop in November 2020. In December 2020 the results were presented to, and very well received by, local politicians including the Leader of the Labour Party at Clackmannanshire Council in an All Party Parliamentary Briefing on the Wellbeing Economy and Community Wealth Building. Clacks Council are now using the map to inform conversations around financial planning in Clacks for 2021 and beyond. |
| Impact | This is a multidisciplinary, multi-sector collaboration between Clacks Council, the Scottish Government and SIPHER researchers (including public health, engineers, social policy researchers). The participatory systems map is now close to completion and is being using in ongoing conversations to inform systems thinking in Clacks Council and financial planning for 2021 onwards. |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | Thriving Cities Glasgow City Portrait |
| Organisation | University of Glasgow |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Petra Meier works with cross-Glasgow university interdisciplinary consortium, Glasgow City Council, C40 Cities and the Doughnut Economics Action Lab to create a Glasgow City Portrait. Methods will be informed by SIPHER's soft systems methods. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Intellectual input and expertise. |
| Impact | We have secured Internal strategic reserves funding for 18 months RA & G7 administrator |
| Start Year | 2021 |
| Description | Understanding the impact of Covid on inequalities in mental health |
| Organisation | Newcastle University |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Meier, Bambra Lomax and Heppenstall contributed intellectual input and expertise to the development of this collaboration. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Collaborators have contributed expertise and intellectual input, as well as access to data and existing tools. |
| Impact | Grant application to The Health Foundation for 'Understanding the impacts of income and welfare policy responses to COVID-19 on inequalities in mental health: A microsimulation model'. Application submitted to https://www.health.org.uk/funding-and-partnerships/programmes/covid-19-research-programme in August 2020. This application was successful and is listed under 'Further Funding'. |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | Understanding the impact of Covid on inequalities in mental health |
| Organisation | University of Essex |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Meier, Bambra Lomax and Heppenstall contributed intellectual input and expertise to the development of this collaboration. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Collaborators have contributed expertise and intellectual input, as well as access to data and existing tools. |
| Impact | Grant application to The Health Foundation for 'Understanding the impacts of income and welfare policy responses to COVID-19 on inequalities in mental health: A microsimulation model'. Application submitted to https://www.health.org.uk/funding-and-partnerships/programmes/covid-19-research-programme in August 2020. This application was successful and is listed under 'Further Funding'. |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | Understanding the impact of Covid on inequalities in mental health |
| Organisation | University of Glasgow |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Meier, Bambra Lomax and Heppenstall contributed intellectual input and expertise to the development of this collaboration. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Collaborators have contributed expertise and intellectual input, as well as access to data and existing tools. |
| Impact | Grant application to The Health Foundation for 'Understanding the impacts of income and welfare policy responses to COVID-19 on inequalities in mental health: A microsimulation model'. Application submitted to https://www.health.org.uk/funding-and-partnerships/programmes/covid-19-research-programme in August 2020. This application was successful and is listed under 'Further Funding'. |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | Understanding the impact of Covid on inequalities in mental health |
| Organisation | University of Leeds |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Meier, Bambra Lomax and Heppenstall contributed intellectual input and expertise to the development of this collaboration. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Collaborators have contributed expertise and intellectual input, as well as access to data and existing tools. |
| Impact | Grant application to The Health Foundation for 'Understanding the impacts of income and welfare policy responses to COVID-19 on inequalities in mental health: A microsimulation model'. Application submitted to https://www.health.org.uk/funding-and-partnerships/programmes/covid-19-research-programme in August 2020. This application was successful and is listed under 'Further Funding'. |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | 'From 'Public Health Policy' to 'Healthy Public Policy' - an introduction to the SIPHER consortium. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Presentation at the Laria Conference 2020 as part of a session on 'Working Together'. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://laria.org.uk/ |
| Description | AHRC Mobilising Community Assets to Tackle Health Inequalities Programme Advisory Board |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Professor Petra Meier has joined the AHRC Mobilising Community Assets to Tackle Health Inequalities Programme Advisory Board The aims of the Mobilising Community Assets to Tackle Health Inequalities programme are to: • To develop testable and replicable collaborative models for integrating community assets within the changing structures of health and social care in the UK, by understanding the complexities, barriers and enablers of integration. • To explain the links between these community assets and health inequalities with a view to creating healthier communities and environments, particularly for people living in the most deprived areas. • To converge data and learning from a range of local and regional models to inform the spread and adoption of collaborative models across the UK. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Alison Heppenstall - Agent-based modelling, challenges and the future. Turning Institute talk July 2022 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Alison Heppenstall delivered a talk titled 'Agent-based modelling, challenges and the future' at an online Alan Turing Institute event on 7th July 2022. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Alison Heppenstall - Quantifying the Uncertainty in ABMs. Alan Turing Institute. 23rd Sept, 2021 (online) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Presentation delivered - Quantifying the Uncertainty in ABMs at Alan Turing Institute |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Alison Heppenstall - Simulating social systems with individual-based models: is it worth it? GIS Symposium. University of Ausburg July 2022 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Alison Heppenstall delivered a talk titled 'Simulating social systems with individual-based models: is it worth it?' at a Geographical Information System (GIS) symposium held at the University of Ausburg, Germany on 13th July 2022. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Alison Heppenstall - Urban Digtial Twins: Alan Turing DT Event, July 2021 (online) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Digital twins are increasingly being deployed across several domains and this emerging technology has huge potential for impact across industry and society and in varied ways. However, foundational challenges remain, and it is an area of huge potential and scope for academic research and industry-academia collaboration. This workshop will provided attendees with the opportunity to hear about the work of the Turing in the digital twins space and to gain expert insight into the industry perspective from Accenture. Presentation delivered - Towards an urban analytics digital twin |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.turing.ac.uk/events/digital-twins-workshop |
| Description | Attendance at the monthly Turing Urban Analytics group |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Monthly meeting and exchange of ideas about research funding and development of ideas for the Turing Urban Analytics programme. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019,2020,2021,2022 |
| Description | BSA Medical Sociology Conference 2022 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | SIPHER had 2 presentation slots at the BSA Medical Sociology conference held at Lancaster University from 14th-16th September 2022. Kat Smith, Clementine Hill O'Connor and Ellen Stewart presented a talk titled 'Insights from the evidence-engagement interface: An empirical examination of the relationship between evidence use and engagement across UK policy organisations' and Ally Brown delivered a presentation titled 'How do social and economic policymakers approach health inequalities?'. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.britsoc.co.uk/events/ |
