Category: Health and wellbeing

Children and young people whose bodies do not conform to societal expectations have a greater risk of being teased or bullied. This may be experienced as trauma. Trauma-informed practice aims to develop awareness of how trauma negatively impacts individuals to facilitate responses which empower them to make choices that promote their health and wellbeing.

Exploring social media use, body appreciation, self-esteem, anxiety and depressive symptoms as predictors of disordered eating.

Evaluating the role of carbohydrate reduction in the prevention and management of obesity and reversal of type 2 diabetes in Africa.

Investigating the socio-economic and cultural influences on self-management and control of type 2 diabetes in Kenya.

This project will help address the urgent issue of insufficient physical activity levels among adolescents in Ghana.

This study will pilot social prescribing of fruit and vegetables among the Black ethnic minorities in Greater Manchester.

Investigating the use of meditation and cognitive behavioural therapy to reduce reliance on pharmacological interventions to treat sleep paralysis.

Ghana is experiencing a nutrition transition with transitioning dietary habits and sedentary lifestyles related to urban demographic change.

The “mental illness is like any other illness” trope may inflate stigma rather than reduce it.

This study will explore the intersection between masculinity and poverty and its impact on health.