Overview
UKPRP researchers work with local authorities, community-based organisations, and other sectors to develop practical, co-designed strategies tailored to community needs. By bringing together knowledge from different fields through networks and consortia, we drive innovative, evidence-based approaches that address the complex challenges of NCDs at the level of local communities.
Here, we collected links to the helpful UKPRP materials and products:
SPECTRUM: Shaping Public hEalth poliCies To Reduce ineqUalities and harM
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- Good Governance Toolkit: A guide on good governance in health policy. The case for using good governance to protect health. Let us know if you use the materials or plan to: Anna.Brook@sheffield.ac.uk.
- principles and content considerations for good governance policy & process, including an example risk assessment approach and flow-charts (PDF, 200KB)
- Alcohol-Consumption Reduction: Research on alcohol-free beer options in bars and their impact on sales and revenue.TRUUD (Tackling the Root causes Upstream of Unhealthy Urban Development)
- Exploring Scotland’s Alcohol and Tobacco Landscape: unveiling new CRESHMap interactive tool | SPECTRUM Consortium (ed.ac.uk)
- UK Prevention Research Partnership (UKPRP) held a kick off meeting with the award holders from the first funding round on 25 September 2019. Download the slides presented by SPECTRUM (PPT, 3MB).
TRUUD: Tackling the Root Causes Upstream of Unhealthy Urban Development
- Briefings – TRUUD: Policy briefs on topics like health impact assessments and urban development: tackling-health-inequalities-with-healthy-urban-development; Planning-reform-and-public-health; Empowering-mayors-for-preventative-health and Joining-up-government-for-public-health.pdf
- Working with Health Impact Assessments; Using-health-impact-assessments (PDF, 346KB)
- The lived experience of living in unhealthy places (video materials)
- Development of our societal valuation model, HAUS (The Health Appraisal of Urban Systems Model)
- Blog: Realising Prevention: Practical policies for healthier government – TRUUD
- Planning for healthy places – a guide on embedding health in Local Plans and planning policy in England
- UK Prevention Research Partnership (UKPRP) held a kick off meeting with the award holders from the first funding round on 25 September 2019 . Download the slides presented by TRUUD (PPT, 31MB).
SIPHER: Systems science in Public Health and Health Economics Research
- 13 inclusive economy indicators, with associated trend data and an interactive mapping function that describe the extent and nature of economic inclusion across all local authorities in Great Britain.
- A Synthetic Population dataset and interactive dashboard that provides access to a ‘digital twin’ of the adult population in England, Scotland and Wales. Combining census and survey data, this tool provides unique insight into the population’s health, socio-economic and living circumstances at high spatial resolution.
- A layered systems map combining published evidence and lived experience perspectives on the relationship between housing and health.
- The SIPHER Inclusive Economy (Local Authority Level and Ward Level) Datasets
- The SIPHER-HWMIC (Health and Wellbeing Multi-Instrument Comparison) dataset
- UK Prevention Research Partnership (UKPRP) held a kick off meeting with the award holders from the first funding round on 25 September 2019. Download the slides presented by SIPHER (PPT, 5MB).
ActEarly: a City Collaboratory approach to early promotion of good health and wellbeing
Policy Briefs – Act Early, including
- How can local government protect and promote health and well being during the cost of living crisis (youtube.com)
- Pollution: What’s the Problem?: A video exploring pollution impacts and solutions.
- Improve Livelihoods for a Robust Economy: Insights on reducing economic inequalities and tackling health disparities.
- UK Prevention Research Partnership (UKPRP) held a kick off meeting with award holders from the first funding round on 25 September 2019. Download the slides presented by ActEarly (PPT, 3MB).
GroundsWell: Transforming our cities from the ground up
Urban Green and blue space (UGBS) in climate action policies:
Community empowerment
We are developing citizen science based approaches such as The OurOutdoors App, which can be used as an evaluation tool, and/or can empower communities by collecting the data they need most. Our seminars are available through our Youtube Channel, including a video on intervention development with an organisation for those experiencing homelessness.
