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Children & Young People's Wellbeing @ Exeter

Engagement and Impact awards

The Children and Young People’s Wellbeing network is committed to promoting impactful, interdisciplinary research and engagement with key stakeholders in CYP research and policy. Our Engagement & Impact Awards help the co-development of interdisciplinary grant applications and Patient and Public Involvement and Engagement activities.  

Information on available funding and how to apply is shared with network members and through our newsletter. Sign-up through our registration form to join the network and receive our updates.  Contact us at CYPWellbeing@exeter.ac.uk if you have any questions.


Engagement & Impact Awards to date 

PPIE, Pilot Study: Sustainable school food practices that are nutritional, environmentally friendly, and financially viable – Fatma Sabet 

PPIE, Pilot Study: The impact of transitioning to plant-based diets on the physical and mental health of children and young people – Luke McGuire

PPIE, Pilot Study: Increasing incidental physical activity in primary school children – Lisa Price 

Workshop: Childhood Adversity and the Development of the Welfare State in Britain since the Midtwentieth Century – Eve Worth and Tom El-Hoss 

Bid Development: Novel model of social, psychological and biological factors contributing to poor health and treatment outcomes in complex PTSD - Anke Karl and Alice Garood

Writing retreat: How responses to Covid have shaped primary schools' engagement in and with the outdoors – Rachel Proctor, Rachel Nesbit and Rachel Manning 

Pilot study: A rights-based intervention for families with children with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) - Gretchen Bjornstad 

Workshop: Using arts-based and digital research methods to engage children and young people in mental health research – Anna March 

Workshop: Using creative approaches of arts-based methodology to explore children’s palliative care for forced migrant families – Marie Clancy 

PPIE: Educating children about healthy eating – Beccy Summers 

PPIE: Enabling access of neurodivergent families to science engagement activities, in partnership with Agile Rabbit – Abby Russell 

Writing Retreat: Exeter Longitudinal Study of Neurodiverse Young People and their Families - Anna Price and Tamsin Newlove-Delgado 

Pilot study: Social connections directory for students – Felicity Thomas 

Writing retreat: School-based mental health interventions for children and adolescents from migrant backgrounds – Katie Howard 

Engagement: Growing up in dance (GuiDANCE): Capturing the co-creation process – Siobhan Mitchell