Essex ESNEFT Psychological Research Unit for Behaviour, Health and Wellbeing (EEPRU)

Our mission

To conduct a programme of research on behavioural and psychological processes in the development, onset, prevention, early detection, management and progression of illness, and promotion of health and wellbeing.

The unit is funded by a £1m research grant that supports doctoral students and research staff who aim to explain behavioural and psychological processes in the development, onset, prevention, early detection, management and progression of illness, and promotion of health and wellbeing. Unit members work closely with clinical, allied health professional, and public health teams at ESNEFT on different research projects. The unit is happy to consider requests for evaluation projects.

The unit supports the department’s research activity that fosters “Understanding our place in the world” by helping to discern how people think about illness, experience illness, and respond to illness threat, and the role of social interactions in this process. The unit also has research relationships across the wider university, including working in partnership with the Institute of Public Health and Wellbeing.

The unit also supports students studying masters and research degrees in psychology.