| Description | BSPS Conference 2022 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | SIPHER hosted a session at the British Society of Population Studies conference held in Winchester on 5th September 2022. The session, chaired by Workstrand 3/5 co-lead Nik Lomax featured the following 4 presentations: 1. An overview of the SIPHER consortium: facilitating the move towards healthy public policy (Meier, Elsenbroich, Cox) 2. An end to policy silos? Analysing policy efforts to use complex systems modelling to achieve more joined-up policymaking (Smith, Such, O'Connor) 3. . Utilising Synthetic Microdata to assess the spatial distribution of the inclusive economy (Lomax, Hughes, Lupton) 4. A dynamic microsimulation of UK mental health outcomes (Clay, Lomax, Heppenstall) |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.lse.ac.uk/social-policy/research/Research-clusters/british-society-for-population-studie... |
| Description | Capabilities in Academic Policy Engagement: workshop on Islington's good work agenda |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | SIPHER researcher Ceri Hughes gave a presentation at the Capabilities in Academic Policy Engagement: workshop on Islington's good work agenda. After the event she provided further information about SIPHER to a local councillor. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.cape.ac.uk/ |
| Description | Capacity building workshop with Talent Lab cohorts |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Professor Meier was invited onto a panel to speak to mid-career PIs who are preparing to lead their own first big collaborative grants and Q&A session about "what you wish you had known" |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Centre for Economics of Obesity Stakeholder Advisory Group |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Professor Meier has joined the Centre for Economics of Obesity Stakeholder (University of Birmingham) Advisory Group and attended it's first annual meeting on 12th May 2022. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/research/centre-for-the-economics-of-obesity/our-people.aspx |
| Description | Centre for Progressive Policy Inclusive Growth Conference 2019 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Panel discussion with SIPHER's contribution focused on the topic 'Increasing healthy life expectancy: a proxy for inclusive growth in action?'. Short presentation followed by a discussion, question and answer session with members of the audience. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.progressive-policy.net/events/igconf2019 |
| Description | Clackmannanshire Inclusive Economy Participatory Systems Mapping Workshop |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | 40 participants attended this participatory systems mapping workshop to map the inclusive economy system in Clackmannanshire. Since the workshop the map has been used to inform an All Party Briefing on the Wellbeing Economy and Community Wealth Building, with the Leader of the Labour Party in Clackmannanshire advising us that this work has helped local decision makers to understand the complexity of poverty. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Clare Bambra - presentation to Public Health England conference |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Clare Bambra - presentation to Public Health England annual conference 2021 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Clare Bambra - presentation to All Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) for Left Behind Areas |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | This briefing provided members of the All-Party Parliamentary Group for 'left behind' neighbourhoods with an overview of health outcomes in 'left behind' neighbourhoods, the challenges faced by local residents and the role that local communities can play in tackling health inequalities. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.appg-leftbehindneighbourhoods.org.uk/session/nhs-neighbourhood-health-services/ |
| Description | Clare Bambra - presentation to Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation (NORAD) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Clare Bambra - presentation to Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation (NORAD) 2021 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Clare Bambra - presentation to EU Commission Science Committee on Crisis Resilience, Response and Preparedness |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Clare Bambra - presentation to EU Commission Science Committee on Crisis Resilience, Response and Preparedness, 2021 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Clare Bambra - presentation to European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Clare Bambra - presentation to European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control, 2021 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Clare Bambra - presentation to North East and North Cumbria Deep End GP Network |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Clare Bambra - presentation to North East and North Cumbria Deep End GP Network, 2021 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Clare Bambra - presentation to North East and North Cumbria Integrated Care System Prevention Programme |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Keynote speech at the North East and North Cumbria ICS Prevention Board 3rd annual network event on 12th November 2020 on Covid 19 and Health inequalities. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://arc-nenc.nihr.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/NENC-Prevention-Board-newsletter-edition-1-Ja... |
| Description | Clare Bambra - presentation to UNESCO |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Clare Bambra - presentation to UNESCO, 2021 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Clare Bambra - presentation to the French Institute of Public Health (Inserm) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Clare Bambra - presentation to the French Institute of Public Health (Inserm) 2021 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Clare Bambra - presentation to the German Public Health Association |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Clare Bambra - presentation to the German Public Health Association, 2021 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Conservative Party Conference Fringe Event hosted by the Centre for Progressive Policy |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | A fringe event on Inclusive Growth at the Conservative Party Conference in Manchester in October 2019. Lots of using contacts made and interesting discussion about use of language. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Core group academic advisor: Manchester Family Poverty Strategy |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | SIPHER researcher Ceri Hughes is on the core group of academic advisers for the Manchester City Council Family Poverty Strategy |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020,2021,2022 |
| URL | https://www.manchester.gov.uk/downloads/download/6929/family_poverty_strategy_2017-22 |
| Description | Corinna Elsenbroich - Public Health Scotland Minimum Unit Pricing Expert Advisory Group |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | SIPHER Co-Director Corinna Elsenbroich attended a meeting with the Public Health Scotland Minimum Unit Pricing Evaluation team on 28th June 2022. The meeting was about how Process Tracing could help with the evaluation of the MUP intervention. Following the meeting she was invited to join their Expert Advisory Group - she has attended 4 further meetings from January-March 2023. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022,2023 |
| Description | Developing a synthetic population for the England |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Discussion with Public Health England to explore similarities and differences in our approach to developing a synthetic dataset for England. Medium term plan made to continue to share work and to learn from each to further develop our models. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Discussion of the current use of decision support tools in Sheffield City Council |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | 8 people joined this session to explore the current use of decision support tools to inform policy making in Sheffield City Council, and aspirations for the SIPHER decision support tool. The session sparked a number of questions and is informing the development of a SIPHER white paper on decision support for systems science in public health. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Dr Corinna Elsenbroich - Scottish Government Child Poverty group |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | SIPHER Co-Director Corinna Elsenbroich attended an online meeting of the Scottish Government Child Poverty Action group on 20th February 2023 where she discussed how Systems Science approaches might be able to provide policy analysis support in this area. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://www.gov.scot/publications/cpag-scotland-evaluation-second-tier-advice-information-training-s... |
| Description | ESRC Workshop on Digital Twins in the Social Sciences by Dr Corinna Elsenbroich |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Workshop to discuss Digital Twins in the social sciences * Future use cases of digital twins involving the economic and social sciences. * What the social sciences have to contribute to developing and improving digital twins. * What barriers social scientists face in developing and contributing to digital twinning, and what might be done to minimise these. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.ukri.org/our-work/browse-our-areas-of-investment-and-support/digital-twins-and-cyber-phy... |
