Rebecca Lawton

Rebecca is Professor in Psychology of Healthcare at the University of Leeds and Director of the Yorkshire Quality and Safety Research Group at Bradford Institute for Health Research. She is also Director of the NIHR Yorkshire and Humber Patient Safety Translational Research Centre. Rebecca’s research interest is the application of psychological theory to improving health and healthcare services. More specifically, Rebecca carries out research on human factors and patient safety, patient involvement in patient safety, the implementation of safety innovations and wellbeing of the healthcare workforce. She also conducts health psychology research, investigating determinants of health risk behaviours and the evaluation of interventions to improve lifestyle behaviours.