Queen's University Members

Dr Simone Cerroni (Gibson Institute, QUB)    
   
Simone's research aims to investigate and understand decision-making processes under risk and uncertainty. In particular, it examines to what extent risk communication affects people's personal beliefs, risk attitudes, time preferences, and, ultimately, their choice behaviour. This work becomes very helpful in identifying effective strategies to communicate risk information that induces people to make the right decision and, thus, behave in their own best interests. These issues are mainly investigated in the domain of health and environmental risks related to food consumption by using laboratory and field experiments. Simone is also interested in testing the incentive compatibility of methods that are widely used to elicit subjective probabilities, risk attitudes, and time preferences as well as in examining whether well-established and innovative approaches implemented to elicit preferences for non-marketed goods are demand revealing or not (e.g., discrete choice experiment, auctions, Becker–DeGroot–Marschak method).
Professor Michael Donnelly (UKCRC Centre for Excellence in Public Health, QUB)      
    
Michael leads the QUB Health Services Research Group and is Deputy Director of the NI UKCRC Centre of Excellence for Public Health. His research interests include applied, policy and practice-relevant health and wellbeing research designed to develop appropriate and effective service responses that will benefit significantly health and social care systems, patients and service users locally and elsewhere.
Professor George Hutchinson (Gibson Institute, QUB)

George is director of the Gibson Institute for Land Food and Environment funded by the Gibson Trust and based in the School of Biological Sciences in Queens University.  He is Professor of Rural and Environmental Economics, an IPCC (International Panel for Climate Change) Contributing Author and member of the steering Group of the Institute of Global Food Security in Queens. His research includes the application of both valuation economics and economic experiments to food choices, physical activity and issues of individual time and risk preferences and health behaviours.
Professor Frank Kee (UKCRC Centre for Excellence in Public Health, QUB)         
 
Currently Frank directs the UKCRC Centre of Excellence for Public Health Research (NI) and is Deputy Director for the Centre for Public Health in Queens University. The Centre of Excellence, one of five in the UK, is multidisciplinary and spans three Faculties in the University and a range of external stakeholders. Its research scope embraces determinants of public health from molecules to populations, as well as public health interventions. It was set up deliberately with an outward looking vision to connect academics to the practitioner and policy making communities. Its partners, represented in the management Executive and Board, include the DHSSPSNI, the Public Health Agency, the Public Health Institute for Ireland and the Community Development and Health Network.
Dr Berni Kelly (Disability Research Network, QUB)

Berni is a Senior Lecturer in Social Work and Co-Chair of the Disability Research Network at QUB. Her main research interests are disability and mental health studies. She also has an active interest in participatory research with disabled children and adults, including the development of creative approaches for involving disabled people in research and peer research methods. She has previously worked as Regional Coordinator and Researcher for the National Children's Bureau in Belfast followed by three years working on various disability research projects as a Senior Researcher at the Donald Beasley Institute in New Zealand. Since moving to QUB in 2005, she has been involved in a range of research projects including disability studies and social work education projects. She is currently Principal Investigator on two research studies examining the experiences of disabled children living in and leaving public care.
Dr Alberto Longo (Gibson Institute, QUB)    
     
Alberto’s research interests include people’s preferences, attitudes and willingness to pay for public health programs.  His research focuses on the effectiveness and on the optimal levels of (monetary) incentives for behaviour change.
Dr Paula McFadden (Social Work, QUB)

Dr. McFadden is a social worker who has worked in child protection and with older people. Her doctoral research interest in burnout and resilience in professional practice has expanded to include health and social care services.  She is currently interested in resilience research relating to life course trajectory of marginalized young people and educational based intervention programs.
Dr Corina Miller

Corina is a research fellow with the Administrative Data Research Centre - Northern Ireland (ADRC-NI) and Centre for Public Health. Her main research is in the area of applied microeconomics, with a focus on health inequality, wellbeing and education. Her current research is on the self-reported satisfaction in the working population in Northern Ireland, with early research focus on CGE modelling of agricultural trade agreements and environmental policy.
Dr Dermot O’Reilly (UKCRC Centre for Excellence in Public Health, QUB)     
      
Dermot is Clinical Senior Lecturer in the Centre for Public Health. His core research focus is on social factors that influence the health of people and his current interest is on the effective use of routine datasets to further understanding of the distribution and social causes of disease and its impact in society. He is the lead for the new Administrative Data Research Centre (ADRC) in Northern Ireland.
Dr Ian Shuttleworth (Geography, QUB)

Ian is a senior lecturer in Human Geography at Queen’s University Belfast.  His research interests include migration, labour market mobility, and social segregation.  He also has an interest in divided societies with a special focus on Northern Ireland.  He is currently director of the Northern Ireland Longitudinal Research Support Unit and is also involved in other UK Big Data initiatives.