Institute for Health and Human Development

Faye Adams-Eaton

Position: Community Engagement Fellow

Location: UH250, Stratford Campus

Telephone: 0208 223 4149

Email: f.adams-eaton@uel.ac.uk

Contact address:

School of Health and Biosciences
University of East London
Stratford Campus
Water Lane
London E15 4LZ

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Brief Biography

I joined IHHD in February 2007. As part of the Community Engagement Team I have contributed to numerous IHHD projects including: Tower Hamlets Health Trainers, City and Hackney Healthy Weight Review and Healthy Redbridge. However, my work predominantly focuses on the Well London project, for which I have helped design, deliver, analyse and report on a number of engagement events and ‘needs assessments’ across diverse communities in London. I have extensive experience of both qualitative and quantitative research and more recently community engagement methodology including The World Cafe and Appreciative Inquiry Workshops. My work has a strong element of whole systems thinking which considers all aspects of a ‘community’ from residents, local stakeholders to the statutory sector and policy.

I graduated with an MSc in Research Methods for Psychology from Goldsmiths, University of London in 2006. My first class research dissertation investigated the ‘Shared Experiences of Asylum Seeking New Mothers and their Health Care Service Workers’. I have also assisted the charity ‘Tourism Concern’ to coordinate a successful funding application for an international research project.

My research interests lie in Sustainable Community Development and Community Health with a particular focus upon determinants of Well-Being, Social Relations and Culture.

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Areas of interest/Summary of Expertise

• Whole Systems Thinking
• Community Development and Engagement
• Community Well Being

Research / Publications:

Current research

• The World Café in twenty of London’s most deprived communities: What do you understand to be the health needs of your community?
• Community building in twenty of London’s most deprived communities
• Appreciative Inquiry: How a community can work together for health.

Research areas

• Migration and Integration
• Health Service Design and Delivery
• Sustainable Community Development.

Publications

Bertotti, M., Adams-Eaton, F., Sheridan, K., and Renton, A (forthcoming) “Key Barriers to Community Cohesion: Views from Residents of 20 London Deprived Neighbourhoods”, accepted in GeoJournal

Reports

Harden, A., Estacio, E V., Tobi P., Adams-Eaton, F, Bertotti, M, Lais, S (2009) A review of effectiveness, including cost-effectiveness where possible, of commissioned healthy weight-related projects in City and Hackney, a report commissioned by the City & Hackney Primary Care Trust

Institute for Health and Human Development (2009) Healthy Redbridge Less Well-off Neighbourhoods. A Household Survey for NHS Redbridge. (Contributed)

Tobi, P., Adams-Eaton, F., Wali Haque, H., Nabingi, S., Cawley, J (2008) Evaluation of Tower Hamlets Health Trainers Pilot Initiative. A report commissioned by Tower Hamlets Primary Care Trust.

Institute for Health and Human Development (2008) Well London Community Engagement Reports for all Twenty LSOAs. The results from the Community Engagement Process for Well London, BIG Lottery Funded Programme. (Contributed)

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