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Dr Michaela James

Senior Research Officer

Health Data Science

+44 (0) 1792 606716

m.l.james@abertawe.ac.uk

Ar gael ar gyfer Goruchwyliaeth Ôl-raddedig

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https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7047-0049

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Mae Dr Michaela James yn swyddog ymchwil yn y Ganolfan Genedlaethol ar gyfer Iechyd y Boblogaeth ac ADR UK. Mae ei phrif feysydd ymchwil yn cynnwys iechyd a lles pobl ifanc, yn benodol chwarae a gweithgarwch corfforol. Mae hi'n rheoli HAPPEN-Wales, rhwydwaith cenedlaethol sy'n ceisio gwella iechyd, lles a deilliannau addysgu plant ysgolion cynradd ledled Cymru. Mae ei gwaith ymchwil yn cynnwys eirioli dros anghenion pobl ifanc yn eu cymunedau lleol i wella iechyd a lles. Caiff ei gwaith ei gyd-greu'n bennaf gyda phobl ifanc er mwyn rhoi llais iddynt ar faterion sy'n effeithio arnyn nhw.

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Mae Dr Michaela yn rheoli amryw o brosiectau ar draws y Ganolfan Genedlaethol ar gyfer Iechyd y Boblogaeth ac ADR UK gan gynnwys RPlace, HAPPEN, rhaglen interniaeth y Ganolfan ac mae wedi sefydlu CORDS (Co-production of Research Direction and Strategy) yn y Ganolfan.

