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Staff Profile

Dr Bronia Arnott

Knowledge Exchange Broker in Public Health (prev Senior Research Methodologist)

  • Telephone: +44 (0) 191 208 3804
  • Personal Website: https://phirst.nihr.ac.uk/staff/dr-bronia-arnott/
  • Address: Population Health Sciences Institute
    Faculty of Medical Sciences
    Newcastle University
    Baddiley Clark Building
    Richardson Road
    Newcastle upon Tyne
    NE2 4AX
    UK
Background

I am a Knowledge Exchange Broker in Public Health (previously Senior Research Methodologist) within the population Health Sciences Institute with expertise in Developmental Science. I work at the interface of research, policy and practice to increase the health of the public, decrease inequalities, and promote social justice.


My research focuses on infants, children, young people and families:

  • understanding and explaining physical and mental health 
  • developing and evaluating complex interventions 
  • research methodology for studies with these populations


I lead a programme of research focusing on first 1001 days, parent-infant relationships, public involvement through creative methods, and knowledge mobilisation.


I am a member of the PHIRST Fusion team working with local government to evaluate their public health interventions. I also have experience working in policy and practice setting relating to Family Hubs Start for Life and domestic abuse. I have held a role as a Senior Research Methodologist within the NIHR Research Design Service North East North Cumbria, as a Fellow of the UK Society for Behavioural Medicine (UKSBM), and as an Associate Editor at BMJ Paediatrics Open journal.


 https://scholar.google.co.uk/citations?user=0183_B4AAAAJ&hl=en 

 

Research

Research interests:


Parent-infant relationships

Infants, children, young people and families

Stress, disadvantage and adversity

Mental health

Public health

Social care

Knowledge mobilisation

Social determinants of health

Intervention development, evaluation and implementation

Qualitative research

Public involvement and engagement

Evidence use in local government


2024 ARTS Say from the Start - Tilly Hale award (Principal Investigator)


2020 Commissioning Infant Mental Health Services - NIHR ARC NENC (Principal Investigator)


2020 Managing Unusual Sensory Experiences: Feasibility Trial - NIHR Research for Patient Benefit (Co-applicant, Qualitative lead)



2020 Biopsychosocial factors influencing child adaptation to natural stressors - Garside Bequest (Principal Investigator)


2020 Understanding early life determinants and pathways to lifecourse multimorbidity - MRC Consolidator Award (Co-applicant)


2020 Improving lifecourse health through transdiagnostic, cross sector child health routine outcomes - GNCH Foundation (Co-applicant)


2020 Evaluation of the Best Start in Life Alliance South Tyneside Public Health - NIHR Public Health Research PHPES (Co-applicant)


2019 Can embedding the MapMe intervention, a tool to improve parental acknowledgement and understanding of childhood overweight and obesity, in the National Child Measurement Programme lead to improved long term child weight outcomes? NIHR Public Health Research (Co-applicant, Public Involvement Lead)






Teaching

I have successfully co-supervised 2 PhD students and 3 Doctorate in Cinical Psychology students to completion on topics across children and young people's health and wellbeing. I am happy to be contacted by prospective PhD students interested in developmental health psychology topics. 


I have previously successfully co-supervised 2 Psychology MSc students on topics in relation to early years development and 2 Public Health and Health Services Research MSc students. I have also supervised 2 NIHR PCAFs.


I also have experience in teaching at both undergraduate and post-graduate level. I have taught Health Psychology on the Masters of Public Health programme and Qualitative Research Methods on the Masters of Pharmacy programme.

Publications