Aims

The aim of the Communications Group is to maximise the impact and effectiveness of Fuse work, to raise the profile of Fuse as a Centre for excellence in Research and Knowledge Exchange and to use communications to build a unity of purpose within Fuse, and between Fuse and our partners.

Objectives

• To examine and recommend action on all issues relating to internal communications, and communications with our partners and funders.
• To have responsibility for external relations with the public and with practice & policy partners by managing the various media through which we present our message and research findings.
• To develop forms of communication which will share learning and help build research capacity.

Membership

The Communications group is chaired by Mark Welford, Fuse Communications Manager, School of Health & Social Care, Teesside University who provides overall leadership for communications within the Centre. 

The committee’s core membership consists of other Fuse members representing key strands of the Centre’s work, including:

• Professor Susan Carr
  Fuse Associate Director (Northumbria), Professor of Public Health Research
  Public Health and Wellbeing, Northumbria University
  
  
• Dr Sonia Dalkin
  Lecturer in Public Health and Wellbeing
  Public Health and Wellbeing, Northumbria University
  
  
• Dr Caroline Dodd-Reynolds
  Associate Professor, Dept of Sport and Exercise Sciences
  Durham University
  
  
• Dr Natalie Forster
  Research Associate
  Public Health and Wellbeing, Northumbria University
  
  
• Professor Amelia Lake
  Reader in Public Health Nutrition
  School of Science, Engineering & Design, Teesside University
  
  
• Mrs Laura Ritson
  Fuse Manager
  Population Health Sciences Institute, Newcastle University
  
  
• Dr Peter van der Graaf
  AskFuse Research Manager
  Northumbria University
  
  
• Ms Cheryl Wiscombe
  Fuse Administrator
  Population Health Sciences Institute, Newcastle University