Meet the RHED-C team
Dr Dawn Branley-Bell
Project Lead (Principal Investigator)
Dawn is an Associate Professor of Cyberpsychology and Director of the Psychology and Communication Technology (PaCT) Lab. She is a Chartered Psychologist specialising in internet/social media use, health and wellbeing, and online behaviour. She has a keen interest in online communication around eating disorders, and self-harm, and the use of tech for health interventions. Other interests include exploring the positive side of internet usage, cybersecurity, and behaviour change. Dawn is also Chair of the British Psychological Society (BPS) cyberpsychology section.
Claire Murphy-Morgan
Senior Research Assistant
Claire graduated from the MSc Psychology programme at Northumbria University in 2017. She has been a member of the psychology department since April 2021 supporting the Hoarding Research Group’s research into the impact of social networks and hoarding behaviours in attitudes towards support housing in older adults. Her research interested are cyberpsychology and parapsychology, and how individuals beliefs are shared online.
Thank you to the Medical Research Foundation for funding this research
and thank you to the following organisations who have supported the project
