Leeds Beckett University - City Campus,
Woodhouse Lane,
LS1 3HE
Dr Louise Warwick-Booth
Reader
Louise is a sociologist with specific interests in health policy and social policy. She is a Reader located in The Centre for Health Promotion Research, which she has co-directed since 2013. Louise joined the University in September 2005 and has taught on a wide range of modules including sociology, health policy, research, community and global policy and health care. She also manages a range of research projects and a team of research staff.
Louise’s research projects are diverse and include a commissioned evaluation of the Way Forward Programme, a project to develop resilience in vulnerable young women with unmet need, the evaluation of a Department of Health Eatwell and Livewell Project to tackle malnutrition amongst the elderly, and the project management of the Sunderland Health Champion Programme.
Current Teaching
- MSc Health Promotion: Policies for health in the 21st Century, Foundations in Public Health, Communities and Community Health and dissertation co-ordination
- Bsc Health Care Studies/Bsc Health and Social Care: Management of the Research Process
- Bsc Public Health Nutrition - Food, Health and Society
Research Interests
Louise has recently conducted a range of research with vulnerable young women, drawing upon feminist participatory approaches to data collection in order to give young women voice. Her research has been used in practice to improve interventions during their delivery and in securing future funding for further work in this area. Her other evaluation research is used in practice similarly to further develop interventions, and to capture the voice of service users.
Louise has published several text-books such as Social Inequality (2013), and Contemporary Health Studies: An Introduction (2012 with colleagues). Louise is also the author of the book Researching with Communities (2009) based upon her PhD, as well as numerous journal articles.
Ask Me About
- Health
- Health promotion
- Sociology
Selected Outputs
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Warwick-Booth L; Cross RM (2018) A delivery model of a gender-specific intervention approach - Lessons for policy makers. In: Nico M; Taru M ed. Needles in Haystacks: Finding a way forward for cross-sectroal youth policy.. Council of Europe and European Commission, pp. 241-255.
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Warwick-Booth L; South J; Cross RM; Woodall J; Day R (2014) Using the theory of change to support a health promotion intervention. In: Cases in Methodology. London: Sage,
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Conrad D; Warwick-Booth L (2010) Cultural representations of masculinity and mental health. In: CONRAD D; WHITE A ed. Promoting Men’s Mental Health: How to Do It. Oxon: Radcliffe Publishing,
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Warwick-Booth L (2008) The role of social capital within regeneration: can building social capital benefit regeneration contexts? A review of the literature. In: Gupta KR; Lind G; Svenddsen H; Maiti P ed. Social Capital. New Delhi: Vedam Books,
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Warwick-Booth L; Coan S (2020) Using Creative Qualitative Methods in Evaluating Gendered Health Promotion Interventions [Online] Sage Research Methods Cases.
Available from: https://methods.sagepub.com/
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Warwick-Booth L; Coan S (In press) Trauma informed mental health support; qualitative evaluation findings from one voluntary and community sector programme for women experiencing domestic abuse. Journal of Gender-Based Violence
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Warwick-Booth L; Woodcock D (In press) Volunteer Listeners as co-producers of knowledge; exploring the lived experience of older people’s social isolation through peer research. Educational Action Research
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Warwick-Booth L; Cross R; Woodall J (2024) Obstacles to co-producing evaluation knowledge; power, control and voluntary sector dynamics. Evidence and Policy: a journal of research, debate and practice, 20 (1), pp. 70-87.
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Warwick-Booth L; Coan S (2022) Lessons Learned from a Gender Specific Educational Programme Supporting Young Women with Experiences of Domestic Abuse. Health Education Journal
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Warwick-Booth L; Cross R; Coan S; Fisher P (2022) ‘You’re not going to give a monkey’s chuff’: exploring co-production in the design of services for women who have experienced sexual violence. Perspectives in Public Health, 142 (4),
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Warwick-Booth L; Coan S (2022) Using qualitative online methods to evaluate community responses to Covid19. SAGE Research Methods: Doing Research Online
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Woodall J; Freeman C; Warwick-Booth L (2021) Health-promoting prisons in the female estate: an analysis of prison inspection data. BMC Public Health
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Rippon S; Bagnall A-M; Gamsu M; South J; Trigwell J; Southby K; Warwick-Booth L; Coan S; Woodward J (2020) Towards transformative resilience: community, neighbourhood and system responses during the COVID-19 pandemic. Cities & Health
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Warwick-Booth L; Cross R (2020) Changing Lives, Saving Lives: Women Centred Working – an evidence-based model from the UK. Critical Studies: An International & Interdisciplinary Journal, 15 (1), pp. 7-21.
