Professor Chantelle Wood
School of Psychology
Professor of Social Psychology and Behavioural Science
Full contact details
School of Psychology
Interdisciplinary Centre of the Social Sciences (ICOSS)
219 Portobello
Sheffield
S1 4DP
- Profile
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I am a social psychologist and behavioural scientist, with a particular focus on behaviour change and intergroup relations. My key research interests centre around understanding and changing health and environmental behaviours; and understanding and promoting equality, diversity and inclusion. My research involves both primary empirical quantitative and qualitative research and also meta-analytic techniques.
- Qualifications
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- PhD: University of Western Australia
- BSc (Hons): University of Western Australia
Awards
- University of Sheffield Early Career Senate Award for Excellence in Learning and Teaching (2018)
- Turnitin Global Innovation Awards Honourable Mention (2017)
- Research interests
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Understanding and changing health and environmental behaviour
My research focuses on understanding why people do (or do not) engage in different behaviours, and using this knowledge to develop and evaluate behaviour change interventions to promote positive health and environmental behaviours. Much of my current work focuses on improving indoor air quality and reducing indoor air pollution.
I am currently the behavioural science lead on Air Hub (2025-2027), an interdisciplinary research network on healthy indoor environments (funded by the EPSRC Micro Network Plus programme).
Previously, I was the behavioural science lead on INGENIOUS (2021-2026), an interdisciplinary research consortium on understanding and improving indoor air quality (funded by the UKRI SPF Clean Air Programme; you can find out how to reduce air pollution in your home by watching our video on the University of Sheffield Player); and two interdisciplinary research projects on understanding and overcoming barriers to ventilation in the hospitality sector (2021-2022; 2022-2023: funded by the Health and Safety Executive’s PROTECT National Core Study on COVID Transmission and Environment, and Sheffield City Council). I have also been involved in research on single-use plastics, as part of the UKRI-funded interdisciplinary research programme Plastics: Redefining Single Use (2019-2020).
I am a member of the Healthy Lifespan Institute, The Institute for Sustainable Food and Sheffield:Air, an interdisciplinary network of researchers working on projects relating to air quality and pollution.
Understanding and promoting equality, diversity and inclusion
My research revolves around understanding and overcoming barriers to inclusion, and exploring strategies for reducing stereotyping and prejudice. I’m particularly interested in the effects of interpersonal confrontations of prejudice, and the effects of weight stigma on health and wellbeing.
I am currently the behavioural science lead on Neurodivergence at Work, a research project exploring how employment support systems could better meet the needs of neurodivergent people (2025-2026, funded by NIHR).
Previously, I was the behavioural science lead on a research project on understanding and tackling the barriers to employment experienced by autistic adults (2023-2024: funded by The Colt Foundation).
- Publications
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Featured publications
Journal articles
- Improving hospitality venue ventilation via behavioural change as a response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Indoor Environments, 2(2). View this article in WRRO
- Measuring self-objectification in cisgender heterosexual women and men: A psychometric validation of the self-objectification beliefs and behaviors scale. Body Image, 52.
- Understanding the barriers to hiring autistic people as perceived by employers in the United Kingdom. Autism, 29(5), 1263-1274.
- Reconceiving Domestic Burning Controls: Air Quality Alerts, Behavioural Responsive Regulation, and Designing for Compliance. Environmental Management, 75(4), 761-777.
- The pandemic within a pandemic: mental health and wellbeing of racially Minoritised women experiencing domestic abuse during the COVID-19 pandemic in the UK. BMC Women S Health, 24(1).
- Understanding the patterns and health impact of indoor air pollutant exposures in Bradford, UK: a study protocol. BMJ Open, 13(12).
- Perceptions of accountability and trust in the regulatory governance of wood burning stove sustainability: Survey evidence from the post-Brexit UK. Energy Policy, 177.
- Autistic people’s perspectives on stereotypes: An interpretative phenomenological analysis. Autism, 23(3), 759-769.
- The influence of emotional cues on prospective memory: a systematic review with meta-analyses. Cognition and Emotion, 32(8), 1578-1596.
- Varying cognitive targets and response rates to enhance the question-behaviour effect: An 8-arm Randomized Controlled Trial on influenza vaccination uptake. Social Science and Medicine, 180, 135-142.
