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NIHR Three Schools Prevention Career Development Awards have been won by Dr Gemma Brailey and Dr Jessica Armitage for their individual public health research projects. Gemma is currently PI […]

An innovative health hub for the farming community developed by a SPHERE project team has won the ‘Working Together Differently Award’ at the South West Integrated Personal Care […]

Real change for childhoods: Reflections from the Better Start Conference On the 5th of March I had the opportunity to attend the Better Start Conference […]

Research teams from the Healthy Places Healthy Planet Programme met on 22 September in London to share updates on the development of their projects. As well as […]

We are pleased to announce that Camilla Forbes has been awarded (with no corrections) a PhD by publication which explores Healthy lifestyle promotion in secondary schools. Camilla currently […]

At the end of September we said goodbye to Professor Judy Green as she left both SPHERE and the wider University for a much-deserved retirement. We are […]

Two members of SPHERE – Prof Antoinetta Medina-Lara and Dr Rachel Proctor – have joined SPHR’s EDI Committee as Exeter Reps. In the next quarterly meeting, the Committee will discuss the future […]

The Voluntary Sector Evaluation Scheme (VoySES) is set to evaluate a major new programme just launched by the People’s Health Trust. The new programme aims to help […]

A final project meeting, for the Healthy Places, Healthy Planet project ‘Evaluating mandatory calorie labelling in out-of-home food environments’, was held in Jul 2025 in London. Laura Cornelsen, the project […]

We welcomed over 100 colleagues from local authorities, service providers, third sector and community organisations plus public health research academics to our third annual conference […]