Role

• Coordinator of undergraduate and postgraduate teaching in health promotion.

• Coordinator of Year 4 MBChB public health teaching

• Convener of the University of Edinburgh Tobacco Control Research Group

• Convener of the Medical and Dental Exclusion Review Committee

  Teaching Responsibilities

  Undergraduate

• Health Promotion teaching in Years 1 and 4 of the medical curriculum.

  Postgraduate

• Health Promotion teaching in the MPH.

• PhD students researching different aspects of tobacco control and smoking issues eg smoking in the mid-teens; children's experiences of smoking in the home; young smokers' sources of cigarettes; smoking cessation and social networks; influence of the tobacco industry at the European level.

  Research Interests

  My main area of research is smoking and tobacco control. This focuses on a broad range of smoking issues at the individual, community and societal level, including:

• young people - smoking uptake, dependence and cessation in the mid-to-late teens; transitions and smoking; smoking and gender; sources of cigarettes; e-cigarettes.

• adults - smoking and disadvantage; smoking cessation; e-cigarettes; smoking and gender; smoking and ethnicity.

• evaluation of tobacco control policies and initiatives - interventions to reduce children's exposure to secondhand smoke in the home; effectiveness of youth prevention policies including schools and sources of tobacco; equity impacts; networking and capacity building on women and tobacco in Europe.

  Current Research Involvement

• DISPLAY- Determining the Impact of Smoking Point of Sale Legislation Among Youth Study (with Stirling and St Andrew's Universities).

• SILNE-R Enhancing the effectiveness of programs and strategies to prevent smoking by adolescents: a realist evaluation comparing seven European countries  (Led by University of Amsterdam involving 8 countries)

• Inequalities in smoking among 16-24 year olds: Scottish Health Survey secondary analysis and qualitative follow-up project. (with Scotcen)

• Young adults’ understandings and experiences of e-cigarettes

• First Steps to Smoke-free: Using air-quality feedback to facilitate smoke-free homes through the NHS Lanarkshire First Steps Programme. (with University of Aberdeen and NHS Lanarkshire)

• A process evaluation of the implementation of ASSIST Scotland (with Universities of Stirling, Glasgow, Bristol and Cardiff).

  Other Responsibilities/Activities

• Associate Editor for Prevention of the journal Tobacco Control

• Member of the European Board of the International Network of Women Against Tobacco (INWAT)

• Member of the Scottish Ministerial Working Group on Tobacco Control and sub-groups on Prevention, and Research and Evaluation

• Member of the Board of the International Union Against TB and Lung Disease

• Consultant to NHs Lothian on smoking prevention

  Further Information

  Work History

  Previous Appointments

Appointed to University of Edinburgh

Education