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Core Staff

Professor David Walters

Prof David Walters
Telephone: +44 (0)29 2087 0013
Email: WaltersD@Cardiff.ac.uk

David led the establishment of CWERC in 2007. His research and writing is on various aspects of the work environment and he has particular interests in employee representation and consultation on healthy and safety, the politics of health and safety at work, regulating health and safety management, chemical risk management at work and health and safety in small firms. He is the editor of the international journal, Policy and Practice in Health and Safety, a member of the IOSH research Committee and was Special Adviser, to the House of Commons Work and Pensions Select Committee. Current funded research activities include: 

  • An international review of worker representation on health and safety in collaboration with the European trades Union Confederation (The EPSARE project) 
  • A study of the role of supply chains in regulating health and safety and 
  • The most recent of a series of studies on chemical risk management, this one focussing on the issue of knowledge transfer in chemical risk management in small firms in Wales
    be able to test with future fieldwork studies.

 

Dr Emma Wadsworth

Dr Emma Wadsworth - IOSH Research Fellow, BSc PhD Bristol
Telephone: +44 (0)29 20876599
Email: WadsworthEJ@cardiff.ac.uk

Emma joined CWERC in October 2007. She is currently involved with the Centre’s research on chemical risk management including: a study supported by the Welsh Assembly Government’s Knowledge Exploitation Fund focussing on knowledge transfer in chemical risk management in small firms in Wales; and another funded by the European Commission in which a consortium of four European institutes will analyse and evaluate the impact of the practical implementation in the workplace of national measures implementing Directive 98/24/EC on Chemical Agents. Her research has included various aspects of the work environment and her particular interests are in workplace health and safety, chemical risk management, health and safety in small firms, work stress, ethnicity, fatigue and substance use.

 

Dr Katherine Chaplin

Dr Katherine Chaplin - Research Assistant, BSc MSc PhD Cardiff
Telephone: +44 (0)29 20876455
Email: ChaplinK1@cardiff.ac.uk

Katherine joined CWERC in October 2007. She is currently working with Emma Wadsworth on chemical risk management research: specifically a project funded by the Welsh Assembly Government’s Knowledge Exploitation Fund. The focus of this research is to examine effective knowledge transfer in chemical risk management in small firms in Wales. Her previous research has considered a variety of work based outcomes, for example work stress, fatigue, minor injuries and cognitive failures at work and health and safety. The focus of much of this research has been investigating the effects of health related behaviours on worker mental health and well-being.

 

Ms Vicky Parkin - Centre Administrator
Telephone: +44 (0)29 20870246
Email: ParkinVA@cardiff.ac.uk

 

Associate Directors

Professor Andy Smith

Prof Andy Smith
Telephone: +44 (0)29 20874757
Email: SmithAP@cardiff.ac.uk

Professor Smith’s research covers occupational and health psychology. The occupational research focuses on effects of stress, fatigue and drugs on health, safety and well-being at work. The health research covers similar issues in contexts other than work. Other specific areas of interest include nutrition and behaviour, health-related behaviours, the psychology of infection, and chronic fatigue syndrome.

 

Professor Mansel Aylward

Prof Mansel Aylward
Telephone: +44(0)29 208 79312
Email: AylwardM@cardiff.ac.uk

Professor Aylward is Director of the Unum Centre for Psychosocial and Disability Research at Cardiff University. The Centre offers a unique opportunity to extend knowledge and understanding of the psychosocial, economic and cultural factors that influence health, illness, recovery, rehabilitation and reintegration into rewarding work. Professor Aylward is also Chair of the Wales Centre for Health which is a new body, established by the Welsh Assembly Government, to lead improvements in the nation’s health. From 1996 to April 2005 he was Chief Medical Adviser, Medical Director and Chief Scientist to the United Kingdom’s Department for Work and Pensions (DWP). He was also Chief Medical Adviser and Head of Profession at the Veterans' Agency, Ministry of Defence. He was made a Companion of the Bath in the Queen's Birthday Honours List 2002. In 2001 he was appointed as The Royal Society of Medicine's Academic Sub Dean for Wales.