Hamilton, Billie; Ponsford, Ruth; Hartwell, Greg; (2024) A thematic analysis of tobacco industry responses to the Scottish Government's consultation on e-cigarette regulation. Health promotion international, 39 (6). daae145-. ISSN 0957-4824 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/heapro/daae145

Ponsford, Ruth; Meiksin, Rebecca; Melendez-Torres, GJ; Hadley, Alison; Lohan, Maria; Bonell, Chris P; (2024) The implementation of compulsory relationships and sex education in English secondary schools: qualitative research in the 2022–23 school year. Sex Education. pp. 1-17. ISSN 1468-1811 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/14681811.2024.2372355

Ponsford, Ruth; Melendez-Torres, GJ; Miners, Alec; Falconer, Jane; Bonell, Chris; (2024) Whole-school interventions promoting student commitment to school to prevent substance use and violence, and improve educational attainment: a systematic review. Public Health Research, 12 (2). pp. 1-290. ISSN 2050-4381 DOI: https://doi.org/10.3310/DWTR3299

Stepanova, Victoria; Poppleton, Aaron; Ponsford, Ruth; (2024) Central and Eastern European Migrants in the United Kingdom: A Scoping Review of the Reasons for Utilisation of Transnational Healthcare. Health expectations, 27 (4). e14155-. ISSN 1369-6513 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/hex.14155

Bonell, Chris; Ponsford, Ruth; Meiksin, Rebecca; Melendez-Torres, GJ; (2023) Testing and refining middle-range theory in evaluations of public-health interventions: evidence from recent systematic reviews and trials. Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, 77 (3). pp. 147-151. ISSN 0143-005X DOI: https://doi.org/10.1136/jech-2022-219776

Meiksin, Rebecca; Ponsford, Ruth; Kyegombe, Nambusi; Kohli, Anjalee; Bonell, Chris; (2023) Assessing Survey Items on Social Norms Relating to Dating and Relationship Violence and to Gender: Cognitive Interviews with Young People in England. Journal of interpersonal violence, 39 (5-6). pp. 1206-1227. ISSN 0886-2605 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/08862605231204561

Melendez-Torres, GJ; Ponsford, R; Falconer, J; Bonell, C; (2023) Whole-school interventions promoting student commitment to school to prevent substance use and violence: a systematic review. Public health, 221. pp. 190-197. ISSN 0033-3506 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.puhe.2023.06.021

Melendez-Torres, GJ; Ponsford, Ruth; Meiksin, Rebecca; Tilouche, Nerissa; Sundaram, Neisha; Sturgess, Joanna; Allen, Elizabeth; Lohan, Maria; Young, Honor; Hadley, Alison; +2 more... Campbell, Rona; Bonell, Chris; (2023) Student-reported relationships and sex education coverage and knowledge among a diverse population of early adolescents: a cross-sectional survey of students in England. Sex Education: sexuality, society and learning, 24 (4). pp. 497-514. ISSN 1468-1811 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/14681811.2023.2219212

Popay, Jennie; Halliday, Emma; Mead, Rebecca; Townsend, Anne; Akhter, Nasima; Banbra, Claire; Barr, Ben; Anderson de Cuevas, Rachel; Daras, Konstantinos; Egan, Matt; +7 more... Gravenhorst, Katja; Janke, Katharina; Kasim, Adetayo; McGowan, Victoria; Ponsford, Ruth; Reynolds, Joanna; Whitehead, Margaret; (2023) Investigating health and social outcomes of the Big Local community empowerment initiative in England: a mixed method evaluation. Public Health Research, 11 (9). ISSN 2050-4381 DOI: https://doi.org/10.3310/GRMA6711

Rudoe, Naomi; Ponsford, Ruth; (2023) Parental attitudes to school- and home-based relationships, sex and health education: evidence from a cross-sectional study in England and Wales. Sex education, 24 (6). pp. 868-885. ISSN 1468-1811 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/14681811.2023.2257602

Bragg, Sara; Ponsford, Ruth; Meiksin, Rebecca; Lohan, Maria; Melendez‐Torres, GJ; Hadley, Alison; Young, Honor; Anne Barter, Christine; Taylor, Bruce; Bonell, Chris; (2022) Enacting whole‐school relationships and sexuality education in England: Context matters. British Educational Research Journal, 48 (4). pp. 665-683. ISSN 0141-1926 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/berj.3788

