Cardiff School of Social Sciences

Awards and Prizes

2011-         
Medical Research Council. Measurement of the Environment Activity and Diet in adolescence: the MEAD Project (Angie Page PI, with Cooper, A.
Cummins, S. Jones A.) £766,000

2010-         
Wales Office of Research & Development in Health and Social Care. Public Health Improvement Research Network (PI, with Murphy S, Hood K, Robling M, Simpson S.). £750,000

2010-         
Australian Research Council. Linkage award: Teeth tales: A culturally competent community intervention for child oral health in low SES area of urban Melbourne. (Lisa Gibbs PI with 8 others). $700,000.

2009-         
Medical Research Council (National Prevention Research Initiative) Preventing substance misuse: Randomised Controlled Trial of the Strengthening Families 10-14 Programme (PI with 8 others) £2,145,023.

2009-         
Wales Office for Research and Development for Health and Social Care (WORD). Primary prevention of cancer: research capacity for the development and evaluation of interventions. (PI, with Murphy S, Elwyn G). £232,725

2009         
Welsh Assembly Government (New Ideas Research Fund). An exploratory study of the relationship between parental attitudes and behaviour and young peoples consumption of alcohol. (PI with Segrott J and Moore G). £9,750

2009-         
Economic and Social Research Council / Wellcome Trust (UK Clinical Research Consortium). Centre for the Development and Evaluation of Complex Interventions for Public Health Improvement (DECIPHer). (Director, with Campbell R, Lyons RA and 9 other co applicants). £5M

2008-         
Economic and Social Research Council and Higher Education Funding council for Wales. Wales Institute of Social and Economic Research, Data and Methods (WISERD). (Huw Beynon PI and 17 other co applicants). £4.9M.

2008-         
Medical Research Council (National Prevention Research Initiative). Free School Breakfast Initiative Data Augmentation and Analysis. (PI, with 3 other co-applicants). £280,000

2008-2010 
Medical Research Council. A feasibility study of a licensed premise intervention to reduce alcohol misuse and violent injury. (Simon Moore PI with 2 other co applicants). £354,741

2008-2009 
National Assembly for Wales. Tender for evaluation of the Cooking Bus in Wales. (PI with Segrott J, Murphy S, Holliday J, Phillips C, Parry O, and Roberts J).  £78, 125

2008-2009 
Alcohol Education and Research Council. The role of parents in preventing alcohol misuse: An Evaluation of the Kids, Adults Together Family Forum programme (KATFF). (Jeremy Segrott PI with 2 other co applicants). £59, 101

2007           
Welsh Assembly Government. Living in Wales Making the Connections Report: Secondary Analysis Work. (PI). £8,661

2007-2009 
Welsh Assembly Government. Developing Health Challenge Newport as a resource for rigorous evaluation of community based health initiatives. (PI, with 4 other co-investigators). £88,596.

2007           
Welsh Assembly Government. Research into the Wales-wide implementation of the ASSIST Programme. (Holliday J, PI). £4,965.

2007-2009 
Welsh Assembly Government Public Health Improvement Division. Evaluation of Welsh network of healthy schools schemes (PI with Rothwell H, Shepherd M, Murphy S). £149,220.

2007-2010 
Department of Health. A feasibility study to develop and test the potential effectiveness of a peer-led intervention to increase physical activity and healthy eating in adolescence (Rona Campbell PI, with 8 co-applicants) £223,000.

2007-2009 
Medical Research Council. Feasibility Study for a Schools-Based, Peer-Led, Drugs Prevention Programme. (Mick Bloor PI, with 4 others) £260,000.

2006-2009 
Welsh Assembly Government Public Health Improvement Division. Research into the Impact of Smoke-Free Legislation in Wales (PI with J. Holliday, O. Parry, S. Murphy) £353,880.

2006-2009 
Medical Research Council. Social network analysis of the dynamic relationship between adolescent smoking behaviour and peer influence (PI with J. Holliday, S. Murphy, R. Campbell, T. Snijders) £316,629.

2006-2007 
Economic and Social Research Council. Scoping Study to Identify Quantitative Methods Capacity Building Needs in Wales  (PI with C. Taylor, G. Maio, K. Whitifield, S. Orford, A. Robinson) £24,532.

2006-2010 
Welsh Assembly Government Public Health Improvement Division Evaluation of a National Exercise Referral Scheme (Simon Murphy PI with 2 co-applicants)  £642,906

2006-2009 
Leicestershire County and Rutland PCT. Consultancy for ‘Fresh Start’ (Holliday J PI). £4,500.

2006           
Cancer Research UK. Smoking uptake in adolescence: a longitudinal investigation of peer influence and peer selection (PI with J. Holliday and S. Murphy) £49,268.

2006-2010 
Medical Research Council. Stemming the tide of antimicrobial resistance (Chris Butler PI, with 12 other co-investigators) £500,000.

2006-         
Medical Research Council (National Prevention Research Initiative). Preventing disease through opportunistic, rapid engagement by primary care teams using behaviour change counselling (Chris Butler PI, with 5 other co-investigators) £628,000.

2006-2010 
Wales Office of Research & Development in Health and Social Care. Public Health Improvement Research Network (PI, with S. Murphy and S. Francis). £519,640.