Scott Weich is Professor of Mental Health in ScHARR.  He is also a practicing NHS Consultant Psychiatrist.

His research interests include public mental health and the study of the distribution, causes and consequences of common mental disorders, as well as mental wellbeing.  He has experience of large-scale observational and secondary research looking at socio-economic, ethnic, gender and spatial variation in mental disorders and their outcomes.

Recent research includes the study of compulsion in mental health services, inclding compulsory admission and the use of Community Treatment Orders.  He is also undertaking research into the way in which patient experience data are collected and used to influence service improvement in NHS mental health services.

Prof Weich has an interest in the evaluation of service change in real-world settings.  He is also interested in the evaluating improvements in the efficiency with which existing services are delivered, and in evaluating the use of technology in mental health care, and in the application of experience-based co-design in mental health settings.

My main research interests are in the field of health protection-related topics such as disaster response and emergency planning, and the control of communicable diseases/infectious diseases. I am also interested in topics in international health, primary care as well as health service management.  Examples of my previous research  activities include

• mixed methods study of the state of integrated disease surveillance globally
• evidence reviews on mass testing for COVID, public health benefits of urban greenspace, emergency planning in health in the UK
• qualitative studies on beneficiary perspectives of humanitarian aid in Sri Lanka after the Asian Tsunami disaster, and of the drivers of smoking in young people in Pakistan
• developing evidence-based disaster management practice in the UK and Nepal,
• mixed methods study investigating barriers to testing and treatment of Hepatitis B in the migrant Chinese ethnic population in the UK,
• Methods: policy, qualitative, epidemiology and evidence reviews.

My current ongoing research projects (as of February 2017) are:  

• developing a series of health research projects on slum health in Nepal,
• evidence review of public health needs following earthquakes.

Research Interests

• Clinical trials
• Clinical trial design
• Early phase trials
• Non-inferiority
• Asthma epidemiology

I am interested in supervising research students and have interests in the following areas:

• Health inequalities and equity considerations in economic evaluation
• Measuring and valuing quality of life
• National health policy e.g. NHS service reorganisation, impact of population health change and large scale public health interventions, economic efficiency of the health service or NHS staff
• Epidemiology of chronic diseases
• Health condition areas:

            o Chronic kidney disease
            o Dentistry
            o Breast cancer screening
            o Diabetes
            o Obesity
            o Respiratory disease
            o Mental disorders
            o Occupational health

Research methods I can supervise:

• Decision modelling.
• Applied microeconometrics, particularly quasi-experimental research.
• Economic evaluation.

Calum Webb joined the Sheffield Methods Institute as a British Academy Postdoctoral Research Fellow in September 2021, having previously worked as a Research Associate in the Department of Sociological Studies. His research explores socioeconomic inequalities in the child welfare system and their relationship to fiscal and social policy using quantitative research methods. He completed his PhD in Sociology at the University of Sheffield in 2019 as an ESRC-funded White Rose Doctoral Training Partnership student.

His research on child welfare inequalities and the funding of local services for children and young people has been published in the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, Children and Youth Services Review, the Journal of Mixed Methods Research, Child & Family Social Work, and elsewhere. Outside of academic circles, his work has been cited by the National Children’s Bureau, Ofsted, Children England, the British Association of Social Workers, the Independent Review of Children’s Social Care, the Department for Education, and other organisations.

From 2021-2024 Calum will be leading an innovative new research project as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow of the British Academy titled “Investment in Prevention and its Systemic Effects (IPSE): Modelling the causal effects of spending in children's services with a whole systems approach.”