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Uchafbwyntiau Ymchwil

James, M., Christian, D., Scott, S., Todd, C., Stratton, G., McCoubrey, S., Halcox, J., Audrey, S., Ellins, E., Brophy, S., & Ellins, L. (2017). Active children through individual vouchers – evaluation (ACTIVE): protocol for a mixed method randomised control trial to increase physical activity levels in teenagers. BMC Public Health, 18(1)
https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-017-4554-7, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa34629
James, M., Todd, C., Scott, S., Stratton, G., McCoubrey, S., Christian, D., Halcox, J., Audrey, S., Ellins, E., Anderson, S., Copp, I., Brophy, S., & Ellins, L. (2018). Teenage recommendations to improve physical activity for their age group: a qualitative study. BMC Public Health, 18(1)
https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-018-5274-3, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa43768
James, M., Christian, D., Scott, S., Todd, C., Stratton, G., Demmler, J., McCoubrey, S., Halcox, J., Audrey, S., Ellins, L., & Brophy, S. (2020). Active Children Through Individual Vouchers Evaluation: A Mixed-Method RCT. American Journal of Preventive Medicine, 58(2), 232-243.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.amepre.2019.10.005, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa52367
James, M., Christian, D., Scott, S., Todd, C., Stratton, G., Demmler, J., McCoubrey, S., Halcox, J., Audrey, S., Ellins, L., & Brophy, S. (2019). Predictors of cardiovascular health in teenagers (aged 13–14 years): a cross-sectional study linked with routine data. Open Heart, 6(2), e001147
https://doi.org/10.1136/openhrt-2019-001147, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa52438
Fry, R., James, M., Fry, R., Mannello, M., Anderson, W., & Brophy, S. (2020). How does the built environment affect teenagers (aged 13–14) physical activity and fitness? A cross-sectional analysis of the ACTIVE Project. PLOS ONE, 15(8), e0237784
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0237784, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa55132
Marchant, E., Todd, C., James, M., Crick, T., Dwyer, R., & Brophy, S. (2021). Primary school staff perspectives of school closures due to COVID-19, experiences of schools reopening and recommendations for the future: A qualitative survey in Wales. PLOS ONE, 16(12), e0260396
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0260396, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa56635
James, M., Marchant, E., Defeyter, M., Woodside, J., & Brophy, S. (2021). Impact of school closures on the health and well-being of primary school children in Wales UK: a routine data linkage study using the HAPPEN Survey (2018–2020). BMJ Open, 11(10), e051574
https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2021-051574, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa58392
James, M., Jones, H., Baig, A., Marchant, E., Waites, T., Todd, C., Hughes, K., & Brophy, S. (2021). Factors influencing wellbeing in young people during COVID-19: A survey with 6291 young people in Wales. PLOS ONE, 16(12), e0260640
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0260640, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa59046
Marchant, E., Griffiths, L., Crick, T., Fry, R., Hollinghurst, J., James, M., Cowley, L., Abbasizanjani, H., Torabi, F., Thompson, D., Kennedy, J., Akbari, A., Gravenor, M., Lyons, R., & Brophy, S. (2022). COVID-19 mitigation measures in primary schools and association with infection and school staff wellbeing: An observational survey linked with routine data in Wales, UK. PLOS ONE, 17(2), e0264023
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0264023, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa59502
Richards, A., Mackintosh, K., Swindell, N., Ward, M., Marchant, E., James, M., Edwards, L., Tyler, R., Blain, D., Wainwright, N., Nicholls, S., Mannello, M., Morgan, K., Evans, T., & Stratton, G. (2022). WALES 2021 Active Healthy Kids (AHK) Report Card: The Fourth Pandemic of Childhood Inactivity. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 19(13), 8138
https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19138138, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa60370
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19138138
Marchant, E., Lowthian, E., Crick, T., Griffiths, L., Fry, R., Dadaczynski, K., Okan, O., James, M., Cowley, L., Torabi, F., Kennedy, J., Akbari, A., Lyons, R., & Brophy, S. (2022). Pre-COVID-19 pandemic health-related behaviours in children (2018–2020) and association with being tested for SARS-CoV-2 and testing positive for SARS-CoV-2 (2020–2021): a retrospective cohort study using survey data linked with routine health data in Wales, UK. BMJ Open, 12(9), e061344
https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2022-061344, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa60846
