We have a team of health, clinical, social and cognitive psychologists that work together to deliver research which improves the health and wellbeing of communities. Our work is part of the University’s strategic research theme of Health & wellbeing and contributes to Health & Care Futures at Strathclyde.
We develop, test, and apply psychological theory to help our understanding of behaviours that influence health and wellbeing throughout people’s lives. We also have expertise in intervention development, evaluation, and implementation.
Staff research interests
Academic staff
| Staff member | Role | Research interests |
|---|---|---|
| Dr Louise Brown Nicholls | Senior Lecturer | Cognitive ageing; cognitive interventions; cognition & emotion; vaccination behaviour |
| Dr Nicola Cogan | Lecturer | Mental health; recovery; citizenship; post traumatic growth; participatory research |
| Dr Megan Crawford | Lecturer | Sleep; insomnia; adherence; mental health |
| Dr Mark Elliott | Senior Lecturer | Applied & experimental social psychology; attitudes; social cognition models |
| Dr Leanne Fleming | Senior Lecturer | Insomnia; sleep; cognitive behavioural therapy; cancer; mental health |
| Professor Paul Flowers | Professor | Behaviour change; implementation science; intervention development; intervention evaluation; interpretative phenomenological analysis |
| Professor Madeleine Grealy | Professor | Stroke rehabilitation; ageing; perceptuomotor control; positive psychology; physical activity |
| Dr Susan Rasmussen | Senior Lecturer | Suicidal behaviours; bereavement; vaccination behaviour; health behaviour change; personality |
| Dr Dwight Tse | Lecturer | Mental health; positive ageing; flow experience; prosociality |
| Dr Lynn Williams | Reader | Behaviour change; vaccination behaviour; salutogenesis; personality |
Teaching staff
| Staff member | Role | Research interests |
|---|---|---|
| Dr Joanne Cummings | Teaching Fellow | Physical activity; sedentary behaviour; stroke rehabilitation; perceptuo-motor control; cognitive training |
| Dr Karen Deakin | Teaching Associate | Qualitative methods; health & wellbeing |
| Dr Xi Liu | Teaching Fellow | Mental health; therapeutic stories; international student mental health; help seeking |
| Dr Nicola Peddie | Teaching Associate | Mental health; adherence; physical activity; sleep |
| Dr Aliyah Rehman | Teaching Associate | Insomnia; sleep; psychosis; schizophrenia; mental health |
| Dr Damien Williams | Teaching Associate | Community development; violence; health promotion; critical (health) psychology; social determinants of health |
Recently funded projects
Below are some examples of our recently funded work and associated outputs:
- 2021-2024: Digital Cognitive Behaviour Therapy for Insomnia in Chronic Migraines: Feasibility of a Randomised Controlled Trial. Funder: Brain Research UK. Investigators: Dr Megan Crawford (PI), Dr Leanne Fleming
- 2020-2025: Improving care for people with sexually transmitted infections in a digital NHS. Funder: NIHR. Co-investigator: Professor Paul Flowers
- 2019-2022: HEADS:UP (Helping Ease Anxiety and Depression Following Stroke) psychological self-management intervention. Funder: Stroke Association. Co-Investigator: Professor Madeleine Grealy
- 2016-2021: Limiting undetected sexually transmitted infections to reduce morbidity LUSTRUM. Funder: NIHR. Co-Investigator: Professor Paul Flowers. Video clips about LUSTRUM
- 2020: Adoption, maintenance and sharing of positive changes during COVID-19 national lockdown. Funder: Chief Scientist Office. Investigators: Dr Lynn Williams (PI), Professor Paul Flowers, Dr Leanne Fleming, Professor Madeleine Grealy. Infographics, animations and short films about the project. The Conversation article about the project
- 2020: Non-adherence to hormonal therapy in breast cancer survivors: systematic review and qualitative analysis of the role of sleep disturbance. Funder: Chief Scientist Office. Investigators: Dr Leanne Fleming (PI), Dr Megan Crawford
- 2020: Improving older adults’ vaccination uptake. Funder: Chief Scientist Office. Investigators: Dr Lynn Williams (PI), Dr Louise Brown Nicholls, Dr Susan Rasmussen, Dr Nicola Cogan. The Conversation article about the project
- 2019-2020: Understandings of mental health, disclosure and help seeking behaviour among Asian international students. Funder: SMaRteN, UKRI. Investigators: Dr Nicola Cogan (PI), Dr Xi Liu, Dr Steve Kelly, Dr Tony Anderson
- 2019-2020: Psychological barriers and drivers to seasonal influenza uptake in those with chronic respiratory disease: A mixed methods study. Funder: Chief Scientist Office. Investigators: Dr Lynn Williams (PI), Dr Susan Rasmussen, Dr Nicola Cogan
- 2019: Developing confident life stories about child bereavement. Funder: Scottish Universities Insight Institute. Co-Investigator: Dr Susan Rasmussen