The University of Sheffield
Social and Health Research Group (SHRG)

Members
Name Email Supervised by/ associated with Research interests
Soud Alganem s.alganem@sheffield.ac.uk C. Armitage Theory of Planned Behaviour; stages of change, smoking
Dr. Emily Arden-Close e.arden-close@sheffield.ac.uk C. Eiser Cancer; couples; men's health; quality of life; follow-up care
Dr. Chris Armitage c.j.armitage@sheffield.ac.uk   Social psychology and health; predicting and changing health behaviour; attitudes and attitude change
Dr Mark Blades m.blades@sheffield.ac.uk   Assessment of police interviews with abused children; children’s eyewitness testimony and suggestibility during questioning; children’s understanding of media, advertising and marketing
Iryna Brearley pcp08ib@sheffield.ac.uk P. Harris Self-affirmation; health interventions
Mahati Chittem m.r.chittem@sheffield.ac.uk P. Norman Impact of being informed and emotional expressivity on coping in Indian cancer patients
Prof. Chris Eiser c.eiser@sheffield.ac.uk   The psychological effects of chronic and life-threatening illness on children and their families; children’s understanding of health and illness; quality of life
Prof. Dick Eiser j.r.eiser@sheffield.ac.uk   Attitude organisation and change; social judgement; perception of risk; health cognition and preventive health behaviour; connectionist modelling of attitude processes and social interaction; connectionist modelling of social cognition and behaviour; categorisation; applications of dynamical systems concepts
Herman Elgueta pcp08hee@sheffield.ac.uk C. Jones  
Tracy Epton t.epton@sheffield.ac.uk P. Harris Self affirmation; health behaviour change
Sheng-Yu Fan pcp08sf@sheffield.ac.uk C. Eiser Psycho-oncology; health-related quality of life; coping and adjustment to cancer; hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC)
Dr. Peter Harris p.harris@sheffield.ac.uk   Self-affirmation and health; defensive processing of health information; the Internet and health risk perception; optimistic bias; coping with chronic illness; predicting health behaviour (especially smoking, exercise)
Barbara Johnson b.johnson@sheffield.ac.uk C. Eiser Type I Diabetes; time perspective; future orientation; quality of life
Dr. Chris Jones c.r.jones@sheffield.ac.uk D. Eiser Attitude formation through the exploration of novel environments; public attitudes towards climate change and future energy choices (e.g. nuclear power and wind power)
Daphne Kaklamanou d.kaklamanou@sheffield.ac.uk C. Armitage Compensatory health beliefs; health behaviours; obesity
Tom McAdams t.mcadams@sheffield.ac.uk R. Rowe Aetiology of anti-social behaviour; adolescent psychopathology
Katherine McAtamney   T. Webb Palliative care
Dr. Eleanor Miles e.miles@sheffield.ac.uk P. Sheeran Emotion regulation; automaticity; embodiment
Dr. Karen Niven k.niven@sheffield.ac.uk T. Webb Emotion regulation
Dr. Paul Norman p.norman@sheffield.ac.uk   Social psychology and health; attitude-behaviour models; health behaviour; illness representations and coping with chronic illness; theory of cognitive adaptation
Barry Orr b.orr@sheffield.ac.uk D. Eiser Framing of energy futures; atttitudes towards new energy technologies
Wirda Abdul Rahim pcp08waw@sheffield.ac.uk C. Armitage  
Christine Redman pcp09car@sheffield.ac.uk C. Eiser Quality of life; smoking behaviours; cancer
Laura Rennie laura.rennie@sheffield.ac.uk P. Harris Social psychology and health; health behaviour change; visualisation and perspective; persuasion; tailored health interventions
Dr. Richard Rowe r.rowe@sheffield.ac.uk   The development of antisocial behaviour; unintentional injury: Psychological risk factors for accidents in children and adolescents; driver behaviour
Prof. Paschal Sheeran p.sheeran@sheffield.ac.uk   Social psychology; determinants of intention-behaviour consistency; attitude theory; predicting health and social behaviours
Christine Sprigg c.a.sprigg@sheffield.ac.uk C. Armitage Well-being; work-related violence; positive psychology
Cat Taylor cat.taylor@sheffield.ac.uk T. Webb Self-regulation; eating behaviours; goal attainment; implementation intentions
Erin Walker erin.walker@sheffield.ac.uk C. Eiser Quality of life; liver transplant; psychological functioning; outcomes
Dr. Tom Webb t.webb@sheffield.ac.uk   Goal striving and goal management – direction of thoughts, feelings and actions to achieve particular goals
Rosie Webster pcp09raw@sheffield.ac.uk P. Norman Non-cardiac chest pain; illness representations; anxiety
Jacqui Wilmshurst j.wilmshurst@sheffield.ac.uk D. Eiser Internationally comparative research into community attitudes and behaviour in the context of extreme weather events and climate change