Dr Sofie Roberts
Research Officer in Health Economics (School of Health Sciences)
Overview
Dr Sofie Roberts is a Research Officer at the Centre for Health Economics and Medicines Evaluation (CHEME). She is particularly interested in climate and health research anchored in place-based approaches, and the wider determinants of health and well-being of people and planet. Her previous projects involve evaluating community perceptions and involvement in climate projects aiming at low carbon emissions and environmental sustainability, and she has a background in the low carbon sector. Sofie completed her PhD in Media at Bangor University in 2022, analysing Welsh cinema of the last thirty years through the prism of postcolonial theory. She is a management board member of the Places of Climate Change Research Centre at Bangor University and part of the Sustainability Team at the School of Health Sciences. Sofie is a Welsh speaker from the foothills of Eryri.
Qualifications
- PhD: Wales on Screen
2014–2023 - MA: Film and Media Studies
2009–2012 - BA: English Literature with Film Studies
2006–2009
Publications
2025
- UnpublishedFinancial and wider economic analysis of the impact of overweight and obesity on Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board
Roberts, S., Davies, J., Edwards, R. T., Tenbrink, T. & Parkinson, J., 1 May 2025, (Unpublished)
Research output: Book/Report › Commissioned report - PublishedWhat is the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of at-home time-limited reablement service for improving an individual’s independence and health outcomes and reducing the need for long term care: a rapid review
Anthony, B., Davies, J., Pisavadia, K., Roberts, S., Flynn, G., Varghese, L., Granger, R., Montgomery, M., Rosi, R., Gillen, E., Hounsome, J., Hughes, D., Noyes, J., Fitzsimmons, D., Edwards, R. T., Edwards, A., Cooper, A. & Lewis, R., 14 Jun 2025, MedRxiv.
Research output: Working paper › Preprint
2024
- UnpublishedPeople’s perceptions of greenspace in their local area: A national survey
Owen, D. W., Roberts, S., Jones, L., Fletcher, D., Fitch, A. & Tenbrink, T., 2024, (Unpublished).
Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper › peer-review - PublishedThe clinical and cost-effectiveness of interventions for preventing continence issues resulting from birth trauma: a rapid review
Anthony, B., Davies, J., Pisavadia, K., Roberts, S., Spencer, L. H., Gillen, E., Hounsome, J., Noyes, J., Hughes, D., Fitzsimmons, D., Edwards, R. T., Edwards, A., Cooper, A. & Lewis, R., 9 Sept 2024, MedRxiv.
Research output: Working paper › Preprint - PublishedThe cost-effectiveness of life after stroke services and the impact of these services on health and social care resource use: a rapid review
Pisavadia, K., Anthony, B., Davies, J., Roberts, S., Granger, R., Spencer, L. H., Gillen, E., Hounsome, J., Noyes, J., Fitzsimmons, D. & Edwards, R. T., 22 Nov 2024, MedRxiv.
Research output: Working paper › Preprint
2023
- UnpublishedCommunity perceptions of new greenspace interventions: a case study in Rhyl in North Wales: Report to Denbighshire County Council
Roberts, S. & Tenbrink, T., 15 Dec 2023, (Unpublished) 52 p.
Research output: Book/Report › Other report - PublishedCommunity perceptions of new greenspace interventions: the case of Rhyl in North Wales
Roberts, S. & Tenbrink, T., 11 Sept 2023.
Research output: Contribution to conference › Poster - PublishedEnhancing community involvement in low-carbon projects: a study of northwest Wales climate assemblies
Roberts, S., Tenbrink, T. & Peisley, G., 2023, Bangor University. 35 p.
Research output: Book/Report › Other report
2022
- PublishedTu hwnt i’r sgrin: sinema a hunaniaeth Cymru.
Roberts, S., 1 Mar 2022, 2 p. Gwerddon Fach.
Research output: Other contribution
Activities
2025
- Transdisciplinarity, climate change and future roles for health economists
9 Jan 2025
Activity: Oral presentation (Speaker) - Egni Climate Conversations: Centre for Health Economics and Medicines Evaluation (CHEME)
7 Jan 2025
Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Public lecture/debate/seminar (Speaker)
2024
- Reclaim Network Plus Conference 2024
The event aims to bring together researchers, policymakers and industry leaders to discuss and share best practice around green, blue and grey infrastructures.
