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Richard Brown

Research Fellow

Department: Psychology

Dr Richard Brown is a Research Fellow at Northumbria University working on the Double Dividend of Safety Project, investigating the impact of safety conditions on health behaviours and modelling the potential benefits of interventions. Richard also manages Urban Futures, an Interdisciplinary Research Theme at Northumbria working to improve quality of life and sustainability in urban areas.

Richard's research investigates the relationships between perceptions of risk and health behaviours. He also works with the Psychology and Communication Technology Lab at Northumbria exploring a range of public health issues using both quantitative and qualitative methods. Richard has previously held fellowships with the Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology and the Alan Turing Institute, is a non-practising solicitor, and writer for Psychology Today.

Richard Brown

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  • A Call for Strategy on Eating Disorders: The Need for a Comprehensive Eating Disorder Strategy in England and Specific Guidance for the Remote Delivery of Eating Disorder Services., Brown, R., Murphy-Morgan, C., Downs , J., Branley-Bell, D. 19 Feb 2025, In: Journal of Eating Disorders
  • Objective risk exposure, perceived uncontrollable mortality risk, and health behaviors, Isch, C., Brown, R., Todd, P., Aktipis, A., Pepper, G. 1 Jan 2025, In: Journal of Public Health (Germany)
  • AcademAI: Investigating AI Usage, Attitudes, and Literacy in Higher Education and Research, Brown, R., Sillence, E., Branley-Bell, D. 20 Aug 2024
  • A Call for Strategy on Eating Disorders: The Need for a Comprehensive Eating Disorder Strategy in England and Specific Guidance for the Remote Delivery of Eating Disorder Services, Brown, R., Murphy-Morgan, C., Downs , J., Branley-Bell, D. 20 Nov 2024
  • Individual characteristics associated with perceptions of control over mortality risk and determinants of health effort, Brown, R., Sillence, E., Pepper, G. 1 Jun 2024, In: Risk Analysis
  • Perceptions of control over different causes of death and the accuracy of risk estimations, Brown, R., Sillence, E., Pepper, G. 1 Jul 2024, In: Journal of Public Health
  • “Some distance between us”: a UK mixed methods study exploring experiences of remote care for eating disorders during COVID-19, Murphy-Morgan, C., Brown, R., Love, C., Branley-Bell, D. 6 Jun 2024, In: Frontiers in Psychiatry
  • The Relationship Between Perceived Uncontrollable Mortality Risk and Health Effort: Replication, Secondary Analysis, and Mini Meta-analysis, Brown, R., Pepper, G. 1 Mar 2024, In: Annals of Behavioral Medicine
  • The Uncontrollable Mortality Risk Hypothesis: Theoretical Foundations and Implications for Public Health, Brown, R., Pepper, G. 9 May 2024, In: Evolution, Medicine and Public Health
  • Chatbots for embarrassing and stigmatizing conditions: could chatbots encourage users to seek medical advice?, Branley-Bell, D., Brown, R., Coventry, L., Sillence, E. 27 Sep 2023, In: Frontiers in Communication

  • Law LPC
  • Psychology MSc
  • Law PGDL
  • Psychology PhD
  • Philosophy BA
  • Qualified Solicitor for England and Wales


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