Our Team

At the Centre for Disability Research

Centre for Disability Research
Lancaster University
Alexandra Square
Lancaster
LA1 4YT

Eric Emerson

Eric Emerson is Professor of Disability & Health Research at Lancaster University (UK) and Visiting Professor in the Faculty of Health Sciences at the University of Sydney. He has been a member of several advisory groups to government and non-government organizations and has written several books and over 140 articles in academic and professional journals on issues related to the health and social inequalities faced by disabled children and adults with intellectual or developmental disabilities.

Email: eric.emerson@lancaster.ac.uk
Phone: 01297 680123

Chris Hatton

Chris Hatton is Professor of Psychology, Health & Social Care at Lancaster University (UK), where he has worked from 2000. He worked at the Hester Adrian Research Centre, University of Manchester (where he completed his PhD) from 1989 to 2000. Chris's research covers a wide range of areas concerning people with intellectual disabilities. These include innovations in social policy and practice such as self-directed support, staffing, ethnicity, religion and culture, the impact of social context and social inequalities on physical and mental health, and service outcome measurement.

Hazel Roberts

Hazel Roberts is a Senior Research Associate at Lancaster University. Her research interests include the nature of support for disabled people, independent living and reasonable adjustments. Hazel’s doctoral research explores the role of support workers in the learning of disabled students in Higher Education.

Email: h.roberts@lancaster.ac.uk

Phone: 01524 592808

Susannah Baines

Susannah Baines is a part-time Research Associate at Lancaster University, who has worked with people with learning disabilities, services and families since 2002. Susannah's previous research projects have focussed on religion, spirituality, ethnicity, carer supports, disability equality, and health.

At the National Development Team for Inclusion

National Development Team for Inclusion
Montreux House
18a James Street West
Bath
BA1 2BT

Rob Greig

Rob has been Chief Executive of the NDTi since May 2008. Before that he spent six and a half years as the Government's National Director for Learning Disabilities, providing national leadership on the delivery of the cross-Government Valuing People Now policy. He set up and initially ran the Valuing People Support Team and was the principal author of Valuing People. While working for Government, Rob worked to promote consideration of people with disabilities in a range of policy areas. He was also involved in the work of the Office of Disability Issues, including as Vice-Chair of the Expert Panel that oversaw the development of the Independent Living Strategy.

Prior to this, Rob worked in a variety of roles, including managing and planning both mental health and learning disability services in both local government and the NHS and managing a voluntary sector development programme. In 1995 he established the Community Care Development Centre at King's College and prior to that worked as a consultant with various organisations - including the NDT in the early 1990's.

Rob was awarded a CBE in the 2010 New Year Honours List.

E-mail: Rob.Greig@ndti.org.uk

Phone: 01225 789135

Sue Turner

Sue initially trained as a Nurse for people with learning disabilities. She has worked within training, as a Nurse Advisor, and has managed a variety of services for people with learning disabilities including community teams. Sue’s most recent role was the Valuing People Lead for the South West Region. During this time, Sue set up and ran an number of networks to support good practice and introduced the health self assessment to the South West.

E-mail: Sue.Turner@ndti.org.uk

Phone: 01225 789135

At the NHS North East Public Health Observatory

Wolfson Research Institute
University of Durham, Queens Campus
University Boulevard
Thornaby-on-Tees
TS17 6BH

Gyles Glover

Gyles trained as a doctor, became a psychiatrist and then a public health specialist. He has worked mainly on developing and analysing numerical counts of NHS services and activity, mostly about mental health care. He has worked in university departments, in the research unit of the Royal College of Psychiatrists and in the Department of Health. In the early 1990s, he was closely involved with setting up local authority community care services in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets.

Email: Gyles.Glover@ihal.org.uk
Phone: 0191 334 0400

Richard Dean

Richard Dean is Head of Information Management and Technology at the North East Public Health Observatory. He is also a Fellow of the Wolfson Research Institute at Durham University. Richard studied Information Systems Management at Durham University before working on a diverse range of IT and web-related projects. He helped to develop standards for sharing financial information between currency traders in London before moving back to Durham University to work on web-based data collection and data reporting tools for the Department of Health. At the North East Public Health Observatory, Richard leads the IT and Web team. He oversees all aspects of the organisation's IT resource, including the development and maintenance of the public health website platform. This serves over a dozen websites, including the Improving Health and Lives: Learning Disabilities Observatory.

Tim Packer

Tim is Web Developer at the North East Public Health Observatory. He studied Computer Science at Durham University, where he was also Communications Officer for the Students' Union. On graduation he worked first as a researcher and teacher at Durham University, then later as a consultant web developer in the oil industry. He has worked for the North East Public Health Observatory since May 2009, creating new sites, helping users, and developing the website platform on which all of the Observatory's websites are based.

Alison Copeland

Ali originally trained as a nurse before becoming a researcher. She has a keen interest in health inequalities, and recently completed her doctoral thesis exploring the socioeconomic and community influences on ‘potentially avoidable’ hospital admissions for the older population of London. Ali has worked at the North East Public Health Observatory as a health information analyst since 2009 and now works 4 days a week for the learning disabilities observatory. Her main role includes producing and analysing data, and producing maps for the website.

Felicity Evison