| Description | Expert Data Advisor: JBC |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | I am an invited expert on the JBC panel advising on data and methods used to analyse COVID data. This feeds directly into the SAGE group and government policy on COVID. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020,2021 |
| URL | https://www.gov.uk/government/groups/joint-biosecurity-centre |
| Description | Expert input to design of a new Swedish Funding Programme on Public Health Interventions |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Professor Meier was invited by Secretary General for Forte, The Swedish Research Council for Health, Working Life and Welfare to provide her views as an expert international researcher to inform he design of a new funding programme on effective prevention strategies for decreasing health inequalities. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://forte.se/en/prevention-research-and-public-health-research/ |
| Description | Girls@COP26 event |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Professor Meier represented SIPHER at The Girls@Cop26 Health systems & sustainability event organised by Glasgow City Council in November 2021. Across the two-week conference more than 2500 S3 pupils participated in Girls@COP26 - The Solutions are Feminist, at Glasgow Caledonian University. Schools joined forces to discuss the global issues around environment and gender - UN Sustainable Development Goal 5 - alongside other female related issues including health and challenges that can affect women and girls' bodies. The event has since won the Sister Cities International award and there will be a public exhibition launched in October with photos featuring Professor Meier and the other speakers. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021,2022 |
| URL | https://www.glasgow.gov.uk/index.aspx?articleid=29541 |
| Description | Glasgow City Region Commission for Economic Growth |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Professor Meier has joined the Glasgow City Region as a Commissioner and attended her first meeting on 25th May 2022 . The Commission provides strategic advice to the City Deal Cabinet and to the Regional Economic Partnership. It was formed in 2014 with the role of overseeing the design of the evaluation of the Glasgow City Deal, but since then its role has evolved into being the main advisory body supporting the development and implementation of the regional economic strategy. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://glasgowcityregion.co.uk/city-deal/evaluation-and-monitoring/commission-for-economic-growth/ |
| Description | Greater Manchester Community Panel |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Our Community Panels are made up of local people with lived experience of the policy areas we study in SIPHER, who meet to scrutinise and feedback on the research as it progresses. The Greater Manchester Panel is delivered in partnership with Unlimited Potential and ran over two 90 minute sessions in March 2021. The panel will meet twice yearly for the duration of SIPHER. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021,2022,2023 |
| Description | Greater Manchester Health and Social Care Partnership Population Health Strategic Management Team |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | SIPHER presentation to the Greater Manchester Health and Social Care Partnership Population Health Managers. Resulted in the planning of a systems mapping session to capture health and social care perspectives within the GM inclusive economy systems map. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Greater Manchester Inclusive Economy Participatory Systems Mapping Workshop |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | 15 participants attended an initial participatory systems mapping workshop to map the inclusive economy system in Greater Manchester. Since the workshop we have held follow up sessions with policy officers in specific fields - health, transport, etc - and are currently finalising the map to share with GM colleagues to support conversations around the inclusive economy system. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Greater Manchester Independent Inequalities Commission Discussion Group on Health and Economy |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Participation in a discussion on health and the economy with members of the Greater Manchester Independent Inequalities Commission (https://www.greatermanchester-ca.gov.uk/what-we-do/equalities/independent-inequalities-commission/). |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.greatermanchester-ca.gov.uk/what-we-do/equalities/independent-inequalities-commission/ |
| Description | Greater Manchester Inequalities Commission roundtable on good employment |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | SIPHER researcher Ceri Hughes took part in Greater Manchester Inequalities Commission roundtable discussion on good employment |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://democracy.greatermanchester-ca.gov.uk/documents/s14468/GM%20IIC%20Summary.pdf |
| Description | GroundsWell International Scientific Advisory Board (ISAB) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Professor Petra Meier has joined the International Scientific Advisory Board (ISAB) which provides an independent oversight of the UKPRP funded GroundsWell Consortium.The remit of the ISAB is to provide an independent oversight of the GroundsWell Consortium. The Board will advise and comment on: • the overall strategy adopted for meeting the aims and objective of the Consortium; • the extent to which it has achieved its key milestones; • the Consortium approach to risk management, including review and final approval of the risk management plan; • current and future policy developments that relate to the work of the Consortium; • future research priorities and identify opportunities for new areas of research or funding that might support the aims of the GroundsWell Consortium. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| URL | https://ukprp.org/what-we-fund/groundswell/ |
| Description | HESG Summer Conference 2022 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | SIPHER researcher Tara Wickramasekera delivered a presentation related to SIPHER Worskstrand 6 titled 'Using discrete choice experiments (DCEs) to compare social and personal preferences for health and wellbeing outcomes' at the 100th Health Economists' Study Group (HESG) meeting held at the University of Sheffield on 22nd June 2022. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/scharr/hesg-2022 |
| Description | Holyrood's Health & Care Festival 2022 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Professor Kat Smith was invited to respond to the opening keynote from Minister for Public Health, Women's Health & Sport at Holyrood's Health and Care Festival on 7th September 2022. There were numerous Scottish Government officials in attendance, as well as Sandesh Gulhane MSP (co-panellist) who is on the Health, Social Care & Sport Committee. Kat then did a podcast interview with Sandesh and his team afterwards. In both the panel and the podcast she repeatedly talked about the importance of getting beyond silo based policymaking, the need for systems approaches, the need to think more carefully about implementation, and the need to address availability (as well as marketing and price). |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://events.holyrood.com/event/holyroods-health-and-care-festival/ |
| Description | Housing systems mapping workshop in GMCA |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Several SIPHER researchers co-facilitated a housing and health systems mapping workshop with policy analysts in Greater Manchester Combined Authority on 21st November 2022. Outputs from the workshop are being used to develop SIPHER's systems models. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence 2022 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | SIPHER researchers Joao Duro, Robin Purshouse, Visakan Kadirkamanathan and Victoria Johnson presented at the IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence held in Singapore in December 2022. The paper titled "Toward scalable benchmark problems for multi-objective multidisciplinary optimization" develops a new set of benchmark problems, and we show how existing state-of-the-art methods could be used for solving these problems. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10022207 |
| Description | Inclusive Economy Advisory Group |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | SIPHER's Inclusive Economies Advisory Group will meet regularly to provide expert advice to our developing research in the field of inclusive economies. The Group is chaired by Lord Kerslake and met for the first time in October 2020. The discussion revolved around SIPHER's inclusive economy research plans and presentations sparked interesting questions. Many participants, who are senior representative from their organisations (e.g. JRF, Northern Powerhouse Partnership, CIPFA), offered to link up separately outside of the biannual Advisory Group meeting to support SIPHER's development. The group had now met 3 times and is due to meet again in April 2022. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020,2021,2022 |
