h.whiteley@bangor.ac.uk

+44 (0)1248 388896

A part-time postdoctoral researcher with experience of working in the public sector, I am passionate about public health and wellbeing, planetary health and sustainable development. 

I undertake evaluations of complex public health interventions, searching for win-win solutions to health system and societal challenges.

I enjoy working in interdisciplinary teams at the research, policy and practice interface, and I'm particularly interested in preventative, cross-sector interventions and their sustainable financing. I also have a general interest in the links between health, wellbeing and the environment.

• PhD: The utility of benthic infaunal production for selecting marine protected areas in the Irish Sea
  2009–2013
• MSc: Ecology and Environmental Management
  University of York, 2008–2009
• BSc: Natural Sciences
  Durham University, 2004–2007

2024

• PublishedThe effects and costs of an anti-bullying programme (KiVa) in UK primary schools: a multicentre cluster randomised controlled trial
  Bowes, L., Babu, M., Badger, J., Broome, M., Cannings-John, R., Clarkson, S., Coulman, E., Edwards, R. T., Ford, T., Hastings, R. P., Hayes, R., Lugg-Widger, F., Owen-Jones, E., Patterson, P., Segrott, J., Sydenham, M., Townson, J., Watkins, R. C., Whiteley, H., Williams, M., the Stand Together Team & Hutchings, J., 2024, In: Psychological Medicine.
  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
• PublishedThe role of health economics in the Stand Together trial: evaluating the cost-effectiveness of KiVa in UK primary schools
  Whiteley, H. & Edwards, R. T., Mar 2024.
  Research output: Contribution to conference › Abstract

2023

• PublishedExploring the cost-effectiveness of a complex universal anti-bullying programme in UK primary schools: methodological challenges of evaluating the Stand Together pragmatic randomised controlled trial
  Whiteley, H. & Edwards, R. T., Jun 2023.
  Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper
• PublishedReview of the Pupil Development Grant: Final Report
  Tiesteel, E., Hughes, C., Sultana, F., Grigorie, A., Whiteley, H., Edwards, R. T., Lynch, L., Egan, D. & Sibieta, L., 6 Sept 2023, Welsh Government. 152 p.
  Research output: Book/Report › Commissioned report

2022

• PublishedMaking Well: Green social prescribing for mental health and wellbeing
  Whiteley, H., Lynch, M., Hartfiel, N., Beherrell, W., Cuthbert, A. & Edwards, R. T., Nov 2022.
  Research output: Contribution to conference › Poster
• PublishedSROI forecasting to support the sustainability of green social prescribing
  Whiteley, H., Lynch, M., Hartfiel, N., Beherrell, W., Cuthbert, A. & Edwards, R. T., Nov 2022.
  Research output: Contribution to conference › Poster
• PublishedThe long life-time shadow of bullying: cost-effectiveness of KiVa to reduce bullying in primary schools
  Whiteley, H., Edwards, R. T., Hutchings, J. & Bowes, L., 1 Mar 2022, In: International Journal of Population Data Science. 7, 2, 1 p.
  Research output: Contribution to journal › Meeting Abstract
• PublishedValuing nature-based communities of care: A social return on investment (SROI) evaluation of The Fathom Trust 'Making Well' programme
  Whiteley, H., Lynch, M., Hartfiel, N., Beharrell, W. (Contributor), Cuthbert, A. (Contributor) & Edwards, R. T. (Contributor), 31 Aug 2022, Bangor: Bangor University. 59 p.
  Research output: Book/Report › Commissioned report

2014

• PublishedMethodological considerations when using local knowledge to infer spatial patterns of resource exploitation
  Shepperson, J. L., Murray, L. G., Cook, S., Whiteley, H. & Kaiser, M. J., 30 Oct 2014, In: Biological Conservation. 180, p. 214-223
  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

2024

• Applied Health Economics for Public Health Practice and Research

  Building on 20 years of our experience in research and teaching health economics to public health practitioners and those undertaking research in public health, we offer this two-day free online short course showcasing our research portfolio at the Public Health and Prevention Economics Research Group (PHERG) at the Centre for Health Economics and Medicines Evaluation (CHEME). Through recorded presentations and live breakout rooms with you, the delegates, and our faculty of researchers at PHERG CHEME, we will be asking and discussing collaboratively:

  What additional challenges does applying methods of economic evaluation to public health and prevention initiatives within and outside of traditional health care systems pose and how can we address them?

  What methods are we, as health economists, using (diversifying our portfolio) to address these challenges and add to the evidence base of the relative cost-effectiveness and social value of public health and prevention interventions across sectors and across the life-course?

  How can such interventions be paid for in future and how do these methods relate to overarching policy approaches to sustainability and climate change?

  This short course accompanies the textbook: Edwards, R. T., & McIntosh, E. (Eds.). (2019). Applied health economics for public health practice and research. Oxford University Press.

  12 Mar 2024 – 13 Mar 2024

  Activity: Participation in Academic workshop, seminar, course (Speaker)