James, M., Rasheed, M., Bandyopadhyay, A., Mannello, M., Marchant, E., & Brophy, S. (2022). The Effect COVID Has Had on the Wants and Needs of Children in Terms of Play: Text Mining the Qualitative Response of the Happen Primary School Survey with 20,000 Children in Wales, UK between 2016 and 2021. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 19(19), 12687
https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph191912687, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa61653
Jones, H., Seaborne, M., Mhereeg, M., James, M., Kennedy, T., Bandyopadhyay, A., & Brophy, S. (2023). Breastfeeding initiation and duration through the COVID-19 pandemic, a linked population-level routine data study: the Born in Wales Cohort 2018–2021. BMJ Paediatrics Open, 7(1), e001907
https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjpo-2023-001907, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa63897
Jones, H., Seaborne, M., Kennedy, N., James, M., Dredge, S., Bandyopadhyay, A., Battaglia, A., Davies, S., & Brophy, S. (2024). Cohort profile: Born in Wales—a birth cohort with maternity, parental and child data linkage for life course research in Wales, UK. BMJ Open, 14(1), e076711
https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2023-076711, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa66545
AVERY, F., Kennedy, T., James, M., Jones, H., Amos, R., Bellis, M., Hughes, K., & Brophy, S. (2024). A systematic review of non-clinician trauma-based interventions for school-age youth. PLOS ONE, 19(9), e0293248
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0293248, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa67473
LOCKE, A., Jones, H., James, M., Marchant, E., Kennedy, J., Burdett, D., Bandyopadhyay, A., Stratton, G., & Brophy, S. (2024). Cohort profile: Health and Attainment of Pupils in a Primary Education National Cohort (HAPPEN) – a hybrid total population cohort in Wales, UK. BMJ Open, 14(12), e088721
https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2024-088721, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa68351
Marchant, E., Lowthian, E., James, M., Davies, N., & Crick, T. (2025). Examining the health literacy and health behaviours of children aged 8–11 in Wales, UK. Health Promotion International, 40(2), daaf026
https://doi.org/10.1093/heapro/daaf026, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa68934
Avery, F., James, M., Cowley, L., Griffiths, L., Bellis, M., Hughes, K., & Brophy, S. (2025). “Support for my dad would have benefited me because I was the one looking after him”: A qualitative analysis of the support needs of young people exposed to Adverse Childhood Experiences. PLOS ONE, 20(4), e0313371
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0313371, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa69330
James, M., Adebayo, M., Silveira Bianchim, M., Hughes, L., Mannello, M., Marchant, E., & Brophy, S. (2025). To what extent does self-reported physical activity impact children’s wellbeing and mental health? Insights from school-aged children in Wales. PLOS One, 20(5), e0313970
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0313970, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa69507
OPOKU, R., Judd, N., Cresswell, K., Parker, M., James, M., Scourfield, J., Hughes, K., Noyes, J., Bristow, D., Kontopantelis, E., Brophy, S., & Kennedy, T. (2025). Factors associated with childhood out-of-home care entry and re-entry in high income countries: A systematic review of reviews. Children and Youth Services Review, 177, 108467
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.childyouth.2025.108467, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa69961
LOCKE, A., James, M., Jones, H., Davies, R., Williams, F., & Brophy, S. (2025). Impacts of Global School Feeding Programmes on Children’s Health and Wellbeing Outcomes: A Scoping Review. BMJ Open, 15(10), e093244
https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2024-093244, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa70362
Hughes, L., James, M., Lewis, H., Tur Porres, G., Yu, H., & Marchant, E. (2025). Enhancing children's health literacy: a scoping review of resources for ‘Curriculum for Wales’ health and well-being design, implementation, and assessment. Health Promotion International, 40(6), daaf225
https://doi.org/10.1093/heapro/daaf225, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa71122
OPOKU, R., Judd, N., Cresswell, K., Parker, M., James, M., Scourfield, J., Hughes, K., Noyes, J., Bristow, D., Kontopantelis, E., Brophy, S., & Kennedy, T. (2026). Mapping the evidence on outcomes of childhood out-of-home care: A scoping review of reviews. PLOS One, 21(2), e0325409
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0325409, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa71611

