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Dr Emma Norris
Senior Lecturer in Public Health

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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

Castro, O., Norris, E., Wright, AJ., Hayes, E., Howes, E., Moore, C., et al. (2024) 'Creating a body of physical activity evidence to test the generalisation of annotation methods for automated evidence synthesis'. Wellcome Open Research, 9. pp. 1 - 12.Open Access Link

Journal article

Norris, E., O'Mahony, A., Coyne, R., Varol, T., Green, JA., Reynolds, J. and et al. (2024) 'Demystifying Open Science in Health Psychology and Behavioral Medicine: A Practical Guide to Registered Reports and Data Notes'. Health Psychology and Behavioral Medicine, 12 (1). pp. 1 - 16.Open Access Link

Journal article

Norris, E., Zhang, L., Wuerstl, K., Froome, H. and Michie, S. (2024) 'A data extraction template for the behaviour change intervention ontology'. Wellcome Open Research, 9 ([version 1; peer review: 2 approved]). pp. 1 - 16. ISSN: 2398-502X Open Access Link

Journal article

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, 29 (7). pp. 770 - 781. ISSN: 1359-1053 Open Access Link

Journal article
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