Dr Lauren Copeland

Overview

Lauren is a counsellor trained in Person Centred therapy and Motivational Interviewing. She joined Cardiff Metropolitan University in 2023, following employment at Cardiff University, where she completed her PhD. After which she worked as a Lecturer with the School of Psychology and as a Research Associate within the Centre for Development, Evaluation, Complexity and Implementation in Public Health Improvement (DECIPHer)

Lauren’s research interests lie in understanding how counselling and relational techniques can be applied within health interventions to improve mental and physical outcomes. She is also interested in women’s health, in particular period management and education. She has expertise in complex behaviour change interventions and their implementation, adaptation, process evaluation and qualitative methods.

She has over 30 publications in peer reviewed journals, including the British Medical Journal, The Lancet and PLOS Medicine. She has also co-authored the MRC guidance on the adaptation of interventions to new contexts.