Centre for Behavioural Science Members
Health cluster
For decades, we have been leaders in behavioural science for health and wellbeing. A good example is our work on the wellbeing benefits of green exercise.
The health cluster works on a broad array of behavioural questions in health. These include:
- Understanding the factors that help or impede people from making healthier life choices.
- Developing ways to encourage vaccine take-up rates.
- Studying people’s social, emotional, and psychological well-being throughout life and its connection with physical health and social inequalities.
- The effect of cognitive health conditions such as dementia on the quality of life of affected individuals.
- The roots of health inequalities, and how communities and policymakers can support informed, equitable health solutions.
Our members
Dr Lingqing Jiang
Lecturer, Department of Economics
Research interests:
Behavioral Economics; Experimental Economics
Dr Victor Pouliquen
Senior Lecturer, Department of Economics
Shunsuke Tsuda
Lecturer, Department of Economics
Research interests:
Development Economics; Environmental Economics; Spatial Economics; Political Economy
Dr Lisa Spantig
Lecturer, Department of Economics
Research interests:
Behavioral Economics; Development Economics; Experimental Economics
Professor Simon Weidenholzer
Head of Department - Professor (R), Department of Economics
Research interests:
Behavioural Economics; Industrial Organisation; Evolutionary Game Theory
Dr Katerina Bourazeri
Lecturer, School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering (CSEE)
Research interests:
Developing Serious Games for Promoting Sustainable Behaviour; Enhancing Mental Health through Immersive Experiences; Overcoming Body Dysmorphia with Immersive Virtual Reality; Improving Quality of Life for Parkinson's Patients with Virtual Reality
Dr Bernard Liew
Senior Lecturer, School of Sport, Rehabilitation and Exercise Sciences
Research interests:
Low back pain, Osteoarthritis, Musculoskeletal pain, Joint replacement, Biomechanics, Motor control, Pain neurophysiology, Psychological factors of pain, Artificial Intelligence, Machine/deep learning, Markerless motion capture, Wearable sensors.
Professor Kristian Gleditsch
Professor, Department of Government
Research interests:
International Conflict and Cooperation; Intrastate Conflict, Protest, and Mobilization; Mathematical and Statistical Models; Democratization;
Dr Nestor Asiamah
Lecturer, School of Health and Social Care
Research interests:
Gerontology; Physical activity; Psychometrics; Health services
Dr Emily Murray
Director of the Centre for Coastal Communities and Reader, School of Health and Social Care
Dr Katie Daughters
Lecturer, Department of Psychology
Research interests:
Emotion; Hormones; Oxytocin; Social Behaviour; Social Cognition; Social Perception; Wellbeing; Mental Health
Dr Helge Gillmeister
Reader (R), Department of Psychology
Research interests:
Visual body representations and effects of body image in eating and body dysmorphic disorders; Somatosensory processes, multisensory processes involving somatosensation; Sensorimotor learning, neural plasticity, integration of external objects/tools into the body schema; Mirror touch, action representation, and social cognition; The bodily self in depersonalisation-derealisation disorder
Professor Marie Juanchich
Professor, Department of Psychology
Research interests:
Risk communication; Gender equality
Professor Sheina Orbell
Professor, Department of Psychology
Research interests:
Intention-behaviour relation; Self-regulation; Social psychology of volition and volitional strategies in behavioural change; Motivational models of health-related behaviour; Social psychology of sexual health; Social-cognitive accounts of motivation and health-related behaviour; Cervical screening; Colorectal cancer screening; Arthritis and Interoception
Dr Chris Nicholson
Senior Lecturer, Department of Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies
Research interests:
Issues facing looked after children, particularly trauma, transitions and leaving care; Assessment of children and adolescents; Therapeutic Communities
Dr Jo Barton
Reader, School of Sport, Rehabilitation and Exercise Sciences
Dr Andrew Brinkley
Lecturer, School of Sport, Rehabilitation and Exercise Sciences
Research interests:
Physical Activity and Health
Dr Paul Freeman
Senior Lecturer, School of Sport, Rehabilitation and Exercise Sciences
Dr Ina Shaw
Reader (R), School of Sport, Rehabilitation and Exercise Sciences
Research interests:
Mind Body Exercise and Community Non-Communicable Disease Prevention; Lifestyle Medicine and Chronic Disease; Exercise/Physical Activity and Chronic Disease
Dr Carly Wood
Senior Lecturer, School of Sport, Rehabilitation and Exercise Sciences
Get in touch
Centre for Behavioral Science
Behavioural Science Laboratory
Email:
ESSEXLab@essex.ac.uk
