Dr Sofie Roberts is a Research Officer at Bangor University. She works at the Centre for Health Economics and Medicines Evaluation (CHEME) and is interested in nature-based research and well-being. Her recent projects involve evaluating community perceptions and involvement in climate projects aiming at low carbon emissions and environmental sustainability, and she has a background in the low carbon sector. Sofie completed her PhD in Media at Bangor University in 2022, analysing Welsh cinema of the last thirty years through the prism of postcolonial theory. She is a management board member of the Places of Climate Change Research Centre at Bangor University and is a Welsh speaker from the foothills of Eryri.

  • PhD: Wales on Screen
    2014–2023
  • MA: Film and Media Studies
    2009–2012
  • BA: English Literature with Film Studies
    2006–2009

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  • Reclaim Network Plus Conference 2024

    The event aims to bring together researchers, policymakers and industry leaders to discuss and share best practice around green, blue and grey infrastructures.

    23 May 2024

    Activity: Participation in Academic conference (Invited speaker)
  • Selling Sustainability

    Using enterprise thinking to promote the benefits of sustainability to our community

    3 May 2024

    Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Public lecture/debate/seminar (Presenter)
  • Coastal Communities Community Event

    A community engagement event centred around climate change communication, coastal communities, and cultural heritage.

    26 Mar 2024

    Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Festival/Exhibition (Contributor)
  • 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 (Organiser)
  • RECLAIM Network Plus Webinar Series #22

    Invited guest speaker to this edition of the series. Talk title: Community Perceptions of new greenspace interventions, the case of Rhyl in North Wales

    6 Mar 2024

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    Activity: Invited talk (Invited speaker)
  • The Value of Greenspace for Health and Well-being

    This workshop was an opportunity to consider the connection of public health and local greenspace, sharing insights, findings and perspectives. We explored needs,

    priorities, perceptions and preferences of stakeholders including Local Council officers and facilitators of community initiatives and discussed these alongside relevant academic expertise.

    Our guiding question for the day was:

    “What do people across various levels of experience think about managing greenspace on a local council level, through the lens of health and wellbeing?”

    26 Feb 2024

    Links:

    Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Public lecture/debate/seminar (Organiser)
  • Health economics for environmental, sustainability and well-being projects within the context of One Health and Places of Climate Change research

    Building on growing research collaboration on One Health and Places of Climate Change (PloCC) across Bangor University and with outside partners, we hosted a face-to-face workshop exploring how health economics methods can be incorporated into grant applications for research.

    6 Feb 2024

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

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