Dr Tracy Epton PhD. Cpsychol. FHEA

Lecturer in Psychology and Mental Health

Affiliations:

Division of Psychology & Mental Health (L5), Division of Psychology & Mental Health

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Phone: 0161 3060455

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ORCID: 0000-0002-1653-191X

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Overview

Tracy is a chartered psychologist with research interests in health psychology and health behaviour change.

Biography

Tracy completed her PhD at the University of Sheffield in 2009. She has worked as a researcher at the University of Sheffield and the University of Manchester before becoming a lecturer in health psychology in 2017.

Qualifications

PhD ‘Self-affirmation and health behaviour change: affective and cognitive predictors, moderators and mediators’ (University of Sheffield, 2009)

Postgraduate Certificate in Higher Education ( University of Sheffield, 2009)

MSc Psychological Research Methods (University of Sheffield, 2006)

BSc (Hons) Psychology (University of Sheffield, 2005)

Memberships of committees and professional bodies

Charted Member of the British Psychological Society

Member of the Division of Health Psychology

Member of the European Health Psychology Society

Fellow of the Higher Education Academy

External positions

Communications Lead, Division of Health Psychology; British Psychological Society

26 Jun 2020 → …

Member of Division of Health Psychology Training Committee, The British Psychological Society (BPS)

Nov 2018 → 2021

Areas of expertise

BF Psychology

Research Beacons, Institutes and Platforms

Digital Futures
Cancer

Sustainable Development Goals

Related information

How will the sustainable development goals deliver changes in well-being? A systematic review and meta-analysis to investigate whether WHOQOL-BREF scores respond to change

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

Are healthcare professionals delivering opportunistic behaviour change interventions? A multi-professional survey of engagement with public health policy

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

Do Self-Incentives Change Behavior? A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

Unique Effects of Setting Goals on Behavior Change: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

A randomised controlled trial of a brief online intervention to reduce alcohol consumption in new university students: Combining self-affirmation, theory of planned behaviour messages, and implementation intentions

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

Does Situation-Specificity Affect the Operation of Implementation Intentions?

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

The cost-effectiveness of an updated theory-based online health behavior intervention for new university students: U@Uni2

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

Research Methods in Health Psychology

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

A theory-based online health behaviour intervention for new university students (U@Uni LifeGuide): Results from a repeat trial.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

The Impact of Self-Affirmation on Health-Behavior Change: A Meta-Analysis

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

The cost-effectiveness of a theory-based online health behavior intervention for new university students: An economic evaluation.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

A theory-based online health behaviour intervention for new university students (U@Uni): Results from a randomised controlled trial

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

Development of Theory Based Messages for an Online Health Intervention for New University Students (U@Uni).

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

Self affirmation changes health behavior

Research output: Other contribution

Estimating the Prevalence of Socially Sensitive Behaviours: Attributing Guilty and Innocent Noncompliance with the Single Sample Count Method

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

Does heightening people’s risk appraisals change people's intentions and behavior? A meta-analysis of experimental studies

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

A theory based online health behaviour intervention for new university students: Study protocol

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

Eating problems in adolescents with Type 1 diabetes: A systematic review with meta analysis

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

Robot Companion for Citizens: Roadmapping the potential for future robots in empowering older people

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review

The impact of self-affirmation on health-related cognition and health behaviour: Issues and prospects.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

The impact of self-affirmation on health cognition, health behaviour and other health related responses: A narrative review

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

Developing and testing a Self-affirmation manipulation

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

Self-Affirmation Promotes Health Behavior Change

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

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Melanoma Prevention: Generating Evidence to Support the Banning of Sunbeds.

Project: Research

Manchester Centre for Health Psychology

Project: Research

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Division of Health Psychology Training Committee (BPS)

Activity: External visiting positions or secondments › Visiting an external academic institution

Health Psychology across the lifespan: Uniting research, practice and policy

Activity: Participating in or organising event(s) › Participating in a conference, workshop, exhibition, performance, inquiry, course etc

Raising awareness and changing behavior to promote healthy lifestyles and prevent cancer – from theory to practice

Activity: Talk or presentation › Oral presentation

Patterns of defensive responding to health risk information

Activity: Talk or presentation › Oral presentation

Bolton R& D service, Research Showcase

Activity: Participating in or organising event(s) › Participating in a conference, workshop, exhibition, performance, inquiry, course etc

Does Situation Specificity Affect the Operation of an Implementation Intention Intervention to Increase Physical Activity

Activity: Talk or presentation › Oral presentation

Developing and evaluating smartphone and web-based interventions: an introduction to the Lifeguide and UBhave digital intervention authoring and evaluation tools.

Activity: Talk or presentation › Oral presentation

Improving health behaviour with a theory-based online health behaviour intervention for new university students (U@Uni)

Activity: Talk or presentation › Invited talk

The self and health: Self-affirmation health interventions

Activity: Talk or presentation › Invited talk

Developing and evaluating a theory based online health behaviour intervention for new university students

Activity: Talk or presentation › Invited talk

Developing and evaluating a theory based online health behaviour intervention for new university students

Activity: Talk or presentation › Invited talk

Improving health behaviour with a theory-based online health behaviour intervention for new university students

Activity: Talk or presentation › Oral presentation

Communicating about risk and influencing behaviour.

Activity: Talk or presentation › Invited talk

Understanding the uptake and use of assistive robots.

Activity: Talk or presentation › Invited talk

Limits to the beneficial effects of self-affirmation

Activity: Talk or presentation › Oral presentation

Self-affirmation and health message acceptance: Scope and processes

Activity: Talk or presentation › Invited talk

Activity: Participating in or organising event(s) › Participating in a conference, workshop, exhibition, performance, inquiry, course etc

Self-Affirmation Increases Threat-Related Affect Following a Health Message

Activity: Talk or presentation › Oral presentation

Activity: Participating in or organising event(s) › Participating in a conference, workshop, exhibition, performance, inquiry, course etc

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How to set goals that work. Practical Health Psychology Blog.

Press/Media: Blogs and social media

Self-affirmation changes health behaviour.

Press/Media: Blogs and social media

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