| Description | International Microsimulation Association (IMA) Winter 2021 Conference |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | SIPHER PhD student Rob Clay gave a presentation titled ' Towards Improving Transition Probabilities for Dynamic Microsimulation' at the International Microsimulation Association (IMA) Conference in December 2021. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.microsimulation.org/events/2021_online_world_congrss/ |
| Description | International Workshops on Public Policy 2022 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | SIPHER researchers Kat Smith and Clementine Hill O'Connor delivered a presentation titled 'Can malleable ideas survive metricised governance? The politics of operationalising Inclusive Growth' at the International Workshops on Public Policy Conference held in Budapest from 28th-30th June 2022. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.ippapublicpolicy.org/file/paper/62b8c5a1a32b5.pdf |
| Description | Invitation to present to Clackmannanshire Council's 'Be the Future' meeting on Community Wealth Building |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Presentation to inform discussion and decision making at a council meeting of elected members in Clackmannanshire. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.clacks.gov.uk/council/press/?release=4400 |
| Description | Invited presentation of a systems science approach to health and wellbeing in all policies |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Inaugural presentation to introduce SIPHER to a wide range of researchers and students at the University of Glasgow, and to share ambitions for future development in this area. It generated significant interest in the work of SIPHER and the UKPRP and as a result we have started to develop new research collaborations. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Invited presentation on health inequalities to the Mental Health Cross-Party Group (Scottish Parliament) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Professor Kat Smith gave an invited presentation on health inequalities to the Mental Health Cross-Party Group (Scottish Parliament) on 16th November 2021. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.parliament.scot/-/media/files/cross-party-groups/mental-health/mentalhealth_20211116_ag.... |
| Description | Kat Smith - NIHR project Steering Committee appointments |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | SIPHER Workstrand 1 lead Kat Smith has been appointed as chair for two NIHR project Steering Committees, one for a GCU PHR Project: NIHR129118 - Common Health Assets: a mixed methods realist evaluation and economic appraisal of how community led organisations impact on the health and wellbeing of people living in deprived areas and another for a Uni of Oxford led PHR Project: NIHR133887 - COPPER: CO-designing for healthy People and Planet: food Economic policy Research. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Keynote presentation at PhD Symposium - University of Newcastle |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Professor Alison Heppenstall delivered a keynote presentation titled "Agent-based modelling for social systems? Is it worth it?" at a PhD Symposium held at the University of Newcastle (UK) in February 2023 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Knowledge Transfer Meeting about Systems Mapping with Tower Hamlets |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Supported Tower Hamlets to upskill in systems mapping to support the development of a new Health and Wellbeing Strategy. We provided bespoke training and advice to local practitioners, who then used and adapted as appropriate for a series of workshops in early 2021. We received feedback that the systems mapping was a success thanks to the quick, interactive training we were able to provide to the local public health team. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020,2021,2022 |
| Description | LIDA - Turing Data Event Data Collection for Academic and Social Benefit |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | SIPHER researcher Alison Heppenstall was part of the organising committee for a Leeds Institute for Data Analytics (LIDA) - Turing Institute Data Event 'Data Collection for Academic and Social Benefit held at University of Leeds on July 21st 2022. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://lida.leeds.ac.uk/partnerships/lida-partners/the-alan-turing-institute/turing-data-study-grou... |
| Description | Liz Such - - Presentations to public health practitioners on framing the wider determinants and collaborations as a complex system |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | SIPHER Co-investigator Dr Liz Such delivered presentations to 75 public health practitioners in 3 local authorities on framing the wider determinants and collaborations as a complex system (Hull City council - 3.2.23 n=18, Kirklees Council 8.3.23 (today!) n= 24, North Yorkshire County Council - 26..1.23 n= 33) |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Liz Such - Health Foundation webinar: How to talk about the building blocks of health |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | SIPHER Co-Investigator Liz Such was one of the speakers at a Health Foundation hosted webinar - Webinar: How to talk about the building blocks of health - a new toolkit for public health communicators on 15th September 2022. She discussed how the public understands health inequalities and how change is required about how we communicate about the wider determinants of health - the social, cultural, political, economic, commercial and environmental factors that can make us healthy or unhealthy. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.health.org.uk/about-the-health-foundation/get-involved/events/webinar-how-to-talk-about-... |
| Description | Liz Such - Meetings with Hertfordshire County Council public health team |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | SIPHER researcher Liz Such held regular meetings with 12 public health practitioners in Hertfordshire County Council public health team as part of a knowledge-action exercise to tailor health inequalities framings for local action - discussions are ongoing and we hope they will be able to further engage with SIPHER in the future. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Looking Back Looking Forwards: Learning Together for Wider Non-Communicable Disease Prevention |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Introduced policy and non-governmental organisation colleagues working at a local level in Scotland to SIPHER. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.rehis.com/event/scottish-government-looking-back-looking-forwards-learning-together-wide... |
| Description | Manchester Marmot Health Inequalities Task Force |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | In May 2022 SIPHER researcher Ceri Hughes was invited to contribute to the Marmot Task Group working in the City of Manchester Council. She has attended several meetings and provided feedback on their draft action plan which highlighted SIPHER research including our Employment and Health Evidence and Gap Map. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Meeting to discuss Public Mental Health work with colleagues in the Scottish Government |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Meeting to discuss proposed work across Public Mental Health and Inclusive Growth with colleagues in the Scottish Government. Good connections made for future SIPHER activity. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Meeting to explore collaboration between SIPHER and Clackmannanshire Council |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Discussion to explore collaboration with Clackmannanshire Council in Scotland. The conversation was productive and SIPHER is now collaborating closely with Clackmannanshire Council. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Meeting to explore collaboration between SIPHER and the Behavioural Science and Public Health Network |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Discussion of how the Behavioural Science and Public Health Network and SIPHER can work closely together and learn from one another. The BSPHN has valuable links to practitioners across the UK that SIPHER can link to. We also shared opportunities to collaborate. As a result of the meeting both the BSPHN and Hertfordshire County Council joined SIPHER as Practice Partners. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Meeting with South Yorkshire Police |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Meeting to discuss how SIPHER and South Yorkshire Police can work together. Explored topics of mutual interest and ways to share data and expertise across teams. Agreed actions to further develop the relationship and share knowledge, including an invitation to share our work with inspectors across South Yorkshire. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Meeting with Wellbeing Economy Alliance |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Professor Meier met with colleagues in the Wellbeing Economy Alliance and the Scottish Government to discuss Wellbeing Economies from a systems science perspective. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Meeting with the Scottish Government to explore the Triple I Tool |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Meeting with colleagues from the Scottish Government to explore their Triple I Tool and outline SIPHER modelling plans. Useful links made and valuable follow up conversations planned. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Meetings with Homelessness Prevention Forum - Sheffield City Council |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | SIPHER Knowledge Transfer lead Jenny Llewellyn has been in regular contact with colleagues in the Homelessness Prevention Forum at Sheffield City Council. In September 2022 Jenny and SIPHER Workstrand 2 lead Fiona Campbell met with them to provide an overview of relevant SIPHER research, particularly our Employment and Health Evidecne and Gap Map. They talked about be how it could be used in their processes and what is needed to make relevant evidence accessible possible to them. Plans are being made for future workshops to address these issues. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Meetings with the Health Foundation |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Supporters |
