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Dr. David Regis - Research Manager
Submitted by DrDave on Fri, 2000-08-11 15:09
David Regis is the Research Manager at SHEU and is your first point of contact for all enquiries about our reports and research services.
Please email David or contact by telephone on 01392 667272.
Risk assessment
Submitted by DrDave on Tue, 2012-05-01 15:23Why did I get into the field of health education? Lots of reasons, surely, but here is one.
Sources of information and support for young people
Submitted by DrDave on Tue, 2012-04-10 13:46@ncbtweets conclude from their survey of 263 young people:
- young people (are) more likely to turn to parents (62%) for health advice than internet (47%)
- over a quarter (28%) of young people feel uncomfortable visiting GP over health issues
http://ncb.org.uk/news/young-people-shun-celebrities-preferring-to-get-h...
These very much fit in with our findings over many years, for example, from our 2010 figures:
Guidance from the PSHE Association
Submitted by DrDave on Wed, 2012-03-07 17:10I had a brisk and positive chat with Nick Boddington on the phone this morning, during which he gently reminded me of the existence of some documents that the PSHE Association have developed about the place of PSHE under the new OFSTED inspection arrangements.
I am happy to share with readers:
Guidance around new Ofsted inspection arrangements (from January 2012)
which is one of the latest of the Association's free resources:
Bullying: turning the curve at last?
Submitted by DrDave on Mon, 2012-01-30 12:48For over 15 years, we have been asking secondary pupils across the country the same question: Do you ever feel afraid of going to school because of bullying? The pupils are offered four responses, Very often, Often, Sometimes and Never. The proportion saying anything other than 'Never' veries between 20% (Year 10 males) to over 30% (Year 8 females). And it's been that way for a long while.
A candidate
Submitted by DrDave on Fri, 2012-01-27 14:53Probably not the shortest question with the most bias ever...
Advances in technology are helping to solve crime. Do you agree with the use of DNA evidence in catching criminals? Yes / Not sure / No
...but close.
[That one courtesy of my MP.]
SHEU in the House, and some hard questions
Submitted by DrDave on Fri, 2012-01-13 17:08The echoes of our Autumn report rumble on.
We were asked to give some more detail for the House of Commons magazine (below) in November, and Jo Swinson asked a question about our work in the House of Commons chamber itself:
More monkey business
Submitted by DrDave on Thu, 2011-12-01 15:03A postscript to my musings about home-made polls (http://sheu.org.uk/content/blog/home-made-online-surveys-can-make-monkey...):
I've been having a quick whizz around trying to catch up with surveys about the quality of sex education, and found a headline:
Sex education should not be taught in schools, say more than half of parents
Would you believe a man with a beard or a suit?
Submitted by DrDave on Thu, 2011-12-01 14:06...asks the BBC.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-15673359
Or both?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-15511823
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-15510306
Of course, on Radio, no-one can see your chin (LISTEN). Someone I met from a technical Support Desk did say I was taller in real life than I sounded on the phone...
SHEU response to PSHE review
Submitted by DrDave on Tue, 2011-11-29 16:04We've just sent off our submission to the PSHE review (last day if you have not!).
Here is ours:
http://sheu.org.uk/content/page/sheu-response-review-personal-social-hea...
Some others (maybe drafts):
http://www.pshe-association.org.uk/news_detail.aspx?ID=1235
http://www.drugeducationforum.com/index.cfm?PageURL=blog&ArticleID=8070&...
http://www.humanism.org.uk/_uploads/documents/bha-pshe-response-form-upl...
SHEU is an independent research and publishing organisation. Each year the Schools Health Education Unit supports surveys in hundreds of communities nation wide and compiles the results from these surveys in the series ‘Young People in…’. The survey services began in the late 1970s and have been very widely used, and from the data bases from 1983 onwards we are publishing data to allow examination of trends.
Our annual survey sample is ‘accidental’ and not deliberate and is therefore not a representative 'national sample' in a research sense. It is however very large, and within any one community is never less than 40% of the community and often greater than 70%. The aim is to provide robust data for the community in which the data are collected and used. With the large sample it comes as no surprise to discover that Unit’s annual data compilations usually match the outcomes of orthodox procedures for the collection of 'national data'.
