Ruth Cross

Ruth Cross is the Course Director for Health Promotion at Leeds Beckett, overseeing the suite of degree programmes delivered by the health promotion team in the UK and overseas. Her teaching interests are varied; she co-leads on the Health Communication module, contributes to the Research and Professional Practice modules and supervises master's students' dissertations. She teaches psychology for health, communicating health, critical public health and global health at undergraduate level. Her PhD was on the social construction of risk in health by young women and the implications of this for health promotion policy and practice. She is involved in numerous research projects within the Centre for Health Promotion Research, with vulnerable groups. Her research interests include qualitative methods of investigation and the relationship between theory and practice. Ruth has published several textbooks with colleagues including Health Communication: Theoretical and Critical Perspectives (2017), Health Promotion: Planning and Strategies (2019) and Essentials of Health Promotion (2021).

Publications

Students as Peer Researchers: Lessons From Exploring Lived Experiences of Social Divisions in Relation to Postgraduate Education
Students as Peer Researchers: Lessons From Exploring Lived Experiences of Social Divisions in Relation to Postgraduate Education
Louise Warwick-Booth, Susan Coan, Sara Rushworth, Samantha Davies, Ruth Cross, Simon Rowlands, Muhammad Sanusi Ismaila, Ekwutosi Uneke, Olamide Inioluwa Osoro, Dolapo Oladele, Jake Wagland. © 2023. 21 pages.
This chapter reports learning from students participating as peer researchers in a pedagogically focused study. The chapter documents the peer research model used, its...