| Results and Impact | SIPHER researcher Liz Such is involved in ongoing discussions with the Health Foundation regarding health inequalities framing. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Op-ed for Discover Society |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | Professor Kat Smith wrote an op-ed for Discover Society (open access online magazine) titled 'Is COVID-19 Ushering in a 'Golden Age' of Scientific Expertise in Policymaking?' |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://discoversociety.org/2021/09/14/is-covid-19-ushering-in-a-golden-age-of-scientific-expertise-... |
| Description | OpenFest 2022 - University of Sheffield |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | SIPHER researcher Joao Duro delivered a presentation titled 'A decision support tool to help prioritizing interventions to reduce inequalities and improve overall economic and health outcomes in society' at the University of Sheffield OpenFest conference on 14th September 2022. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/library/research/openfest-2022 |
| Description | Overview of SIPHER presentations in Public Health Scotland |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | SIPHER Researcher Emma Comrie has delivered a series of presentations providing an Overview of SIPHER to various colleagues within Public Health Scotland including public health analysts and economists. The presentations took place from December 2022 - March 2023 and reached 53 people who otherwise wouldn't have been aware of the programme. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022,2023 |
| Description | PHASE Advisory Group |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Professor Meier is a member of the advisory group for the UKPRP funded PHASE network. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020,2021,2022 |
| Description | People's Health Movement Glasgow People's Health Inquiry |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Professor Kat Smith gave the plenary, opening talk to the People's Health Movement Glasgow People's Health Inquiry - an online public inquiry to draw together evidence and reflection about health and health inequalities in Glasgow since the start of the pandemic and what the future may hold, especially in terms of the climate crisis and local government underfunding and current political decision-making. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://communitiesforfuture.org/event/glasgow-peoples-health-inquiry/ |
| Description | Policy presentation to DWP, DHSC and OHID |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Over 50 colleagues from DWP, DHSC and OHID attended an online presentation led by SIPHER Co-Director Julian Cox. The presentation provided an overview of SIPHER, our approach to policy partner engagement, our community panels and outputs produced so far. There are plans for a follow up session with a more technical, modelling focus. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Poster presentation Shreya Sonthalia |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Presented PhD research outline in poster session at the International Student Colloquium, part of the conference of the International System Dynamics Society. Frankfurt 2022 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Presentation at NHS England and NHS Improvement Economics community seminar |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Professor Aki Tsuchiya delivered a presentation at NHS England and NHS Improvement Economics community seminar, 11 Feb 2022 on "Collapsing multi-dimensional wellbeing into equivalent income" |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Presentation at Public Health Scotland on Public Mental Health |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | A Tsuchiya - Presentation at Public Health Scotland, Public Mental Health, on Work Strand 6 Social Valuations, 28 April 2021 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Presentation to Durham Health and Social Theory Seminar |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Professor Meier gave a presentation to the Health and Social Theory Group at the Durham University Sociology department titled An Introduction to the work of the SIPHER Consortium - A systems science approach to health & wellbeing policy |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Presentation to the UK Government's Open Innovation team |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Professor Meier delivered a presentation to the UK government Open Innovation Team about current systems science projects |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Presented research idea to the MLVS Patient and Public Involvement Panel. Jennifer Boyd |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | I presented a research proposal for a fellowship application to approximately 15 members of the general public belonging to the MLVS PPI panel. The presentation sparked questions and a discussion afterwards. Members of the panel made suggestions on how to improve the proposed research design. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | Professor Petra Meier - Scottish Government Ministerial roundtable on Wellbeing Economy & National Strategy for Economic Transformation |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | The National Strategy for Economic Transformation (NSET) sets out the Scottish Government's vision for a wellbeing economy and contains bold actions to deliver economic prosperity and wellbeing for all Scotland's people and places, within environmental limits. Professor Meier participated in a roundtable discussion with the Minister for Green Skills, Circular Economy and Biodiversity, Lorna Slater MSP and Director General Economy, Louise Macdonald, to seek discuss how expert stakeholder can work together with the Scottish government to deliver on this vision of a wellbeing economy. The meeting was held on 28th June 2022. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Professor Robin Purshouse - SIPHER presentation at UK government OR study group |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Professor Robin Purshouse delivered a SIPHER presentation at the UK government OR study group meeting on 29th November 2022 on Decision Support Models for Inclusive Economies. Ben Daniels, who is Head of Data Science at the Department for Levelling Up, expressed a lot of interest in our work and particularly in the use of the SIPHER synthetic population for spatial policy analysis. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Public Health Scotland Mental Health Evidence Project Advisory Group |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Professor Meier and SIPHER Workstrand 2 Lead Fiona Campbell have both joined the Public Health Scotland Mental Health Evidence Project Advisory Group. Fiona attended the last meeting on 23rd August 2022. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Public Health Scotland and COSLA-led Inclusive/Wellbeing Economy Workshop |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Petra Meier and Rachel Anderson acted as facilitators for the Public Health Scotland and COSLA-led Inclusive/Wellbeing Economy Workshop held on 31st August 2021. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Regular Meetings with Public Health Scotland Wellbeing Economy Colleagues |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | To share work on understanding and developing inclusive growth indicators between PHS and SIPHER. In early sessions we discussed SIPHER's work to date on inclusive economy indicators. We now meet regularly to share learning in this policy space. Since the initial meeting we have agreed to support the development of two additional projects of mutual benefit. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020,2021,2022 |
