Behaviour Change Meeting Seminar: Dr Tracy Epton, Dr Rebecca Goulding and Dr Sarah Rhodes
| Dates: | 5 March 2026 |
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| Times: | 15:00 - 16:00 |
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| What is it: | Seminar |
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| Organiser: | Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health |
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| Who is it for: | University staff, Adults, Alumni, Current University students |
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| Speaker: | Dr Tracy Epton, Dr Rebecca Goulding, Dr Sarah Rhodes |
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The Behaviour Change Meeting Group at The University of Manchester has the purpose of bringing together academics and clinicians across several institutes who are working with behaviour change, intervention development and/or implementation theory. We usually meet online on the first Thursday of the month at 3pm, inviting external speakers and internal speakers to discuss and gain feedback on their latest research in the field. We have a range of health and clinical psychologists in the group as well as epidemiologists, nurses and physiotherapists who work with a range of different short-term and long-term conditions in different contexts (public, patient and healthcare professional groups).
If you would like to be added to the email list to hear about future meetings, please contact Rhiannon Hawkes: rhiannon.hawkes@manchester.ac.uk
Our next Behaviour Change Meeting will be held on Thursday 5th March 2026 at 3pm, where we have Dr Tracy Epton, Dr Rebecca Goulding and Dr Sarah Rhodes presenting on ‘BEST BEHAVIOUR (Better Evidence Synthesis to Target BEHAVIOUR change in health and healthcare)’.
Dr Tracy Epton is a Senior Lecturer in Health Psychology at the University of Manchester. Her focus is on addressing social inequalities including health. She is an expert in behaviour change and evidence synthesis. She has published many systematic reviews including: rapid reviews, meta-analyses, meta-syntheses, narrative reviews and umbrella reviews. She was the systematic review lead for Health Psychology Exchange (a National group of researchers and practitioners that provided evidence based information during COVID-19) and is the systematic review lead for CUBiC (an initiative to systematically explore the unique effects of behaviour change techniques using evidence synthesis).
Dr Rebecca Goulding is a Health Services Researcher at The University of Manchester. Her research interests include behaviour change, health communication, access to care and patient safety. Rebecca is predominantly a qualitative researcher with experience of meta-ethnography. She passionate about stakeholder involvement in research, including systematic reviews and the design and development of interventions.
Dr Sarah Rhodes is a Senior Lecturer in the Centre for Biostatistics at the University of Manchester. She has co-authored many systematic reviews, including three relating to behaviour change, and is interested in methods to make randomised trials and systematic reviews of randomised trials more efficient, accurate and meaningful. Sarah teaches on several courses relating to systematic reviews, including being Co-Lead for Evidence Based Medicine for the MBChB Programme in the Medical School.
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Speakers
Dr Tracy Epton
Role: Senior Lecturer in Health Psychology
Organisation: University of Manchester
Dr Rebecca Goulding
Role: Researcher in Health Services Research
Organisation: University of Manchester
Dr Sarah Rhodes
Role: Senior Lecturer in Biostatistics
Organisation: University of Manchester
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