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Work and Health

Theme lead: Margaret Coffey 

Staff associated: Christine Parker, Rachel Martin, Tamara Brown, Jenny Ceolta-Smith 

Within this theme we are focusing on the inter-relationship between work, health and wellbeing.  This includes: the study of people moving in and out of paid employment; the importance of technologies at work; management of health at work; the development of a broad public health response to promoting health and wellbeing in the workforce; and work as an aid to recovery. Our work also focuses on research into welfare to work and health-related support for benefit recipients, in particular the interventions that are delivered by occupational therapists. 

There is a strong Vocational Rehabilitation focus within this research theme, which is concerned with enabling those with disabilities or impairments to overcome barriers to staying at work, alongside helping individuals with disabilities or impairments to return to work.  Of note the group focus on the importance of ‘good work’ as a contributor to positive health and wellbeing, e.g. getting fit through work, rather than fit to return to work, or the important role that good work has in extending working lives, and subsequently health and wellbeing in later life.  

Click below to view research projects related to this research theme:

Work conversations in healthcare: How, where, when and by whom?

 A workplace nutrition intervention to improve the health and wellbeing of construction workers

 

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Janet Quilliam
School of Health and Society
University of Salford
Salford
M6 6PU

e. J.T.Quilliam@salford.ac.uk

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