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Scholarly biography
Dr Jane Thomas is a Fellow of the Faculty of Public Health and a Qualified Educational Supervisor in Public Health. She has worked as an NHS Consultant in Public Health, as Joint Acting Director of Public Health and at a senior level in health promotion, education, training and research. Her research interests are informed by previous roles in local authorities, the Institute for Employment Studies, the NHS and the voluntary sector.
She has a Post-Graduate Certificate in Academic Practice and is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. She has an Honorary Contract with the Office for Health Improvement & Disparities (OHID).
Her first degree was in Philosophy with Psychology (University of Sussex). She took an MSc in Politics and Sociology (Birkbeck College, University of London). She then completed a PhD on policy to reduce inequalities in health (London School of Economics and Political Science).
Research interests
Her research interests broadly encompass 'public control over the wider determinants of health'. This includes 'access to information' and UK public health policy implemented in settings such as workplaces and local government.
Her interests are influenced by World Health Organization strategy, e.g. the Ottawa Charter (1986) and the Helsinki Statement (2014: 2-3,9). The latter document calls for safeguards to protect policies from distortion by commercial and vested interests; transparent policy making and access to information; participation of wider society in the development and implementation of government policy; and environmental sustainability.
She is currently researching public views on the NHS and public health leadership.
Supervisory Interests
Jane is interested in supervising PhDs on social policy, social science and public health, such as, for example, issues on NHS policy, privatisation, inequalities in health, local government policy, empowerment and public control over the determinants of health, public access to information, public health leadership, policy on climate change and key UK health programme and policy areas, including workplace health.
Jane is supervising PhD researchers, including:
practitioners' conceptions of 'holism' and midwifes' attitudes and practice concerning contraceptive advice.
Education/Academic qualification
PhD, The London School of Economics and Political Science
Award Date: 5 Dec 2003
External positions
Honorary contract, OHID
2022 → …
External examiner, University of Sheffield
2018 → …
Fellow Faculty of Public Health
2005 → …
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COVID-19 STORIES: Investigating the impact of COVID-19 on local communities within East Sussex
Sherriff, N., Sawyer, A. & Thomas, J.
1/10/20 → 30/04/21
Project: Public Sector
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UK public opinion on reasons to oppose healthcare privatisation: a failure of neoliberal persuasion and discursive politicisation
Thomas, J. & Tunney, S., 29 Aug 2022, In: Social Theory and Health. 19 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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How US newspapers view the UK's NHS: a study in international lesson-drawing
Tunney, S., Thomas, J. & Cox, A., 25 Apr 2021, In: Social Theory and Health.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Health, Public Health, and Health Inequalities
Thomas, J., Vohra, S. & Tunney, S., 15 Nov 2020, Social Problems in the UK: an introduction. Isaacs, S. (ed.). 2nd ed. Routledge, 18 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Conference proceeding with ISSN or ISBN › Chapter › peer-review
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Analysing and evaluating websites: locating public health within an international multi-disciplinary review of published research
Thomas, J. & Tunney, S., 15 Jun 2019, In: International Journal of Perceptions in Public Health. 3, 2, p. 43-54Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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An innovative approach to evaluation: theory-informed, ‘expected versus actual’, evaluation of educational practice used in a public health parenting programme
Thomas, J., Shah, N., Rehill, N. & Vohra, S., 18 Sep 2019, In: International Journal of Perceptions in Public Health. 3, 3, p. 74-81 9 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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