Professor Katrina Wyatt

About me:

My research seeks to understand how we can create the conditions for health and wellbeing and address health inequalities in schools, communities and workplaces. Working with service users, service providers, patients, carers and communities to understand the nature of the issues which prevent good health and then creating the conditions for collaborative working to develop to address these issues. Underpinning the work is an understanding of health as an emergent property which arises from the complex nature of the ‘system’ and the creation of the conditions for health focuses on altering the nature and qualities of relations within the workplace, school or neighbourhood. Current research includes capturing the learning to support the delivery of Ilfracombe Poverty Truth Commission; co-creating health promoting secondary schools and healthy NHS workplaces, developing approaches for supportive consultations for poverty related mental distress and understanding how individual placement support supports young people experiencing poor mental health into good quality employment. My research also includes methods development including creative methods of engaging so-called ‘seldom-heard voices’ and complex systems approaches to capturing and evidencing system change.

Read more at http://medicine.exeter.ac.uk/research/healthresearch/relationalhealth/

Selected ongoing projects:

·         Destress: Implementing effective primary care responses to poverty-related mental distress funded by NIHR National Applied Research Collaborative Inequalities Programme.

·         Connecting Communities C2: strengths-based capacity release programme to create the conditions for health and mitigate the impact of inequalities in very low income communities

·         Capturing the learning (process and impact) of Ilfracombe Poverty Truth Commission

·         Health Promoting Schools: All Saints Saxon Fellowship. Working with secondary schools to develop a whole school approach to supporting healthy diet and physical behaviours of adolescents.

·         Workforce Partnerships to support health and care staff to care well under pressure and thrive at work

·         Capturing the learning and impact of providing individual placement support for young people with poor mental health into good employment as part of the School for Public Health Voluntary Sector Evaluation Scheme

·         Rural and Coastal Inequalities at the End of Life

Qualifications:

BSc (Hons); PhD Biological Chemistry, University of Essex; Fellowship by Distinction Faculty of Public Health