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Sophie Wickham
Department of Public Health and Policy, University of Liverpool
Sophie Wickham is currently the Wellcome Trust research fellow in public health at the Department of Public Health and Policy, University of Liverpool. She has a PhD in Clinical Psychology.
Since joining the diverse and innovative Department of Public Health and Policy in 2014, I have investigated health inequalities in pain, obesity, smoking, unintended injuries, bullying, children’s rights, and mental health. I am deeply committed to working in public health, and wish to specialise my expertise in the analysis of policy changes and their impact on mental health outcomes and inequalities.
Type of member: Regular (since 2018)
Email Address: s.wickham@liverpool.ac.uk
Website Address: http://www.researchgate.net/profile/Sophie_Wickham2
Current research interests
My current Wellcome Trust society and ethics fellowship (2016-21) is entitled “The impact of policies that aim to reduce child poverty on child and maternal mental health and health inequalities". This involves using national longitudinal data sources to evaluating the health impact of national policy changes using guidance developed as part of the Developing Methodologies to Reduce Inequalities in the Determinants of Health (Demetriq) project.
Current research interests:
- Public mental health
- Social adversities in mental health
- Psychosis: paranoia and hallucinations
- Health inequalities
- Social determinants of health/mental health
- Recession/austerity and health/mental health
- Poverty and deprivation
- Research to inform policy
- Cohort and longitudinal data analysis
- Quantitative methods
- Applied statistics
Selected publications
Fryer, B., Cleary, G., Wickham, S., Barr, B., & Taylor-Robinson, D. (2017). Effect of socioeconomic conditions on frequent complaints of pain in children: findings from the UK Millennium Cohort Study. BMJ Paediatrics Open, 1(1), e000093. doi:10.1136/bmjpo-2017- 000093
Taylor-Robinson, D. C., Wickham, S., Campbell, M., Robinson, J., Pearce, A., & Barr, B. (2017). Are social inequalities in early childhood smoking initiation explained by exposure to adult smoking? Findings from the UK Millennium Cohort Study. PLOS ONE, 12(6). doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0178633
Wickham, S., Whitehead, M., Taylor-Robinson, D.. & Barr, B. (2017). The effect of a transition into poverty on child and maternal mental health: a longitudinal analysis of the UK Millennium Cohort Study, The Lancet Public Health. 2, e141-148. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S2468-2667(17)30029-4
Wickham, S., Anwar, E., Barr, B., Law, C., & Taylor-Robinson, D (2016). Child poverty in the UK: Using evidence for action. Commissioned review, Archives of Disease in Childhood, 101(8). doi: doi:10.1136/archdischild-2014-306746
Wickham, S., Bentall, R. (2016). Are specific early-life adversities associated with specific symptoms of psychosis?: a patient tudy considering just world beliefs as a mediator. Journal of Nervous Mental Disease, 204(8), 606-613. doi: 10.1097/NMD.0000000000000511
profile updated: 04/18/2019