Visiting Fellows
DR JENNY Mc SHARRY
Affiliation: Health Behaviour Change Research Group, School of Psychology National University of Ireland, Galway
Dr Jenny Mc Sharry is a chartered Health Psychologist and Past Chair of the Psychological Society of Ireland Division of Health Psychology. She is a lecturer in the School of Psychology at NUI Galway and leads on psychology teaching to the disciplines of Speech and Language Therapy and Occupational Therapy. She is the previous Director of the MSc in Health Psychology and Co-Director of the PhD in Health Psychology Practice at NUI Galway.
Jenny is the Assistant Director of the Health Behaviour Change Research Group, an international centre of excellence in health behaviour change research methods and training. Jenny leads a programme of research that takes a systematic approach to behaviour change to address healthcare challenges and has particular expertise in evidence synthesis and implementation science approaches.
As a Fulbright-HRB HealthImpact Scholar at the Hunter Coping and Health in Context Laboratory, Jenny will complete “Student Experiences of Health Psychology in the US (STEP-US): A mixed methods study with US Health Psychology doctoral students and programme leads” in collaboration with Prof Tracey Revenson. The project will facilitate the development of international recommendations to support students from a diversity of backgrounds in training as Health Psychologists and becoming the future leaders needed to address global healthcare challenges.
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DR ZOFIA SZCZUKA
Affiliation: SWPS University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Wroclaw, Poland, & School of Psychology at Deakin University, Victoria, Australia.
Zofia Szczuka, PhD is Post-doctoral Research Fellow at SWPS University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Wroclaw, Poland, and Associate Research Fellow in the School of Psychology at Deakin University, Victoria, Australia. Her research examines mechanisms explaining initiation and maintenance of health behaviors such as physical activity, sedentary behavior and healthy diet, with a focus on dyadic relationships. She was awarded with an ETIUDA grant (no. 2019/32/T/HS6/00138) from the National Science Centre, Poland. This grant supported a 3-month stay (commencing September 2021) at The Hunter Coping and Health in Context Laboratory (Chair: Professor Tracey A Revenson), Hunter College, CUNY. During her stay at CUNY she has been conducting research about the relationship between self-efficacy and individual planning of physical activity breaks in sitting in predicting sedentary behavior.