OUR TEAM
Rachel Baker
Rachel is Director of the Yunus Centre for Social Business and Health and Professor of Health Economics. Her research focusses on the use of mixed methods to: i) elicit societal values with respect to resource allocation for health and ii) study the benefits arising from policies, programmes or interventions, especially complex social programmes or organisations that impact on health and wellbeing.
Mike Kelly
Mike is Senior Visiting Fellow in the Department of Public Health and Primary Care at the University of Cambridge. Between 2005 and 2014, he was the Director of the Centre for Public Health at the National Institute of Health and Care Excellence (NICE). There he led the teams producing public health guidelines and was responsible for the production of over 60 guidelines on topics related to community health.
Margaret Munro
As Centre Senior Administrator, Margaret leads and co-ordinates administrative support for the Yunus Centre.Margaret works closely with the Economics of Health & Wellbeing team and is lead administrator for a number of externally-funded research projects including the NIHR CommonHealth Assets project and large scale conferences at the Yunus Centre.
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Mohasin Ahmed
Mohasin is a recent graduate in Public Health (MA) who has worked and volunteered with local community-led organisations and charities. She has experience working with people who have lived experience of mental health issues, and is passionate about helping to raise the voices of those from marginalised communities and tackling social and health inequalities.
Marcello Bertotti
Marcello Bertotti is a reader in community health at the Institute for Connected Communities, University of East London. He has 15 years work experience in research and evaluation of community health interventions, social enterprise, asset-based approaches to health, and social prescribing. Marcello is a UCLPartners Improvement Fellow and a co-founder of the social prescribing network
John Cassidy
John is an active volunteer in a range of local and national charities focussing on improving the health and wellbeing of people in areas experiencing severe social and economic difficulties. He holds voluntary directorships on various Boards and retains an active interest in evaluation. His doctorate from Strathclyde University was a study of the evaluation of broad aim social action programmes.
Rejoice Chipuriro
Rejoice is a Post-Doctoral Researcher at the Department of Social Work and Social Sciences, Bournemouth University. Her research interests include participatory research with marginalised communities and community led organisations. Rejoice’s PhD articulated the lived experiences of elderly women farmers in resettled communities within Southern Africa, bringing to the fore these seldom heard voices. She previously managed projects under the human rights and development cooperation portfolio for the Royal Norwegian Embassy in Pretoria, South Africa.
Emma Clewett
Emma works as a Social Value Consultant at a consultancy in Liverpool, primarily focused on the impact of the built environment on health and wellbeing.. She has previously worked in the voluntary sector and with Primary Care Networks, with a key role in social prescribing and health inequality research. Her professional and academic experiences have focused on highlighting and addressing the social determinants of health, as well as the facilitation of community engagement to influence health and well-being outcomes. Emma has a particular interest in qualitative research, which she has utilised in the field of sociology and community psychology; her MA thesis focused on analysing the impact of community spaces on community integration and social inclusion.
Cam Donaldson
Cam Donaldson holds the Yunus Chair and is Pro Vice Chancellor Research at Glasgow Caledonian University. He is a health economist and, from 2014 to 2020, was principal investigator on CommonHealth, a Scotland-wide methodological research programme investigating the role of social enterprises in addressing the social determinants of health.
Julie Fox
Julie has been lead officer for Annexe Communities in Glasgow since 2004. Following a career change from teaching to community development, Julie completed a post graduate course in community education and has followed a career in the voluntary sector - working in the fields of housing and community development, employment and regeneration, youth work and now in community-led health improvement.
Lee-Ann Fenge
Professor of Social Care and Director of the Centre for Seldom Heard Voices, Department of Social Work and Social Sciences, Bournemouth University.I am an experienced qualitative researcher with expertise in using participatory methods to engage the voice of seldom heard groups using creative methods for both research and dissemination.
Karen Galway
Karen Galway PhD is a Lecturer in Mental Health in the School of Nursing and Midwifery at Queen’s University Belfast. Her research focuses on evidence based policy and mental health service development; help seeking including access to mental health services and innovations in mental health promotion, suicide prevention and postvention.
Aideen Gildea
Aideen is a Research Fellow at the School of Nursing and Midwifery at Queen’s University Belfast. She has an interdisciplinary academic background, spanning health and social sciences, and a professional background in special community public health nursing. Aideen’s interests lie in application and evaluation of complex public health interventions in community and educational settings.
Ainul Hanafiah
Ainul Hanafiah, PhD (Cantab) is a Research Fellow at Institute for Connected Communities, University of East London. Her research experience is in global health with wider interests in mental health, community-based services, and children and young people's wellbeing. Her expertise is in programme/service evaluation, qualitative and mixed methods research. Ainul has been involved in various local and global health, community, and safeguarding-related projects in Malaysia, Africa, India, Europe etc.
