Dr Kathryn Robb
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Name: Kathryn Robb |
Email: k.robb@ucl.ac.uk |
| Title: Dr | Tel: +44 (0)20 7679 1940 internal x 41940 |
| Position: Cancer Research UK Post-doctoral Fellow | Fax: +44 (0)20 7813 0242 |
| Department: Epidemiology & Public Health, Div of Population Health | Address: Health Behaviour Research Centre, 1 - 19 Torrington Place, London WC1E 7HB |
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Research Theme: Cancer, Population Health |
Web Page: http://www.ucl.ac.uk/hbrc |
Research & Teaching Profile
| Research Interests: 1) perceptions of cancer risk; 2) public understanding of cancer; 3) cancer communication; 4) early detection of cancer |
| Research Description: Dr Robb has a Cancer Research UK Post-doctoral Research Fellowship to investigate analytic and emotional information processing and their implications for improving early detection cancer communications. She is also involved in the development of the Cancer Awareness Measure and in examining factors related to uptake of bowel cancer screening particularly among more deprived and ethnic minority groups |
| UCL Collaborators: Prof Jane Wardle; Dr Anne Miles; Emily Power; Dr Jo Waller |
| External Collaborators: Prof Wendy Atkin; Dr Ellen Peters; Prof Amanda Ramirez; Dr Joan Austoker; Dr Clare Bankhead; Dr Una MacLeod |
| Conditions: Early detection of cancer; colorectal cancer screening; health inequalities |
| Methods: Psychosocial research; population surveys; qualitative methods |
| Keywords: cancer awareness; cancer communication; cancer screening; early detection; information processing; risk perception |
| Education Interests: Health psychology |
| Education Description: Dr Robb teaches Risk Perception on the UCL MSc in Health Psychology. She also supervises and co-supervises MSc and PhD students |
| Publications List: Generated from the UCL research publications database. |
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