Dr Emma Norris
Senior Lecturer in Public Health
Mary Seacole Open Plan Office
- Email: emma.norris@brunel.ac.uk
- Tel: +44 (0)1895 265056
- Global Public Health
- Department of Health Sciences
- College of Health, Medicine and Life Sciences
Summary
Dr Emma Norris is a Senior Lecturer in Public Health, within the Department of Health Sciences and Co-Chair of the Health Behaviour Change Research Group. She is Deputy Lead of the Division of Global Public Health and Lead of MSc Public Health and Behaviour Change (online).
Dr Norris is a researcher in behaviour change and health psychology, exploring evidence synthesis of behaviour change interventions, as well as development and assessment of physical activity, smoking cessation and digital interventions. Before joining Brunel, Dr Norris was a Research Fellow at the Centre for Behaviour Change at University College London working on the Human Behaviour-Change Project: synthesising published literature on behaviour change using machine learning and Artificial Intelligence. Dr Norris' PhD tested Virtual Field Trips as physically active lesson interventions for primary-school children.
Dr Norris is also an advocate for Open Science. She established and Chairs Brunel's Open Research Working Group and is Brunel's UK Reproducibility Network (UKRN) Local Network Lead. She is also interested in designing behaviour change interventions to facilitate Open Science behaviours in researchers.
Dr Norris is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA). She is Co-Chair of the European Health Psychology Society’s Open Science Special Interest Group. Emma is an Associate Editor for Health Psychology & Behavioral Medicine and Cogent Psychology.
Follow Dr Norris' research and updates on Twitter: @EJ_Norris
Qualifications
PhD, University College London (2017): Virtual Field Trips as physically active lessons for children.
MSc Health Psychology, University College London (2012).
BSc Psychology, Brunel University (2010).
Responsibility
Course Director of MSc Public Health & Behaviour Change (online)
Chair of Brunel Open Research Working Group; UK Reproducibility Network Local Network Lead
Co-Chair of Health Behaviour Change Research Group
Divisional Admissions Lead & Academic Misconducts Co-Lead
Newest selected publications
Norris, E., Zhang, L., Wuerstl, K., Froome, H. and Michie, S. (Accepted) 'A data extraction template for the behaviour change intervention ontology'. Wellcome Open Research, 9. pp. 168 - 168.
Branney, P., Marques, MM. and Norris, E. (2024) 'Applying the Non-adoption, Abandonment, Scale-up, Spread and Sustainability (NASSS) framework to evaluate automated evidence synthesis in health behaviour change'. Journal of Health Psychology, 0 (ahead of print). pp. 1 - 12. ISSN: 1359-1053 Open Access Link
Aienobe-Asekharen, C., Norris, E. and Martin, W. (2024) 'A Scoping Review of Tobacco Control Health Communication in Africa: Moving towards Involving Young People'. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 21 (3). pp. 1 - 31. ISSN: 1660-4601 Open Access Link
Pownall, M., Pennington, CR., Norris, E., Juanchich, M., Smailes, D., Russell, PS., (2023) 'Evaluating the Pedagogical Effectiveness of Study Preregistration in the Undergraduate Dissertation'. Advances in Methods and Practices of Psychological Science, 6 (4). pp. 1 - 21. ISSN: 2515-2459 Open Access Link
et al.Branney, PE., Brooks, J., Kilby, L., Newman, KL., Norris, E., Pownall, M., (2023) 'Three Steps to Open Science for Qualitative Research in Psychology'. Social and Personality Psychology Compass, 17 (4). pp. 16 - 16. ISSN: 1751-9004 Open Access Link
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