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Last updated 27th March 2023

Dr Susie Kola-Palmer (PhD, CPsychol, AFBPsS, FHEA) is a Senior Lecturer in Health Psychology and the Deputy Director for Graduate Education in Psychology, School of Human and Health Sciences, University of Huddersfield.

Susie is a graduate of the National University of Ireland, Galway, where she completed her PhD. Appointed to the University of Huddersfield in 2010, Susie’s research interests are in preventative health behaviour, including health psychology, clincial health psychology and applied health research. Susie is particularly interested in cervical screening behaviours and vaccine hesitancy. Susie’s research interests also include psychosocial moderators of pain and anxiety, with particular interest in cognitive and emotional factors. Susie is happy to supervise projects focused on preventive health behaviours using experimental or quantitative methods, including cervical screening; vaccine hesitancy; individual differences, behaviour, and health; impact of personality traits on health processes; suicide, primary prevention and response; health risk behaviour; social and mental health. 

• Preventive health behaviours, including
  • Cervical screening
  • Vaccinations and vaccine hesitancy 
• Additional interests, including 
  • Health (conducting multi-disciplinary research to improve patient health outcomes)
  • Well-being in students and elite athletes
  • Appropriateness and effectiveness of several interventions to reduce anxiety, distress and pain associated with an invasive diagnostic procedure
  • Youth health risk behaviours
  • Mechanisms of efficacy of distraction in pain perception