Susan Coan

Susan Coan is a Research Fellow in the Centre for Health Promotion Research. She works on a wide variety of health-related projects. Susan has a great deal of experience researching with marginalised groups of people, for example, victims of domestic abuse and people living in areas experiencing high levels of deprivation. She has expertise in using participatory and creative methods to support people’s involvement in and empowerment through research. Susan also leads CommUNIty initiative. CommUNIty supports the development of sustainable partnerships between community and voluntary organisations and Leeds Beckett University, with an emphasis on activity that promotes improvements to community health and wellbeing. The overarching goal of community is to find new, more effective ways to improve health and reduce health inequalities in communities.

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...