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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 Nikhil Masters
Lecturer, Department of 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
Professor, Department of Economics
Research interests: Behavioural Economics; Industrial Organisation; Evolutionary Game Theory
Andreas Ziegler
Lecturer, Department of Economics
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 Rachel Marrow
Senior Research Officer, School of Health and Social Care
Dr Emily Murray
Director of the Centre for Coastal Communities and Reader, School of Health and Social Care
Dr Natalia Rodriguez Vicente
Lecturer, Department of Language and Linguistics
Research interests: Medical humanities; Interactional pragmatics; Methodologies for interpreting research; Multilingual healthcare communication; Research ethics
Dr Katie Daughters
Lecturer, Department of Psychology
Research interests: Research Interests:
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; Interoception and Anxiety
Professor Marie Juanchich
Professor, Department of Psychology
Research interests: Risk communication; Gender equality
Dr Angela Meadows
Lecturer, Department of Psychology
Research interests: Weight stigma; Physical activity behaviour; Stigma resistance
Dr Jonathan Rolison
Reader (R), Department of Psychology
Research interests: Decision making and risk taking behaviour; Risk communication; Road safety; Adult development and ageing
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 Laurie James-Hawkins
Faculty Dean Undergraduate (Social Sciences) - Senior Lecturer (R), Department of Sociology and Criminology
Research interests: Social Psychology; Medical Sociology; Reproductive Health; Women's Health; Marriage and Family; Social Norms; Men and Masculinity; Qualitative and Quantitative Research Methods
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 Ruth Lowry
Reader, School of Sport, Rehabilitation and Exercise Sciences
Research interests: Psychology of Active Living
Dr Jason Moran
Senior Lecturer, School of Sport, Rehabilitation and Exercise Sciences
Research interests: Interoception and Exercise in Adolescent Girls; Mind Body Exercise and Community Non-Communicable Disease Prevention
Dr Ina Shaw
Reader (R), School of Sport, Rehabilitation and Exercise Sciences
Research interests: Mind Body Exercise and Community Non-Communicable Disease Prevention
Dr Brandon Shaw
Reader (R), School of Sport, Rehabilitation and Exercise Sciences
Research interests: Mind Body Exercise and Community Non-Communicable Disease Prevention
Dr Carly Wood
Senior Lecturer, School of Sport, Rehabilitation and Exercise Sciences
Dr Osama Mahmoud
Lecturer, School of Mathematics, Statistics and Actuarial Science (SMSAS)
Research interests: Medical Statistics and Genetic epidemiology; Causal inference in public health; Data Science and Machine Learning; Predictive modelling
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