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Dr Leanne Morrison Bsc, Msc, PhD

Lecturer in Health Psychology

Dr Leanne Morrison is a Lecturer in Health Psychology within the Centre for Community and Clinical Applications of Health Psychology, Faculty of Environmental and Life Sciences and the Department of Primary Care and Population Sciences, Faculty of Medicine.

Understanding how and why users engage with the advice and support provided by digital health behaviour change interventions is crucial for improving their effectiveness and implementation

Prior to completing her doctoral studies, Leanne was an undergraduate (BSc Psychology, 1st) and postgraduate (MSc Health Psychology, distinction) student at the University of Southampton. Leanne completed her PhD in 2011, also at the University of Southampton. Her doctoral studies identified and examined how technology-based features influenced users' engagement with digital health behaviour change interventions.

Since 2011, Leanne has worked as a postdoctoral research fellow, then Lecturer in Health Psychology, and has been involved in developing and evaluating a number of digital health behaviour change interventions for both adult and adolescent populations. These interventions have targeted a range of health behaviours including weight management, healthy dietary choices, malnutrition, and stress management. Leanne is also deputy director of the LifeGuide Research Programme at the University of Southampton and deputy theme lead for Behavioural Science within the NIHR Southampton Biomedical Research Centre.

Professional memberships: European Health Psychology Society and chartered member of the British Psychological Society.

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Research interests

Leanne’s core research focus is in understanding how novel technologies can best be harnessed to deliver behaviour change interventions and improve health outcomes. In particular, she is interested in the person-based development of interventions, understanding and measuring effective engagement with digital health interventions using mixed methods, and evaluating scalable models for supporting effective health interventions in primary care and community settings.

Work in Progress:

Leanne is currently leading on the development of an app- and game-based intervention to engage adolescents with healthy eating and physical activity. Leanne is also co-leading the development of an intervention to support the screening and treatment of malnutrition in older adults within primary care. Please see below for a list of Leanne's current and past grants.

Current grants include:

Barker, M. (PI), Inskip, H. (PI), Little, P., Baird, J., Morrison, L., Chase, D., Farrell, D., Clarke, J., Cooper, C., Lord, J., Godfrey, K., Grace, M., Hanson, M., & Viner, R. (2017 - 2022). Engaging adolescents in changing behaviour (EACh-B): A programme of research to improve the diets and physical activity levels of teenagers. NIHR - PGfAR: 2017-2022 (£2,166,779)

Everitt, H. (PI), Little, P., Howick, J., Mallen, C., Morrison, L., Bishop, F., & Yardley, L. (2018 – 2020). Expectation management for patients in primary care: Developing and feasibility testing a new digital intervention for practitioners. SPCR (£394,262)

Morrison, L. (PI), Yardley, L., Bradbury, K., Weal, M., & Little, P. (2015). Integrating effective weight management programmes into community-based public health services. Strategic Interdisciplinary Research Development Fund (University of Southampton): £9793.81.

Little, P. (PI), Stroud, M. (PI), Stuart, B., Yao, G. L., Roberts, H., Gill, P., Rathod, S., Green, S., Moore, M., Griffiths, G., Boehning, D., Yardley, L., Morrison, L., Aveyard, P., & Roderick, P. (2015 – 2021). Screen and TREAt for malnutrition (STREAM) programme. NIHR – PGfAR: £2,755,376.

Barker, M., Morrison, L., Soltani, H., Stevenson, J., Whitworth, M., Rundle, R., & Lang, B. (2015-2016). Improving nutritional status in pregnant teenagers: development of a complex intervention to support change in diet and lifestyle. MRC – PHIND: £149,126.08.

Research group

Centre for Clinical and Community Applications of Health Psychology (CCCAHP)

Affiliate research group

Primary Care & Population Sciences

Research project(s)

UBhave

The UBhave project aims to investigate the power and challenges of using mobile phones and social networking for Digital Behaviour Change Interventions (DBCIs).

LifeGuide

Software that enables behavioural scientists to create online behavioural interventions

Deputy director of undergraduate student support
Personal Academic Tutor (Year 2)
Upgrade Tutor (PGR)

