Dr Peter Van der Graaf

Peter is interested in the interface between research, practice and policy making and how this interface facilitates (or hinders) social improvement processes at local, regional, national and international levels. He conducts research on knowledge mobilisation in public health, with a focus on the wider determinants of health (e.g. housing, health landscapes, urban regeneration) and how they affect people's health and wellbeing.

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• Developing an online knowledge sharing platform and community of practice for health professionals: Experiences from C-WorKS developed in North East England and Yorkshire during COVID-19, Van der Graaf, P., Burrows, A., Park, H., Sowden, S. 1 Feb 2024, In: Health Information and Libraries Journal
• Implementing creative dance activities for primary school children to improve health and wellbeing: a qualitative study in the North East England, Van der Graaf, P., Azevedo, L., El-Zerbi, C., Landindome, P., Watson, P. 2024, In: Perspectives in Public Health
• Learning from failures in knowledge exchange and turning them into successes, Van der Graaf, P., van de Goor, I., Purington Drake, A. 1 Feb 2024, In: Evidence and Policy
• 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
• 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
• Performing Impact in Research: A Dramaturgical Reflection on Knowledge Brokers in Academia, Van Der Graaf, P. 12 Apr 2023, The Palgrave Handbook of Imposter Syndrome in Higher Education, Cham, Switzerland, Springer
• ‘What I really want is academics who want to partner and who care about the outcome’: findings from a mixed-methods study of evidence use in local government in England, Cheetham, M., Redgate, S., Van der Graaf, P., Humble, C., Hunter, D., Adamson, A. 1 Feb 2023, In: Evidence and Policy
• Co-production practice and future research priorities in United Kingdom-funded applied health research: a scoping review, Smith, H., Budworth, L., Grindey, C., Hague, I., Hamer, N., Kislov, R., van der Graaf, P., Langley, J. Dec 2022, In: Health Research Policy and Systems
• Co-production in local government: process, codification and capacity building of new knowledge in collective reflection spaces. Workshops findings from a UK mixed methods study, van der Graaf, P., Cheetham, M., Redgate, S., Humble, C., Adamson, A. 1 Dec 2021, In: Health Research Policy and Systems
• What makes a ‘successful’ collaborative research project between public health practitioners and academics? A mixed-methods review of funding applications submitted to a local intervention evaluation scheme, van der Graaf, P., Blank, L., Holding, E., Goyder, E. Dec 2021, In: Health Research Policy and Systems

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• Membership of committee: NIHR & Department of Health (External organisation) 2024
• Membership of board: University of Nottingham (External organisation) 2024
• Membership of board: Fuse (External organisation) 2024
• Hosting an academic visitor: Ien van de Goor 2023
• Membership of board: Gateshead Council (External organisation) 2023
• Invited talk: Chair Organising Committee 2022
• Invited talk: Learning from Setbacks and Successes in Knowledge Exchange in Public Health 2021
• Membership of committee: Health Research Board Ireland (External organisation) 2018
• Membership of board: NIHR Applied Research Collaboration (ARC) for the North East and North Cumbria (NENC) (External organisation) 2018
• Membership of committee: Gambling Research Exchange Ontario (External organisation) 2017

• Ruth Muscat Enhancing knowledge mobilisation skills and training for health librarians: comparative case study analysis in the North East and North Cumbria Start Date: 11/07/2022
• Simon Douglas Start Date: 10/09/2024
• Paige Elliott Managing pancreatic enzyme replacement therapy in children with cystic fibrosis in the highly effective modulator era. Start Date: 01/10/2023

• Sociology PhD June 30 2009
• Sociology MA July 15 1998