Dr Angela Wearn

Dr Angela Wearn is a Public Health Researcher based within the Population Health Sciences Institute at Newcastle University.

She is a Research Fellow in Public Involvement and Community Engagement for the NIHR Applied Research Collaboration (ARC) North East and North Cumbria and an Associate Member of Fuse, the Centre for Translational Research in Public Health.

Within her current role, Angela works across ARC NENC research themes with an aim to strengthen meaningful, equitable public and community involvement methods in both research and service design.

Her work centres on testing and refining approaches to diverse public partnerships, evaluating involvement and understanding how systems can embed inclusive practice in sustainable and impactful ways.

She most often works alongside traditionally seldom-heard communities, including those living in areas of severe socioeconomic disadvantage, neurodivergent groups and young people, and is experienced in coproduction and participatory methods.

Angela is also a Chartered Psychologist (Academic; Health Psychology) and Associate Fellow of the British Psychological Society, with a focus on the health and wellbeing of marginalised women, prevention and the development and evaluation of complex health interventions.

Angela completed her PhD at Northumbria University which explored the development of intervention strategies to address socioeconomic inequalities in cervical screening uptake and currently leads and supports a range of work focused on improving women’s access to health and care services across the life course.

Angela is interested in, and can help with:

• Inclusion of marginalised and seldom-heard groups
• Women’s health and wellbeing across the life course
• Co-production, participatory and peer-led methods
• Prevention and access to health and care services
• Development and evaluation of complex interventions
• Systems-level approaches to embedding both public partnerships and inclusive practice