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Dr Mandy Cheetham

Assistant Professor

Department: Nursing, Midwifery & Health

Research Themes and Scholarly Interests

My research interests focus on research and evidence use in public health, knowledge mobilisation, embedded research, qualitative research methods, place-based and community-led approaches to addressing inequalities in health, and the health and social impacts of welfare reform, including Universal Credit.

Key Publications

Evaluating Process and Outcomes of Public Involvement in Applied Health and Social Care Research: A Rapid Systematic Review, Wearn, A., Brennan-Tovey, K., Adams, E., Alderson, H., Baariu, J., Cheetham, M., Bartle, V., Palfreyman, L., Rook, V., Shenton, F., Ramsay, S., Kaner, E. 1 Feb 2025, In: Health Expectations
‘You can see when your parents are struggling’: a qualitative study of children and young people’s views of Universal Credit, Cheetham, M., El-Zerbi, C., Bidmead, E., Morris, S., Dodd, T. 26 Dec 2024, In: Journal of Social Policy
‘We don’t make best use of art in public health’: lessons learned from co-producing a theatre performance to stimulate debate about Universal Credit, Cheetham, M., Vanden, K., Lindow, L., Morris, S., Moffatt, S., McCormick, B., Wiseman, A. 4 Jan 2024, In: Evidence and Policy
Woman of the North: Inequality, health and work, Abel, K., Addison, M., Zied Abozied, E., Akhter, N., Akhter, Z., Alderson, H., Anderson, S., Bambra, C., Bennett, N., Boyack, L., Brown, H., Browning, A., Cheetham, M., Cooper, C., Cooper, R., Davies, H., Esan, O., Fairbrother, H., Froggett, L., Geary, R., Gibson, M., Greenlaw, J., Grollman, C., Hanratty, B., Harrison, D., Heslehurst, N., Hope, H., Jackson, K., Jordan, U., Laing, M., Lee, P., Leavy, C., McDermott, J., McGovern, R., McNamara, C., Meads, C., Moffat, M., Morris, S., Munford, L., O’Brien, K., Patrick, R., Patterson, S., Pickett, K., Pleace, N., Powell, L., Rankin, J., Taylor-Robinson, D., Scott, S., Simpson, J., Smart, D., Snell, C., Spiers, G., Stockdale, K., Westmarland, N., Wickham, S., Wilding, A. 3 Sep 2024
“You’re sort of building community in a bigger way”: exploring the potential of creative, nature-based activities to facilitate community connections, Sirisena, M., Cheetham, M. 25 Feb 2024, In: Arts and Health
A rapid review of children and young people's views of poverty and welfare in the context of Universal Credit, Bidmead, E., El Zerbi, C., Cheetham, M., Frost, S. 1 Nov 2023, In: Children & society
Correction: Leading co-production in five UK collaborative research partnerships (2008–2018): responses to four tensions from senior leaders using auto-ethnography, van der Graaf, P., Kislov, R., Smith, H., Langley, J., Hamer, N., Cheetham, M., Wolstenholme, D., Cooke, J., Mawson, S. 24 Feb 2023, In: Implementation Science Communications
Exploring the health and sociodemographic characteristics of people seeking advice with claiming universal credit: a cross-sectional analysis of UK citizens advice data, 2017–2021, Brown, H., Xiang, H., Cheetham, M., Morris, S., Gibson, M., Katikireddi, S., Munford, L., Taylor-Robinson, D., Finney, H., Bartle, V., Baxter, A., Wickham, S., Craig, P., Bambra, C. 30 Mar 2023, In: BMC Public Health
Leading co-production in five UK collaborative research partnerships (2008-2018): responses to four tensions from senior leaders using auto-ethnography, Van der Graaf, P., Kislov, R., Smith, H., Langley, J., Hamer, N., Cheetham, M., Wolstenholme, D., Cooke, J., Mawson, S. 27 Jan 2023, In: Implementation Science Communications
‘What I really want is academics who want to partner and who care about the outcome’: findings from a mixed-methods study of evidence use in local government in England, Cheetham, M., Redgate, S., Van der Graaf, P., Humble, C., Hunter, D., Adamson, A. 1 Feb 2023, In: Evidence and Policy

Current and Recent Projects

Developing an NIHR Health and Social care Delivery Research (HSDR) national evaluation team: InterDisciplinary Evaluation of complex innovations in heAlth and Social care (IDEAS) Centre, Bate, A. (Principal Investigator), Cheetham, M. (Co Investigator), National Institute for Health Research, 01/02/25 - 31/01/30, £3,028,752.00

PGR Supervision

Adele Jeffries Start Date: 10/09/2024

PGR Supervision

Adele Jeffries Start Date: 10/09/2024

Qualifications

Health and Social Research PhD June 18 2010
Health Education PGDip March 07 2001
Sociology BSc (Hons) June 28 1991
Certificate of Qualification in Social Work CQSW 1987

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