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Person Based Approach

Project overview

The Person-based Approach (PBA) focuses on understanding and accommodating the perspectives of the people who will use an intervention, in order to improve uptake, adherence and outcomes. The PBA engages with end-users at all stages of development to iteratively improve the intervention

Staff

Lead researchers

Professor Lucy Yardley OBE

Professorial Fellow-Research
Connect with Lucy

Email: L.Yardley@soton.ac.uk

Other researchers

Dr Katherine Bradbury

Principal Research Fellow
Connect with Katherine

Email: kjb1e08@soton.ac.uk

Dr Leanne Morrison

Associate Professor
Research interests
  • Health Psychology 
  • Person-based intervention development 
  • Digital technology 
Connect with Leanne

Email: L.Morrison@soton.ac.uk

Professor Ingrid Muller BSc, MSc, PhD, CPsychol, FHEA

Professor
Research interests
  • Self-management of long-term conditions
  • Behavioural health interventions
  • Digital health
Connect with Ingrid

Email: I.Muller@soton.ac.uk

Dr Adam Geraghty BSc MSc PhD CPsychol FHEA

Assoc Prof Psychology & Behavioural Med
Research interests
  • Self-management of pain and other chronic symptoms/conditions
  • Mental health
  • Digital interventions for primary care and public health
Connect with Adam

Email: A.W.Geraghty@soton.ac.uk

Dr Rosie Essery

Senior Research Fellow
Connect with Rosie

Email: R.A.Essery@soton.ac.uk

Dr Ben Ainsworth

Associate Professor
Connect with Ben

Email: ben.ainsworth@soton.ac.uk

Research outputs

Lydia Holt, Sarah Denford, Hannah Bowers, Paula Kuberka, Ingrid Muller, Richard Amlôt & Lucy Yardley, 2025, Digital Health, 11, 1-15
DOI:
Type: review
Lucy Yardley, Kate Morton, Kate Greenwell, Beth Stuart, Cathy Rice, Katherine Bradbury, Ben Ainsworth, Rebecca Band, Elizabeth Murray, Frances Mair, Carl May, Susan Michie, Samantha Richards-Hall, Peter W.F. Smith, Anne Bruton, James Raftery, Shihua Zhu, Mike Thomas, Richard J. McManus & Paul Little, 2022, Programme Grants for Applied Research, 10(11)
DOI:
Type: article
Rosie Essery, Sebastien Pollet, Kirsten Smith, Fiona Mowbray, Joanna Slodkowska-Barabasz, James Denison-Day, Victoria Hayter, Katherine Bradbury, Elisabeth Grey, Max Western, Alexander MC Milton, Cheryl Hunter, Anne Ferrey, Andre M Muller, Beth Stuart, Nanette Mutrie, Simon J. Griffin, Tony Kendrick, Helen Brooker, Bernard Gudgin, Rosemary Phillips, Tom Stokes, John Niven, Paul Little & Lucy Yardley, 2021, Pilot and Feasibility Studies, 7(1)
DOI:
Type: article
Kate Greenwell, Benjamin Ainsworth, Anne Bruton, Elizabeth Murray, Daniel Russel, Mike Thomas & Lucy Yardley, 2021, NPJ primary care respiratory medicine, 31(1)
DOI:
Type: article
Tanvi Rai, Kate Morton, Cristian Roman, Roisin Doogue, Cathy Rice, Marney Williams, Claire Schwartz, Carmelo Velardo, Lionel Tarassenko, Lucy Yardley, Richard J. McManus & Lisa Hinton, 2020, Health Expectations
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Type: article