Heather Rothwell

Research Associate

Heather Rothwell joined AWARD during 2007 while working on the Review of the Welsh Network of Healthy Schools Schemes led by Dr. Michael Shepherd. In April 2008 she started working with Dr. Jeremy Segrott on an evaluation of the Kids, Adults Together Family Forum (KATFF) pilot programme in Gwent. She joined CISHE in 2004 and has worked on evaluations of Health Challenge Wales and an EU funded adolescent smoking cessation pilot project; a secondary analysis of ASSIST data; and a project to investigate Changes in Child Exposure to Environmental Tobacco Smoke (CHETS) in Wales. Before this, Heather was a midwife in Rhondda Cynon Taff. She has a particular interest in health-promotion programmes involving children and their families.

Previous research reports
MacDonald S, Rothwell H, Moore L (2007) Getting it right: designing adolescent-centred smoking cessation services Addiction 102: 7, 1147-1150(4)
Murphy S, Harrop E, MacDonald S, Rothwell H (2006) An examination of perceptions of roles and responsibilities for health amongst the general public. Working Paper 76, Cardiff University, School of Social Sciences.
MacDonald S, Harrop E, Rothwell H, Murphy S (2006) Organisational roles and responsibilities for health: interviews with representatives from the statutory and non-statutory sectors. Working Paper 77, Cardiff University, School of Social Sciences.
Rothwell H, Murphy S, MacDonald S, Harrop E (2006) Organisational roles and responsibilities for health: A Pilot Survey of Businesses, Primary and Secondary Schools and Local Government. Working Paper 78, Cardiff University, School of Social Sciences.

Presentations
Rothwell H, Shepherd M, Burgess S, Townsend N, Murphy S - Some findings from the Review of the Welsh Network of Healthy School Schemes (Forthcoming presentation at 8th IUHPE European Conference, Turin, 9-13 September 2008)
Rothwell H, Macdonald S, Harrop E, Murphy S - Exploring responsibility for health in families: analysing social relationships through a focus group study (Presentation at Society for Social Medicine Annual Scientific Meeting, Cork, September 2007)
Moore L, Rothwell H, Holliday J, Campbell R, Murphy S - The role of peer influence and peer selection in adolescent smoking (Presentation at Society for Social Medicine Annual Scientific Meeting, Cork, September 2007)
Murphy S, MacDonald S, Harrop E, Rothwell H - “Nanny knows best?” Individual and state responsibilities for health - a qualitative study using focus groups with the general public (Poster presentation at The Society for Social Medicine, 50th Annual Scientific meeting, September 2006, Leeds; and presented at AWARD Building Research and Development in Health and Social Care in Wales conference, June 2006, Swansea).
MacDonald S, Murphy S, Harrop E, Rothwell H - Roles and responsibilities for health - a focus group study with members of the public (Presentation at The Rotary Club of Carmarthen, September, 2006)