About
A brief description of who you are and what you do.
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Write about yourself in the third person. Aim for 100 to 150 words covering the main points about who you are and what you currently do. Clear, simple language is best. You can include specialist or technical terms.
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Research
Research interests
- Infection Prevention
- Underserved communities
- Digital health interventions
- Behaviour change
- Antimicrobial stewardship
Current research
Dr Miller’s current research focuses on developing behavioural and digital approaches to support prevention and self-management of infections in primary care, with a particular emphasis on urinary tract infections and underserved communities.
She is also co-leading initiatives to improve inclusive research practices, including the development of a community panel of neurodivergent people and people with learning disabilities to inform study design and delivery.
Alongside this, she contributes to the development and evaluation of digital interventions in primary care, including work on the Phased-In programme to support pharmacists delivering care for common infections.
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Research groups
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Research interests
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Current research
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Research projects
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Publications
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Supervision
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Teaching
A short description of your teaching interests and responsibilities.
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Courses and modules
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External roles and responsibilities
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Biography
Dr Sascha Miller is a behavioural psychologist specialising in the development, evaluation and implementation of digital behaviour change interventions in primary care. Her work uses the Person-Based Approach to design interventions that are grounded in people’s lived experiences and are practical to use in everyday life.
Her research focuses on prevention, antimicrobial stewardship, research inclusion with a particular emphasis on underserved communities. She works closely with patients, healthcare professionals and community partners to understand the behavioural, psychological and contextual factors that influence how people manage their health.
Sascha completed her PhD in Psychology at the University of Southampton in 2022, where she focused on understanding and improving engagement with digital health interventions. During this work, she developed the Analysing and Measuring Usage and Engagement Data (AMUsED) framework, which supports the systematic analysis of how people use and engage with digital interventions.
She has contributed to the development and implementation of digital interventions for infection prevention and management in primary care, including nationally delivered programmes, providing experience of translating behavioural science into real-world impact.
She holds an MSc in Social and Organisational Psychology from the University of Exeter and a BSc (Hons) in Psychology from Solent University.
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Prizes
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