Professor Angela Attwood
Professor
Angela Attwood is a Professor of psychological science.
Her research interests are in understanding and promoting positive health behaviours, with particular focus on reducing tobacco and alcohol use. Her work interrogates mechanisms underpinning health behaviour, explores implementation of interventions in real world settings and develops novel behaviour change interventions.
She is a member of the NIHR Bristol BRC mental health theme, collaborating on research using choice architecture approaches to interventions to support people with eating disorders.
Developing emotion recognition training for autistic children
Autistic children find it difficult to process emotional information. Studies have shown that emotion recognition…
- Theme Mental health
- Workstream Psychological interventions
Providing information about e-cigarettes at lung health checks
The NHS has a long-term plan to reduce the number of people smoking in England…
- Theme Mental health
- Workstream Psychological interventions
Are smokers having lung health checks ready to quit?
The NHS is offering lung health checks to people aged 55 to 74 who smoke…
- Theme Mental health
- Workstream Psychological interventions