We have a team of health, clinical, social and cognitive psychologists that work together to deliver research which improves the health and wellbeing of communities. Our work is part of the University’s strategic research theme of Health & wellbeing and contributes to Health & Care Futures at 勛圖tv.
We develop, test, and apply psychological theory to help our understanding of behaviours that influence health and wellbeing throughout people’s lives. We also have expertise in intervention development, evaluation, and implementation.
Staff research interests
Academic staff
| Staff member | Role |
Research interests |
|---|---|---|
| Dr Louise Brown Nicholls | Senior Lecturer | Cognitive ageing; cognitive interventions; cognition & emotion; vaccination behaviour |
| Dr Megan Crawford | Lecturer | Sleep; insomnia; adherence; mental health |
| Dr Mark Elliott | Senior Lecturer | Applied & experimental social psychology; attitudes; social cognition models |
| Dr Leanne Fleming | Senior Lecturer | Insomnia; sleep; cognitive behavioural therapy; cancer; mental health |
| Professor Paul Flowers | Professor | Behaviour change; implementation science; intervention development; intervention evaluation; interpretative phenomenological analysis |
| Professor Madeleine Grealy | Professor | Stroke rehabilitation; ageing; perceptuomotor control; positive psychology; physical activity |
| Dr Susan Rasmussen | Senior Lecturer | Suicidal behaviours; bereavement; vaccination behaviour; health behaviour change; personality |
| Dr Dwight Tse | Lecturer | Mental health; positive ageing; flow experience; prosociality |
| Dr Lynn Williams | Reader | Behaviour change; vaccination behaviour; salutogenesis; personality |
Teaching staff
| Staff member |
Role |
Research interests |
|---|---|---|
| Dr Joanne Cummings | Teaching Fellow | Physical activity; sedentary behaviour; stroke rehabilitation; perceptuo-motor control; cognitive training |
| Dr Karen Deakin | Teaching Associate | Qualitative methods; health & wellbeing |
| Dr Xi Liu | Teaching Fellow | Mental health; therapeutic stories; international student mental health; help seeking |
| Dr Nicola Peddie | Teaching Associate | Mental health; adherence; physical activity; sleep |
| Dr Aliyah Rehman | Teaching Associate | Insomnia; sleep; psychosis; schizophrenia; mental health |
| Dr Damien Williams | Teaching Associate | Community development; violence; health promotion; critical (health) psychology; social determinants of health |
Recently funded projects
Below are some examples of our recently funded work and associated outputs:
- 2021-2024: : Feasibility of a Randomised Controlled Trial. Funder: Brain Research UK. Investigators: Dr Megan Crawford (PI), Dr Leanne Fleming
- 2020-2025: Improving care for people with sexually transmitted infections in a digital NHS. Funder: NIHR. Co-investigator: Professor Paul Flowers
- 2019-2022: HEADS:UP () psychological self-management intervention. Funder: Stroke Association. Co-Investigator: Professor Madeleine Grealy
- 2016-2021: Limiting undetected sexually transmitted infections to reduce morbidity . Funder: NIHR. Co-Investigator: Professor Paul Flowers.
- 2020: . Funder: Chief Scientist Office. Investigators: Dr Lynn Williams (PI), Professor Paul Flowers, Dr Leanne Fleming, Professor Madeleine Grealy. .
- 2020: . Funder: Chief Scientist Office. Investigators: Dr Leanne Fleming (PI), Dr Megan Crawford
- 2020: . Funder: Chief Scientist Office. Investigators: Dr Lynn Williams (PI), Dr Louise Brown Nicholls, Dr Susan Rasmussen, Dr Nicola Cogan. T
- 2019-2020: Understandings of mental health, disclosure and help seeking behaviour among Asian international students. Funder: SMaRteN, UKRI. Investigators: Dr Nicola Cogan (PI), Dr Xi Liu, Dr Steve Kelly, Dr Tony Anderson
- 2019-2020: : A mixed methods study. Funder: Chief Scientist Office. Investigators: Dr Lynn Williams (PI), Dr Susan Rasmussen, Dr Nicola Cogan
- 2019: Developing confident life stories about child bereavement. Funder: Scottish Universities Insight Institute. Co-Investigator: Dr Susan Rasmussen