| Description | Researching policy engagement: what have we learned and where do we go next? |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Professor Kat Smith was invited to present at a workshop organised by the Research Unit for Research Utilisation at the University of St Andrews in collaboration with the Scottish Policy and Research Exchange. Kat spoke about the importance of taking an institutional rather than individualistic approach to policy engagement and the need for large scale investment and commitment over the longer term. She also touched on policymakers' desire for certainty from researchers, even in the face of complex social problems related to structural environmental factors including the impact of Covid-19. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | http://www.ruru.ac.uk/researching-policy-engagement-what-have-we-learned-and-where-do-we-go-next/ |
| Description | SIPHER Blog |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | We launched a SIPHER blog in January 2020. The blog will provide regular updates from SIPHER team members on different aspects of our research, and it is tailored to a policy maker audience. We advertise the blog through Twitter and LinkedIn to reach different audiences. We have now published 16 individual blog posts on our website including several that are focussed on the impact of Covid-19 on health inequalities. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020,2021,2022 |
| URL | https://sipher.ac.uk/sipher-blog/ |
| Description | SIPHER Bulletin |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The SIPHER Bulletin is a regular newsletter that we use to share updates from our work including our research findings, upcoming events and impacts on policy development. For more information see here: https://sipher.ac.uk/sipher_bulletin/ |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020,2021,2022,2023 |
| URL | https://sipher.ac.uk/sipher_bulletin/ |
| Description | SIPHER Consortium Launch |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Event organised by SIPHER to formally launch the Consortium in November 2019. 70 people attended from over 20 government and third sector organisations across England and Scotland. The event raised awareness of our research and sparked interest from a number of policy colleagues who have since request further information or follow-up meetings to discuss potential collaborations. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | SIPHER Employment/Health Discussion in GMCA |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | SIPHER Co-director Julian Cox provided an overview of the SIPHER programme and held a discussion regarding the potential for supporting Employment and Skills policy development within Greater Manchester Combined Authority |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | SIPHER Inclusive Economy Indicator workshop with policy organisations |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | SIPHER researchers Dr Ceri Hughes and Professor Nik Lomax led a workshop with representatives from SIPHER's policy partner organisations on 19th January 2023 to explore data associated with SIPHER's Inclusive Economy Indicators, This workshop brought together those with expertise in policy and/or analysis relating to inclusive economies across each of the partner areas to: 1. examine the aggregate (LA-level) indicators, developing understanding of how inclusive economy outcomes and enabler indicators vary and why; 2. explore how the indicators relate to one another and to wider measures - e.g. deprivation, life expectancy; and 3. discuss potential uses of the data going forward, including links to wider measures, strategy development etc |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | SIPHER Presentation to the Sheffield City Partnership Board |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | SIPHER presentation and discussion at the Sheffield City Partnership Board. SIPHER was very well received and following the meetings we had requests for meetings from the Police, Police & Crime Commissioner and Sheffield City Region. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | SIPHER Quarterly meetings with Public Health England / OHID |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | From July 2021, the SIPHER Directorate are holding quarterly catch up meetings with Rory Tierney and Abbygail Jaccard, Senior Economic Advisers in Public Health England (now the Office for Health Improvement and Disparities) to discuss alignment of SIPHER with their strategic objectives. OHID have provided us with a letter of support which states that "the SIPHER Consortium's work on identifying and mapping the complex relationships between health, health inequalities and their social determinants is of enormous interest to OHID and the local and regional public health teams we work with, particularly given our focus on improving the health outcomes of policies across government." |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021,2022 |
| Description | SIPHER Synthetic Population Greater Manchester Neighbourhoods Workshop |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | SIPHER Co-Director Julian Cox gave a presentation of the SIPHER Synthetic Population and held a discussion on applications within various policy arenas at the Greater Manchester Neighbourhoods Workshop |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | SIPHER Synthetic population workshop in GMCA |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | SIPHER Co-Director Julian Cox held an in depth interactive workshop using the SIPHER synthetic population and demonstrating how it could be utilised to address health inequalities in the Greater Manchester region. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | SIPHER presentation and exhibition stand at University of Glasgow ARCadia festival |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | SIPHER was represented at an open day event on 26th September 2022 titled 'Building Healthy Happy Sustainable Communities'. The event was part of a learning festival celebrating the opening of the new Advanced Research Centre (ARC) at the University of Glasgow. Professor Meier delivered a talk on a Systems Approach to health inequalities. We also had an exhibition stand where we showed SIPHER videos and spoke to members of the public about the work of the consortium. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.gla.ac.uk/research/arc/arcadia/ |
| Description | SIPHER presentation to Greater Manchester Population Health Board |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | SIPHER Co-Director Julian Cox presented SIPHER work at the Greater Manchester Population Health Board meeting on 8th December 2022 which undertook a deep dive inquiry into "the impact of employment on health and inequalities in Greater Manchester, and the opportunities for action". |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | SIPHER/systems modelling meetings with DWP |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The SIPHER Directorate are now holding quarterly meetings with colleagues in the DWP's Work and Health Unit. We have discussed how SIPHER's inclusive economy work could feed into their toolkit for local areas. We have made plans for future activities including holding a SIPHER led workshop with DWP colleagues later this year. We are also discussing systems science methods more generally and making connections to the MRC/CSO Unit's Systems Science programme |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021,2022 |
| Description | Scientific Advisory Board |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | SIPHER's Scientific Advisory Board meets annually to provide expert advice to our developing modelling work. The Group is chaired by Professor Arpana Verma at the University of Manchester and met for the first time in November 2020. The discussions revolved around SIPHER's methodological developments in the field of inclusive economy. Many participants, who are senior researchers and policy influencers around the world, offered to link up separately outside of the meeting to support SIPHER's development. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020,2021 |
| Description | Scottish Community Panel |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Our Community Panels are made up of local people with lived experience of the policy areas we study in SIPHER, who meet to scrutinise and feedback on the research as it progresses. The Scottish Panel is delivered in partnership with Fife Voluntary Action and ran over two 90 minute sessions in October 2020. The panel will meet twice yearly for the duration of SIPHER. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020,2021,2022,2023 |
| Description | Scottish Government Tobacco Action Plan Working Group |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Professor Kat Smith has been invited to join the Scottish Government Tobacco Action Plan Working Group (2022) on the basis that she brings health inequalities expertise. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Scottish Parliament Health Inequalities Inquiry: Voluntary Health Scotland online engagement event |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Professor Meier attended an online engagement event on 20th May facilitated by Voluntary Health Scotland as part of the Scottish Parliament Health Inequalities Inquiry. The event, attended by several MSPs was focussed on local government, housing and planning. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://vhscotland.org.uk/event/health-inequalities-inquiry-engagement-event-social-justice-and-soci... |
