Wellcome Centre for Cultures and Environments of Health

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Members of the Centre explore how experiences of health, illness and medical knowledge are shaped by cultural practices and beliefs, and investigate how evidence from the humanities and social sciences can be used to help to develop and evaluate innovative and effective public health initiatives. During the Centre’s first three years, researchers have focused on establishing transformative research and engagement programmes, developing partnerships with policy-makers and creative organisations, building an open research culture, and recruiting doctoral students, early career researchers, and senior staff.

Committed to engaged research that enables health and well-being, the Centre’s projects have brought researchers, public partners, and health organisations together to address key health challenges, including: the health impacts of loneliness and social isolation; the value of different forms of evidence in health policy; the impact of relationships on children’s health; and community access to – and involvement in – research and data governance.

The next few years of the Centre's research will address further the health impacts of social and environmental inequalities, specifically through projects on health across the life course, ageing and dying, co-creating healthy cities, and recovering from – or living with – the social and cultural impacts of COVID-19. These research programmes will enable researchers to fully embed engagement and impact in their work locally, nationally and internationally, build training and career pathways in transdisciplinary research, and strengthen their commitment to an inclusive research culture.

Some of the research themes include:

• Healing City
• COVID-19
• Emotions and Experience
• Global Health
• Evidence and Data
• Lifecourse and Relationships
• Health Inequalities
• Animals and Environment
• Health Within Healthcare
• Mental Health and Neurodevelopment
• Death and Dying

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University of Exeter
Exeter