Dr Marc Chrysanthou

Dr Marc Chrysanthou

Senior Lecturer in Public Health

  • Email address M.Chrysanthou@wlv.ac.uk
  • Phone number 01902 322358
  • Faculty Faculty of Education Health & Wellbeing
  • Areas of expertise

    Sociology of Health & Illness

    Health Psychology

    Health Policy

    Politics of health

    Environmental Politics

    Research Methods - quantitative/qualitative

30 years' higher education teaching experience - in a wide range of health-related subjects (Health Promotion, Sociology, Research Methods, Health Psychology).  Have taught social science-related subjects to a wide range of health-practitioners (nurses, midwives, radiographers, OTs, physios) as well as non-vocational undergrads and post-grads.

Experience as leader of Distance Learning online course.

Field researcher leading or contributing to several projects on alcohol use and alcohol services.

Outside academia, I am a qualified personal trainer, with a keen interest in fitness. I write a Keeping Fit column for a local magazine.

Hobbies include keep fit, playing guitar/composing, rockclimbing/mountaineering, cookery (breadmaking).

 

I currently teach on the BSc (Hons) Public Health and Health studies programmes - Module Leader for Sociology of Public Health, Health Psychology, Appraising Health Policy, Social Perspectives on Health & Health Policy, Research for Health project.

Politics of Public Health

Ecopsychology

Social Phenomenology

British Psychological Society

BSc(Hons) Social Science First Class

M.Litt (Oxon) Politics

PhD Public Health

The Curious Case of the Mssing Ethnic Minority Drinkers - a report for Central Manchester Alcohol Unit/University of Salford.

Lay Perceptions of Alcohol Problems in Weaste & Eccles - a Report for North West Regional Health Authority

An Evaluation of the Community Alcohol Strategy - A Report for Salford Public Health Authority.

The Commuter's Experience of Space & Time - towards a post-industrial geography of health inequalities

Transparency & Selfhood - Utopia & the Informed Body

Living in the Wasteland - the Psychological & Emotional Impact of Litter