Researchers

Dr Jasmine Hearn’s research focuses on supporting people living with chronic pain in a range of long-term health conditions such as endometriosis, back pain, and spinal cord injury. She is interested in how people with chronic pain and healthcare professionals communicate and navigate diagnosis and support, and improving healthcare systems to help effectively support patients.

I am interested in stroke rehabilitation, dementia, health inequalities, access to healthcare and clinical decision-making, working with people with cognitive impairment and who lack capacity, and clinical trials.

I study how what we think others believe shapes our own behaviour, especially under uncertainty. As an applied social psychologist, my work examines how misperceived social norms influence decision-making, wellbeing, and performance, and how correcting these misperceptions can improve real-world outcomes.

Numbers are common in health (calories, nutrition, dosage, BMI), and the way we process them affects our behaviour and health. I am interested in how information monitoring in general, and numerical information more specifically, impact health outcomes. I am particularly focused on numerical deficit after brain injury (Acalculia).

My research focuses on behaviour change in health and service delivery settings, with a particular interest in engagement, motivation and the real-world implementation of interventions. I use mixed-methods approaches to explore lived experience and stakeholder perspectives.

Sören is a specialist in extremist violence and mental health issues. His research explores how violent behaviour develops from hate and how this transition can be intercepted, both online and offline.

My work centres on understanding the consequences of trauma and victimisation, exploring both negative and positive psychological adaptations such as resilience and posttraumatic growth. I focus on identifying factors that facilitate recovery and wellbeing, particularly through trauma-informed and strengths-based approaches. My research is largely situated within criminal justice contexts, including victims of crime, jurors, and professionals exposed to trauma.

Development and evaluation of interventions to promote behaviour change and maintenance across a wide variety of domains, including medication adherence, engagement in services, alcohol, smoking, physical activity and vaccination uptake.

My PhD research centres on understanding how biopsychosocial factors shape movement behaviour and health-related decision making in people with chronic low back pain. I am particularly interested in the psychological and social drivers that influence engagement in physical activity and exercise within this population.

My research focuses on understanding and preventing sexual assault through the use of bystander intervention. Specifically, I have been developing the use of immersive technology in order to measure actual bystander behaviour when witnessing a sexual assault.

My research interests include cancer survivorship and long-term chronic health conditions. Areas of interest include psychosocial interventions to support individuals living with and beyond cancer, interventions to increase uptake to cancer screening, and psychosocial support for individuals living with long-term chronic health conditions.

Experimental cognitive psychology with a focus on retrieval processes and encoding retrieval interactions especially as related to memory enhancement and inhibition.