Dr Robin Ireland
- Honorary Research Fellow (School of Health & Wellbeing)
email:
Robin.Ireland@glasgow.ac.uk
School of Health and Wellbeing, Clarice Pears Building, University of Glasgow, 90 Byres Road, G12 8TB
Biography
Robin Ireland has worked in public health since 1984, including being employed by Princes Park Health Centre in Liverpool 8 and Mersey Regional Health Authority amongst others.
He is the former Chief Executive of the Health Equalities Group (HEG) charity based in Liverpool. Ireland established the organisation in 2002, followed by Healthy Stadia in 2004 and Food Active in 2013, both part of HEG, and is now an Honorary Director of Research with the charity. He has since worked with the University of Dundee and Obesity Action Scotland. Robin was elected Member of the UK Faculty of Public Health through Distinction in 2015.
Robin received a BA (Hons) in Development Studies at the University of East Anglia and gained his MPH at the University of Liverpool. He was awarded his PhD by the University of Glasgow in 2021. His thesis was on the Commercial Determinants of Health in Sport.
Research interests
- Commercial determinants of health
- Marketing by unhealthy commodity industries in sport and in general
- The commercialisation of sport
- Whole systems approaches to healthy weight (including diet and physical activity)
- Systems leadership
- Qualitative research
