Dr Mandy Cheetham

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.

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• Impacts of the Universal Credit welfare reform on well-being: a natural experiment study using UK population survey data, Baxter, A., Tindall, M., Wickham, S., Marimpi, M., Brown, H., Munford, L., Sutton, M., Richiardi, M., Cheetham, M., Amo-Agyei, S., Taylor-Robinson, D., Bambra, C., Katikireddi, S., Craig, P. 2026, In: BMJ Public Health
• Invisible skills, unequal burdens: a sociological agenda for recognising emotional labour in participatory research, McEwan, K., Makela, P., Cheetham, M. 12 May 2026, In: Sociological Research Online
• ‘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. 1 Apr 2026, In: Journal of Social Policy
• “People shouldn’t Have to be Worried About Going Broke All the Time.” The Views of Primary School Children on Their Needs, Government Support for Families and Universal Credit, Bidmead, E., Williams, K., El-Zerbi, C., Cheetham, M., Gathercole, C. 1 Jun 2026, In: International Journal of Children's Rights
• Estimating population mental health effects of the rollout of Universal Credit in the UK using standard and novel Difference-in-Differences analysis, 2009-2019, Marimpi, M., Barr, B., Baxter, A., Hugh-Jones, S., Taylor-Robinson, D., Katikireddi, S., Brown, H., Cheetham, M., Morris, S., Munford, L., Richiardi, M., Sutton, M., Bambra, C., Craig, P., Wickham, S. 1 Oct 2025, In: Public Health
• 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’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. 4 May 2025, In: Arts and Health
• ‘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
• 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

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• 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

Adele Jeffries Start Date: 10/09/2024

Adele Jeffries Learning to Grow: An exploration of how pupils' mental health and well-being is affected by their participation in a school-based horticultural project in Northern Ireland. Start Date: 10/09/2024

• 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