Ponsford, R; Bragg, S; Meiksin, R; Tilouche, N; Van Dyck, L; Sturgess, J; Allen, E; Elbourne, D; Hadley, A; Lohan, M; +6 more... Mercer, CH; Melendez Torres, GJ; Morris, S; Young, H; Campbell, R; Bonell, C; (2022) Feasibility and acceptability of a whole-school social-marketing intervention to prevent unintended teenage pregnancies and promote sexual health: evidence for progression from a pilot to a phase III randomised trial in English secondary schools. Pilot and feasibility studies, 8 (1). 52-. ISSN 2055-5784 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1186/s40814-022-00971-y

Ponsford, Ruth; Falconer, Jane; Melendez-Torres, GJ; Bonell, Chris; (2022) Whole-school interventions promoting student commitment to school to prevent substance use and violence: Synthesis of theories of change. Health Education Journal, 81 (5). pp. 614-637. ISSN 0017-8969 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/00178969221100892

Ponsford, Ruth; Falconer, Jane; Melendez-Torres, GJ; Bonell, Chris; (2022) What factors influence implementation of whole-school interventions aiming to promote student commitment to school to prevent substance use and violence? Systematic review and synthesis of process evaluations. BMC public health, 22 (1). 2148-. ISSN 1471-2458 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-022-14544-4

Ponsford, Ruth; Meiksin, Rebecca; Allen, Elizabeth; Melendez-Torres, GJ; Morris, Steve; Mercer, Catherine; Campbell, Rona; Young, Honor; Lohan, Maria; Coyle, Karin; +1 more... Bonell, Chris; (2022) The Positive Choices trial: update to study protocol for a phase-III RCT trial of a whole-school social-marketing intervention to promote sexual health and reduce health inequalities. Trials, 23 (1). 287-. ISSN 1745-6215 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1186/s13063-022-06191-2

Egan, Matt; Abba, Katherine; Barnes, Amy; Collins, Michelle; McGowan, Vicki; Ponsford, Ruth; Scott, Courtney; Halliday, Emma; Whitehead, Margaret; Popay, Jennie; (2021) Building collective control and improving health through a place-based community empowerment initiative: qualitative evidence from communities seeking agency over their built environment. Critical Public Health, 31 (3). pp. 268-279. ISSN 0958-1596 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/09581596.2020.1851654

Ponsford, Ruth; Bragg, Sara; Allen, Elizabeth; Tilouche, Nerissa; Meiksin, Rebecca; Emmerson, Lucy; Van Dyck, Laura; Opondo, Charles; Morris, Steve; Sturgess, Joanna; +9 more... Brocklehurst, Elizabeth; Hadley, Alison; Melendez-Torres, GJ; Elbourne, Diana; Young, Honor; Lohan, Maria; Mercer, Catherine; Campbell, Rona; Bonell, Chris; (2021) A school-based social-marketing intervention to promote sexual health in English secondary schools: the Positive Choices pilot cluster RCT. Public Health Research, 9 (1). pp. 1-190. ISSN 2050-4381 DOI: https://doi.org/10.3310/phr09010

Ponsford, Ruth; Meiksin, Rebecca; Allen, Elizabeth; Melendez-Torres, GJ; Morris, Steve; Mercer, Catherine; Campbell, Rona; Young, Honor; Lohan, Maria; Coyle, Karin; +1 more... Bonell, Chris; (2021) The Positive Choices trial: study protocol for a Phase-III RCT trial of a whole-school social marketing intervention to promote sexual health and reduce health inequalities. Trials, 22 (1). 818-. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1186/s13063-021-05793-6

Ponsford, Ruth; Meiksin, Rebecca; Bragg, Sara; Crichton, Joanna; Emmerson, Lucy; Tancred, Tara; Tilouche, Nerissa; Morgan, Gemma; Gee, Pete; Young, Honor; +3 more... Hadley, Alison; Campbell, Rona; Bonell, Chris; (2021) Co-production of two whole-school sexual health interventions for English secondary schools: positive choices and project respect. Pilot and feasibility studies, 7 (1). 50-. ISSN 2055-5784 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1186/s40814-020-00752-5

Bragg, Sara; Ponsford, Ruth; Meiksin, Rebecca; Emmerson, Lucy; Bonell, Chris; (2020) Dilemmas of school-based relationships and sexuality education for and about consent. Sex Education, 21 (3). pp. 269-283. ISSN 1468-1811 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/14681811.2020.1788528

Halliday, Emma; Collins, Michelle; Egan, Matthew; Ponsford, Ruth; Scott, Courtney; Popay, Jennie; (2020) A 'strategy of resistance'? How can a place-based empowerment programme influence local media portrayals of neighbourhoods and what are the implications for tackling health inequalities? Health and Place, 63. 102353-. ISSN 1353-8292 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.healthplace.2020.102353