- Imagined contact can be more effective for participants with stronger initial prejudices. Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 47(5), 282-292.
- The question-behaviour effect: A theoretical and methodological review and meta-analysis. European Review of Social Psychology, 27(1), 196-230.
- Students’ Stereotypes of Autism. Journal of Educational Issues, 2(2), 131-140. View this article in WRRO
- The Impact of Asking Intention or Self-Prediction Questions on Subsequent Behavior: A Meta-Analysis. Personality and Social Psychology Review, 20(3), 245-268.
- Why does asking questions change health behaviours? The mediating role of attitude accessibility. Psychology and Health, 29(4), 390-404.
- Individuation moderates impressions of conflicting categories for slower processors. Social Psychology, 44(4), 239-247.
- Ego Depletion and the Strength Model of Self-Control: A Meta-Analysis. Psychological Bulletin, 136(4), 495-525.
- Self-regulation and self-control in exercise: The strength-energy model. International Review of Sport and Exercise Psychology, 3(1), 62-86.
- The strength model of self-regulation failure and health-related behaviour. Health Psychology Review, 3(2), 208-238.
- Does confronting prejudice reduce intergroup bias? A meta-analytic review.. Psychological Bulletin, 151(2), 192-216.
All publications
Journal articles
- Inequalities and indoor air pollution: a prospective observational study of particulate matter (PM2.5) levels in 309 UK homes from the Born in Bradford cohort study. BMC Public Health, 25(1), 3876.
- Improving hospitality venue ventilation via behavioural change as a response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Indoor Environments, 2(2). View this article in WRRO
- The INGENIOUS project: towards understanding air pollution in homes. Environmental Science Processes and Impacts, 27(2), 355-372.
- Measuring self-objectification in cisgender heterosexual women and men: A psychometric validation of the self-objectification beliefs and behaviors scale. Body Image, 52.
- Understanding the barriers to hiring autistic people as perceived by employers in the United Kingdom. Autism, 29(5), 1263-1274.
- Reconceiving Domestic Burning Controls: Air Quality Alerts, Behavioural Responsive Regulation, and Designing for Compliance. Environmental Management, 75(4), 761-777.
- The pandemic within a pandemic: mental health and wellbeing of racially Minoritised women experiencing domestic abuse during the COVID-19 pandemic in the UK. BMC Women S Health, 24(1).
- Understanding the patterns and health impact of indoor air pollutant exposures in Bradford, UK: a study protocol. BMJ Open, 13(12).
- Perceptions of accountability and trust in the regulatory governance of wood burning stove sustainability: Survey evidence from the post-Brexit UK. Energy Policy, 177.
- Autistic people’s perspectives on stereotypes: An interpretative phenomenological analysis. Autism, 23(3), 759-769.
- The influence of emotional cues on prospective memory: a systematic review with meta-analyses. Cognition and Emotion, 32(8), 1578-1596.
- Varying cognitive targets and response rates to enhance the question-behaviour effect: An 8-arm Randomized Controlled Trial on influenza vaccination uptake. Social Science and Medicine, 180, 135-142.
- Imagined contact can be more effective for participants with stronger initial prejudices. Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 47(5), 282-292.
- The question-behaviour effect: A theoretical and methodological review and meta-analysis. European Review of Social Psychology, 27(1), 196-230.
- Students’ Stereotypes of Autism. Journal of Educational Issues, 2(2), 131-140. View this article in WRRO
- The Impact of Asking Intention or Self-Prediction Questions on Subsequent Behavior: A Meta-Analysis. Personality and Social Psychology Review, 20(3), 245-268.
- The formation of novel social category conjunctions in working memory: A possible role for the episodic buffer?. Memory, 24(4), 496-512.
- Applying individuation to conflicting social categories. Group Processes and Intergroup Relations, 18(4), 523-539.
- Why does asking questions change health behaviours? The mediating role of attitude accessibility. Psychology and Health, 29(4), 390-404.
- Individuation moderates impressions of conflicting categories for slower processors. Social Psychology, 44(4), 239-247.
- Resolving conflicting social categories: The role of age-related executive ability. British Journal of Psychology, 103(1), 28-43.
- The Importance of Being Emergent: A Theoretical Exploration of Impression Formation in Novel Social Category Conjunctions. Social and Personality Psychology Compass, 5(6), 321-332.