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Erthyglau Cylchgronau

OPOKU, R., Judd, N., Cresswell, K., Parker, M., James, M., Scourfield, J., Hughes, K., Noyes, J., Bristow, D., Kontopantelis, E., Brophy, S., & Kennedy, T. (2026). Mapping the evidence on outcomes of childhood out-of-home care: A scoping review of reviews. PLOS One, 21(2), e0325409
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0325409, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa71611
Hughes, L., James, M., Lewis, H., Tur Porres, G., Yu, H., & Marchant, E. (2025). Enhancing children's health literacy: a scoping review of resources for ‘Curriculum for Wales’ health and well-being design, implementation, and assessment. Health Promotion International, 40(6), daaf225
https://doi.org/10.1093/heapro/daaf225, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa71122
LOCKE, A., James, M., Jones, H., Davies, R., Williams, F., & Brophy, S. (2025). Impacts of Global School Feeding Programmes on Children’s Health and Wellbeing Outcomes: A Scoping Review. BMJ Open, 15(10), e093244
https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2024-093244, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa70362
OPOKU, R., Judd, N., Cresswell, K., Parker, M., James, M., Scourfield, J., Hughes, K., Noyes, J., Bristow, D., Kontopantelis, E., Brophy, S., & Kennedy, T. (2025). Factors associated with childhood out-of-home care entry and re-entry in high income countries: A systematic review of reviews. Children and Youth Services Review, 177, 108467
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.childyouth.2025.108467, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa69961
James, M., Adebayo, M., Silveira Bianchim, M., Hughes, L., Mannello, M., Marchant, E., & Brophy, S. (2025). To what extent does self-reported physical activity impact children’s wellbeing and mental health? Insights from school-aged children in Wales. PLOS One, 20(5), e0313970
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0313970, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa69507
Avery, F., James, M., Cowley, L., Griffiths, L., Bellis, M., Hughes, K., & Brophy, S. (2025). “Support for my dad would have benefited me because I was the one looking after him”: A qualitative analysis of the support needs of young people exposed to Adverse Childhood Experiences. PLOS ONE, 20(4), e0313371
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0313371, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa69330
Marchant, E., Lowthian, E., James, M., Davies, N., & Crick, T. (2025). Examining the health literacy and health behaviours of children aged 8–11 in Wales, UK. Health Promotion International, 40(2), daaf026
https://doi.org/10.1093/heapro/daaf026, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa68934
LOCKE, A., Jones, H., James, M., Marchant, E., Kennedy, J., Burdett, D., Bandyopadhyay, A., Stratton, G., & Brophy, S. (2024). Cohort profile: Health and Attainment of Pupils in a Primary Education National Cohort (HAPPEN) – a hybrid total population cohort in Wales, UK. BMJ Open, 14(12), e088721
https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2024-088721, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa68351
AVERY, F., Kennedy, T., James, M., Jones, H., Amos, R., Bellis, M., Hughes, K., & Brophy, S. (2024). A systematic review of non-clinician trauma-based interventions for school-age youth. PLOS ONE, 19(9), e0293248
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0293248, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa67473
Jones, H., Seaborne, M., Kennedy, N., James, M., Dredge, S., Bandyopadhyay, A., Battaglia, A., Davies, S., & Brophy, S. (2024). Cohort profile: Born in Wales—a birth cohort with maternity, parental and child data linkage for life course research in Wales, UK. BMJ Open, 14(1), e076711
https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2023-076711, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa66545
Jones, H., Seaborne, M., Mhereeg, M., James, M., Kennedy, T., Bandyopadhyay, A., & Brophy, S. (2023). Breastfeeding initiation and duration through the COVID-19 pandemic, a linked population-level routine data study: the Born in Wales Cohort 2018–2021. BMJ Paediatrics Open, 7(1), e001907
https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjpo-2023-001907, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa63897
James, M., Rasheed, M., Bandyopadhyay, A., Mannello, M., Marchant, E., & Brophy, S. (2022). The Effect COVID Has Had on the Wants and Needs of Children in Terms of Play: Text Mining the Qualitative Response of the Happen Primary School Survey with 20,000 Children in Wales, UK between 2016 and 2021. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 19(19), 12687
https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph191912687, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa61653
Marchant, E., Lowthian, E., Crick, T., Griffiths, L., Fry, R., Dadaczynski, K., Okan, O., James, M., Cowley, L., Torabi, F., Kennedy, J., Akbari, A., Lyons, R., & Brophy, S. (2022). Pre-COVID-19 pandemic health-related behaviours in children (2018–2020) and association with being tested for SARS-CoV-2 and testing positive for SARS-CoV-2 (2020–2021): a retrospective cohort study using survey data linked with routine health data in Wales, UK. BMJ Open, 12(9), e061344
