Health Inequalities pilot : Criminal justice system
Presenter(s)
Susan MacAskill Senior Researcher, Centre for Tobacco Control Research, University of Stirling
Michelle Baybutt Pan Regional Prisons Programme Lead / Research and Development Officer, Healthy Settings Development Unit, University of Central Lancashire
Biography
Susan MacAskill is a Senior Researcher at the Institute for Social Marketing at University of Stirling (formerly the Centre for Social Marketing at the University of Strathclyde). Susan joined CSM in 1980 after working in primary care and health promotion. Susan's recent research topics have included smoking cessation and tobacco control, and alcohol and drinking issues, primarily exploring views and experiences of service users and providers. Her research has focussed on qualitative and mixed method approaches, in particular exploring sensitive issues with vulnerable and hard-to-reach groups including prisoners, populations in disadvantaged communities, young people and minority ethnic groups.
Michelle Baybutt is Lead for the Target Wellbeing Pan Regional Prisons Programme: Health, Inclusion and Citizenship and also, Research and Development Coordinator for the Healthy Settings Development Unit (HSDU) at the University of Central Lancashire. Previously Michelle provided the North West regional strategic and programme lead on healthy prisons development and co-ordinated the Regional Healthy Prisons Partnership Network, in addition to delivering cross-settings work for the HSDU, contributing to research, training and consultancy. Her background of working with offenders and vulnerable groups includes posts such as substance misuse practitioner, health improvement specialist in prisons, and a youth and community outreach worker.