23 May 2024
Activity: Participation in Academic conference (Invited speaker) - Selling Sustainability
Using enterprise thinking to promote the benefits of sustainability to our community
3 May 2024
Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Public lecture/debate/seminar (Presenter) - Coastal Communities Community Event
A community engagement event centred around climate change communication, coastal communities, and cultural heritage.
26 Mar 2024
Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Festival/Exhibition (Contributor) - Applied Health Economics for Public Health Practice and Research
Building on 20 years of our experience in research and teaching health economics to public health practitioners and those undertaking research in public health, we offer this two-day free online short course showcasing our research portfolio at the Public Health and Prevention Economics Research Group (PHERG) at the Centre for Health Economics and Medicines Evaluation (CHEME). Through recorded presentations and live breakout rooms with you, the delegates, and our faculty of researchers at PHERG CHEME, we will be asking and discussing collaboratively:
What additional challenges does applying methods of economic evaluation to public health and prevention initiatives within and outside of traditional health care systems pose and how can we address them?
What methods are we, as health economists, using (diversifying our portfolio) to address these challenges and add to the evidence base of the relative cost-effectiveness and social value of public health and prevention interventions across sectors and across the life-course?
How can such interventions be paid for in future and how do these methods relate to overarching policy approaches to sustainability and climate change?
This short course accompanies the textbook: Edwards, R. T., & McIntosh, E. (Eds.). (2019). Applied health economics for public health practice and research. Oxford University Press.
12 Mar 2024 – 13 Mar 2024
Activity: Participation in Academic workshop, seminar, course (Organiser) - RECLAIM Network Plus Webinar Series #22
Invited guest speaker to this edition of the series. Talk title: Community Perceptions of new greenspace interventions, the case of Rhyl in North Wales
6 Mar 2024
Links:
Activity: Invited talk (Invited speaker) - The Value of Greenspace for Health and Well-being
This workshop was an opportunity to consider the connection of public health and local greenspace, sharing insights, findings and perspectives. We explored needs,
priorities, perceptions and preferences of stakeholders including Local Council officers and facilitators of community initiatives and discussed these alongside relevant academic expertise.
Our guiding question for the day was:
“What do people across various levels of experience think about managing greenspace on a local council level, through the lens of health and wellbeing?”
26 Feb 2024
Links:
Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Public lecture/debate/seminar (Organiser) - Health economics for environmental, sustainability and well-being projects within the context of One Health and Places of Climate Change research
Building on growing research collaboration on One Health and Places of Climate Change (PloCC) across Bangor University and with outside partners, we hosted a face-to-face workshop exploring how health economics methods can be incorporated into grant applications for research.
6 Feb 2024
Activity: Participation in Academic workshop, seminar, course (Speaker)
2023
- Global Issue, Local Action: Community Engagement with Environmental Sustainability
In this seminar I reported relevant insights about community engagement and perceptions of local climate action, gained through two short projects: one analysing grassroots climate action and the other of top-down interventions. I shared our interesting findings that in both cases, while the topic was climate change, other matters were emphasised by communities: the Welsh language (in North West Wales), and health and well-being (in Denbighshire)
13 Dec 2023
Activity: Oral presentation (Speaker) - Local Perceptions of greenspace benefits in Rhyl, North Wales
A presentation presenting the findings of the recent Reclaim Network Plus funded collaborative project between Bangor University, UK Centre for Ecology and Hydrology and Denbighshire County Council.
30 Nov 2023
Activity: Invited talk (Invited speaker) - ESCR Festival of Social Science: Let's Explore Wellbeing
8 Nov 2023
Activity: Types of Public engagement and outreach - Festival/Exhibition (Contributor) - Community Perceptions of new greenspace interventions: the case of Rhyl in North Wales
Talk and presentation given on current project at the RECLAIM Network conference
11 Sep 2023
Links:
Activity: Oral presentation (Speaker) - Global Issue, Local Action: The GwyrddNi Community Assemblies on the Climate
28 Jun 2023
Activity: Oral presentation (Speaker) - WISERD Annual Conference 2023
Paper presentation
28 Jun 2023
Activity: Participation in Academic conference (Speaker) - ‘You’re Speaking My Language’: enhancing community climate engagement through Welsh and enhancing Welsh through community climate action.
Paper presentation on the findings of the LCEE Project 2022-23
27 Jun 2023
Activity: Oral presentation (Speaker) - British Association of Film, Television and Screen Studies: annual conference
Wales and the Green Screen: Sustainability and Environment in Welsh Filmmaking
3 Apr 2023 – 5 Apr 2023
Links:
Activity: Participation in Academic conference (Speaker)