Below is a selection of projects taking place under the theme of Health, Wellbeing and Education.
These projects will give you an insight into the wide range of research that takes place, and the impact it has both in our local community and across the globe.
This study investigated the aspirations of pupils in primary and secondary schools located in low-socioeconomic areas in Staffordshire.
The aim of this project is to understand and recognise the diversity of innovations to enhance student experience and outcomes.
The research examines the proposal in the work of Michel Serres that society has been based on the exclusion of nature and that it needs to be re-established on the basis of a new ‘contract’ that includes the natural world.
The DIGItal innovative Strategies for PArental and Civic Engagement - DIGI-S.PA.C.E. project is a three-year (2019-2022) Erasmus+ project with the Create Partnership Trust, UK, and partners in Italy, Lithuania and Portugal.
An international collaboration with the University of Maiduguri, Nigeria to examine the pathways which enable Sexual Exploitation and Abuse (SEA) to systemically distort participation within the Higher Education sector.
The provision of spiritual care for the health and wellbeing of patients has been the focus of a major project involving a group of nursing and midwifery educators, along with key stakeholders, across Europe. The EPICC project was launched in November 2016 to review good practice in spiritual care and develop new resources that can be applied to nursing and midwifery in higher education.
This report documents the magnitudes of inequalities within and between countries in Europe for 19 indicators. It also updates the changes that have occurred within countries since the first assessment report in 2012. Addressing inequalities in environmental risk will help to mitigate health inequalities and contribute to fairer and more socially cohesive societies.
Jon Fairburn chaired the Expert group on behalf of WHO that produced this report and other outputs.
Production “Environmental Health Inequalities in Europe: Second Assessment Report” by the World health Organization. Prof Jon Fairburn chaired the expert panel meetings that produced the report as well as authoring and co-authoring chapters.
Prof Fairburn was also the lead author of the systematic review into air quality and social inequalities.
Prof Fairburn is also the author of the Resource Toolkit which was produced to help policy makers deal with these issues.
The resource package aims to generate awareness of the concept of environmental health inequalities and to support actions to tackle environmental risks at the local and national level.
This project aims to promote and accelerate the feminisation of sport in European culture through developing awareness and understanding on the specific problematics women encounter in their sport careers. It aims to bring more visibility to women athletes in Europe and to raise awareness of the importance of women in sport practices and governance, helping in turn to improve their role and impact in these areas.
Academic year 2022-23 marks the 20 year anniversary of the introduction of the Quality Enhancement Framework. We are using this milestone to undertake a deep and wide-ranging evaluation of one of its five key elements - the Enhancement Themes.
This project will bring together colleagues from within the Evaluation Collective to collate and respond to evaluation ‘wicked issues’ (Rittel & Webber 1973) posed by staff or students.
Researchers at the Centre for Health and Development (CHAD) are working with Public Health England to evaluate users’ experiences of the online Heart Age Test. The evaluation involves an online survey and/or an interview to help understand if the tool meets the outcomes set by Public Health England.
This is a comparative study between parents and teachers in the UK and Vietnam. The research is exploring parents’ experiences and perceptions of homeschooling their child/children and teachers’ experiences and perceptions of remote working and online teaching during the Covid-19 school shutdown.
SCoLPP have been commissioned by QAA to explore the potential of Phenomenon Based Learning in the context of the UN Sustainable Development Goal 4 (Quality Education for All).
There is evidence that contact with natural environments is beneficial to human health and wellbeing, but the mechanisms are not well understood. PHENOTYPE was a four-year European-funded, multi-country project intended to provide a better understanding of the potential mechanisms, and better integration of human health needs into land use planning and green space management.
The Raising Voices project is a project commissioned by VOICES on behalf of Stoke-on-Trent Hardship Commission. The project involves University of Staffordshire, Expert Citizens CIC, All The Small Things CIC, and, most importantly, the people of Stoke-on-Trent. It aims to make a real difference for people experiencing poverty, by bringing people together, sharing our stories of hardship and working collectively to influence change.
The University of Staffordshire Microsoft Innovative Educator Expert Coaching Programme is a staff development initiative, aiming to coach colleagues as they develop their teaching practice using Microsoft technologies.
This project explores approaches to addressing the gap in 2:1 and 1st class degrees being awarded to white students in comparison to students from other ethnicity groups.
Advanced information and communication technologies have changed the way teaching and learning are conceptualized and conducted in higher education.
Pastoral da Pessoa Idosa (PPI) is a lay movement within the Catholic Church of Brazil that provides home visits to isolated elderly people across 185 dioceses and 2800 communities. The arrival of coronavirus led to a temporary halt in visits but alternative support continued with a campaign to telephone vulnerable older people instead. Timely intervention to spread information and provide practical support to self-isolating older people had the potential to make a significant difference to the spread and impact of Covid-19.
The Teaching Innovation and Learning Enhancement (TILE) Hub sits directly under SCoLPP providing learning enhancement activities in pedagogy, digital innovation, training, and development. We work across the university with staff and students.
This study explored effective practice and provision in early years settings to support children’s learning.