Mandy Cheetham

Mandy Cheetham is a researcher at Northumbria University with expertise in public health, evidence use, and welfare reform impacts. Her work bridges qualitative research methods, policy evaluation, and community-led health interventions, often focusing on inequalities and social determinants of health.

Her research interests include:

• Knowledge mobilisation in health policy
• Embedded research designs
• Place-based approaches to health equity
• Universal Credit's sociodemographic effects

Recent publications address Universal Credit's mental health impacts, arts-based public health interventions, and co-production in research partnerships. These works span social policy, epidemiology, and community engagement domains.

Supervision: She supervises postgraduate research student Adele Jeffries.