September 2011 For immediate release Centre for Mens Health appoints Co-Director

Leeds Metropolitan Universitys Centre for Mens Health has appointed a second director, as Steve Robertson is named Professor of Men, Gender & Health. The appointment, leading on projects with Alan White, the worlds first Professor of Mens Health, will support the significant contribution that the Centre makes to mens health research and evaluation work, including recently producing the first State of Mens Health report for the European Commission. Professor Robertson has produced a key text - Understanding Men and Health: Masculinities, Identity and Well-being - and has an increasing international reputation, working and publishing with academics as far away as Australia and Canada. His recent and current work includes considering mens health information needs and requirements, evaluation of a suicide awareness campaign in North Lanarkshire and evaluating the Premier League Health programme (a National programme to promote mens health through 16 Premier League football clubs). Steve worked in the NHS for over twenty years as a nurse and health visitor, before commencing a career in research in 1999. He is the Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Mens Health and has also acted as a consultant on gender and mens health to the UK Department of Health and to WHO (Europe). He has led the research element of the Mens Health Forums Health Information for Men project.

On Thursday 3 November, Leeds Metropolitan University will launch its new Research Institute for Health and Wellbeing, which will foster research and knowledge in specific areas, including Mens health and Men, gender and wellbeing, allowing the research funding community, partners and clients to engage with the Universitys experienced researchers.

Ends For further details please contact Carrie Braithwaite in the News and Media team at Leeds Met on 0113 812 3022 or email c.braithwaite@leedsmet.ac.uk Notes for editors: Leeds Metropolitan University has 30,000 students and 3, 000 staff. The University has achieved its best ever Research Assessment Exercise results. Sports-Related Studies is in the top 6 institutions in the country with research rated at the highest levels of 4* and 3*. Leeds Met has been rated the top university in the UK for its language support, accommodation quality and learning spaces in the 2010 Autumn Wave of the International Student Barometer and sixth in the world for the quality of its lectures. The Universitys award-winning learning environments include Broadcasting Place, voted the best tall building in the world in 2010 by the Chicago-based Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH) and also winner of the 2010 Leeds Architecture Awards New Building category, the iconic Rose Bowl building, awarded Best Commercial Property Development in the 2009 Yorkshire Property Awards and the pioneering Carnegie Village student accommodation. Leeds Metropolitan is one of only a handful of UK universities to have been awarded the Carbon Trust Standard.