Dr Judith Joseph BSc, PhD

Senior Research-Enterprise Fellow

Dr Judith Joseph is a Senior Research-Enterprise Fellow in the Centre for Applications of Health Psychology, University of Southampton.

Whilst finishing her PhD in Human Factors at the Institute of Sound and Vibration Research, Judith worked as an e-learning Teaching Fellow in research methods and statistics within Psychology.

Since completing her PhD, Judith has a developed a strong interest in behaviour change interventions and has gained extensive experience in developing interactive web-based support for people to self-manage their health problems. She has worked on numerous projects including interventions for weight management, smoking cessation, cancer and back pain. Judith is a core member of the LifeGuide team and co-ordinates the research programme, which is a multidisciplinary project providing a set of open source software tools that can be used to create web-based interventions. Judith is currently leading the dissemination of LifeGuide interventions through the NHS and public health teams to make them as widely available as possible to the general public.

Judith has a keen interest in mindfulness, and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) and is a member of the Association for Contextual Behavioral Science.