Dr Elizabeth Jenkinson

• Qualifications:Chartered Psychologist, PGCert in teaching in HE, Professional Doctorate/DHealthPsy, MSc Health Psychology, BSc (Hons) Psychology (Cardiff University)
• Position:Associate Professor: Health Psychology
• Department:HAS - Health and Social Sciences
• Telephone:+441173283240
• Email:Elizabeth2.Jenkinson@uwe.ac.uk
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About me

I am an experienced chartered psychologist and senior academic, skilled in clinical applications of health psychology, research, teaching, supervision and practice.

I have just completed a 4 year  part-time secondment from UWE to NHS Health Education England/NHS England acting as National Training Director for Health Psychology under the lead for Psychological Professions at HEE and NHS England, Dr. Adrian Whittington. I continue this post in an advisory role.

I co-lead the UWE Healthy University Group and I am part of leadership team for the internationally engaged UK Healthy Universities Network.

I sit on the leadership team of the UWE Integrated Care Academy. 

Teaching and Learning:

I contribute substantially to both the MSc Health Psychology and Professional Doctorate in Health Psychology through leadership of modules; Health, Stress and Cognition and Biopsychosocial Perspectives and supervision of research.

I very successfully led the British Psychological Society accredited and highly commended Masters in Health Psychology programme from 2013-2022.

I am a British Psychological Society Assessor, member of the BPS Qualification Stakeholder board and act as External Examiner a range courses (currently MSc at Uni of Staffs and BSc at Uni of Plymouth/National School of Business Management in Sri Lanka).

Research:

I conduct and supervise research and practice across a range of areas in health psychology, health promotion and behaviour change, patient experiences, appearance psychology and therapeutic interventions (including in the arts and health field).

I am a research active primary member of PSRG in the Promoting Psychological Health theme. I am deputy lead for a UWE special interest group with Dr Nicola Holt, 'Developing Research in Arts and Well-being (DRAW)'. I am part of the editorial team for the peer reviewed international journal, Arts and Health.

 I am also a secondary member of the Centre for Appearance Research (and previous primary member since 2006) and my research focuses on applying health psychology in understanding appearance altering conditions. I co-authored a book in this area published by Wiley-Blackwell and continue to publish peer reviewed empirical research with the team in CAR.

Through my work in HUG we implement and evaluate internal initiatives to promote health and well-being in Higher Education, current projects include UWE Living Well, UWE Smoke Free and UWE Embedding Wellbeing in the Curriculum.

I have recently been conducting research understanding health behaviour related to Covid-19, sitting on the BPS Behavioural Science and Disease Prevention Taskforce subgroup on Health Behaviours, and as part of the Health Psychology Exchange, resulting in a range of systematic reviews and policy documents. I have also collaborated with colleagues at Uni of Bath to explore the experiences of frontline doctors during Covid-19, resulting in publications and wide media reach (222 million reach: Kantor estimate) and the health and wellbeing of emergency medicine professionals. 

I regularly act as an internal and external examiner for PGR student research internally and for other HEIs. I have successfully supervised 16 doctoral students to completion, and currently supervise 8 across PhD and Prof Doc routes. 

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