Mrs Tristi Brownett

Tristi has a BSc in Occupational Health Nursing, an MSc in Health Promotion and Public Health and is a PhD candidate. She is currently researching the complex interventions that reduce cancer loneliness.

Tristi has been a Module Leader for a range of undergraduate and postgraduate modules.

Prior to joining the team in 2013, Tristi worked an Occupational Health Nurse (RN) and Public Health Specialist Practitioner (SCPHN - OH). Having worked in a variety of publicly and privately owned settings around 20 years. Her pervious scholarship explored how flourishing and wellbeing can be achieved in a variety of workplace and community settings.

Tristi has subject knowledge and expertise in health promotion, community development, health protection, environment and health, working in, and for health, migration, arts and health. She has recently lead on the undergraduate revalidation of the BSc (Hons) Public Health a portfolio of six undergraduate degrees.

Tristi has completed a Post Graduate Certificate in Academic Practice and is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. She teaches on the BSc (Hons) Public Health & Health Promotion and MSc Global Public Health, and MSc Mental Health and Wellbeing courses. She also supervises undergraduate and post graduate research dissertations.

Tristi is a PhD candidate using realist methodologies and implementation science, investigating complex interventions to address the experience of loneliness in people with cancer. She is partnering with a Public Patient Involvement and Engagement group and colleagues in the faculty, East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust to better understand the phenomenon, establish works, for whom, and under what circumstances, and to co-design an intervention that will alleviate the issue of loneliness in people who have cancer. The project is called CLIO.