Research

• Research interests and current opportunities to join the Behavioural Science and creative insights research lab are advertised here together with guidance for applicants.

I have also held a number of research leadership and citizenship roles:

• 2021– Executive board member for the French Education and Research Network, French Embassy
• 2021– President of the European Association for Decision-Making (eadm.eu)
• 2019–21 President-elect of the European Association for Decision-Making (eadm.eu)
• 2019– Director of Research and Enterprise, Kingston Business School
• 2017 Guest Editor of a special issue on Vaccine Hesitancy in Vaccine, Elsevier
• 2016–19 Director of Research (Department of Management), Kingston Business School
• 2016– Head of the Decisions, Attitudes, Risk and Thinking group, Kingston Business School
• 2016–18 Academic lead for the design of Kingston Business School Behavioural Science Lab (KU Pilot teaching rooms Project)
• 2013– Associate Editor, European Review of Applied Psychology, Elsevier
• 2012 Associate Editor, Journal of Economic Psychology, Elsevier
• 2010-16 Head of the interdisciplinary Group for Decision, Thinking and Risk Research, Department of Psychology
• 2008–14 Consulting Editor, International Review of Social Psychology, ADRIPS
• 2004–11 Executive Board Member of the European Association for Decision Making

Outreach and knowledge exchange

My work has been mentioned in news outlets and blog posts

Selected Media and non-academic coverage

• interviewed in Peut-on vraiment changer d’avis? [Can we really change our mind?], France Inter (August 2021)
• cited in Social v market value: how much is a COVID vaccine worth?, LSE Business Review (June 2021)
• cited in How can we address Covid-19 vaccine hesitancy and improve vaccine acceptance?, BMJ Opinion blog (February 2021)
• cited in How to think outside your brain, New York Times (June 2021)
• cited in the United Nations Children’s Fund. Vaccine Misinformation Management Field Guide., UNICEF (2020)
• cited in Once COVID-19 vaccine is ready, getting people to take it may be challenge, UPI (June 2020)
• cited in Interaction with others may improve our decision-making (May 2019)
• cited in Persuading more health workers to have flu jab needs new approach, News Medical (November 2018)
• cited in The Psychological Trick Behind Trump’s Misleading Terror Statistics, Politico Magazine (January 2018)
• cited in For some health workers, it takes this to pull the trigger on a flu shot, Becker Hospital Review (November 2018)
• cited in Encouraging more health workers to have flu jab needs new approach that connects on an emotional level, Medical X Press (November 2018)
• cited in Bromley Joint Strategic Needs Assessment report, NHS Bromley Clinical Commissioning Group, (2017)
• cited in Overview of vaccine confidence, US National Vaccine Program Office (June 2017)
• cited in a Vaccine confidence meeting report, US Department of Health (2017).
• interviewed in Health workers and mandatory vaccination – No jab, no job?, Vaccine Today (October 2016)
• wrote a Conversation dissemination article (2016) republished in Newsweek and other sources, with a mention on the BBC radio and cited in a KU Press office release and more than 40 print and online outlets, including Science Daily, Huffington Post France, New Zealand Herald, Yahoo! India and Psychology Today. The research was also featured on several American broadcast news channels (KTLA 5 News, Los Angeles, USA; Fox 4 News, Kansas City, USA) and regional BBC radio stations.

Consultancy and Knowledge transfer partnerships

• 2021-22: Partnering with Charity Create4MentalHealth to examine how behavioural science can support social media campaigns aiming to support youth mental health.
• 2021-23: Partnering with PromoVeritas Limited to establish an innovative consumer behavioural intelligence capability.

Teaching

I’m the module leader for BH7308 Organisational Development and Change Management. Students design and conduct an industry-based project and provide recommendations to address a pre-existing organisational or behavioural change issue.

I also teach an introduction to behavioural science on BH6017 Psychology for Business and Management (Business UG), Behavioural science for business on BQ7801 Philosophy and Traditions of Management Research (MRes) and deciding, influencing, and negotiating on BH7579 Organisations & Management in a Global Context (MBA and Exec MBA).

I have contributed to the following teaching modules in the past:

• BH5003 Research placement
• PS4003 Historical and Philosophical Concepts in Psychology
• PS7013 Social and Cognitive Insights into Human Behaviour at Work
• PS7000 Psychology Dissertation
• PSM430 Ergonomics and Human‐Machine interactions
• PS2298 Cognitive Processes
• PSM422 Perception & Cognition
• PY0203Y Study Skills
• PY0043Y Advanced ANOVA with SPSS
• LUBS1195 & LUBS2195 Introductory Modelling for Management Studies I & II
• LUBS1780 Research Methods for Human Resource Management
• LUBS1871 Management Science

I have also undertaken a number of additional roles related to education:

• MSc in Global Human Resource Management validation panel member
• Behavioural Science Lab academic lead
• Psychology MRes / Developmental Psychology MRes course leader
• MSc in Behavioural Decision Science validation panel member
• Student Experience Officer and NSS Champion
• Psychology Education Committee Member (UG Chair, 2010 – 2012)
• E-learning platform manager for Psychology (U. of Toulouse)
• MSc in Occupational Psychology and MSc in Business Psychology validation and BPS accreditation panel member

Office hours

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• a quick update (15 min) if you have a question or want to share an update,
• a progress/supervisory meeting (30 min) to discuss what was accomplished since our last meeting, what remains to be done, what we will focus on next, or
• a problem-solving/decision-making meeting (1-hour) where we discuss a problem or come together to agree on a course of action.