Margaret Coffey

Biography

Margaret came to Salford in 2010 after a period at Liverpool Hope University.  She is a Senior in Public Health, and Programme Leader for the MSc Public Health and was promoted to Reader in June 2013.  Margaret’s PhD focused on stress in the workplace, an action research case study of social services.  Margaret’s research interests focus on health, particularly at work, with a focus on the organisational, rather than the individual, factors that determine health and wellbeing in the workplace.  Margaret has been involved with a number of workplace health research projects, including: HEIC – Improving Workplace Health in the Public and Private Sector of Greater Manchester: Working Well; and Improving Mental Health & Wellbeing in Mental Health Trusts.In addition, Margaret is interested in evaluating behaviour change interventions in respect of lifestyle, and the social determinants of health and health inequalities.  She has carried out a number of large evaluation projects, notably ‘an evaluation of the Blackburn with Darwen NHS Health Check Programme’ (2010), and an evaluation of the Salford Community Food Workers Project (2009). Margaret currently teaches Research Methods Applied to Public Health, Evidence based Public Health, and Tackling Health Inequalities at postgraduate level.  She is also a trustee of the charity Interchange, whose work involves engaging final year undergraduate students in voluntary research activity.

Research Interest

Workplace health, Stress in the workplace,The social determinants of health and health inequalities