Psychology, Health and Wellbeing Research Group
The group consists of health, clinical and social psychologists who make use of a wide variety of methodological approaches to address questions concerned with understanding how biological, psychological, behavioural and social factors influence aspects of physical and mental health and illness.
We also have a Health Psychology Lab which sits within this research group. It focuses on active collaborative projects and takes a biopsychosocial approach to understanding health and illness. We are keen to have Research Assistants, MSc and/or PhD students working with us in this lab so if you're interested in this opportunity, please get in touch.
Contact
Staff Profile: Dr Nicola Payne
Email: [email protected]
Phone: 020 8411 5467
Staff profiles
Associate Professor of Health Psychology
Lecturer in Psychology
- Dr Karen Ciclitira
Associate Professor in Psychology
Professor in Decision Psychology
Associate Lecturer
Associate Professor in Psychology
- Dr Letitia Slabu
Senior Lecturer in Psychology
Senior Research Fellow Psychology
Recent and present research students
- Christina Constantinou
- Kristina van Dam
- Chineme Onyigbuo
- Neelam Ghuman
- Isabella Uruttia
- Nikki Swales
- Andrew Grimmer
- Lindsay de Wal
Research areas
- Living with and managing chronic conditions e.g. pain, Sickle Cell Disease, Long COVID, diabetes
- Understanding/changing health related behaviours e.g. exercise, eating, smoking, drug use
- Reproductive health and women’s health e.g. fertility
- Mental health and the experience and practice of psychotherapy
- Couple relationships, parenthood and attachment
- Positive wellbeing and Authenticity
- Work-life balance, work stress, and flexible/remote working
- Judgment and decision-making, risk perception/risk taking, and uncertainty communication
Methods
- Randomised Controlled trials
- Practice-based evaluations
- Qualitative and visual methods
- Pluralism in qualitative research
- Quantitative surveys
Examples of funders
- ESRC
- NIHR
- Greenwich Leisure Limited
- Sempre
- Fertility Network UK
- UK Respiratory Foundation
- Society for Reproductive and Infant Psychology
- King’s Fund
Get involved
Research student applications and placements
Students wishing to undertake a PhD or those wanting to gain research assistant experience within any of our research teams should contact the staff directly (contact details available on individual staff profiles) or via Dr Nicola Payne.
Participating in research
If you would like to participate in any of our ongoing studies, please contact the research teams directly (contact details available on individual staff profiles) or via Dr Nicola Payne.