2009 PhD Health Psychology (University of East Anglia) 2006 PGCert Higher Education Practice (University of East Anglia) 2002 PGDip Health Sciences (University of East Anglia) 1995 BSc (Hons) Psychology (University of Nottingham)

Career

Jane is an honorary Lecturer, and was previously employed as a Lecturer in Health Psychology (from 2003) and researcher (from 1999), in the Norwich Medical School at the University of East Anglia where she also completed a part-time PhD in health psychology. This followed a period working in Australia as a Research Assistant as part of a Physical Activity and Health research group at Deakin University, and previously in project management and health administration roles at a Division of General Practice in Melbourne. Jane began her research career prior to that as a Research Assistant in a Research and Development Support Unit hosted by what was then the Department of Social Medicine at the University of Bristol.

Jane’s research focuses primarily on the development and evaluation of evidence-based behaviour change and other complex interventions, as part of Professor Charles Abraham’s programme of work.

Previously, her research has mainly focused on psychosocial aspects of chronic disease management (e.g. asthma, arthritis, adherence to medication and other aspects of self-management, depression in chronic illness) but has recently shifted more towards chronic disease prevention (e.g. weight management, diabetes prevention).

All Jane's research has involved working with multi-disciplinary teams of academics, clinicians, other professionals and public and patient representatives across primary and secondary care, and increasingly the public health sector. She has led and supported randomised controlled trials, economic evaluations and systematic reviews of complex interventions, development and testing of questionnaires and other outcome measures, and related quantitative and mixed methods research investigating behavioural and other psychosocial risk factors for, and impacts of, chronic disease.