Meiksin, Rebecca; Campbell, Rona; Crichton, Joanna; Morgan, Gemma S; Williams, Pippa; Willmott, Micky; Tilouche, Nerissa; Ponsford, Ruth; Barter, Christine A; Sweeting, Helen; +5 more... Taylor, Bruce; Young, Honor; Melendez-Torres, GJ; McNaughton Reyes, H Luz; Bonell, Chris; (2020) Implementing a whole-school relationships and sex education intervention to prevent dating and relationship violence: evidence from a pilot trial in English secondary schools. Sex Education, 20 (6). pp. 658-674. ISSN 1468-1811 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/14681811.2020.1729718

Meiksin, Rebecca; Crichton, Jo; Dodd, Matthew; Morgan, Gemma S; Williams, Pippa; Willmott, Micky; Allen, Elizabeth; Tilouche, Nerissa; Sturgess, Joanna; Morris, Steve; +11 more... Barter, Christine; Young, Honor; Melendez-Torres, GJ; Taylor, Bruce; Reyes, H Luz McNaughton; Elbourne, Diana; Sweeting, Helen; Hunt, Kate; Ponsford, Ruth; Campbell, Rona; Bonell, Chris; (2020) A school intervention for 13- to 15-year-olds to prevent dating and relationship violence: the Project Respect pilot cluster RCT. Public Health Research, 8 (5). pp. 1-338. ISSN 2050-4381 DOI: https://doi.org/10.3310/phr08050

Ponsford, Ruth; Collins, Michelle; Egan, Matt; Halliday, Emma; Lewis, Sue; Orton, Lois; Powell, Kate; Barnes, Amy; Salway, Sarah; Townsend, Anne; +2 more... Whitehead, Margaret; Popay, Jennie; (2020) Power, control, communities and health inequalities. Part II: measuring shifts in power. Health Promotion International, 36 (5). pp. 1290-1299. ISSN 0957-4824 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/heapro/daaa019

Popay, Jennie; Whitehead, Margaret; Ponsford, Ruth; Egan, Matt; Mead, Rebecca; (2020) Power, control, communities and health inequalities I: theories, concepts and analytical frameworks. Health Promotion International, 36 (5). pp. 1253-1263. ISSN 0957-4824 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/heapro/daaa133

Powell, Katie; Barnes, Amy; Anderson de Cuevas, Rachel; Bambra, Clare; Halliday, Emma; Lewis, Sue; McGill, Rory; Orton, Lois; Ponsford, Ruth; Salway, Sarah; +3 more... Townsend, Anne; Whitehead, Margaret; Popay, Jennie; (2020) Power, control, communities and health inequalities III: participatory spaces-an English case. Health Promotion International, 36 (5). pp. 1264-1274. ISSN 0957-4824 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/heapro/daaa059

Townsend, A; Abraham, C; Barnes, A; Collins, M; Halliday, E; Lewis, S; Orton, L; Ponsford, R; Salway, S; Whitehead, M; +1 more... Popay, J; (2020) "I realised it weren't about spending the money. It's about doing something together:" the role of money in a community empowerment initiative and the implications for health and wellbeing. Social science & medicine (1982), 260. 113176-. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2020.113176

Orton, Lois; Ponsford, Ruth; Egan, Matt; Halliday, Emma; Whitehead, Margaret; Popay, Jennie; (2019) Capturing complexity in the evaluation of a major area-based initiative in community empowerment: what can a multi-site, multi team, ethnographic approach offer? Anthropology and Medicine, 26 (1). pp. 48-64. ISSN 1364-8470 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/13648470.2018.1508639

Ponsford, Ruth; Thompson, Claire; Paparini, Sara; (2019) We need a renewed focus on primary prevention to tackle youth knife violence in the longer term. BMJ, 365. l1769. ISSN 0959-8138 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.l1769

Ponsford, Ruth; Thompson, Claire; Paparini, Sara; (2019) We need a renewed focus on primary prevention to tackle youth knife violence. BMJ, 365. l1769-l1769. ISSN 0959-8138 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.l1769

Lewis, Susan; Bambra, Clare; Barnes, Amy; Collins, Michelle; Egan, Matt; Halliday, Emma; Orton, Lois; Ponsford, Ruth; Powell, Katie; Salway, Sarah; +3 more... Townsend, Anne; Whitehead, Margaret; Popay, Jennie; (2018) Reframing "participation" and "inclusion" in public health policy and practice to address health inequalities: Evidence from a major resident-led neighbourhood improvement initiative. Health & social care in the community, 27 (1). pp. 199-206. ISSN 0966-0410 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/hsc.12640

Meiksin, Rebecca; Ponsford, Ruth; Bonell, Chris; (2018) Assessment of survey items on social norms relating to sexual behaviour and dating and relationship violence among young adolescents in England: cognitive interviews within two pilot studies. In: Public Health Science Conference. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/s0140-6736(18)32888-5

