People
- Professor Candace Currie OBE | Director / HBSC International Co-ordinator
- Jehane Barbour | Administrative Assistant
- Dorothy Currie | Senior Statistician
- Justine Geyer | Research Student
- Paula Grieve | Administrative Assistant
- Emily Healy | Research Administrator
- Jo Inchley | Assistant Director / Research Fellow
- Jo Kirby | Research Associate
- Kate Levin | Senior Research Fellow
- Fiona Mitchell | Research Student
- Antony Morgan | CAHRU Honorary Research Fellow
- Janine Muldoon | Research Fellow
- Becky Smith | Assistant HBSC International Co-ordinator
- Ashley Theunissen | Acting Assistant HBSC International Co-ordinator
- Winfried van der Sluijs | Research Fellow
- Cara Zanotti (Letsch)| HBSC Research Communications Officer
Jo Inchley | Assistant Director of CAHRU/Research Fellow
Contact Details
Phone: +44 (0)131 651 6269
Fax: +44 (0)131 651 6271
Email: jo.inchley@ed.ac.uk
Biography
Jo graduated with a BSc in Anatomical Sciences from Bristol University (1992) and an MSc in Health Promotion from the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (1994). Previously, she worked as a researcher at the Centre for Health and Social Research in Fife where she undertook a number of projects focusing mainly on health services research and evaluation. Jo took up post as Research Fellow and Evaluation Coordinator for the European Network of Health Promoting Schools at the Research Unit in Health and Behavioural Change (RUHBC), Edinburgh University in 1998. She moved to CAHRU when it was established in 2000 and became Assistant Director of the Unit in 2006. Jo’s research focuses on two core areas (1) physical activity and health, and (2) schools as a setting for health promotion. She is also undertaking a part-time PhD investigating psychological, social and environmental determinants of physical activity among early adolescents.
Research Interests
- Health and health behaviour of children and adolescents, particularly: diet and nutrition, physical activity and mental/emotional health
- The psychosocial and environmental context of health behaviour in young people
- Health promotion in the school setting
- Conceptualisation, implementation and evaluation of the Health Promoting School
- Health transitions from primary to secondary school
Activities/Projects
- Physical Activity in Scottish Schoolchildren (PASS)
- European Network of Health Promoting Schools (ENHPS)
- Active Travel to School Primary-Secondary Transition
- Scottish Physical Activity Research Collaboration (SPARColl)
- HBSC (member of Scottish national team and International physical activity focus group)
- Health Promoting Schools Indicators Project
Publications
Kirby J & Inchley J (2009) Active travel to school: views of 10-13 year old schoolchildren in Scotland. Health Education, 109(2), 169-183. [DOI: 10.1108/09654280910936611]
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Fitzsimons CF et al (2008) The 'Walking for Wellbeing in the West' randomised controlled trial of a pedometer-based walking programme in combination with physical activity consultation with 12 month follow-up: rationale and study design. BMC Public Health, 8:259. [ DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-8-259 ]
[ Available online at www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2458/8/259 ]
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Inchley J, Muldoon J & Currie C (2007) Becoming a Health Promoting School: Evaluating the process of effective implementation. Health Promotion International, 22(1), 65-71. [ DOI: 10.1093/heapro/dal059 ]
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Nic Gabhainn S, Sixsmith J, Delaney E-N, Moore M, Inchley J, O’Higgins S (2007) Health Promoting School Indicators: schematic models from students. Health Education, 107(6), 494-510.
[ DOI: 10.1108/09654280710827902 ]
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Alexander LM, Inchley J, Todd J, Currie D, Cooper AR and Currie C (2005) The broader impact of walking to school among adolescents: a 7-day accelerometry based study. British Medical Journal, 331, 1061-62.
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Inchley JC, Currie DB, Todd JM, Akhtar PC, Currie CE (2005) Persistent socio-demographic differences in physical activity among Scottish schoolchildren 1990-2002. European Journal of Public Health, 15, 386-388.
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Vereecken CA, Inchley JC, Subramanian SV, Hublet A and Maes L (2005) The relative influence of individual and contextual socio-economic status on consumption of fruit and soft drinks among adolescents in Europe. European Journal of Public Health, 15, 224-232.
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Griesbach D, Inchley J, Currie C (2002) More than words? The status and impact of school smoking policies in Scotland. Health Promotion International, 17(1), 31-41.
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Inchley J, Todd J, Bryce C, Currie C (2001) Dietary trends among Scottish schoolchildren in the 1990s. Journal of Human Nutrition and Dietetics, 14, 207-216.
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Inchley J, Currie C, Young I (2000) Evaluating the health promoting school: a case study approach. Health Education 2000, 100(5), 200-206.
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