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Graham Moore

Professor Graham Moore

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Overview

I joined the School of Social Sciences in 2005, working on evaluations of interventions which continue to be delivered in Wales 20 years on. These include the Primary School Free Breakfast Initiative, the National Exercise Referral Scheme and smoke free workplaces legislation. More recently, I led an evaluation of EU Tobacco Products Directive regulations. I am primarily interested in effects of policies and interventions outside the healthcare system on health inequalities, and methodological innovation in evaluating social interventions, with this work stretching across a range of topic areas. I led authorship of highly cited MRC guidance for process evaluation, and MRC-NIHR funded guidance on adapting interventions to new contexts. Both are widely used in international research and teaching in public health and beyond. From 2013-2024, I was also part of the team who built Wales' National School Health Research Network, and led its expansion to primary schools across Wales from 2020-24. I am currently a Professor in the School, and Director of DECIPHer, a Health and Care Research Wales funded centre which specialises in the development, evaluation and implementation of interventions to improve health and reduce inequalities. Within this role I am responsible for the strategic and scientific direction of the centre and for supporting the ongoing development of a team of more than 50 staff and postgraduate students. I also lead mental health in schools research within the Wolfson Centre for Young People's Mental Health, and co-lead health and wellbeing research within the ESRC funded leadership hub for behavioural research (Behavioural Research UK). I am Chair of the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) Public Health Research funding committee, and am a Health and Care Research Wales Senior Research Leader.

