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 Brunel's Academic Lead for online Global Public Health programmes and Programme Lead of MSc Public Health and Health Promotion (online) and 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.
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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 & Health Promotion (online) & 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
Global Public Health Admissions Lead
Newest selected publications
Toomey, E., Coyne, R., Derksen, C., Grant, SP., Jones, CM., Kijowska, M., et al. (2025) 'Adoption of the Transparency and Openness Promotion (TOP) guidelines within health psychology and behavioural medicine journal policies: a cross-sectional study'. Health Psychology Review, 0 (ahead of print). pp. 1 - 18. ISSN: 1743-7199 Open Access Link
Castro, O., Norris, E., Wright, AJ., Hayes, E., Howes, E., Moore, C., et al. (2025) 'From smoking cessation to physical activity: Can ontology-based methods for automated evidence synthesis generalise across behaviour change domains?'. Wellcome Open Research, 9. pp. 1 - 28. ISSN: 2398-502X Open Access Link
Wright, AJ., Finnerty Mutlu, AN., Norris, E., Marques, MM., Hastings, J., West, R. and et al. (2025) 'Development of an Intervention Population Ontology for specifying the characteristics of intervention participants'. Wellcome Open Research, 10. pp. 1 - 26.Open Access Link
O'Connell, NE., Belton, J., Crombez, G., Eccleston, C., Fisher, E., Ferraro, MC., et al. (2024) 'Enhancing the trustworthiness of pain research: A call to action'. Journal of Pain, 28. pp. 1 - 11. ISSN: 1526-5900 Open Access Link
Norris, E., Varol, T., Coyne, R., O'Mahony, A., James A., G., Brooks, J. and et al. (2024) 'Reflecting on Five years of the European Health Psychology Society’s Open Science Special Interest Group'. The European Health Psychologist, 23 (4). pp. 1197 - 1203.Open Access Link