https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2022-061344, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa60846
Richards, A., Mackintosh, K., Swindell, N., Ward, M., Marchant, E., James, M., Edwards, L., Tyler, R., Blain, D., Wainwright, N., Nicholls, S., Mannello, M., Morgan, K., Evans, T., & Stratton, G. (2022). WALES 2021 Active Healthy Kids (AHK) Report Card: The Fourth Pandemic of Childhood Inactivity. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 19(13), 8138
https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19138138, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa60370
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19138138
Marchant, E., Griffiths, L., Crick, T., Fry, R., Hollinghurst, J., James, M., Cowley, L., Abbasizanjani, H., Torabi, F., Thompson, D., Kennedy, J., Akbari, A., Gravenor, M., Lyons, R., & Brophy, S. (2022). COVID-19 mitigation measures in primary schools and association with infection and school staff wellbeing: An observational survey linked with routine data in Wales, UK. PLOS ONE, 17(2), e0264023
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0264023, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa59502
James, M., Jones, H., Baig, A., Marchant, E., Waites, T., Todd, C., Hughes, K., & Brophy, S. (2021). Factors influencing wellbeing in young people during COVID-19: A survey with 6291 young people in Wales. PLOS ONE, 16(12), e0260640
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0260640, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa59046
Marchant, E., Todd, C., James, M., Crick, T., Dwyer, R., & Brophy, S. (2021). Primary school staff perspectives of school closures due to COVID-19, experiences of schools reopening and recommendations for the future: A qualitative survey in Wales. PLOS ONE, 16(12), e0260396
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0260396, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa56635
James, M., Marchant, E., Defeyter, M., Woodside, J., & Brophy, S. (2021). Impact of school closures on the health and well-being of primary school children in Wales UK: a routine data linkage study using the HAPPEN Survey (2018–2020). BMJ Open, 11(10), e051574
https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2021-051574, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa58392
Fry, R., James, M., Fry, R., Mannello, M., Anderson, W., & Brophy, S. (2020). How does the built environment affect teenagers (aged 13–14) physical activity and fitness? A cross-sectional analysis of the ACTIVE Project. PLOS ONE, 15(8), e0237784
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0237784, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa55132
James, M., Christian, D., Scott, S., Todd, C., Stratton, G., Demmler, J., McCoubrey, S., Halcox, J., Audrey, S., Ellins, L., & Brophy, S. (2020). Active Children Through Individual Vouchers Evaluation: A Mixed-Method RCT. American Journal of Preventive Medicine, 58(2), 232-243.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.amepre.2019.10.005, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa52367
James, M., Christian, D., Scott, S., Todd, C., Stratton, G., Demmler, J., McCoubrey, S., Halcox, J., Audrey, S., Ellins, L., & Brophy, S. (2019). Predictors of cardiovascular health in teenagers (aged 13–14 years): a cross-sectional study linked with routine data. Open Heart, 6(2), e001147
https://doi.org/10.1136/openhrt-2019-001147, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa52438
James, M., Todd, C., Scott, S., Stratton, G., McCoubrey, S., Christian, D., Halcox, J., Audrey, S., Ellins, E., Anderson, S., Copp, I., Brophy, S., & Ellins, L. (2018). Teenage recommendations to improve physical activity for their age group: a qualitative study. BMC Public Health, 18(1)
https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-018-5274-3, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa43768
James, M., Christian, D., Scott, S., Todd, C., Stratton, G., McCoubrey, S., Halcox, J., Audrey, S., Ellins, E., Brophy, S., & Ellins, L. (2017). Active children through individual vouchers – evaluation (ACTIVE): protocol for a mixed method randomised control trial to increase physical activity levels in teenagers. BMC Public Health, 18(1)
https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-017-4554-7, SU Repository: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa34629

Goruchwyliaeth

Development of the Born in Wales birth cohort for parental and child health and wellbeing (dyfarnwyd 2025)

PhD

Goruchwyliwr arall: Prof Michael Gravenor
Working title: Evaluation of Universal Free School Meals in Primary Schools in Wales. (cyfredol)

PhD

Goruchwyliwr arall: Prof Sinead Brophy

Hanes Gyrfa

Ymchwilydd, Ysgol Feddygaeth Prifysgol Abertawe

Hydref 2016 - Presennol

Ymgysylltu Cyhoeddus

Mae ymgysylltu â'r cyhoedd yn chwarae rôl bwysig yn fy ymchwil. Cydgynhyrchwyd ACTIVE gan arddegwyr o'r cychwyn cyntaf nes iddo gael ei roi ar waith. Mae siarad o blaid pobl ifanc a'u grymuso wrth wraidd y gwaith rwy'n ei wneud ym Mhrifysgol Abertawe.

Dr Michaela James

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