Health and Well-Being Cluster

A main focus for the cluster is to use behavioural and social sciences to understand and improve health and well-being across the lifespan. This reflects the collective expertise of members of the cluster in disciplines that contribute to understanding how biological, psychological, social and a range of contextual factors interact to impact on individual and population health and well-being during the life course. The outcomes we are interested in encompass measures of health gains at the level of the individual, family, community and society, as well as appraisals of well-being and life satisfaction. The cluster members are active in positive approaches such as prevention and resource development as well as identifying and tackling health and well-being deficits and problems in our society.

Five key objectives for the cluster are to (i) produce high quality scientific outputs, (ii) attract major research funding to conduct high quality and sustainable programmes of scientific research, (iii) produce high quality scientists through PhD and postdoctoral training, (iv) translate research findings into implementable policy and practice changes that improve health and wellbeing, and (v) integrate these advances into teaching activities and engagement with the wider community.

We aim to achieve objectives (i) to (iii) by better enabling cluster members to conduct high quality science on health and wellbeing in a systematic and coordinated way that builds on existing strengths. The associated actions include supporting collaborative research and events between cluster members who work in complementary areas, the use of cluster resources and infrastructure to support conducting and disseminating research, and finally the nurturing of PhD, postdoctoral and early career academic staff to develop their programmes of research. Objectives (iv) and (v) are predicated on collaboration with research partners and end users, including (but not restricted to) people with chronic illness, health professionals, health and education policy makers, teachers, and the wider community.

Cluster Leaders: Dr. AnnMarie Groarke and  Mike Hogan

Cluster Members

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