Selected Projects

Current Projects


Young men and Chlamydia testing.
Lorimer K and McDaid L (MRC SPHSU).  Funded by the Chief Scientist Office, £48,012.


Evaluating a social marketing campaign targeting gay men in the West of Scotland (‘Make your position clear’).
Flowers P, Knussen C and McDaid L.  Funded by NHS Greater Glasgow & Clyde, NHS Ayrshire & Arran, NHS Lanarkshire, £83,000.


Using a biosocial approach to advance pandemic influenza control.
Davis MD (PI), Stephenson N and Flowers P.  Funded by Australian Research Council, $A 300,000.


Safer Sex advice, Condom Supply and STIs in Lothian MSM.
Clutterbuck D, Goodall L and Flowers, P.  Funded by NHS Lothian, £4,000.


Supporting informed parental decision-making for MMR (the combined measles, mumps and rubella vaccine): Evaluation of a web based decision aid (Cluster RCT). (Collaboration with University of Leeds (lead)).
Jackson C, Cheater FM (Co-investigator), Bleasby B, Bekker H, Schweiger M, Harrison W and Hammond L. Funded by National Institute for Health Research: RfPB Programme, £238,319.


The S.W.I.T.C.H. Study: Supporting women in their choices about health.
Robinson M, Jackson C, Cheater FM (Co-investigator), Newbound P, West R, Perry S. (Collaboration with University of Leeds (lead)). Funded by: National Institute for Health Research: RfPB Programme, £215,453.


Triple P - parenting and family research programme (a research collaboration between Glasgow Caledonian University, the University of Queensland and NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde).
Cheater FM and McVey C. Funded by NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde, £393,140.

Evaluating a social marketing campaign targeting gay men in the West of Scotland (‘Positions’).
Flowers P, Knussen C, and McDaid L. Funded by NHS GGC, £83,000.

Pathways through drug injecting; risk, resilience and recovery.
Hammersly R. Funded by Big Lottery Research, £80,000.

Emotion classification in contemporary music.
Knox D. Funded by EPSRC, £82,246.

Health ethics in the age of autonomy: Public engagement with the social challenges of health policy.
Williamson L. Funded by Wellcome Trust, £163,645.

Recently Completed Projects

HIV Action Plan 2009-2014.
Lorimer K, Kidd L, Lawrence M, Cornish F and McPherson K. Funded by NHS Health Scotland, £19,905.

The social conditions for successful community mobilisation: Learning from sex worker led projects in India.
Cornish F and Campbell C (LSE). Funded by ESRC/DfID, £193,870.

Gathering evidence to inform the development of family-centred, community-based lifestyle interventions to prevent recurrent stroke (focus on tobacco, alcohol, diet and physical activity).
Lawrence M and Kerr S. Funded by Burdett Trust/Lisbeth Hockey Fellowship, £69,040