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Ruth Kipping
Bristol Medical School, University of Bristol
Ruth Kipping is currently Senior Research Fellow, DECIPHer, School of Social and Community Medicine at the University of Bristol, Deputy-Director of the Centre for the Development and Evaluation of Complex Interventions for Public Health Improvement (DECIPHer) at the University of Bristol and Honorary Consultant in Public Health, Public Health England. She did her PhD at University of Bristol. Thesis title: Preventing obesity in children: developing a school-based intervention.
Type of member: Regular (since 2018)
Telephone: +44 (0)117 331 4584
Email Address: Ruth.Kipping@bristol.ac.uk
Website Address: http://www.bristol.ac.uk/social-community-medicine/people/ruth-r-kipping/overview.html
Mailing Address: Bristol Medical School, University of Bristol, Canynge Hall, 39 Whatley Rd, Bristol, UK
Current research interests
My research is focused on developing and evaluating complex interventions to improve the health of children and young people and reduce health inequalities. For 11 years I have bridged the gap between service public health work in the NHS/Local Government and academic public health research. In recent years I have focused my work at the University, however, I continue to be committed to research informing practice and vice versa. The majority of my research studies have been directly informed by service work.
My two major areas of research are a) the prevention and management of child obesity and b) investigating the patterns, causes and prevention of multiple risk behaviours in adolescents. Both areas of work include mixed methods including randomised controlled trials in schools/nurseries/workplaces, epidemiology and systematic reviews. All my work includes a focus on reducing health inequalities. My PhD focused on preventing obesity in children by designing and undertaking the feasibility work for an RCT in primary schools; this led to a £1.4M grant for a full-scale trial led by Prof D Lawlor.
My research on obesity prevention in schools highlighted the need to intervene earlier and I am currently the Principal Investigator on an NIHR funded (£431k) feasibility trial of a nutrition, oral health and physical activity intervention in nurseries and using digital media with parents. My research interests are reflected in 35 peer reviewed publications, 10 as first author and 8 as last author. I have international collaborations with colleagues at Chapel Hill in North Carolina, USA and in the UK (Universities of Cardiff, Swansea and Glasgow).
Selected publications
Mclaughlin, J. C., Hamilton, K., & Kipping, R. (2017). Epidemiology of adult overweight recording and management by UK GPs: A systematic review. British Journal of General Practice, 67(663). doi:10.3399/bjgp17x692309
Anderson, E. L., Howe, L. D., Kipping, R. R., Campbell, R., Jago, R., Noble, S. M., . . . Lawlor, D. A. (2016). Long-term effects of the Active for Life Year 5 (AFLY5) school-based cluster-randomised controlled trial. BMJ Open, 6(11). doi:10.1136/bmjopen-2015-010957
Kipping, R., Jago, R., Metcalfe, C., White, J., Papadaki, A., Campbell, R., . . . Moore, L. (2016). NAP SACC UK: Protocol for a feasibility cluster randomised controlled trial in nurseries and at home to increase physical activity and healthy eating in children aged 2–4 years. BMJ Open, 6(4). doi:10.1136/bmjopen-2015-010622
Redmore, J., Kipping, R., Trickey, A., May, M. T., & Gunnell, D. (2016). Analysis of trends in adolescent suicides and accidental deaths in England and Wales, 1972–2011. British Journal of Psychiatry, 209(04), 327-333. doi:10.1192/bjp.bp.114.162347
profile updated: 04/18/2019