Wolfson Institute

Work and worklessness are central to our health and wellbeing and are the underlying determinants of health inequalities. Professor Bambra's lecture demonstrated how the material and psychosocial conditions in which we work have immense consequences for our physical and mental wellbeing, as well as for the distribution of population health. Recessions, job-loss, insecurity and unemployment also have important ramifications for the health and wellbeing of individuals, families and communities. (Nov 2011)

Professor Gareth Williams, Director of the Wales Health Impact Assessment Support Unit and Co-Director of the Cardiff Institute of Society and Health joined us in late October to deliver the Wolfson 2011 annual lecture. His lecture titled 'Connecting Communities: Resilience, Resistance and Well-Being' offered an insight into his own upbringing and reflected on the enduring appeal of the concept of 'community' in everyday conversations about how we live. His lecture included current reviews both systematic and theoretical as well as findings from recent qualitative studies. (Nov 2011)

Professor Eugene Milne reviews the development and implementation of Better Health Fairer health, its impacts over the past four years, the changes that will take place in local structures for improvement of health and wellbeing, and their implications for collective action in the North East. The lecture looks at opportunities arising from the changes and considers threats to progress in the transition and future configuration of public health structures.

Professor Alan Roulstone discusses the major barriers facking sick and disabled people have faced major barriers to the world of paid work. (November 2011)

An audio introduction to the Wolfson Research Institute by Dr. Mark Booth. (2010)

Professor John Girkin discusses his collaborative research project: Beating Hearts at High Resolution, a project aimed to improve our understanding of the operation of the human heart to develop better drugs and treatment for heart conditions. (Aug 2011)

The Amara West project is an undertaking from the British Museum funded by Leverhulme Trust. The purpose of the Wolfson Research Institute involvement is to find out both the colonial era in Upper Nubia and the later era by examining two cemeteries and the structure of the community and see how the change in political rule affected peoples lives. Michaela Binder explains. (Aug 2011)

Full lecture by Professor Marcel Tanner, Director of the Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute. (June 2011)

Department of Health Director General for Research & Development, Professor Sally Davies (centre), visited the Wolfson Research Institute on 22 October and gave the Institute's 2008 Annual Lecture on the work of the National Institute for Health Research.