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Articles

Morrison, L. G., Geraghty, A. W. A., Lloyd, S., Goodman , N., Michaelides, D. T., Hargood, C., ... Yardley, L. (2018). Comparing usage of a web and app stress management intervention: An observational study. Internet Interventions. DOI: 10.1016/j.invent.2018.03.006
Elaheebocus, S. M. R. A., Weal, M., Morrison, L., & Yardley, L. (2018). Peer-based social media features in behavior change interventions: Systematic review. Journal of Medical Internet Research, 20(2). DOI: 10.2196/jmir.8342
Rose, T., Barker, M., Jacob, C. M., Morrison, L., Lawrence, W., Strommer, S., ... Baird, J. (2017). A systematic review of digital interventions for improving the diet and physical activity behaviours of adolescents. Journal of Adolescent Health. DOI: 10.1016/j.jadohealth.2017.05.024
Morrison, L., Hargood, C., Pejovic, V., Geraghty, A., Lloyd, S., Goodman, N., ... Yardley, L. (2017). The effect of timing and frequency of push notifications on usage of a smartphone-based stress management intervention: an exploratory trial. PLoS ONE, 1-32. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0169162
Ainsworth, B., Steele, M., Stuart, B., Joseph, J., Miller, S., Morrison, L., ... Yardley, L. (2017). Using an analysis of behavior change to inform effective digital intervention design: How did the PRIMIT website change hand hygiene behavior across 8993 users? Annals of Behavioral Medicine, 51(3), 423-431. DOI: 10.1007/s12160-016-9866-9
Lin, S. X., Morrison, L., Smith, P., Hargood, C., Weal, M., & Yardley, L. (2016). Properties of bootstrap tests for N-of-1 studies. British Journal of Mathematical and Statistical Psychology, 1-29. DOI: 10.1111/bmsp.12071
Yardley, L., Spring, B. J., Riper, H., Morrison, L. G., Crane, D. H., Curtis, K., ... Blanford, A. (2016). Understanding and promoting effective engagement with digital behavior change interventions. American Journal of Preventive Medicine, 1-28.
Arden-Close, E., Smith, E., Bradbury, K., Morrison, L., Dennison, L., Michaelides, D. T., & Yardley, L. (2015). A visualisation tool to analyse usage of web-based interventions: the example of Positive Online Weight Reduction (POWeR). JMIR Human Factors, 1-25. DOI: 10.2196/humanfactors.4310
Yardley, L., Morrison, L., Bradbury, K., & Muller, I. (2015). The person-based approach to intervention development: application to digital health-related behavior change interventions. Journal of Medical Internet Research, 17(1), e30. DOI: 10.2196/jmir.4055
Morrison, L. G. (2015). Theory-based strategies for enhancing the impact and usage of digital health behaviour change interventions: a review. Digital Health, 1-10. DOI: 10.1177/2055207615595335
Dennison, L., Morrison, L., Lloyd, S., Phillips, D., Stuart, B., Williams, S., ... Yardley, L. (2014). Does brief telephone support improve engagement with a web-based weight management intervention? Randomized controlled trial. Journal of Medical Internet Research, 16(3), e95. DOI: 10.2196/jmir.3199
Morrison, L., Moss-Morris, R., Michie, S., & Yardley, L. (2014). Optimizing engagement with internet-based health behaviour change interventions: comparison of self-assessment with and without tailored feedback using a mixed methods approach. British Journal of Health Psychology, 19(4), 839-855. DOI: 10.1111/bjhp.12083
Morrison, L. G., Hargood, C., Lin, S. X., Dennison, L., Joseph, J., Hughes, S., ... Yardley, L. (2014). Understanding usage of a hybrid website and smartphone app for weight management: a mixed-methods study. Journal of Medical Internet Research, 16(10), e201. DOI: 10.2196/jmir.3579
Lloyd, S., Dennison, L., Morrison, L., Phillips, D., Michie, S., Murray, E., ... Yardley, L. (2013). Losing weight online with POWeR: a randomised controlled trial of a web-based behavioural intervention in a community setting. Lancet, 382, S62. DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(13)62487-3
Morrison, L. G., Yardley, L., Powell, J., & Michie, S. (2012). What design features are used in effective e-health interventions? A review using techniques from critical interpretive synthesis. Telemedicine and e-Health, 18(2), 137-144. DOI: 10.1089/tmj.2011.0062
Yardley, L., Morrison, L. G., Andreou, P., Joseph, J., & Little, P. (2010). Understanding reactions to an internet-delivered health-care intervention: accommodating user preferences for information provision. BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making, 10(52), [10pp]. DOI: 10.1186/1472-6947-10-52
Morrison, L. G., & Yardley, L. (2009). What infection control measures will people carry out to reduce transmission of pandemic influenza? A focus group study. BMC Public Health, 9(1), 258-[11pp]. DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-9-258

Conferences

Weston, A., Morrison, L., Yardley, L., Van Kleek, M., & Weal, M. (2015). Measurements of engagement in mobile behavioural interventions?. Poster session presented at Digital Health 2015, Italy.
Hargood, C., Pejovic, V., Morrison, L., Michaelides, D. T., Musolesi, M., Yardley, L., & Weal, M. J. (2014). The UBhave Framework: Dynamic Pervasive Applications for Behavioural Psychology. Poster session presented at Mobiquitous 2014, .
Hargood, C., Michaelides, D. T., Weal, M. J., Morrison, L., & Yardley, L. (2012). Digital interventions on and off mobile devices. Paper presented at Digital Futures 2012, United Kingdom.
Weal, M. J., Hargood, C., Michaelides, D. T., Morrison, L., & Yardley, L. (2012). Making online behavioural interventions mobile. Paper presented at Digital Research 2012, United Kingdom.
Morrison, L., Joseph, J., Andreou, P., & Yardley, L. (2009). Application of the lifeGuide: a think-aloud study of users' experiences of the 'internet doctor'. Paper presented at 5th International Conference on e-Social Science, Germany.

Letter/Editorial

Nadarzynski, T., Morrison, L., Bayley, J., & Llewellyn, C. (2017). The role of digital interventions in sexual health. Sexually Transmitted Infections. DOI: 10.1136/sextrans-2016-052926

I am module lead for the Biopsychosocial Aspects of Health core module (PSYC6001) on the MSc Health Psychology Programme. I also regularly deliver guest lectures on digital health.

I supervise a number of 3rd year undergraduate and postgraduate dissertation projects. I am currently supervising two doctoral students.

Dr Leanne Morrison
Building 44 (room 4121), Psychology, Highfield Campus, University of Southampton, SO17 1BJ. Tel: (023) 8059 7222. Email: L.Morrison@soton.ac.uk

Primary Care and Population Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, University of Southampton, Aldermoor Health Centre, Aldermoor Close, Southampton, SO16 5ST. Tel: (023) 8059 1763. Email: L.Morrison@soton.ac.uk

Room Number: 44/4121/M35

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