Dr Sofie Roberts
Research Officer in Health Economics (School of Health Sciences)
Overview
Dr Sofie Roberts is a Research Officer at the (CHEME). She is particularly interested in climate and health research anchored in place-based approaches, and the wider determinants of health and well-being of people and planet. Her previous projects involve evaluating community perceptions and involvement in climate projects aiming at low carbon emissions and environmental sustainability, and she has a background in the low carbon sector. Sofie completed her PhD in Media at 黑料不打烊 in 2022, analysing Welsh cinema of the last thirty years through the prism of postcolonial theory. She is a management board member of the Places of Climate Change Research Centre at 黑料不打烊 and part of the Sustainability Team at the School of Health Sciences. Sofie is a Welsh speaker from the foothills of Eryri.
Qualifications
- PhD: Wales on Screen
2014鈥�2023 - MA: Film and Media Studies
2009鈥�2012 - BA: English Literature with Film Studies
2006鈥�2009
Publications
2025
- Unpublished
Roberts, S., Davies, J., Edwards, R. T., Tenbrink, T. & Parkinson, J., 1 May 2025, (Unpublished)
Research output: Book/Report 鈥� Commissioned report - Published
Anthony, B., Davies, J., Pisavadia, K., Roberts, S., Flynn, G., Varghese, L., Granger, R., Montgomery, M., Rosi, R., Gillen, E., Hounsome, J., Hughes, D., Noyes, J., Fitzsimmons, D., Edwards, R. T., Edwards, A., Cooper, A. & Lewis, R., 14 Jun 2025, MedRxiv.
Research output: Working paper 鈥� Preprint
2024
- Unpublished
Owen, D. W., Roberts, S., Jones, L., Fletcher, D., Fitch, A. & Tenbrink, T., 2024, (Unpublished).
Research output: Contribution to conference 鈥� Paper 鈥� peer-review - Published
Anthony, B., Davies, J., Pisavadia, K., Roberts, S., Spencer, L. H., Gillen, E., Hounsome, J., Noyes, J., Hughes, D., Fitzsimmons, D., Edwards, R. T., Edwards, A., Cooper, A. & Lewis, R., 9 Sept 2024, MedRxiv.
Research output: Working paper 鈥� Preprint - Published
Pisavadia, K., Anthony, B., Davies, J., Roberts, S., Granger, R., Spencer, L. H., Gillen, E., Hounsome, J., Noyes, J., Fitzsimmons, D. & Edwards, R. T., 22 Nov 2024, MedRxiv.
Research output: Working paper 鈥� Preprint
2023
- Unpublished
Roberts, S. & Tenbrink, T., 15 Dec 2023, (Unpublished) 52 p.
Research output: Book/Report 鈥� Other report - Published
Roberts, S. & Tenbrink, T., 11 Sept 2023.
Research output: Contribution to conference 鈥� Poster - Published
Roberts, S., Tenbrink, T. & Peisley, G., 2023, 黑料不打烊. 35 p.
Research output: Book/Report 鈥� Other report
2022
- Published
Roberts, S., 1 Mar 2022, 2 p. Gwerddon Fach.
Research output: Other contribution
Activities
2025
Episode 2 - Climate, Community and Health with Dr Sofie Roberts
17 Jul 2025
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9 Jan 2025
Activity: Oral presentation (Speaker)7 Jan 2025
Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Public lecture/debate/seminar (Speaker)
2024
The event aims to bring together researchers, policymakers and industry leaders to discuss and share best practice around green, blue and grey infrastructures.
23 May 2024
Activity: Participation in Academic conference (Invited speaker)Using enterprise thinking to promote the benefits of sustainability to our community
3 May 2024
Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Public lecture/debate/seminar (Presenter)A community engagement event centred around climate change communication, coastal communities, and cultural heritage.
26 Mar 2024
Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Festival/Exhibition (Contributor)Building on 20 years of our experience in research and teaching health economics to public health practitioners and those undertaking research in public health, we offer this two-day free online short course showcasing our research portfolio at the Public Health and Prevention Economics Research Group (PHERG) at the Centre for Health Economics and Medicines Evaluation (CHEME). Through recorded presentations and live breakout rooms with you, the delegates, and our faculty of researchers at PHERG CHEME, we will be asking and discussing collaboratively:
What additional challenges does applying methods of economic evaluation to public health and prevention initiatives within and outside of traditional health care systems pose and how can we address them?
What methods are we, as health economists, using (diversifying our portfolio) to address these challenges and add to the evidence base of the relative cost-effectiveness and social value of public health and prevention interventions across sectors and across the life-course?
How can such interventions be paid for in future and how do these methods relate to overarching policy approaches to sustainability and climate change?
This short course accompanies the textbook: Edwards, R. T., & McIntosh, E. (Eds.). (2019). Applied health economics for public health practice and research. Oxford University Press.
12 Mar 2024 鈥� 13 Mar 2024
Activity: Participation in Academic workshop, seminar, course (Organiser)Invited guest speaker to this edition of the series. Talk title: Community Perceptions of new greenspace interventions, the case of Rhyl in North Wales
6 Mar 2024
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This workshop was an opportunity to consider the connection of public health and local greenspace, sharing insights, findings and perspectives. We explored needs,
priorities, perceptions and preferences of stakeholders including Local Council officers and facilitators of community initiatives and discussed these alongside relevant academic expertise.
Our guiding question for the day was:
鈥淲hat do people across various levels of experience think about managing greenspace on a local council level, through the lens of health and wellbeing?鈥�
26 Feb 2024
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Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Public lecture/debate/seminar (Organiser)Building on growing research collaboration on One Health and Places of Climate Change (PloCC) across 黑料不打烊 and with outside partners, we hosted a face-to-face workshop exploring how health economics methods can be incorporated into grant applications for research.
6 Feb 2024
Activity: Participation in Academic workshop, seminar, course (Speaker)
2023
In this seminar I reported relevant insights about community engagement and perceptions of local climate action, gained through two short projects: one analysing grassroots climate action and the other of top-down interventions. I shared our interesting findings that in both cases, while the topic was climate change, other matters were emphasised by communities: the Welsh language (in North West Wales), and health and well-being (in Denbighshire)
13 Dec 2023
Activity: Oral presentation (Speaker)A presentation presenting the findings of the recent Reclaim Network Plus funded collaborative project between 黑料不打烊, UK Centre for Ecology and Hydrology and Denbighshire County Council.
30 Nov 2023
Activity: Invited talk (Invited speaker)8 Nov 2023
Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Festival/Exhibition (Contributor)Talk and presentation given on current project at the RECLAIM Network conference
11 Sep 2023
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28 Jun 2023
Activity: Oral presentation (Speaker)Paper presentation
28 Jun 2023
Activity: Participation in Academic conference (Speaker)Paper presentation on the findings of the LCEE Project 2022-23
27 Jun 2023
Activity: Oral presentation (Speaker)Wales and the Green Screen: Sustainability and Environment in Welsh Filmmaking
3 Apr 2023 鈥� 5 Apr 2023
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