Centre for Health Promotion Research

We operate according to the following set of principles:

• Working with an understanding of health as social and thus using the social model of health
• Working as part of a social movement to tackle the social determinants of health in order to bring about greater social and health justice
• Working within a framework that views health as political
• Working in ways to promote both equality and equity

We use approaches that are:

• Participatory - to facilitate inclusion, empowerment and capacity building
• In partnership - to facilitate collaboration
• Anti-oppressive and ethical – to foster equality and support change

We have been commissioned to conduct research and evaluation by organisations such as the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE), the People’s Health Trust, the What Works Centre for Wellbeing, the Centre for Ageing Better, the Coop Foundation, Public Health England, NHS Health Scotland, Department of Health, Department for Transport, Local Government and the NIHR as well as third sector organisations, like Shelter, Hamara and the Jigsaw Visitors' Centre at HMP Leeds.

As a discipline, health promotion is inherently broad and multi-disciplinary and our research reflects this spectrum of activity. Although not an exhaustive list, members of the team have a wide range of expertise in areas such as: community health and well-being; empowerment; gender and health promotion; prison health; workplace health and well-being; healthy schools; physical activity; the health promotion workforce; global health and health inequalities.

Colleagues also have experience in supporting research that uses a wide range of methodological approaches, from systematic reviews to participatory methods.

The multi-disciplinary impact of CHPR is reflected in its contribution to two units and two case studies in the 2021 Research Excellence Framework (REF) and two case studies in the 2020 Knowledge Excellence Framework (KEF).