The Centre, directed by Prof Andrea Wigfield, is multi-disciplinary, bringing together researchers from a wide range of academic disciplines at both SHU and the University of Sheffield, as well as other universities.

University of Sheffield Staff

• Professor Rowland Atkinson – Inclusive Societies
• Dr Sarah Barnes – Quality of Life/Older People
• Dr Chris Blackmore – Mental Health/Loneliness amongst students
• Dr Lee Crookes – Housing, Health and Well-being
• Dr Nicola Dempsey – Landscape Architecture and well-being
• Professor Karina Neilson – Well-being in the workplace
• Dr Alexis Foster – Evaluation of well-being interventions, particularly in the third sector
• Professor Karim Hadjri – Architecture, design and well-being
• Dr Ashfaque Talpour – Ageing, ethnicity and loneliness
• Dr Clara Mukuria – Health and Well-Being preference based measures
• Professor Tony Prescott – Cognitive robotics and AI companions
• Professor David Robinson – Housing and Migration
• Professor Sarah Salway – Health inequalities, ethnicity, migration, gender
• Dr Mark Tomlinson – Measuring social isolation (in relation to poverty) and dimensions of wellbeing.
• Dr Anna Topakas – Loneliness in the workplace
• Professor Scott Weich – Distribution, causes and consequences of mental disorders, measurement and epidemiology of mental well-being.
• Dr Charlene Martin – Loneliness amongst carer givers, people living with dementia, cancer patients and older people
• Dr Anna Leyland – Loneliness in children, young people and women in perinatal period, inequalities and loneliness
• Dr Liam Wrigley – Young people, meaningful relationships and loneliness
• Professor Richard Phillips – Geographies of loneliness, participatory research, children and young people, relationship education

Staff at other UK universities

• Dr Jan Owens, Nursing and Midwiery, University of Manchester – Disability studies, mental health
• Professor Louise Ryan, London Metropolitan University – Social Networks, Migration
• Professor Fuschia Sirois, University of Durham – Psychological factors and health and wellbeing (including self-regulation, emotions, and temporal orientations)
• Dr Dave Clayton, University of Leicester – Loneliness, ageing, safeguarding, and technology
• Dr Ruth Naughton-Doe, University of York – Existential loneliness, mental health, carers, co-production

PhD students

• Flo Gaughan, CRESR, Sheffield Hallam University – Loneliness amongst young mothers
• Manel Lemmouhci, Eductaion, University of Sheffield – Loneliness in Higher Education

External Research Associates

• Dr Katey Twyford – Extra care housing, dementia, co-production
• Dr Royce Turner – Policy analysist and evaluator of interventions