Dr Stuart Haw

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Background

Stuart started his health career in Peterborough working with Vivacity, supporting the operations teams across multiple sites in the City. He then worked for a number of sport federations including British Fencing, British Athletics, Special Olympics GB before moving into health whilst completing his PhD at Northumbria University. His PhD focussed on how communities could manage and operate leisure facilities and became an important study of the capacity of communities to run services to improve their own health. Following its publication Stuart set up a number of social prescribing services in Peterborough and managed a large social prescribing charity in the West Midlands before joining ARU Peterborough in 2024.

Stuart is passionate about addressing inequalities, putting communities in control, and above all, ensuring community members can live happy, healthy lives.

Research interests

• Community-based Public health campaigns
• Community ownership
• Critical Realism
• Social prescribing

Areas of research supervision

• Realist evaluation
• Public health issues, campaigns, interventions
• Community development
• Management in health

Teaching

• Foundation Degree Health and Social Care
• BSc (Hons) Integrated Health and Social Care
• BSc (Hons) Public Health
• MSc Public Health Promotion

Qualifications

• PhD Sport Management, University of Northumbria
• MSc Sport Management, Governance, and Policy, Birkbeck, University of London

Memberships, editorial boards

VSSN Member

Research grants, consultancy, knowledge exchange

• Stuart was successful in developing Peterborough’s initial NHS England funded Deep End research engagement project in 2022.
• Stuart has worked as a research consultant for Power to Change, The institute of Community Studies, and Newcastle Business School.

Selected recent publications

• Haw, S., Potrac, P., Wharton, K., & Findlay-King, L. (2024). Understandings of success for groups managing leisure facilities through Community Asset Transfers. Voluntary Sector Review. https://doi.org/10.1332/20408056Y2023D000000008
• Haw, S., Potrac, P., Wharton, K., & Findlay-King, L. (2023). The emergence of organisations conducting community asset transfers of leisure facilities. Managing Sport and Leisure, 1–16. https://doi.org/10.1080/23750472.2023.2180082
• Haw, Stuart. (2023). "Sustainable Cities Depend on Supporting First-Generation Students," Teaching and Learning Together in Higher Education: Iss. 40 (2023), https://repository.brynmawr.edu/tlthe/vol1/iss40/22
• Haw, S & Theminimulle, S. (2023). Durability in the community business sector. A Research report for the Institute of Community Studies. https://eprints.icstudies.org.uk/id/eprint/417/1/Durability.pdf
• Swain, P., Gordon, D., Haw, S. et al. COVID-19: self-reported reductions in physical activity and increases in sedentary behaviour during the first national lockdown in the United Kingdom. Sport Sci Health19, 139–146 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11332-022-01012-0
• Haw, S. (2022). Supports and challenges for community businesses: Lessons learnt from Power to Change’s legacy programme evaluations. Power to Change. London

Recent presentations and conferences

• Findlay-King, L., & Haw, S., (2023) Do community groups have the human capacity to manage a public facility. European Association for Sport Management Conference, Belfast.
• Findlay-King, L., Haw, S., Nichols, G. (2023). Human capital in community asset transfer. SVRN 2023.
• Haw, S. (2022). Community Asset Transfers – the role of Human Capital. Voluntary Sector Studies Network. 2022 Annual Conference. Birmingham.
• Haw, S. (2022). The emergence of organisations conducting Community Asset Transfer. Leisure Studies 2022 Annual Conference. Online