Professor Lucy Yardley
Lucy is leading our research into using digital and web tools to empower patients to change their behaviour and self-manage their condition.
Lucy leads a large digital health research programme (grant funding >£75 million) and has an international reputation for developing engaging and effective interventions for patients, health professionals and people in the community to support self-management of health. These include interventions to support weight management, reduction of respiratory infection transmission and antibiotic over-use, and self-management of numerous long-term health conditions (including cancer, hypertension, back pain, asthma, and cognitive decline).
After carrying out large clinical trials of these interventions showing they are effective (published in Lancet, BMJ and similar journals) they are made available to the NHS and the public through partnerships with the public, third and private sector.
Prof Yardley is also behavioural science theme lead for the NIHR Applied Research Collaboration-West and the NIHR Health Protection Research Unit at the University of Bristol.
Roles
- Theme lead for behavioural science
- Professor of health psychology
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