Data linkage innovation
Use of data linkage to measure the population health effect of non-health-care interventions: Wales and Scotland
Visit groundswelluk.org, email Groundswell@qub.ac.uk, social X @GroundsWellCon
Kailo: the shape of mental health to come
- Tools and support for local authorities to co-design mental health strategies for young people. For more information and to get in touch with the team, please visit https://kailo.community/framework/
- Kailo evaluation team – A partnership between UCL, the University of Exeter and the Anna Freud Centre
- https://kailo.community/evaluation/
- Our Young Person’s Advisory Groups- why young people attend advisory groups
- Radio – Kailo’s work in Devon was featured in the Radio 4 Documentary Three Ages of Child, by paediatrician and broadcaster, Dr Guddi Singh)– highlighting innovative approaches to supporting young people’s mental health. Dr Singh interviews Katie Potter, Senior Service Designer at Dartington Service Design Lab and Kailo Devon lead, as well as Kailo’s Expert Advisory Group co-chair, Sir Michael Marmot. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002k385
- #BeeWell
- Videos
- A resource to support employers to engage with work experiences opportunities for young people- Dartington Service Design Labs, Robin Lane-Roberts, and the students from Ilfracombe Academy
- UCL Students research project on the Social determinants of adolescent mental health in Newham, East London
- Kailo Community project video by UCLPartners with young people from Newham, East London
VISION: Violence, Health, and Society
The Violence, Health and Society Consortium (VISION) – The VISION website is an excellent resource for those working in violence prevention. There are publications, policy briefings, and blogs with key research findings relevant to practitioners, police, those working in domestic violence and sexual abuse (DVSA) specialist services, analysts, academics and local and central government staff. The entire site provides insight that can deepen understanding, improve measurement, and provide actionable solutions to address violence and the associated health inequalities.
Publications & Events– Explore our research findings, publications, policy briefings, presentations, blogs, and events. The page is easy to use and discover research findings and policy recommendations to supplement violence prevention thinking and work.
Evidence Syntheses – We are synthesising evidence on violence and abuse and have produced systematic, scoping, and rapid evidence reviews. This page highlights 12 peer-reviewed research such as the employment consequences of intimate partner violence, Black and minoritized women’s experiences of DVSA services in the UK, adolescent domestic abuse (teenage relationship abuse), and the prevalence of physical violence against people in insecure migration status.
Sexual Violence and Abuse Cost Estimate tool – VISION, the Women’s Budget Group, and Rape Crisis England & Wales collaborated to create a tool that estimates the lifetime costs of sexual violence and abuse (SVA) in children and adults by national population and local area in England and Wales. The impacts of SVA are often long-term resulting in substantial lifetime costs, and this first-of-its-kind costing calculator offers a realistic reflection of the long-term burden of SVA borne by both survivors and society.
Animation on Lived Experience of Violence and Trauma – Incorporating the voices of those who have experienced and those who have caused violence is a key aspect of VISION. We partnered with the Violence, Abuse and Mental Health Network (VAMHN) and SafeLives to communicate what lived experience (LE) involvement means in violence-related research. We decided on an animation focussing on what working with those with LE of violence and trauma looks like in practice. The animation introduces the concept of LE and how it can be embedded in violence prevention research.
The European Conference on Gender and Violence 2026 annual conference – ENGV is an interdisciplinary, international network supporting exchange and collaboration about gender and violence among researchers, scholars, and professionals. Their annual conference provides a forum for friendly debate of current research. VISION researchers have been attending the conferences over the years, and we are excited to organise and host this year’s event at City St George’s University of London.
UK Prevention Research Conference 2023
Dedicated to showcasing Non-Communicable Disease (NCD) prevention research, the conference featured contributions from UKPRP-funded consortia and networks, as well as the wider landscape of UK prevention research.
Opening Address. Ms Jenni Minto MSP, The Minister for Public Health and Women’s Health.
In conversation with UKPRP Consortia:
Prof Ruth Dundas, Co-PI UK Prevention Research Network (formerly known as UKPRP Community of Practice), leads conversation with UKPRP consortia PIs – Prof Gene Feder, VISION; Prof Ruth Hunter, GroundsWell; Dr Tim Hobbs, Kailo; Prof Linda Bauld, SPECTRUM, Prof Petra Meier, SIPHER and Prof John Wright, ActEarly.
