Justin has been working in the field of public health for many years both as a practitioner and as a researcher. Justin's former roles include working as the Director of the Centre for Workplace and Community Health at St Mary's University, and as a National Engagement Manager for Macmillan Cancer Support, leading on the charity's healthy lifestyles programme. Justin leads the Public Health MSc programme at the University.
Justin Webb
Justin has been working in the field of public health for many years, both as a practitioner and as a researcher. Justin's former roles include working as the Director of the Centre for Workplace and Community Health at St Mary's University, and as a National Engagement Manager for Macmillan Cancer Support, leading on the charity's healthy lifestyles programme. Justin is a fellow of the Royal Society for Public Health.
Justin has taught across a range of modules at a postgraduate level including health improvement, epidemiology, health protection and the Public Health dissertation project. In addition, he has taught public health and health promotion, and employability skills at an undergraduate level.
Justin teaches on the Public Health MSc and Health and Social Care Management and Policy MSc courses as well as leading dissertation projects.
Justin teaches on the Public Health MSc and Health and Social Care Management and Policy MSc courses as well as leading dissertation projects.
Justin's research interest is in behavioural and social science and public health, particularly in lifestyle behaviours in people with long-term conditions.
He is part of the Centre for Primary Health and Social Care but has also worked in collaboration with the School of Art, Architecture and Design, and the Performance with Purpose Research Centre.
Justin is part of the LondonMet Lab: Empowering London project, leading on the Health Improvement Challenge.
Justin has been awarded the following funding:
- Versus Arthritis: £90,000 to evaluate their physical activity programme
- Rescaling Fund, London Metropolitan University: £2,485 to fund collaboration between the School of Art, Architecture and Design and the School of Social Professions bringing the discipline of behavioural science together with architecture, public health, and environmental science, aiming to influence pro-environmental behaviours. In partnership with Dr Sian Moxon.
- Kusuma Trust: £58,232 to fund research to understand and change the behaviour of urban rewilding, expanding on the Rescaling Fund.
London Met is an accredited training provider for the Royal Society for Public Health and delivers two week-long summer schools, offering professional qualifications to students and the public health workforce alike.
Justin is also a member of the Versus Arthritis physical activity advisory group and currently sits on the Alzheimer's Society physical activity expert advisory group.
Justin's esteem factors include:
- British Medical Association Patient Information Award 2017: Macmillan Move More Pack
- British Medical Association Patient Information Award 2017: Macmillan Move More Pack, issued by British Medical Association September 2017
- London Met Labs Health Improvement
- Macmillan Professionals Conference 2016
- Videos from the National Cancer Research Institute Conference for the European Medical Journal in 2015
Recent publications include:
- Webb, J & Stewart, D (2023), Let’s Move with Leon, A randomised controlled trial of a UK digital intervention to improve physical activity in people with a musculoskeletal condition, Public Health
- Hills, S & Webb, J (2023), Predictors of vaccine hesitancy and protective behaviours to limit the community spread of COVID-19, UNICEF Innocenti–Global Office of Research and Foresight
- Webb, J., Horlock, R., Ahlquist, A., Hall, A., Brisby, K., Hills, S., & Stewart, D. (2022), The reach and benefits of a digital intervention to improve physical activity in people with a musculoskeletal condition delivered during the COVID-19 pandemic in the UK, Perspectives in Public Health
- Webb, J., Baker, A., Palmer, T., Hall, A., Ahlquist, A., Darlow, J., Olaniyan, V., Horlock, R., & Stewart, D. (2022), The barriers and facilitators to physical activity in people with a musculoskeletal condition: A rapid review of reviews using the COM-B model to support intervention development, Public Health in Practice, 3, 100250
- Pallin, N. D., Webb, J., Brown, L., Woznitza, N., Stewart-Lord, A., Charlesworth, L., Beeken, R. J., & Fisher, A. (2022), Online training resources to aid therapeutic radiographers in engaging in conversations about physical activity and diet: A mixed methods study, Radiography, 28(1), 124–132
- Price, I., Whitehead, G., Khan, K., Webb, J (2022), Education for social justice: research, policy and practice. Investigations in university teaching and learning 13
- Webb, J., Arthur, R., McFarlane-Edmond, P., Burns, T., & Warren, D. (2022), An evaluation of the experiences of the hidden curriculum of Black and minority ethnic undergraduate health and social care students at a London university, Journal of Further and Higher Education, 46(3), 312–326
- Webb, J., & Moxon, S. (2021), A study protocol to understand urban rewilding behaviour in relation to adaptations to private gardens, Cities & Health, 0(0), 1–9
- Peel, J., Webb, J., Jones, A (2020). A remote behaviour change service for increasing physical activity in people with chronic lung conditions: intervention development using the Behaviour Change Wheel, Perspectives in Public Health, 140 (1), 16-21
- Pallin, N, Fisher, A, Beeken, RJ, Woznitza, N, Charlesworth, L, Webb, J (2020), Protocol: A systematic review of digital education interventions for healthcare professionals to promote physical activity and healthy eating among adult patients, International prospective register of systematic reviews
- Peel, J, Webb, J, Jones, A (2020), A remote behaviour change service for increasing physical activity in people with chronic lung conditions: intervention development using the Behaviour Change Wheel, Perspectives in Public Health, 140 (1), 16-21
- Webb, J, Peel, J, Fife-Schaw, C, and Ogden, J (2019), A mixed-methods process evaluation of a print-based intervention supported by internet tools to improve physical activity in UK cancer survivors, Public Health, 175, 19–27
- Webb, J, Fife-Schaw, C, and Ogden, J (2019), A randomised control trial and cost-consequence analysis to examine the effects of a print-based intervention supported by internet tools on the physical activity of UK cancer survivors, Public Health, 171, 106–115
- Webb, J, Fife-Schaw, C, Ogden, J, and Foster, J (2017), The Effect of the Move More Pack on the Physical Activity of Cancer Survivors: Protocol for a Randomized Waiting List Control Trial with Process Evaluation, JMIR research protocols, 6(11), e220
- Webb, J, Stockwell, J, and Chavez-Ugalde, Y (2017), The reach, adoption, and effectiveness of online training for healthcare professionals, Public Health, 153, 107–110
- Webb, J, Hall, J, Hall, K, and Fabunmi-Alade, R (2016), Increasing the frequency of physical activity very brief advice from nurses to cancer patients, A mixed-methods feasibility study of a training intervention, Public Health, 139(C), 121–133
- Webb, J, Foster, J, and Poulter, E (2016), Increasing the frequency of physical activity very brief advice for cancer patients: Development of an intervention using the behaviour change wheel, Public Health, 133, 45–56
- Webb, J, Smerald, G, Ardill, J Fu, E, and Toombs, B (2016), The barriers and motivators to physical activity in people living with cancer, Conference abstract 2016 National Cancer Research Institute conference, November 2016, Liverpool, England
- Webb, J, Smerald, G, Ardill, J, Fu, E, and Toombs, B (2016, November), What drives cancer survivors to get active? NCRI conference, Liverpool, England
- Worbey, S, Foster, J, Horlock, R, and Webb, J (2016), Formative evaluation of Macmillan’s physical activity behaviour change care pathway, NCRI conference, Liverpool, England
Dr. Justin Webb
Associate Professor of Public Health
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