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Senior’s Name: Sarah Peters
Availability: 3/3
Attending ICCH 2024: In person

Pairing - Junior

Title: Professor of Health Psychology
Institution: University of Manchester
Discipline: Psychology
Years of experience: 20

Research

Areas of work:

  • Medically unexplained physical symptoms
  • Patient education
  • Patient–provider relationship

Research methods:

  • Qualitative methods
  • RCT
  • Systematic literature review

Keywords describing expertise and interest:

  1. behavior change

Field of expertise, major interests, and consultation topics:

My research focuses on healthcare communication, particularly within challenging contexts, such as medically unexplained symptoms, unhealthy behaviours and suicide. The goal of my work is to improve patient care and a key aspect is how to equip health professionals to communicate more effectively with patients, relatives and colleagues. I use a range of methods but specialise in how to integrate qualitative methods within randomised controlled trials to examine mechanisms of action, acceptability, feasibility and implementation of psychological and educational interventions.

Biography/CV:

My background is in psychology. I am Professor of Health Psychology at the University of Manchester, UK, and since 2022 have been director of the Manchester Centre for Health Psychology, the largest international group of health psychologists. I am a keen supporter of early career staff and building capacity in the next generation of healthcare communication researchers

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