Research Projects

The Health Psychology Research Groups consists of around 20 researchers and PhD students whose work is aimed at developing and applying the science of behaviour change interventions to improve health and environmental sustainability.  

1. Developing the science of behaviour change interventions

• Theories and Techniques of Behaviour Change Project
• Constructs mapping project
• Human Behaviour Change Project (HBCP)
• Database of Interventions specified by Behaviour Change Techniques up until 2018

2. Applying behavioural science to interventions
2.1 Environmental Sustainability

• Complex Urban Systems for Sustainability and Health (CUSSH)
• Designing Out Plastic Waste

2.2. Population Health

• NIHR Behavioural Science Policy Research Unit (NIHR PRU) 
• NIHR School for Public Health Research (NIHR SPHR)
• NIHR Policy Research Unit: Obesity in Children and Across the Lifecourse (Obesity in Children)
• Advancing and integrating population and individual approaches to smoking cessation (Smocking cessation)
• Alcohol Toolkit Study (ATS)
• Drink Less app: Developing and evaluating a theory-based smartphone application to reduce excessive alcohol consumption (Drink Less app)

2.3 Implementation Research

• Preserving Antibiotics through Safe Stewardship (PASS)
• Antibiotic Research in Care Homes (ARCH)
• Reducing mortality from neonatal sepsis: a pilot mixed-methods approach in Zimbabwe (RMNS)
• Preventing maternal anaemia to avoid preterm delivery and other adverse outcomes (PANDA)
• Optimising the outputs of National Clinical Audits to support organisations to improve the quality of care and clinical outcomes (ENACT)
• NeoTree: An eHealth solution to reducing neonatal mortality in two low-income countries: Malawi and Zimbabwe. (NeoTree)

• Cognitive Stimulation Therapy (CST) for dementia: International implementation in Brazil, India and Tanzania

2.4 Self-management

• Developing and testing the DAFNEplus intervention (DAFNE+)
• Developing an intervention to improve dietary behaviour of shift-working nursing and healthcare professionals with Type 2 diabetes
• Enabling diabetic RetinOpathy Screening: Mixed methods study of barriers and enablers to attendance (EROS study)
   

3. PhD Student Projects

• Identifying and refining the definitions of mechanisms of action in behaviour change interventions - Paulina Schenk
• Improving patient engagement with rehabilitation in critical care - Catherine Lawrence

• Designing Out Plastic Waste - Ayse Lisa Allison