Research project

Person Based Approach

Project overview

The Person-based Approach (PBA) focuses on understanding and accommodating the perspectives of the people who will use an intervention, in order to improve uptake, adherence and outcomes. The PBA engages with end-users at all stages of development to iteratively improve the intervention

Staff

Lead researcher

Professor Lucy Yardley OBE

Professorial Fellow-Research
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Other researchers

Dr Katherine Bradbury

Principal Research Fellow
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Dr Leanne Morrison

Associate Professor

Research interests

  • Health Psychology 
  • Person-based intervention development 
  • Digital technology 
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Dr Ingrid Muller BSc, MSc, PhD, CPsychol, FHEA

Associate Professor

Research interests

  • Self-management of long-term conditions
  • Behavioural health interventions
  • Digital health
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Dr Adam Geraghty BSc MSc PhD CPsychol FHEA

Assoc Prof Psychology & Behavioural Med

Research interests

  • Self-management of pain and other chronic symptoms/conditions
  • Mental health
  • Digital interventions for primary care and public health
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Dr Rosie Essery

Senior Research Fellow
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Dr Ben Ainsworth

Associate Professor
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Research outputs

Lucy Yardley, Kate Morton, Kate Greenwell, Beth Stuart, Cathy Rice, Katherine Bradbury, Ben Ainsworth, Rebecca Band, Elizabeth Murray, Frances Mair, Carl May, Susan Michie, Samantha Richards-Hall, Peter W.F. Smith, Anne Bruton, James Raftery, Shihua Zhu, Mike Thomas, Richard J. McManus & Paul Little, 2022, Programme Grants for Applied Research, 10(11)
Type: article
Rosie Essery, Sebastien Pollet, Kirsten Smith, Fiona Mowbray, Joanna Slodkowska-Barabasz, James Denison-Day, Victoria Hayter, Katherine Bradbury, Elisabeth Grey, Max Western, Alexander MC Milton, Cheryl Hunter, Anne Ferrey, Andre M Muller, Beth Stuart, Nanette Mutrie, Simon J. Griffin, Tony Kendrick, Helen Brooker, Bernard Gudgin, Rosemary Phillips, Tom Stokes, John Niven, Paul Little & Lucy Yardley, 2021, Pilot and Feasibility Studies, 7(1)
Type: article
Kate Greenwell, Benjamin Ainsworth, Anne Bruton, Elizabeth Murray, Daniel Russel, Mike Thomas & Lucy Yardley, 2021, NPJ primary care respiratory medicine, 31(1)
Type: article
Tanvi Rai, Kate Morton, Cristian Roman, Roisin Doogue, Cathy Rice, Marney Williams, Claire Schwartz, Carmelo Velardo, Lionel Tarassenko, Lucy Yardley, Richard J. McManus & Lisa Hinton, 2020, Health Expectations
Type: article
Kirsten Smith, Katherine Bradbury, Rosie Essery, Sebastien Pollet, Fiona Mowbray, Joanna Slodkowska-Barabasz, James Denison-Day, Victoria Hayter, Joanne Marie Kelly, Jane Somerville, Jin Zhang, Elisabeth B Grey, Max Western, Anne Ferrey, Adele Krusche, Beth Stuart, Nanette Mutrie, Sian Robinson, Lily Guiqing, Gareth Griffiths, Louise Robinson, Martin N. Rossor, John E. Gallacher, Simon J. Griffin, Tony Kendrick, Shanaya Rathod, Bernard Gudgin, Rosemary Phillips, Tom Stokes, John Niven, Paul Little & Lucy Yardley, 2020, JMIR Research Protocols, 9(11)
Type: article