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Research

  • 2025 to 2028 Moore G Senior Research Leader (public health and health inequalities) personal award Health & Care Research Wales. £42,000
  • 2025 to 2030 Moore G, Evans R, Hawkins J et al DECIPHer Centre Sustainability Funding, Health and Care Research Wales £2,850,000
  • 2023 to 2028 Bauld L et al Behavioural Research UK: leadership hub for behavioural research. ESRC  £10,600,000
  • 2022 to 2025 Moore G Senior Research Leader personal award Health & Care Research Wales. £60,000
  • 2022 to 2026 Butler, C., Miranda, J., Hawkins J., Moore, G., et al. (costed collaborators) IMPACT: Innovations using Mhealth for People with dementiA and Co-morbidiTies. NIHR £3,700,000
  • 2022-2024 Moore, S., Moore. G., van Godwin, J., O'Reilly, D., Process evaluation of Violence Prevention Teams in two Welsh hospitals. Youth Endowment Fund £127,000
  • 2021-2025 Barke, E., Kenny, L., Johnston, P.,  Lock, A., Siminoff, E., Danese, A., Stahl, D., Ougrin, D., Downs, J., Hurry, J., Baker, S., Moore., G., Roberts, A., Pavlopoulou, G., Stringaris, A. Regulating Emotions and STrengthening Adolescent Resilience (RE-STAR). UKRI Adolescent Mental Health and the Developing Mind programme. £3,200,000
  • 2021-2022 Morgan, K., Hawkins, J., Moore, G., Hallingberg, B., Roberts, J., Pickles, T., Charles, J., Van Sluijs, E. CHoosing Active Role Models to INspire Girls: cluster randomised feasibility study of a school-based, community-linked programme to increase physical activity levels in 9-11 year old girls CHARMING II. Health and Care Research Wales. £250,000
  • 2020-2025 Murphy, S., Moore, G., Evans, R., White, J., Robling, M., Robinson, A., Bishop, J., Hawkins, J., Segrott, J., Young, H. DECIPHer III. Health and Care Research Wales £2,500,000.
  • 2020-2021 Brain, K., Moore, G., Cannings-John, R., Quinn-Scroggins, H., Robling, M., Townson, J. UKRI – CV-19 Research Innovation; COVID-19 Cancer Attitudes and Behaviour Study. ESRC. £690,000
  • 2020-2025 Collishaw, S., Rice, F. (co-PIs), Thapar, A., John, A., Hall, J., Owen, M., Murphy, S., Moore., G., Hawkins, J., Young, H. Wolfson Centre for Young People's Mental Health. Wolfson Foundation, £10,000,000
  • 2020-2023 Howarth, E., Moore, G.F., Feder, G., Spencer, A., Evans, R., Berry, V., Stanley, N., Bacchus, L., Humphrey, A., Buckley, K., Littlecott, H., Long, S., Burn, A., Eldridge, S., Family Recovery after Domestic Abuse (FReDA): A feasibility trial and nested process evaluation of a group based intervention for children exposed to domestic violence and abuse. NIHR Public Health Research, £600,000
  • 2020-2024 Moore G, Hawkins, J., Morgan K., Murphy S., Roberts, J., et al. E|pxnaion of the School Health rEsearch Network into primary schools. Welsh Government £1,500,000
  • 2019-2022 Tomlinson, M., Lund, C., van der Westhuizen, C., Skeen, S., Dua, T., Ross, D., Servili, C., Spaull, N., Luitel, N.P., Jordans, M., Melendez-Torres, G.J., Hawkins, J., Moore, G.F., Evans, R. Project HASHTAG: Health Action in Schools for a Thriving Adolescent Generation: intervention development and feasibility study in Nepal and South Africa. MRC / DfID / NIHR / ESRC joint funding. £520,000
  • 2019-2024 Bauld, L., Munafo, M., Fitzgerald, N., Petticrew, M., Gilmore, A., Brown, J., Brennan, A., Pearce, J., Langley, T., McNeill, A., Collin, J., Britton, J., Friel, S., Syrett, K., Moore, G.F., Reid, G., O’Connor, R., Dockrell, M., Bishop, J. Shaping Public hEalth poliCies To Reduce ineqUalities and harm (SPECTRUM). UK Prevention Research Partnership Consortium Grant. £5,900,000
  • 2019 Skeen, S. & Moore, G.F Complex interventions for adolescent mental health and well-being in South Africa: capacity building. British Academy. £10,000
  • 2019-2022 Littlecott, H.,Moore G (main supervisor) Using social network analysis to understand the role of school-based social diffusion processes in smoking initiation among adolescents in contemporary Western society. Cancer Research UK Postdoctoral Fellowship. £158,000
  • 2019-22 Long S, Moore G (academic mentor). Integration of health and wellbeing into the school curriculum: a mixed methods investigation of preparations for Wales-wide school reform and it’s impacts on health and well-being. Health & Care Research Wales Postdoctoral Fellowship. £265,000
  • 2018-2020 Hall, J., Walters, J., Owen, M., Thapar, A., Rice, F., O'Donovan, M., Jones, I., Collishaw, S., Holmans, P., Singh, K., Van Goozen, S., Langley, K., Murphy, S., Moore, G.F., Atack, J., Harwood, A. Integrating genetic, clinical and phenotypic data to advance stratification, prediction and treatment in mental health. Medical Research Council £971,000
  • 2018-2020 Moore. G.F., MacDonald, S., Gray, L., Moore, L., Hallingberg, B., Brown, R. Primary schoolchildren’s perceptions of e-cigarettes and exposure to e-cigarettes and tobacco smoke. Cancer Research UK Tobacco Action Group. £127,000
  • 2018-2020 Long, S., Moore, G.F, Scourfield, J., Taylor, C., Fone, D. Farewell, D., Lyons, R., Does local authority care make a differences to the lives of vulnerable children? Longitudinal analysis of a retrospective cohort. ESRC Secondary Data Analysis Initiative £156,000
  • 2018-2020 Moore, G.F., Evans, R., Littlecott, H., Murphy, S., Segrott, J., Moore, L., Craig, P., O’Cathain, A., Hoddinott, P., Refhfuess, E., Pfadenhauer, L. Adaptation of evidence-informed complex population health interventions for implementation and/or re-evaluation in new contexts: New guidance. MRC Methodology Research Programme £320,000
  • 2018-2021 Moore GF, Murphy S, Long S. The role of schools in supporting positive social relationships to improve school engagement, wellbeing, and substance use outcomes among young people in care: a mixed methods study. Wales School for Social Care Research. £59,500
  • 2017 Morgan K, Moore GF (co-PIs) Hawkins, J., Littlecott, H., Long, S. & McConnon, L An evaluability assessment of the Food & Fitness Summer Holiday Enrichment Programme in Wales. WLGA. £49,718
  • 2017-2021 Moore GF, Bauld L, Munafo M, Murphy S, Gray L, Hallingberg B, Mackintosh AMM Moore L Impacts of e-cigarette regulation via the EU Tobacco Products Directive on young people’s use of e-cigarettes: a natural experiment. NIHR Public Health Research funding board £434,000
  • 2017-2020 Forrester, D., Scourfield, J., Evans, R., Moore, G., Robling, M., Kemp, A. What Works Centre for Social Care - Research partner grant. Department of Education. £4,850,000
  • 2017-2019 Lyons, R. et al. National Centre for Population Health and Wellbeing Research. Health and Care Research Wales. £1,500,000
  • 2016-2019 Morgan K (fellow) & Moore G (academic mentor) Long term implementation and effectiveness of the National Exercise Referral Scheme in Wales. Health & Care Research Wales Post-doctoral Fellowship. £279,000
  • 2016-2018 Moore L, Moore G (Cardiff lead) et al. Exploratory trials of complex interventions: development of guidance for researchers. MRC Methodology Research Programme. £250,000
  • 2015-2017 Hawkins J (PI), Moore G (Principal co-applicant) et al. The use of accelerometry-based activity monitors and linked web portal to enhance long-term maintenance of physical activity in adults: A pilot trial in an exercise referral setting. Health and Care Research Wales £240,000
  • 2016 Fone D, Paranjothy S, and Moore G. Children of CHALICE: risk factors for alcohol-related emergency admission to hospital in children and young people’. Wellcome Trust £16,802
  • 2014-2016 Fletcher et al Pilot trial of the Filter FE Challenge. NIHR Public Health Research £340,000
  • 2013-2016 Moore GF Population Health Scientist Fellowship, Medical Research Council. £250,000
  • 2013-2014 Moore GF, Holliday J & Moore L Research into children’s exposure to secondhand smoke in cars. Welsh Government. £90,000
  • 2012-2014 Baird, J, Audrey, S, Barker, M, Bonell, C, Bond, L, Hardeman, W, Moore, GF, Moore, L, Wight, D. Development of guidance for process evaluations of complex interventions. MRC Population Health Sciences Research Network £34,000
  • 2011-2012 Murphy, S, Moore, GF. & Moore, L. A Pilot Study of Alcohol Policy & Social Norms in Welsh Universities. Alcohol Education & Research Council £82,490