- Ego Depletion and the Strength Model of Self-Control: A Meta-Analysis. Psychological Bulletin, 136(4), 495-525.
- Self-regulation and self-control in exercise: The strength-energy model. International Review of Sport and Exercise Psychology, 3(1), 62-86.
- The strength model of self-regulation failure and health-related behaviour. Health Psychology Review, 3(2), 208-238.
- Does confronting prejudice reduce intergroup bias? A meta-analytic review.. Psychological Bulletin, 151(2), 192-216.
Book chapters
Preprints
- Development and Psychometric Validation of the Women-Sexually Objectifying Media Exposure Scale (W-SOMES) and Men-Sexually Objectifying Media Exposure Scale (M-SOMES), Springer Science and Business Media LLC.
- Measuring Self-Objectification in Cisgender Heterosexual Women and Men: A Psychometric Validation of Three Widely Used Self-Objectification Scales, Springer Science and Business Media LLC.
- Improving hospitality venue ventilation via behavioural change as a response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Indoor Environments, 2(2). View this article in WRRO
- Research group
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Current PhD students:
- Lilith Roberts: Prejudice confrontation and weight stigma
- Ankita Sehrawat: Weight stigma and health
Previous PhD students:
- Dr Ankita Mishra (PhD, 2025): Violence against women and access to justice
- Dr Bashirat Ibrahim (PhD, 2024): Reducing prejudice through virtual imagined contact
- Dr Zhuozhuo Hu (PhD, 2023): Self-objectification in men and women.
- Dr Eric Manalastas (PhD, 2021): Predictors of collective action. Now at Visible Analytics
- Dr Jose Sepulveda Maldonado (PhD, 2019): Video games and theory of mind. Now at the Universidad De La Frontera
- Dr Caroline Treweek (PhD, 2019): Public perceptions of autism
- Dr Tom Hostler (PhD, 2017): Improving prospective memory using emotional cues and implementation intentions. Now at the Department of Psychology, Manchester Metropolitan University
- Grants
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- EPSRC (2025-2027; £498,263): Air Hub: Engineering healthy indoor environments
- NIHR (2025-2026; £122,121): Neurodivergence at work: Ensuring employment support systems meet the needs of neurodivergent people
- Center for Open Science (2025-2026: £4780): Replicability Project: Health Behavior
- UKRI led by NERC (2021-2026; £2,957,980): INGENIOUS: UnderstandING the sourcEs, traNsformations and fates of IndOor air pollUtantS
- The Colt Foundation (2023-2025; £66,703): Understanding and tackling the barriers to employment experienced by autistic adults
- City of Bradford Metropolitan District Council (2022-2023; £4500): Understanding the barriers to reducing indoor wood-burning
- Sheffield City Council (2022-2023; £171,867): Improving ventilation in the hospitality sector
- Health and Safety Executive (2021-2022; £169,679 + £41,263 extension): Technical and behavioural challenges to improving hospitality ventilation in small and medium sized venues
- UKRI led by EPSRC (2019-2020; £1,035,896): Plastics: Redefining Single Use
- British Academy/Leverhulme Small Grant (2016-2017; £9927): Optimising blood donation using the Question-Behaviour Effect
- Teaching activities
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I teach on the following modules on the BSc Psychology and MSc in Psychological Research Methods/Psychological Research Methods with Advanced Statistics
- PSY1001 Social Psychology I
- PSY2001 Social Psychology II
- PSY346 Research Project in Psychology
- PSY331 Extended Essay in Psychology
- Psy6121 Research Methods
- Psy6110 Research Project in Psychology
- Professional activities and memberships
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CurrentMember of the ESRC Assessor CollegeMember of the ESRC Peer Review CollegeSenior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
PreviousAssociate Editor for British Journal of Health Psychology (2024-2025)Section Editor (Group/Intergroup Processes Section) for Social and Personality Psychology Compass (2021-2024)
Editorial Consultant for British Journal of Social Psychology (2019-2021)
- PhD Opportunities
I am happy to receive applications for PhD study in my area of research.
We advertise PhD opportunities (Funded or Self-Funded) on FindAPhD.com
For further information, please see the department PhD Opportunities page.