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Dr Jane Harris

Public and Allied Health

Faculty of Health

Email: J.Harris@ljmu.ac.uk

Telephone: 0151 904 1856

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Jane is a Research Fellow in public health working in the Violence and Health Risk Behaviours research team in the School of Public and Allied Health. Jane is currently working on a Youth Endowment Funded pilot and feasibility study examining multi-agency approaches for young people at risk of violence outside of the family home. She is also Co-I on a Foundations: the national What Works Centre for Children & Families funded systematic review of mentoring and befriending interventions for at-risk children and young people. Jane has worked on a number of national and regional research projects including: the NIHR funded RECO study which was a realist evaluation of integrated care for co-occurring serious mental illness and substance use across the UK; and the DETECT study which evaluated the effectiveness of an electronic physiological surveillance system to detect clinical deterioration in children.

Jane’s main research interest is improving health outcomes for children and young people, and she has worked on numerous research studies and evaluations with children and young people. This includes evaluating support for children experiencing parental imprisonment, parenting programmes in prison, A&E Navigator programmes for young people who are victims of violence and interventions to prevent smoking in children. Jane completed her PhD at LJMU in 2019 which explored the role that professional YouTubers play in young people’s health behaviours. Jane is experienced in using qualitative, realist and online methods to understand complex health systems and behaviours.

Jane contributes to teaching on undergraduate public health, environmental health and health and social care modules and supervises students at undergraduate, Masters and PhD level. Jane is a member of the University Research Ethics Committee and an editor of the Public Health Institute student journal.

Degrees

2019, Liverpool John Moores University, United Kingdom, PhD
2015, Liverpool John Moores University, United Kingdom, MSc Public Health
2008, University of Nottingham, United Kingdom, BA (Hons) Geography

Certifications

Higher Education Academy, Associate Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (AFHEA)

Academic appointments

Researcher in Evidence Synthesis, Public Health Institute, Liverpool John Moores University, 2020 - present
Research Fellow in Children Young People and Families, Faculty of Health and Social Care, Edge Hill University, 2019 - 2020
Research Assistant (Facebook Timelines Project), School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Liverpool John Moores University, 2017 - 2017
Gradute Teaching Assistant (Phd Studentship), Public Health Institute, Liverpool John Moores University, Liverpool John Moores University, 2016 - 2019
Researcher/Research Manager, Public Health Insitute, Liverpool John Moores University, 2009 - 2016

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