About
Dr Kate Greenwell is a Senior Research Fellow and Health Psychologist in the Primary Care Research Centre, Faculty of Medicine.
Kate’s research focuses on two main areas:
- Developing and evaluating complex behavioural interventions to improve health and well-being.
- Supporting carers, couples and families.
She has led on the development and evaluation of numerous digital interventions for eczema, sleep problems in ADHD, asthma, diabetes, tinnitus, recurrent respiratory tract infections, and carers of people with Parkinson's disease.
Kate has extensive expertise in using the person-based approach (https://www.personbasedapproach.org) to maximise intervention engagement for end users. Other methodological expertise includes qualitative research, systematic reviewing, and mixed-methods process evaluations.
Kate is a Chartered Psychologist with the British Psychological Society and a Registered Health Psychologist with the Health and Care Professions Council. Kate previously worked in the NHS where she managed various research and service development projects around self-management for people living with long-term conditions, mainly Parkinson’s disease, Inflammatory Bowel Disease, and COPD.
She completed her PhD at the University of Nottingham, which focused on developing and evaluating a digital intervention to support self-management in people with tinnitus.