Sarkis Manoukian
Research Fellow in Health Economics working primarily in the area of Economic Evaluation, Sarkis has worked as an economist in numerous clinical trials funded by the National Institute for Health Research. His research interests are mainly in the area of applied economics; including economic evaluation, the economics of healthcare associated infections, health service delivery and psychological well-being.
Helen Mason
Helen is a health economist with expertise in economic evaluation and she supports the economic component of a large number of clinical trials funded by the National Institute for Health Research. Helen is also interested in eliciting the views of patients and the public on the provision of health care through the use of Q methodology.
Jo McGreal
Jo has spent the majority of her career in the voluntary sector working alongside people and communities to develop participatory practice, community led interventions and accessible programmes. Interested in an asset-based approach, Jo also enjoys the unpredictable nature of working in community spaces as well as the interplay between people and culture.
Jennifer McLean
Jennifer is Public Health Programme Manager at the Glasgow Centre for Population Health where she leads a research programme exploring innovative approaches for new ways of working and community-based responses to population health improvement. Jennifer is also Associate Director with Children’s Neighbourhoods Scotland and a honorary lecturer at the University of Glasgow.
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Julie McMullan
Dr Julie McMullan is a Research Fellow at the School of Nursing and Midwifery at Queen's University Belfast. Julie has a background in public health research and has worked on various qualitative projects since completing her PhD in 2017. Julie particularly enjoys working alongside PPI groups to discover how research makes a real difference to individuals and communities.
Antony Morgan
Professor Morgan, an internationally renowned expert in asset-based public health, became Dean of GCU London in 2016. Working for the last 30 years for a range of public sector organisations, he has developed a track record for leading large multi-disciplinary teams of research and technical staff to deliver evidence-based programmes for health and service delivery.
Jill Mulholland
Jill Mulholland is an Adult Nurse with experience working in Covid-19 Nightingale wards as well as a range of general hospital settings. Jill’s interest in connecting hospital care to holistic community care has motivated her to commence a PhD at Queen’s University Belfast. As part of the Common Health Assets Team, Jill’s PhD is focused on social prescribing routes to community based support for enhancing access to holistic health and wellbeing.
Liam O'Hare
Liam is Senior Research Fellow and Chair of the Innovation Operations Group at the Centre for Evidence and Social Innovation at Queen’s University Belfast. He is also an Extraordinary Associate Professor at the University of Stellenbosch in South Africa.. Liam’s overarching research interest is the investigation of social and educational innovation.
Andrew Paterson
Andrew’s work reflects SCDCs objectives to address social injustice and inequality, and a key message is the need for greater community development and other support for community organisations in disadvantaged communities.Andrew has a PhD in sociology, awarded by Glasgow Caledonian University in 2010. His thesis consisted of qualitative research with young men around their health lifestyles.
Sam Porter
Sam Porter is an adult nurse by professional training and sociologist by academic training. These biographical streams combine in his research interest in the social aspects of health and healthcare. He is also engaged in methodological developments, specifically the application of critical realist tenets to research strategies.
Rosie Read
Dr Rosie Read is a Principal Lecturer in the Faculty of Health and Social Sciences at Bournemouth University, UK. She is a social anthropologist with research expertise on waged and unwaged work, gender, class, volunteering, community development and welfare state transformation. She has conducted ethnographic and qualitative research in the Czech Republic and the UK.
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Jack Rendall
Jack is a Researcher at the Yunus Centre, GCU. His research interests include social inequality, social enterprises, community organisations, and work integration. Jack’s PhD, utilising Q Methodology, focussed on uncovering perspectives of job quality within Scottish social enterprises. He has previously worked on projects funded by the DCMS, the Government Equalities Office, the ESRC, the Chief Scientists Office (Scotland), and the CIPD among others.
Michael Roy
Michael is Professor of Sustainable Social Innovation at Stirling Management School, University of Stirling. His research focuses primarily on the health and well-being impacts of organisations in the social economy, particularly social enterprises. He also examines ways in which the environments in which the social economy operates - their ‘ecosystems’ - can be supported and enhanced.
Pete Seaman
Pete oversees the planning and delivery of the Centre programme of work whilst maintaining research priorities including community resilience and developing responses to racialised under-representation in the Public Health workforce and data. GCPH’s role is to generateinsights, evidenceandsupportfornew approaches to improve the health and reduceinequality.
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Merron Simpson
Merron is Chief Executive of The Health Creation Alliance (formerly New NHS Alliance). She has led the organisations’ transformation from an established GP-led voice of primary care to the only national cross-sector movement of professionals and local people working as equal partners to address health inequalities through Health Creation.
Artur Steiner
Artur leads the Community Development and Citizenship Participation Research Group at the Yunus Centre, GCU. His research is about community disadvantage and actions to ameliorate isolation, raise resilience and empowerment. Artur’s work is concerned with evidencing howto tackle social inequalities and vulnerability including geographical disadvantage and frailty of specific groups in the society.