UCL DEPARTMENT OF EPIDEMIOLOGY AND PUBLIC HEALTH
HEALTH BEHAVIOUR RESEARCH CENTRE
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DR JENNIFER FIDLER
Research Health Psychologist

EXPERTISE
Smoking behaviour
Adolescent smoking

RESEARCH
Research interests
  • Markers of smoking behaviour and dependence
  • The development of adolescent smoking behaviour
Current research
Examination of the distribution of cotinine (a biological marker of nicotine intake) in the population, as well as the sociodemographic factors associated with this objective marker of smoking, using Health Survey for England data from 1998 to 2003.

Documentation of motives for continued smoking in the English population using data from the Toolkit Study.

Other work includes the identification of factors associated with adolescent smoking behaviour using focus group data and longitudinal data from the HABITS (Health and Behaviour in Teenagers) Study.

TEACHING
Has contributed lectures to: Health Psychology MSc, UCL (Adolescent health behaviour and Adolescent health care); Addiction Studies MSc, Keele (Pharmacological and Psychological interventions for smoking in adolescents); Medicine BSc (MBBS), UCL (Smoking cessation); Social Epidemiology MSc, UCL (Culture and health, Ethnicity and health behaviours).

BIOGRAPHY
Appointments

2002 - Research Psychologist, Health Behaviour Research Centre,
           UCL Epidemiology & Public Health

Qualifications
2008 PhD in Health Psychology, University College London
2002 MSc in Health Psychology, University College London
2001 BSc in Psychology, University of Warwick

Other
Chartered Health Psychologist

PUBLICATIONS

This page last modified 7 Nov, 2011 by Mark Livermore

Jenny Fidler
CONTACT DETAILS
Telephone:

+44 (0)20 3108 3070
Internal: x53070
Fax:
+44 (0)20 7813 2848
Email: j.fidler@ucl.ac.uk

Postal address: Health Behaviour Research Centre, Department of Epidemiology & Public Health,
UCL, Gower Street, London, WC1E 6BT, UK

Office: Room 215,
1-19 Torrington Place,
WC1E 7HB

University College London- Gower Street, London, WC1E 6BT - Telephone: +44 (0)20 7679 1720 - © 2012 UCL


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