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Warwick-Booth L; South J; Giuntoli G; Kinsella K; White JL (2020) ‘Small Project, Big Difference’: capacity building through a national volunteering fund : An Evaluation of The Department of Health’s Health and Social Care Volunteering Fund. Voluntary Sector Review: an international journal of third sector research, policy and practice, 11 (1), pp. 21-40.
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Warwick-Booth L; Coan S; Bagnall A-M (2019) Personalised housing support to improve health and well-being: findings from a local pilot programme in Yorkshire, England. Cities & Health
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Warwick-Booth L; Woodall JR; Cross RM; Bagnall A; South J (2018) Health promotion education in changing and challenging times: reflections from the UK. Health Education Journal
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Woodall JR; Warwick-Booth L; South J; Cross RM (2018) What makes health promotion research distinct?. Scandinavian Journal of Public Health
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Cross RM; Warwick-Booth L (2018) Evaluating a gender-specific intensive intervention programme: young women's voices and experiences. Health Education Journal
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Cross RM; Warwick-Booth L (2018) Neoliberal salvation through a gendered intervention: A critical analysis of vulnerable young women's talk. Alternative Routes: A Journal of Critical Social Research, 29
http://www.alternateroutes.ca/index.php/ar/article/view/22449
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Cross RM; Woodall J; Warwick-Booth L (2017) Empowerment: Challenges in Measurement. Global Health Promotion
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Warwick-Booth L; Trigwell J; Kinsella K; Jeffreys K; Sankar D; Dolezalova M (2017) Health within the Leeds Migrant Roma Community; An Exploration of Health Status and Needs within One UK Area. Health, 9 pp. 669-684.
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Warwick-Booth L; Lowcock D (2017) "It's the way I tell 'em!" It is not what we teach but how we do it: using focus group discussions to research student perspectives on threshold concepts in health. Sage Online Method in Action Case Study
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Cross RM; Warwick-Booth L (2016) Using storyboards in participatory research. Nurse researcher, 23 (3), pp. 8-12.
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Warwick-Booth L (2014) Using community-based research within regeneration. The role of the researcher within community-based approaches - exploring experiences within Objective 1 South Yorkshire. Community, Work and Family, 17 (1), pp. 79-95.
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Warwick-Booth L; South J; Cross RM; Woodall JR; Day R (2014) ‘Using the theory of change to support an evaluation of a health promotion initiative’. Sage Methodology Case Study Online
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Warwick-Booth L; Cross R; Woodall J; Day RE; South J (2013) Health Champions and Their Circles of Influence as a Communication Mechanism for Health Promotion. International Review of Social Research, 3 (2), pp. 113-129.
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Warwick-Booth L; Cross R; Woodall J; Day R; South J (2013) Health Champions and Their Circles of Influence as a Communication Mechanism for Health Promotion. International Review of Social Research, 3 (2), pp. 113-129.
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Woodall JR; Warwick-Booth L; Cross RM (2012) Has empowerment lost its power?. Health education research, 27 (4), pp. 742-745.
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South J; Jackson KL; Warwick-Booth L (2011) The community health apprentices project-the outcomes of an intermediate labour market project in the community health sector. Community, Work and Family, 14 (1), pp. 1-18.
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Warwick-Booth L (2008) Locally Directed Policy and the Fostering of Social Capital Within Regeneration: The Case of Objective 1 South Yorkshire. Social Policy and Society, 7 (1), pp. 53-?.
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Warwick-Booth L (2007) ‘Being Involved in Community Based Research; Lessons from the Objective 1 South Yorkshire Context’. Journal of Community Work and Development, 9 pp. 67-85.
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Warwick-Booth L (2022) Social Inequality. 3rd Edition London: Sage.
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Warwick-Booth L; Cross R; Lowcock D (2021) Contemporary Health Studies: An Introduction. 2nd Edition Cambridge: Polity Press.
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Warwick-Booth L; Bagnall AM; Coan S (2021) Creating participatory research: principles, practice and reality. 1st Bristol: Policy Press.
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Cross R; Warwick-Booth L; Rowlands S; Woodall J; O'Neil I; Foster S (2020) Health Promotion. Global Principles and Practice. 2nd Edition Wallingofrd: CABI.
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Warwick-Booth L; Cross RM (2018) Global Health Studies A Social Determinants Perspective. Cambridge: Polity.
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Warwick-Booth L; Cross R; Lowcock D (2012) Contemporary Health Studies: An Introduction. Cambridge: Polity Press.
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Warwick-Booth L (2009) Researching with Communities. Community Based Research for Regeneration. Germany: VDM Verlag.
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