Simon Rowlands

Simon Rowlands is currently working as a Senior Lecturer in Health Promotion and Public Health at Leeds Beckett University having spent the previous 15 years as a practising Health Promotion Specialist working for the NHS in Bradford and Airedale. Much of his work in practice covered the areas of physical activity and nutrition for health improvement, working in partnership with health services, local authorities and third sector organisations. During this time Simon also applied his health promotion knowledge and skills more generically in overseas water and sanitation, lane mine awareness and refugee camp health projects, predominantly in the Balkans and Eastern Europe. For his PhD Simon critically examined men's use of weight management services and take a keen interest in men's health and gender more generally as a determinant of health.

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...