Our research focuses on different factors and stages associated with changing behaviour, health and wellbeing as follows:
Identification of risk and protective factors What are the predictors of particular behavioural and well-being outcomes? What factors do we need to measure and how? This includes the development of psychometric measures.
Exploring heterogeneity to address inequality Much of the research literature on behaviour change focuses on norms and the techniques that are most likely to promote change in the general population or in a particular target population. But this masks differences that can influence outcomes including individual differences (e.g. neurodiversity and personality traits), social inequalities (e.g. education, social deprivation) and different contexts (e.g. lifespan differences). We seek to understand how heterogeneity impacts change.
Evaluating current policy and practice We explore how well current policy and practice is working to effect behavioural change and maintenance to promote health and well-being across multiple domains and settings.
Developing recommendations and interventions We work with varying populations to develop recommendations and interventions to promote behavioural change and maintenance to promote health and well-being using frameworks from psychology and behavioural science, and co-design and co-production methods to ensure acceptability and good fit.
Evaluating interventions We design and run evaluations to explore the efficacy and effectiveness of interventions to promote behavioural maintenance and change across a range of settings and contexts.
