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Dr Mandy Cheetham

Assistant Professor

School: Healthcare and Nursing Sciences

Research Themes and Scholarly Interests

My research interests focus on research and evidence use in public health, knowledge mobilisation, embedded research, qualitative research methods, place-based and community-led approaches to addressing inequalities in health, and the health and social impacts of welfare reform, including Universal Credit.

Key Publications

Estimating population mental health effects of the rollout of Universal Credit in the UK using standard and novel Difference-in-Differences analysis, 2009-2019, Marimpi, M., Barr, B., Baxter, A., Hugh-Jones, S., Taylor-Robinson, D., Katikireddi, S., Brown, H., Cheetham, M., Morris, S., Munford, L., Richiardi, M., Sutton, M., Bambra, C., Craig, P., Wickham, S. 1 Oct 2025, In: Public Health
Evaluating Process and Outcomes of Public Involvement in Applied Health and Social Care Research: A Rapid Systematic Review, Wearn, A., Brennan-Tovey, K., Adams, E., Alderson, H., Baariu, J., Cheetham, M., Bartle, V., Palfreyman, L., Rook, V., Shenton, F., Ramsay, S., Kaner, E. 1 Feb 2025, In: Health Expectations
“You’re sort of building community in a bigger way”: exploring the potential of creative, nature-based activities to facilitate community connections, Sirisena, M., Cheetham, M. 4 May 2025, In: Arts and Health
‘You can see when your parents are struggling’: a qualitative study of children and young people’s views of Universal Credit, Cheetham, M., El-Zerbi, C., Bidmead, E., Morris, S., Dodd, T. 26 Dec 2024, In: Journal of Social Policy
‘We don’t make best use of art in public health’: lessons learned from co-producing a theatre performance to stimulate debate about Universal Credit, Cheetham, M., Vanden, K., Lindow, L., Morris, S., Moffatt, S., McCormick, B., Wiseman, A. 4 Jan 2024, In: Evidence and Policy
Woman of the North: Inequality, health and work, Abel, K., Addison, M., Zied Abozied, E., Akhter, N., Akhter, Z., Alderson, H., Anderson, S., Bambra, C., Bennett, N., Boyack, L., Brown, H., Browning, A., Cheetham, M., Cooper, C., Cooper, R., Davies, H., Esan, O., Fairbrother, H., Froggett, L., Geary, R., Gibson, M., Greenlaw, J., Grollman, C., Hanratty, B., Harrison, D., Heslehurst, N., Hope, H., Jackson, K., Jordan, U., Laing, M., Lee, P., Leavy, C., McDermott, J., McGovern, R., McNamara, C., Meads, C., Moffat, M., Morris, S., Munford, L., O’Brien, K., Patrick, R., Patterson, S., Pickett, K., Pleace, N., Powell, L., Rankin, J., Taylor-Robinson, D., Scott, S., Simpson, J., Smart, D., Snell, C., Spiers, G., Stockdale, K., Westmarland, N., Wickham, S., Wilding, A. 3 Sep 2024
A rapid review of children and young people's views of poverty and welfare in the context of Universal Credit, Bidmead, E., El Zerbi, C., Cheetham, M., Frost, S. 1 Nov 2023, In: Children & society
Correction: Leading co-production in five UK collaborative research partnerships (2008–2018): responses to four tensions from senior leaders using auto-ethnography, van der Graaf, P., Kislov, R., Smith, H., Langley, J., Hamer, N., Cheetham, M., Wolstenholme, D., Cooke, J., Mawson, S. 24 Feb 2023, In: Implementation Science Communications
Exploring the health and sociodemographic characteristics of people seeking advice with claiming universal credit: a cross-sectional analysis of UK citizens advice data, 2017–2021, Brown, H., Xiang, H., Cheetham, M., Morris, S., Gibson, M., Katikireddi, S., Munford, L., Taylor-Robinson, D., Finney, H., Bartle, V., Baxter, A., Wickham, S., Craig, P., Bambra, C. 30 Mar 2023, In: BMC Public Health
Leading co-production in five UK collaborative research partnerships (2008-2018): responses to four tensions from senior leaders using auto-ethnography, Van der Graaf, P., Kislov, R., Smith, H., Langley, J., Hamer, N., Cheetham, M., Wolstenholme, D., Cooke, J., Mawson, S. 27 Jan 2023, In: Implementation Science Communications

Current and Recent Projects

Developing an NIHR Health and Social care Delivery Research (HSDR) national evaluation team: InterDisciplinary Evaluation of complex innovations in heAlth and Social care (IDEAS) Centre, Bate, A. (Principal Investigator), Cheetham, M. (Co Investigator), National Institute for Health Research, 01/02/25 - 31/01/30, £3,028,752.00

PGR Supervision

Adele Jeffries Start Date: 10/09/2024

PGR Supervision

Adele Jeffries Learning to Grow: An exploration of how pupils' mental health and well-being is affected by their participation in a school-based horticultural project in Northern Ireland. Start Date: 10/09/2024