| Description | Sheffield Community Panel |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Our Community Panels are made up of local people with lived experience of the policy areas we study in SIPHER, who meet to scrutinise and feedback on the research as it progresses. The Sheffield Panel is delivered in partnership with Manor & Castle Development Trust and ran over two 90 minute sessions in February 2021. The panel will meet twice yearly for the duration of SIPHER. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021,2022,2023 |
| Description | Sheffield Economic Baseline working group |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | SIPHER researcher Jenny Llewellyn has joined Sheffield City Council's Economic baseline working group. The working groups role is to support the development of an economic baseline for the city, specifically ensuring that the consultants leading the project are aware of and have access to all the relevant evidence in this area. The first meeting was held on 3rd March 2022. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Sheffield Health and Wellbeing Board (November 2019) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Presentation and discussion of SIPHER components-of-wellbeing. Board members contributed to an active discussion and gave advice on the future development of SIPHER. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Sheffield Inclusive Economy Participatory Systems Mapping Workshop |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | 20 participants attended a participatory systems mapping workshop to map the inclusive economy system in Sheffield. Since the workshop we have finalised the systems map and shared the product with policy makers in the authority to inform conversations about policy development that supports an inclusive economy. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020,2021 |
| Description | Sheffield Spacial Analysis Network (SSAN) Webinar |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Professor Petra Meier delivered a presentation titled "Geographical interrelations between inclusive economy, health and well-being inequalities: an update from the SIPHER Consortium" at an SSAN hosted webinar on Friday 29th April 2022. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Short Course delivered to Ipsos Mori by Dr Corinna Elsenbroich |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Short course on Process Tracing delivered to Ipsos Mori. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Short Courses on Qualitative Comparative Analysis for UK Evaluation Society and CECAN Ltd delivered by Dr Corinna Elsenbroich |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | A one day short course delivered by Corinna Elsenbroich on Qualitative Comparative Analysis to disseminate complexity sensitive social science methods to practitioners and academics. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021,2022,2023 |
| URL | https://www.cecan.co.uk/events/ukes-cecan-online-masterclass-qualitative-comparative-analysis-qca/ |
| Description | Short courses on Process Tracing delivered to the the UK Evaluation Society and CECAN Ltd by Dr Corinna Elsenbroich |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | One day short courses to learn about complexity sensitive social science methods |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021,2022,2023 |
| URL | https://www.cecan.co.uk/events/ukes-cecan-online-masterclass-process-tracing-introductory-course-2/ |
| Description | Social Policy Association Conference 2022 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | SIPHER researchers Kat Smith and Clementine Hill O'Connor delivered a presentation titled 'An End to Policy Silos? Analysing UK policy efforts to use complex systems modelling to reduce inequalities and achieve inclusive growth' at the annual Social Policy Association conference held at Swansea University from 6th-8th July 2022. SIPHER researcher Liz Such also presented on Policy collaborations to reduce inequalities. A systematic review of dynamics of intersectoral collaboration. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://social-policy.org.uk/what-we-do/conference-2/ |
| Description | Social Simulation Conference 2022 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | SIPHER Co-Director Corinna Elsenbroich delivered a presentation titled 'Hand in (Latex) glove: A discussion of agent-based modelling and public health' at the Social Simulation Conference held at the University of Milan in September 2022. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://ssc2022.behavelab.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/SSC22_Short_Programme.pdf |
| Description | System Evaluation Network |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | SIPHER Researcher Mohammed Hassannezhad is on the organising committee of the System Evaluation Network. Over 260 people have joined the network to date. The purpose of the network is to bring people together who are involved in the evaluation of systems approaches in Public Health in order to learn from each other about the evaluations and methods being applied in local contexts, identify collaboration opportunities and develop resources to improve how evaluation is carried out in the field. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021,2022 |
| Description | Systems Science and Public Health Podcast Series Episode 1 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | This podcast, launched in February 2021, will catch up with scientists, thinkers, policymakers and practitioners who work in the field of systems science and public health. The podcast, hosted by Professor Meier has now recorded four episodes. The podcast series is a joint venture between the SIPHER Consortium and the MRC/CSO Social and Public Health Sciences Unit, University of Glasgow. Episode 1 featured Professor Jo-An Occhipinti who is Head of the Systems Modelling, Simulation and Data Science at the Brain and Mind Centre, University of Sydney, Australia. She is also the Managing Director of C-SART which is an international alliance of centres of excellence in systems modelling to inform health and social policy. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://sipher.ac.uk/podcasts/ |
| Description | Systems Science and Public Health Podcast Series Episode 2 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | This podcast, launched in February 2021, will catch up with scientists, thinkers, policymakers and practitioners who work in the field of systems science and public health. The podcast, hosted by Professor Meier has now recorded four episodes. The podcast series is a joint venture between the SIPHER Consortium and the MRC/CSO Social and Public Health Sciences Unit, University of Glasgow. Episode 2 featured Brian Castellani who is a Professor of Sociology at Durham University. Brian is also a co-investigator of the Centre for the Evaluation of Complexity Across the Nexus (CECAN). His research focuses on advancing the tools of social complexity theory and computational social science for the study of public health questions |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://sipher.ac.uk/podcasts/ |
| Description | Systems Science and Public Health Podcast Series Episode 3 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | This podcast, launched in February 2021, will catch up with scientists, thinkers, policymakers and practitioners who work in the field of systems science and public health. The podcast, hosted by Professor Meier has now recorded four episodes. The podcast series is a joint venture between the SIPHER Consortium and the MRC/CSO Social and Public Health Sciences Unit, University of Glasgow. Episode 3 featured Robin Purshouse, who is a Professor of Decision Sciences at the University of Sheffield. His research interests include modelling, analysis and optimisation for supporting decision-making. Robin is a Co-Director of the SIPHER Consortium. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://sipher.ac.uk/podcasts/ |
| Description | Systems Science and Public Health Podcast Series Episode 4 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | This podcast, launched in February 2021, will catch up with scientists, thinkers, policymakers and practitioners who work in the field of systems science and public health. The podcast, hosted by Professor Meier has now recorded four episodes. The podcast series is a joint venture between the SIPHER Consortium and the MRC/CSO Social and Public Health Sciences Unit, University of Glasgow. Episode 4 featured Patricia L. Mabry, an interdisciplinary scientist who applies cutting edge methodologies (modelling and simulation, data science, network science, Artificial Intelligence) to research questions in healthcare, science of science, tobacco control, and health disparities. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://sipher.ac.uk/podcasts/ |
| Description | Systems Science and Public Health Podcast Series Episode 5 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | This podcast, launched in February 2021, will catch up with scientists, thinkers, policymakers and practitioners who work in the field of systems science and public health. The podcast, hosted by Professor Meier has now recorded four episodes. The podcast series is a joint venture between the SIPHER Consortium and the MRC/CSO Social and Public Health Sciences Unit, University of Glasgow. Episode 5 featured Nigel Gilbert, a Distinguished Chair in Computational Social Science at the University of Surrey. He is Director of the Centre for Research in Social Simulation, Director of the Centre for the Evaluation of Complexity Across the Nexus (CECAN), and Director of the University's Institute of Advanced Studies. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://sipher.ac.uk/podcasts/ |
