About me
I work as a health psychologist/research fellow on a Scottish Government funded project developing and delivering behaviour change training to diabetes health professionals.
My use of interactive approaches in training and teaching was developed through many years as a trainer working with industry, Higher Education, and third sector organisations.
National Teaching Fellow HEA
I applied for National Teaching Fellow with the HEA and while unsuccessful was encouraged to reapply on the strength of my application
Advance HE Principal Fellow
Awarded Principal Fellow of Advance HE (previously HEA - Higher Education Academy).
I have an extensive background in teaching and training using interactive approaches as appropriate. I have developed training, teaching and a health behaviour change intervention using digital technology and am interested in the use of digital as a vehicle for each of these activities and the mechanisms by which digital may support change.
My work for the Scottish Diabetes Group has led onto other projects. This has included work in Uganda with the Royal College of Midwives and the Ugandan Private Midwives Association. Facilitated through the Change Exchange of Manchester University we looked into the factors that could increase self efficacy in a student midwifery mentoring project. I have also been interested in how behaviour change training of health professionals can be made more culturally sensitive in work with Health Extension Workers in Ethiopia (again through the Change Exchange) and will shortly be extending this focus in a co-development project with health professionals in St Helena (University of Stirling Escalator and Burdett Trust funded project).
The training I develop is informed by the Health Behaviour Change Competency Framework (Dixon and Johnston, 2010) which considers behaviour change competencies through motivation, action and prompt pathways.
I am also interested in how the form of delivery of training may influence the development of knowledge, skills and implementation to practice.