Teaching

I am a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and contribute to undergraduate and postgraduate teaching across a range of areas.

2016- undergraduate and postgraduate teaching in Social Sciences

  • Year 1: Introduction to Social Science Research Methods (Quantitative methods)
  • Year 2: Knowing the Social World - online and offline 
  • MSc Social and Public Policy 
  • Professional Doctorate Evidence Based Policy 

2015-2019 Lead for DECIPHer short course programme (http://decipher.uk.net/decipher-short-courses/)

2013-2015 Supervision of 3 CUROP placement students

2011-2015 convenor of Health Improvement module of the Masters in Public Health, Cardiff University

Biography

Education and qualifications:

  • 2010 PhD Social Sciences, Cardiff University;
  • 2007 MSc (with distinction) Social Science Research Methods, Cardiff University;
  • 2005 MSc (with distinction) Nutriton, Physical Activity and Public Health, University of Bristol;
  • 2001 BSc (Hons) Psychology, UWE Bristol.

Career overview:

  • 2020-               Professor
  • 2018-2020       Reader in Social Sciences and Health, DECIPHer, School of Social Sciences, Cardiff University;
  • 2016-2018  Senior Lecturer in Social Sciences and Health, DECIPHer, School of Social Sciences, Cardiff University;
  • 2013-2015  MRC funded Research Fellow, DECIPHer, School of Social Sciences, Cardiff University;
  • 2010-2013  Research Associate, PHIRN, School of Social Sciences, Cardiff University;
  • 2005-2006  Research Assistant, CISHE, School of Social Sciences, Cardiff University.

Professional memberships

Fellow of the Higher Education Academy

Committees and reviewing

Funding committee member

National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Public Health Research Funding Committee 2017-2024

NIHR doctoral fellowships 2023-2026

NIHR PHR Population Health Career Scientist Award 2023-2028

Cancer Research UK Population Research Committee 2019-2025

Funding Committee Chair

National Institute for Health Research Public Health Research Funding Committee 2024-

Cancer Research UK Prevention Expert Review Panel 2018-2020

Supervisions

I have supervised 8 students to successful completion of their doctoral studies, and currently supervise 5 further doctoral students (across PhD and professional doctorate programme). I have supervised a number of undergraduate and postgraduate dissertations in the Schools of Medicine and Social Sciences.

I am interested in supervising research projects in areas including:

  • child and adolescent mental health;
  • health inequalities;
  • health and health equity impacts of interventions in non-health sectors;
  • intervention-generated-inequalities in health;
  • intervention evaluation methods

Current supervision

Shane Powell

Shane Powell

Abbey Rowe

Abbey Rowe

Izzy Dean

Izzy Dean

Contact Details

Email [email protected]
Telephone +44 29208 75387
Campuses sbarc|spark, Floor 2, Room 2.15, Maindy Road, Cathays, Cardiff, CF24 4HQ
3m euro grant for Cardiff University research team and collaborators to develop well-being programme for families in Eastern Europe

3m euro grant for Cardiff University research team and collaborators to develop well-being programme for families in Eastern Europe

23 February 2023

Menthol cigarettes used by three fifths of young smokers in Wales prior to their ban

Menthol cigarettes used by three fifths of young smokers in Wales prior to their ban

14 March 2022

Children’s relationships with teachers remained strong despite emotional toll of pandemic, report finds

Children’s relationships with teachers remained strong despite emotional toll of pandemic, report finds

04 November 2021