School of Community-Based Medicine
The School of Community Based Medicine is made up of two research groups:
The majority of School staff are based on the main University Campus, with pockets of non-campus staff located at Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust and Greater Manchester West Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust, Preston (Lancashire Care NHS Foundation Trust) and the Wirral University Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust.
Health Sciences Research Group
The Health Sciences Research Group comprises the:
- Health Methodology Research Group, which brings together statisticians, biohealth informaticians and health economists in a thriving interdisciplinary environment
- Primary Care Research Group, which aims is to combine clinical perspectives with theoretically informed applied social science in order to conduct research that impacts on primary care policy and practice at national and international levels
- Centre for Occupational and Environmental Health which engages in postgraduate education and research. The academic centre has the foremost postgraduate education in occupational medicine and hygiene in the country.
Mental Health and Neurodegeneration Research Group
The Mental Health and Neurodegeneration Research Group comprises the main sub-specialities of Psychiatry and Neurodegeneration.
- Research in Psychiatry concentrates on four themes:
- neuroscience and psychiatry
- suicide and forensic mental health
- developmental psychopathology
- mental health sciences research.
- Research into neurodegeneration looks at the causes of neurodegenerative disorders, such as Alzheimer's disease, frontotemporal dementia, Parkinson’s disease and related disorders, and motor neurone disease, with particular emphasis on genetic risk.
Key contacts
Head of School
Professor Shôn Lewis
Head of School Administration
Andrea Hutcheson
Research Group Leaders
Professor Anne Rogers (Health Sciences)
Professor Jenny Shaw (Mental Health and Neurodegeneration)
