Centre for Motivation and Behaviour Change staff
Find out more about members of the Centre for Motivation and Health Behaviour Change.
Our responsibilities include research and teaching.
Directors
- Professor Martyn Standage - Professor in Psychology, Health, and Applied Science
- Dr Max Western - Associate Professor in Behavioural Science
Deputy Director
- Dr Fiona Gillison - Professor in Health Psychology
Centre members
- Dr Rachel Arnold - Reader in Sport and Performance Psychology
- Dr Charlotte Dack - Associate Professor in Health Psychology
- Dr Rhiannon Edwards - Senior Lecturer in Health Psychology
- Dr Emma Fisher - Associate Professor in Paediatric Pain Psychology and Evidence-Based Medicine
- Dr Tania Griffin - Assistant Professor in Nutrition and Population Health
- James Lambdon - Lecturer in Sport Psychology
- Dr Jeff Lambert - Associate Professor in Health and Exercise Psychology
- Dr Carly McKay - Reader in Injury Prevention
- Dr Lee Moore - Associate Professor in Sport and Performance Psychology
- Dr Kimberly More - Assistant Professor in Social and Health Psychology
- Dr Gareth Roberts - Assistant Professor in Sport Psychology
- Dr Peter Rouse - Associate Professor in Health and Exercise Psychology
- Dr Emma Solomon-Moore - Associate Professor in Physical Activity and Public Health
- Dr Alison Tincknell-Smith - Lecturer in Sport Psychology
External collaborators
- Dr Ben Ainsworth - Honorary Lecturer (University of Southampton)
- Dylan Blain - Associate member (University of Wales Trinity Saint David)
PhD students
Students' names are followed by their PhD thesis title
- Rosie Barnett - Exploration of digital interventions to support the self-management of axial spondyloarthritis
- Jemima Cooper - Improving the promotion of physical activity as a treatment for depression in UK general practice
- Sarah Dance - Developing and evaluating health interventions for lower socioeconomic status drinkers: How best to communicate public health messages
- Kim Farrugia - Understanding the motivational mechanisms of fear-avoidance behaviours and the impact on physical activity outcomes in pregnant and postpartum women
- Lorna Flintham - Understanding psychosocial and biological risk factors of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) in the human gut microbiome to inform behavioural interventions
- Julia Groot - Engagement and Effectiveness of Digital Health Technology to Support Mental Health and Well-Being
- Jess Harvey - Examining the impact of menstruation on adolescent physical activity behaviour and developing ways to support girls to be active during this time
- Amy Herbert - Towards better diabetes care: How can diabetes self-management support be designed and delivered to improve uptake from patients?
- Olivia Malkowski - Towards a precision digital intervention to promote physical activity in older adults of low socioeconomic status
- Noah Marshall - Narrowing the Needs-Provision Gap for Young People’s Mental Health: Developing and Piloting an AI-Guided Behavioural Activation Intervention
- Lee Mercer - Tackling the Digital Divide: Evaluating and enhancing digital health intervention readiness in low socioeconomic status populations
- Masha Remskar - Mindfulness, movement, and mood: Understanding how digital mindfulness-based interventions can support physical activity behaviour change for people at risk of mood disorders
- Ella Sangmyr
- Beth Taylor - Understsanding and enhancing the physical and mental wellbeing of children by employing a 24-hour movement behaviour perspective
- Madeleine Warmer - Applying a whole system approach to improve health behaviours and mitigate Musculoskeletal Injuries of Royal Naval and Royal Marine personnel
- Georgina Wort - Using data-driven insights to support physical activity in primary schools
- Lewis Youngson - Understanding disabled people’s experiences in kitesurfing
Stress, Anxiety, Resilience, and Thriving (StART) Research Group
We are closely linked with the StART Research Group.