The main areas of research for the Health Behaviour Change Research Group are the development and evaluation of theory- and evidence-based health behaviour change interventions, across communicable and non-communicable diseases, and evidence synthesis of behaviour change interventions, with a view to using novel techniques such as Artificial Intelligence in collaboration with colleagues across and beyond Brunel.
Our group contains experts in the following areas of behaviour change:
- Development and evaluation of behaviour change intervention across a variety of health behaviours and conditions, such as physical activity, smoking cessation and diabetes
- Applying behaviour change theory, such as the Behaviour Change Wheel and I-Change Models to intervention development and evaluation
- Bringing together evidence on behaviour change, via scoping reviews, systematic reviews and meta-analyses
- Mixed-methods approaches to understanding behaviour change
- Using Artificial Intelligence to make sense of behaviour change literature
- Using methods to elicit consensus in groups, such as Delphi exercises and conjoint analyses
- Health communication
- Narrative behaviour change