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Dr
Debbie is currently employed as a Senior Lecturer in Health Psychology (Division of Psychology and Mental Health, School of Health Sciences) and is a Practitioner Psychologist (Health Psychologist).
Debbie is the Doctoral Academy student experience lead for the Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health.
Debbie is a Senior Lecturer in health psychology and Health Psychologist. She also acts as a Stage 2 Health Psychology supervisor. If you are interested in studying for a PhD on the topic of reproductive or sexual health, please contact Debbie.
Debbie's main research interests are pregnancy-related behaviour change, the idea of pregnancy as a teachable moment, breastfeeding behaviours, maternal obesity and the impact of socio-economic environment on health behaviours.
Debbie designs and delivers health psychology training for health care professionals to support their clinical care of pregnant women. Current work includes contributing health psychology expertise to stillbirth research with Professor Dame Tina Lavender and Dr Tracey Mills at Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine and Professor Alex Heazell at St.Marys Hospital, Manchester. She is involved in initiaitives run by Blackpool Better Start and Leeds Recovery College.
Debbie is also involved in educational research and widening participation activities. She is chair of the governing committee at an inner-city primary school in Leeds.
Debbie worked at The University of Manchester between 2009 and 2017, in this time she was the project coordinator of a programme of work focusing on maternal obesity in the School of Midwifery, Nursing and Social Work (funded by the Department of Health and Department for Education in collaboration with Tommys baby charity). Between 2017-2020, she left Manchester to work at Leeds Trinity University as a Senior Lecturer in Psychology. Debbie returned to Manchester University in 2020.
Current teaching responsibilities:
Dr Sinead Currie, Stirling University
Dr Zoe Darwin, University of Huddersfield.
Dr Sophie Russell, The University of Surrey
Dr Anja Wittkowski, The University of Manchester
Professor Dame Tina Lavender and Dr Tracey Mills, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine.
Professor Linda McGowan, University of Leeds.
Dr Ellinor Olander, City University
Professor Alex Heazell, Manchester NHS Foundation Trust
Qualitative research methods
Meta-synthesis
Debbie several widening participation (WP) events. These include University experience days for GCSE and A-Level students and Psychology Education and Well-being in schools (PEWs) for primary school children.
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Review article › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Review article › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Wittkowski, A., Gregg, L., Wan, M., Smith, D., Lemetyinen, H. & Cokamay Yilmaz, G.
1/10/20 → 31/03/24
Project: Research
Peters, S., Ulph, F., Arden Armitage, C., Borrelli, B., Bowen, A., Byrne-Davis, L., Edge, D., French, D., Hart, J., Todd, C., Skevington, S., Wearden, A., Cotterill, S., Brooks, J., Brown, L., Bull, E., Cordingley, L., Epton, T., Smith, D., Speer, S., Powell, R., Bartlett, K., Coupe, N., Shepherd, S., Dienes, K., Ghio, D., Hood, A., Lavallee, J., Rowland, C., Benton, J., Goldthorpe, J., McWilliams, L., Keyworth, C., Goulding, R., Loughran, M., Hawkes, R., Kapadi, A., Hurley, R., Leather, J., Musa, C., Angelakis, I., Reid, C., Alshammari, D., Mountain, D., Hooper, E., Gates, E., Johnson, F., Lomas, F., Kaplan, G., Cross, H., Foote, H., Long, H., Reid, H., Hamer, J., Sibasa, K., Hozhabrafkan, K., Al Abri, K., Lucas, L., Millard, L., Hulme, L., Dhanwani, M., Sonola-Jones, O., Sfakianaki, R., Broadbent, R., Crone, R., Husni, R. R., Mank, S., Booth, S., Hindmarch, S., Plant, S., Mace, S., Sidhu, T., Macintyre, V., Vidayanti, V., Peterson, J., Woof, V., El-Khani, A., Devereux-Fitzgerald, A., Chisholm, A., Sawyer, C., Hope, H., Wilkes, J., Birtwell, K., Bakur, K., Stringer, G., Mohd Faudzi, F. N. B., Checketts, M., Tang, M. Y., Coupe, N., Crook, R., Hamnett, C., Lyons, S., Longley, V., Hulme, L., Mountain, D., Talbot, H., Lucas, L., Ecob, C., Huggett, C., Hozhabrafkan, K., Hyder, S. S. & Lee, R.
1/09/10 → …
Project: Research
Debbie Smith (Participant)
Activity: Participating in or organising event(s) › Participating in a conference, workshop, exhibition, performance, inquiry, course etc
Debbie Smith (Participant)
Activity: Participating in or organising event(s) › Participating in a conference, workshop, exhibition, performance, inquiry, course etc
Debbie Smith (Participant)
Activity: Participating in or organising event(s) › Participating in a conference, workshop, exhibition, performance, inquiry, course etc
Debbie Smith (Participant)
Activity: Participating in or organising event(s) › Participating in a conference, workshop, exhibition, performance, inquiry, course etc