Meet the pact lab team
Dr Dawn branley-bell
PaCT Lab Director
Dawn is an Associate Professor of Cyberpsychology and a chartered psychologist (cPsychol.). She is also Chair of the British Psychological Society’s Section for Cyberpsychology. Her research interests include remote healthcare, eating disorders, cybersecurity and online behaviour. She is Project Lead for the RHED-C (Remote Healthcare for eating disorders throughout COVID-19) and RIICE (Remote Intervention to Improve Chewing Efficiency) projects. You can find her on X at @TheCyberPsyche!
PRof Pam briggs
Professor
Pam holds a Chair in Applied Psychology at Northumbria University, she is also a Co-Director of the UK’s Centre for Digital Citizens, a £9m collaboration between the Universities of Newcastle, Northumbria, Edinbugh and UCL. Pam’s work primarily addresses issues of identity, trust, privacy and security in new social media, with a particular focus on digital inequality.
dr elizabeth sillence
Associate Professor
Liz is one of the founding members of PaCT lab. She specialises in eHealth and she is currently investigating the trust and privacy issues associated with the technological sharing of personal health data. Liz is also a member of the hoarding research group within the department investigating the cybersecurity issues related to digital hoarding.
dr claire mcgrogan
Senior Research Assistant (RIICE)
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dr helen cartner
Senior Research Assistant (RIICE)
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Claire murphy-morgan
Senior Research Assistant (RHED-C)
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dr genavee brown
Assistant Professor
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Richard brown
Doctoral Researcher & Research Fellow
Richard is nearing completion of his PhD investigating perceptions of risk and socioeconomic inequalities in health. He alsos work as a researcher within PaCT exploring a range of public health issues using both quantitative and qualitative methods. Recently he has been working on RHED-C project and research for the Centre for Digital Citizens. He has held fellowships with the Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology, the Alan Turing Institute.
Dr alison osborne
Senior Research Assistant (CDC)
Alison is a Senior Research Assistant working in the well citizen challenge area within the Centre for Digital Citizens focussing on the role of digital technologies in women’s health communications. Alison’s research interests include identity, well-being, EDI, digital health, Armed Forces, mixed methodologies.
dr kerry lakey
Assistant Professor
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dr lisa thomas
Assistant Professor
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Dr santosh vijaykumar
Associate Professor
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Prof arlene astell
Professor
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dr carolina are
Innovation Fellow
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colin stephenson
Doctoral Researcher
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rhian lukins
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dr kandianos sakalidis
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richard rawlings
Doctoral Researcher
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