Dr Nicola Payne

Associate Professor in Psychology

Nicola Payne

  • School Faculty of Science and Technology

  • Department Psychology

  • Location London

Research activities

Health psychology interests:

  • Experiences and impacts of fertility challenges and treatment
  • Experiences of living with chronic conditions e.g. Long Covid, Sickle Cell Disease
  • Behaviour change interventions
  • Public health service evaluations

    • Occupational health psychology interests:

  • Work-life balance and flexible working
  • The impact of the work environment and working life on health behaviours
  • Stress and wellbeing at work
  • Experiences and workplace supports for employees having fertility treatment


    • Current Teaching

    Department ofPsychology Postgraduate Research Lead

    Programme leader MSc Clinical Health Psychologyand Wellbeing

    MSc module leader: Research: Practice and reporting (research dissertation module)

    MSc module leader: Clinicalhealth psychology: perspectives, practice and placement

    BSc module leader: Healthpsychology applied to behaviour change

    Current PhD supervision

  • Neelam Ghuman.Work-life balance in employees with different family structures.
  • Tasneem Wadee. Leading and Managing business transformation in a changing economic climate.
  • Lindsay de Wal. The experience of humanist healthcare chaplains entering faith-based NHS Chaplaincy teams.
  • Nikki Swales. An exploration into skin cancer patients' experience of the helpful factors within psychotherapy.
  • Mary Attito. Black British Men's Perceptions of Therapy.
  • Andrew Waller. How do the experiences of overweight and obese men influence their cognitive and emotional processes?
  • Andrew Grimmer. A qualitative inquiry into cognitive behavioural therapy practitioners’ understanding of the meaning, context, and development oftherapeutic competence across the professional lifespan.
  • Claire Gellard. Socioeconomic predictors of cooperative socialBehaviour: an investigation into the ecological determinants of levels andstyles of social coordination in humans.
  • Hosna Yasin. Workplace bullying and intergroup relations. The effect of organizational level social dominance and power distance orientation.
  • Kristina van Dam. The relationshipbetween diabetes, stress and depression.


    • Biography

    Dr Nicky Payne is an Associate Professor in Psychology, an HCPC Registered Practitioner Health Psychologist, and a Chartered Psychologist and full member of the BPS Division of Health Psychology

    Qualifications: BSc (Hons) Psychology (Hertfordshire), MSc Health Psychology (City), PhD (Hertfordshire), PGCertHE (Middlesex)

    Publications

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