Behaviour Change Meeting Seminar: Dr Neil Howlett
| Dates: | 7 May 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 Neil Howlett |
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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 7th May 2026 at 3pm , where we have Dr Neil Howlett from the University of Hertfordshire presenting on ‘Analysing behaviour change techniques in evidence synthesis’.
Neil has over 15 years of research experience in the areas of behaviour change and public health, with a particular interest in physical activity. Neil's expertise includes: designing, implementing, and evaluating interventions to help individuals, communities, and populations change a range of health behaviours; systematic reviews and meta-analyses; behaviour change theories; policy and research briefings; pragmatic evaluations of public health programmes. Neil has achieved circa £7.5m of grant funding including the NIHR-funded PHIRST Connect Team. Neil also works with the UCL hub of the NIHR-funded Policy Research Unit in Behavioural and Social Sciences. The talk will explore the journey Neil has taken through several published systematic reviews to analyse behaviour change techniques using a range of methods, while reflecting on the (sometimes) painful lessons learned and why he keeps saying the latest review is the last review he will do (but never really means it).
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Speaker
Dr Neil Howlett
Role: Reader in Behaviour Change and Public Health
Organisation: University of Hertfordshire
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