Projects
Dr Matt Brooks
Resilience portfolios
An ongoing programme of work to understand the strengths that support better functioning after adversity.
Juror wellbeing
Ongoing programme of work to inform practice and policy in relation to juror wellbeing.
Psychological preparedness for adversity
An interdisciplinary approach to understanding what it means to be psychologically prepared for adversity.
Dr Hannah Fawcett
Developing resources to support juror wellbeing
An ongoing project developing guidance for judges to understand juror wellbeing and support needs.
Juror Process Observations: Challenges, Good Practice, and Recommendations
An invited consultancy report submitted to the Ministry of Justice Jury Policy team and HM Courts and Tribunal Service.
Dr Jasmine Hearn
The intergenerational health impact of endometriosis
Exploring how endometriosis affects health outcomes across generations.
GP and medical student understandings of women’s health concerns
Examining how GPs and medical students understand and respond to women’s health issues such as endometriosis.
Menstrual health priorities in spinal cord injury
Investigating menstrual health needs and priorities for people living with spinal cord injury.
Dr Robert Dempsey
Vaccine hesitancy and perceived social norms
Identifying the role of perceived social norms in parents’ vaccine decisions and hesitancy towards the Whooping Cough and Chickenpox vaccines. Funded by the British Academy/Leverhulme Trust Small Research Grant.
The 5Rs of Rugby
A co-produced mental health literacy and social norms intervention with professional men’s Rugby Union players in Ireland, developed in partnership with Rugby Players Ireland and the University of Derby.
Dr Sören Henrich
Integrated framework of digital harm
Creating an integrated framework of digital harm based on behavioural intelligence analyst insights, recognising the overlap of different transgressive online behaviours such as child sexual exploitation material and extremism.
Psychological explanations of extremist violence
Identifying psychological explanations of extremist violence beyond ideology, focusing on neurological functioning, using a representative British sample.
Disrupting online trajectories towards violent content
Piloting avenues to disrupt online trajectories towards consumption of violent or gore content, utilising pro-social face-to-face alternatives such as roleplaying games.
Dr Verity Longley
Wellbeing After Stroke-2 (WAterS-2)
A feasibility study with process evaluation exploring inclusive, accessible, online psychological support after stroke, led by the University of Manchester.
AI-driven VR support after stroke
A recently completed qualitative exploration of post-stroke experiences using AI-driven VR support — an evaluation of a VR system on behalf of Reneural.
Dr Yael Benn
Finding Healthy Online
A completed project (2025) co-led with Dr Sally Moore at the University of Leeds, exploring how people find and engage with healthy food information online. Funded with £50,000.
The impact of low numeracy on health
A completed Nuffield Health Partnership project (2022) examining how low numeracy skills affect health outcomes and behaviours.
Heather Lilley
An Integrated Biopsychosocial Approach in the Investigation of Functional Lifting in People with Chronic, Non-Specific Low Back Pain
PhD project in progress. This project will help to understand biopsychosocial influences and interactions of lifting behaviour in people living with chronic low back pain.
Professor Maddy Arden
BeST Engage
A stepped wedge cluster randomised controlled trial of a Behavioural Science Toolkit to promote engagement in local authority delivered or commissioned parenting programmes for parents of school-age children (4-18 years) living in social deprivation. Funded by NIHR Public Health Research.
Community Participation and Behavioural Science
Using behavioural science to understand and promote community participation as part of the Centre for Collaboration in Community Connectedness, funded by ESRC and led by Sheffield Hallam University.
Health Behaviours in Cambridgeshire and Peterborough
Understanding and addressing the barriers and facilitators to seven health behaviours including alcohol consumption, childhood vaccination, diet, physical activity, and smoking. Funded by Cambridgeshire County Council and Peterborough City Council.
Family Hub Services — Behavioural Insights Project
Testing what works to increase the reach and take-up of family hub services by disadvantaged and vulnerable families. Commissioned by the Department for Education.
Evaluation of Tavistock Relationships MBT-PP
A randomised controlled trial comparing Mentalization Based Therapy for Parenting under Pressure (MBT-PP) with treatment as usual in local authorities, funded by the Youth Endowment Fund.
Sophie Pott
BeST Engage
A trial of a behavioural science toolkit to help local authorities improve engagement in parenting programmes among socially deprived families.
Dr Andrew Parker
Eye closure and episodic autobiographical memory
This research investigates whether attentional release via eye closure can enhance autobiographical memory recollection and whether such effects interact with type of retrieval processes and low-level visual interference.
Episodic specificity induction and memory errors
This research examines whether brief periods of unrelated episodic retrieval have downstream influences on subsequent recognition memory accuracy and mnemonic states of awareness as measured by the remember-know procedure.