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Chris Cooper is an Assistant Professor in community wellbeing and lead of the Inclusion and social justice expert group in the school of Communities and education. Chris leads research across the health and social care system focusing on improving health and reducing inequalities for marginalised and excluded populations.

Chris co-leads See Me North, a 3 year AHRC funded research programme exploring the mobilisation of community assets to support people with experience of homelessness. Seeking to better understand the impacts of trauma to improve trauma informed care, evaluating local and national models of creative health for people experiencing homelessness, developing a regional support hub for people in the Northeast and Cumbria, and challenging stigma through creativity this project seeks to improve outcomes for people experiencing homelessness. 

Applying realist methodologies, utilising qualitative and quantitative methods, Chris’s research goes beyond linear models of causality to explore what works, for who, in what circumstances, and why. Driven by in-depth explorations of individual, social, and environmental contexts and how these interact with and impact on the ways in which we engage with interventions or events, realist approaches enable exploration of the complexities of the social worlds in which we live, grow, and work.

Chris Cooper is Programme lead for the BSc Health and social care programme as well as leading on and teaching into a range of modules across the school of communities and education from levels 4 to 7. Chris is passionate about social justice and  mobility, taking the lead on processes, interventions and programme developments to grow experiential learning and support student recruitment, experience, retention, and success for all students.