| Description | Systems Science in Public Health Podcast Episode 6 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | This podcast, launched in February 2021, will catch up with scientists, thinkers, policymakers and practitioners who work in the field of systems science and public health. The podcast, hosted by Professor Meier has now recorded four episodes. The podcast series is a joint venture between the SIPHER Consortium and the MRC/CSO Social and Public Health Sciences Unit, University of Glasgow. Episode 6 featured Birgit Kopainsky, Professor in system dynamics at the University of Bergen, Norway. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://share.transistor.fm/s/d1234c05 |
| Description | Systems Science in Public Health Podcast Series Episode 7 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | This podcast, launched in February 2021, will catch up with scientists, thinkers, policymakers and practitioners who work in the field of systems science and public health. The podcast, hosted by Professor Meier has now recorded four episodes. The podcast series is a joint venture between the SIPHER Consortium and the MRC/CSO Social and Public Health Sciences Unit, University of Glasgow. Episode 7 featured Dr Pete Barbrook-Johnson, a Departmental Research Lecturer in the Economics of Environmental Change at the University of Oxford. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://share.transistor.fm/s/eed3cd7a |
| Description | Systems Science in Public Health Podcast Series Episode 8 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | This podcast, launched in February 2021, will catch up with scientists, thinkers, policymakers and practitioners who work in the field of systems science and public health. The podcast, hosted by Professor Meier has now recorded four episodes. The podcast series is a joint venture between the SIPHER Consortium and the MRC/CSO Social and Public Health Sciences Unit, University of Glasgow. Episode 8 featured Professor Magda Cerdá, a Professor and Director of the Center for Opioid Epidemiology and Policy, at the Department of Population Health at NYU Grossman School of Medicine. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://share.transistor.fm/s/93132e21 |
| Description | Systems mapping CECAN book launch |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Professor Meier was an invited speaker at CECAN event on 27th September 2022 to launch their new Systems Mapping: how to build and use causal models of systems book written by Pete Barbrook-Johnson and Alexandra Penn. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.cecan.ac.uk/events/book-launch-systems-mapping-how-to-build-and-use-causal-models-of-sys... |
| Description | Training Workshop. Shreya Sonthalia |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Awarded SGSSS funding to deliver training workshops in system dynamics and agent based modelling along with another student (Paul Schuler) on two occasions - May 2022 and October 2022. All PhD students across Scotland were allowed to participate, and over 20 participated across the events. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Turing workshop on reproducibility |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Co-organiser of the "Reliability and reproducibility in computational science: Implementing verification, validation and uncertainty quantification in silico" workshop. As a result of this event, I discussed methods with Prof Peter Challenor (Exeter) and wrote and submitted a Turing grant on Uncertainty. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.turing.ac.uk/events/reliability-and-reproducibility-computational-science |
| Description | UGU-IGU Conference 2022 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | SIPHER researchers Nik Lomax and Luke Archer delivered presentation titled 'Modelling individual behaviour in an applied geography context' at the The International Geographic Union conference held in Paris on 19th July 2022. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.ugiparis2022.org/en/nbsp/4 |
| Description | UKPRP Conference 2022 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Professor Meier presented an overview of SIPHER's progress at the annual UKPRP conference on 20th September 2022. SIPHER Co-Director Julian Cox also took part in a panel discussion on 'The policy pipeline and research gaps.' |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | UKPRP Systems Science in Public Health webinar |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Julian Cox and Greg Fell presented at the UKPRP Systems Science in Public Health webinar, which was held on 2nd November 2021. Julian spoke about the SIPHER Consortium and Greg gave a keynote on policy challenges and implications within the local authority sector. The webinar was attended by 142 people who joined from Amsterdam, Canada and all across the UK and Northern Ireland. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://sipher.ac.uk/ukprp-systems-science-in-public-health-webinar/ |
| Description | UKRI Population Health Improvement subgroup |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Professor Petra Meier was invited to join the UKRI Population Health Improvement subgroup. The group was formed to support the Health Ageing and Wellbeing (HAW) agenda being developed by UKRI, to address its ambition of improving the health and wellbeing of the population. Within the HAW agenda, a theme was developed on Population Health Improvement with a "task and finish" group, to scope out existing and/or future research activities that would contribute to population health improvement, encompassing health equity, population health intervention development and prevention. The theme places emphasis on systems interventions at the population level. This has now led to the establishment of a new funding scheme - Population Health Improvement Clusters. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022,2023 |
| URL | https://www.ukri.org/opportunity/population-health-improvement-network-of-clusters/#:~:text=UKRI%20s... |
| Description | University of Glasgow Spotlight - A podcast discussing public policy and the political process through a Scottish lens. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Professor Meier appeared on episode 29 of the podcast to discuss her work on economic inequalities and health outcomes and the need for a system-wide view at tackling challenges of poverty, health and sustainability. The podcast which looks at public policy and the political process - at a local, national and international level - through a Scottish lens is co-hosted by Prof. Graeme Roy (Dean of External Engagement) and Kezia Dugdale (Director of the John Smith Centre and former Scottish Labour leader). |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://open.spotify.com/show/0YQoD0wLwjz1T1ahaWOKnb |
| Description | Vulnerability and Policing Futures Research Centre Ethical Oversight Panel |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | In September 2022 Professor Meier joined the Ethical Oversight Panel for the Vulnerability and Policing Futures Research Centre (ESRC funded research centre based at the University of York. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.york.ac.uk/business-society/research/spsw/vulnerability-policing-futures-research-centre... |
| Description | Westminster Health Forum policy conference: Priorities for the NIHP and public health in England post-COVID |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Invited panellist for the Westminster Health Forum policy conference: Priorities for the National Institute for Health Protection and public health in England post-COVID Thursday 25th March 2021, which discussed the future of public health in light of challenges posed by the pandemic and the creation of the National Institute for Health Protection, as well as taking forward approaches to tackle obesity and health inequalities. Westminster Health Forum conferences are frequently the platform for major policy statements from senior government ministers, regulators and officials, opposition speakers, and senior opinion formers in industry and interest groups, which receive prominent coverage in the national and specialist media. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Workshop series Shreya Sonthalia |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Along with other SPSHU students, organised a five-workshop series "Systems Science in Public Health Workshop Series". Participants were given the opportunity to explore systems methods through various interactive exercises and gain theoretical knowledge of their relevance to public health issues. Each one of the four 2-hour workshop provided introductions to theoretical and practical examples of complexity science methods. A fifth 3-hour workshop summarized areas of overlap between each individual method and their complementary application to research on specific health issues. The workshop was open to all students and staff at SPSHU |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |