Prof David French PhD CPsychol FEHPS

Overview

Professor of Health Psychology

NIHR Public Health Research programme research funding board member (2015-present)

MRC Methodology Research Programme panel member (2014-2018)

NIHR Programme Grants for Applied Research: sub-panel member (expert in health psychology/ behavioural science) (2009-2014)

British Journal of Health Psychology (official journal of British Psychological Society): Editor (Jan 2013-Dec 2017);

Annals of Behavioral Medicine (official journal of Society of Behavioral Medicine): Editorial Board member (2009-present)

Biography

After studying at the Universities of Hull and Cardiff, David French worked as a research assistant at the University of Leicester, before completed his PhD at Guys, Kings and St Thomas Medical School, University of London in 1999. This was followed by a Wellcome Trust Training Fellowship in Health Services Research at the Institute of Public Health, University of Cambridge.  He then worked as a Lecturer at the University of Birmingham and as Reader and then Professor at Coventry University.  In October 2012 he moved to the University of Manchester as Professor of Health Psychology.

Qualifications

B.Sc. (Honours) in Psychology (Hull) 2i 1990
M.Sc. in Applied (i.e. Occupational) Psychology (Wales) 1992
Ph.D. in Health Psychology (GKT School of Medicine, Kings College London) 1999

 

Memberships of committees and professional bodies

• Fellow of European Health Psychology Society
• Associate Fellow of the British Psychological Society
• Full Member of the BPS Division of Health Psychology
• Chartered Psychologist
• Registered as a Health Psychologist with the Health and Care Professions Council
• Member of the UK Society for Behavioural Medicine