Health and wellbeing

Understanding and changing behaviour to promote population health.

This area of research focuses on behaviour change in relation to health and wellbeing, with the aim of:

• Supporting people to manage their health
• Enabling health care professionals to deliver evidence-based practice

Research projects

Read about some of our current research projects relating to health and wellbeing:

Using evidence, theory and methods from behavioural and social sciences to inform government policy on health, preventing ill-health and health systems

Co-designing culturally sensitive support to increase the number of people with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease that take up a treatment programme of exercise and education.

Through applying behavioural theory, we will investigate if programmes promoting physical activity in pregnancy are designed to target associated barriers and facilitators.

Understanding the barriers and enablers of involving young people of different identities in mental health research.

Developing a behaviour change intervention to increase the number of patients taking part in rehabilitation on critical care wards.