Dr Wendy Hardeman

Senior Lecturer in Health Psychology at University of East Anglia (UEA)

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Senior Lecturer in Health Psychology, School of Health Sciences, University of East Anglia

Dr Wendy Hardeman is a Senior Lecturer in Health Psychology at the School of Health Sciences, University of East Anglia. Dr Hardeman’s research uses insights from behavioural science to translate evidence into clinical practice and policy. She has developed and evaluated behaviour change interventions targeting physical activity, energy intake, and medication taking. Her key interests include very brief and scalable interventions, the specification of interventions, intervention fidelity, and process evaluation.

She was Deputy Director of an NIHR programme grant which develops and evaluates very brief interventions for physical activity in the context of NHS health checks. She lead a large pilot trial of several very brief interventions (e.g., pedometers) and systematic reviews of (very) brief interventions for physical activity.

Dr Hardeman contributed to the development of a new method to specify the active ingredients of interventions (Behaviour Change Technique Taxonomy v1) and MRC guidance for the process evaluation of complex interventions.

She obtained a PhD from the University of Cambridge on the application of psychological theory and evidence to the development and evaluation of behaviour change programmes. She also has an MSc in Human Movement Sciences from the VU University Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

  • 21 April 2016, 6pm

    Behaviour and Health Research Unit Annual Lecture 2016

    This year's Behaviour and Health Research Unit (BHRU) Annual Lecture will be delivered by Linda Bauld, Professor of Health Policy, Director of the Institute for Social Marketing, and Dean of Research at the University of Stirling. The subject will be "Electronic cigarettes: a disruptive technology?"

  • 4 June 2015, 6pm

    What can history tell us about current health inequalities?

    This year's Behaviour and Health Research Unit (BHRU) Annual Lecture will be delivered by Professor Simon Szreter, Professor of History and Public Policy, Faculty of History, University of Cambridge.