Phone:

(023) 8059 8721

Email:

kjb1e08@soton.ac.uk

Dr Katherine  Bradbury PhD, MSc, BSc

Principal Research Fellow in Health Psychology

Dr Katherine Bradbury is a Health Psychologist and Principal Research Fellow based in Psychology at the University of Southampton.

Dr Bradbury’s main interest is in helping individuals to prevent illness, treat or self-manage health conditions and maximise their wellbeing. She has particular expertise in developing and evaluating complex behaviour change interventions, including digital interventions and is especially interested in how to maximise engagement with and implement such interventions. Through her work in this area Dr Bradbury co-created the ‘Person-Based’ Approach, which uses mixed methods to develop interventions which are engaging, accessible and motivating for end users. This methodology has resulted in a number of successful interventions, published in journals such as the Lancet and BMJ.

Dr Bradbury also has an interest in how so called ‘contextual’ aspects of a treatment, such as the patient-practitioner relationship impact on patients’ behaviour and health outcomes. Her PhD thesis focussed on how contextual factors vary between NHS and private healthcare settings and she has continued this research with subsequent grants which explore the impact of treatment context on health outcomes.

Dr Bradbury is registered as a Health Psychologist with the Health and Care Professionals Council (HCPC) and as a Chartered Psychologist with the British Psychological Society (BPS). She previously completed a PhD in Health Psychology and Professional Practice (University of Southampton), an MSc in Health Psychology (Coventry University) and a BSc (Hons) in Psychology (Coventry University).