Ponsford, Ruth; Allen, Elizabeth; Campbell, Rona; Elbourne, Diana; Hadley, Alison; Lohan, Maria; Melendez-Torres, GJ; Mercer, Catherine H; Morris, Steve; Young, Honor; +1 more... Bonell, Chris; (2018) Study protocol for the optimisation, feasibility testing and pilot cluster randomised trial of Positive Choices: a school-based social marketing intervention to promote sexual health, prevent unintended teenage pregnancies and address health inequalities in England. Pilot and feasibility studies, 4 (1). 102-. ISSN 2055-5784 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1186/s40814-018-0279-3

Ponsford, Ruth; Crichton, Jo; Meiksin, Rebecca; Tancred, Tara; Morgan, Gemma; Tilouche, Nerissa; Campbell, Rona; Bonell, Chris; (2018) Stakeholder involvement in the systematic optimisation of two school-based relationships and sex education interventions, Project Respect and Positive Choices. In: Public Health Science Conference. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/s0140-6736(18)32177-9

Ponsford, Ruth; Halliday, Emma; Collins, Michelle; Egan, Matthew; Scott, Courtney; Popay, Jennie; (2018) Area reputation as an under-acknowledged determinant of health inequalities: evidence from a systems evaluation of a major community empowerment initiative in England. [Conference or Workshop Item] https://doi.org/10.1016/s0140-6736(18)32156-1

Thompson, Claire; Ponsford, Ruth; Lewis, Daniel; Cummins, Steven; (2018) Fast-food, everyday life and health: A qualitative study of 'chicken shops' in East London. Appetite, 128. pp. 7-13. ISSN 0195-6663 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.appet.2018.05.136

Ponsford, R; (2017) "There is such a thing as contraception, you know". Reflections on embarking on maternity while completing a PhD. In: Christopher McMaster, Caterina Murphy, SueCeonshawandCadiroliMcMaster, (ed.) Postgraduate study in the UK: Surviving and Succeeding. Hobbs the printers, Oxfordshire. ISBN 9781911450030 https://researchonline.lshtm.ac.uk/id/eprint/4648872 Full text not available from this repository.

Ponsford, Ruth; Ford, Jennifer; Korjonen, Helena; Hughes, Emma; Keswani, Asha; Pliakas, Triantafyllos; Egan, Matt; (2017) Competing for space in an already crowded market: a mixed methods study of why an online community of practice (CoP) for alcohol harm reduction failed to generate interest amongst the group of public health professionals at which it was aimed. Implementation science, 12 (1). 91-. ISSN 1748-5908 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1186/s13012-017-0622-8

Orton, Lois; Halliday, Emma; Collins, Michelle; Egan, Matt; Lewis, Sue; Ponsford, Ruth; Powell, Katie; Salway, Sarah; Townsend, Anne; Whitehead, Margaret; +1 more... Popay, Jennie; (2016) Putting context centre stage: evidence from a systems evaluation of an area based empowerment initiative in England. Critical Public Health, 27 (4). pp. 477-489. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/09581596.2016.1250868

Ponsford, Ruth; Collins, Michelle; Egan, Matt; Lewis, Sue; Orton, Lois; Salway, Sarah; Townsend, Anne; Halliday, Emma; Whitehead, Margaret; Popay, Jennie; (2015) Development of a framework for identifying and measuring collective control as a social determinant of health: findings from an evaluation of a natural policy experiment in empowerment. Lancet, 386. S64-S64. ISSN 0140-6736 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/s0140-6736(15)00902-2

Ponsford, R; (2014) 'Race' and ethnicity. In: Montgomery, Heather; Farrington-Flint, Lee, (eds.) An introduction to childhood studies and child psychology. The Open University, Milton Keynes. https://researchonline.lshtm.ac.uk/id/eprint/4648873 Full text not available from this repository.

Ponsford, Ruth; (2014) “I don’t really care about me, as long as he gets everything he needs” – young women becoming mothers in consumer culture. Young Consumers, 15 (3). pp. 251-262. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/yc-10-2013-00401 Full text not available from this repository.

Ponsford, Ruth; (2011) Consumption, resilience and respectability amongst young mothers in Bristol. Journal of youth studies, 14 (5). pp. 541-560. ISSN 1367-6261 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/13676261.2011.559217 Full text not available from this repository.

Oates, J; Appleton, J; Ponsford, R; Kynan, S; Huntington, C; (2010) Report on an evaluation of a Family Nurse Partnership pilot programme. Technical Report. UNSPECIFIED. https://researchonline.lshtm.ac.uk/id/eprint/4648868 Full text not available from this repository.