Assistant Professor of Psychology, East Tennessee State University Dr. Meredith Ginley is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology at East Tennessee State University and a Licensed Clinical Psychologist. She completed her undergraduate degree at Tufts University, her Ph.D. at The University of Memphis, and her clinical internship at the University of Mississippi Medical Center. She also completed a postdoctoral fellowship in addiction at the University of Connecticut School of Medicine. Her research focuses on efforts to improve outcomes and retention in treatment for substance use disorders and behavioral addictions. Specifically, she is interested in how targeting individual differences can improve treatment uptake and retention and how providing adjunctive interventions such as motivational interviewing and contingency management can improve overall treatment outcomes. She has over 20 publications specifically related to gambling and has been engaged in the treatment of individuals with gambling disorder as either a clinician or a clinical supervisor since 2011. Dr. Ginley is a co-investigator at The Institute for Gambling Education and Research and Director of The Gambling Clinic East. She is currently a co-investigator on a grant from the Tennessee Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services to facilitate expanded access to gambling prevention and treatment services for all Tennesseans.
Ph.D. Student in Earth System Science, University of California, Irvine I am an interdisciplinary researcher whose mission is to understand both the feasibility of a net-zero pathway, as well as the environmental justice implications of such a pathway.
Honorary Research Fellow, Durham University I am a conservation social scientist with a focus on human-primate interactions. I am also the Vice Chair of IUCN SSC Primate Specialist Group Section for Human-Primate Interactions & Director of Barbary Macaque Awareness & Conservation.
Assistant Professor, Marquette University Assistant Professor in the Department of Social and Cultural Sciences at Marquette University. Michelle A. Rodrigues is a biological anthropologist with research interests in the impact of sociality on stress biology, including the impact of human-primate interactions on primates across wild and captive contexts. She has worked primarily with Central American monkeys, as well as captive platyrrhines and apes. Her recent work has focused on applying decolonial approaches to improving the practice of primatology.
Professor of Behavioural Medicine, Loughborough University Amanda is a Professor of Behavioural Medicine and an NIHR Research Professor in Public Health. Amanda is also the Director of the Centre for Lifestyle Medicine and Behaviour (CLiMB). Her work is focused on investigating the effects of lifestyle interventions on health outcomes. Amanda has a particular interest in testing lifestyle interventions that can be delivered by health care professionals within routine NHS consultations. She is the chief investigator on several on-going trials that are examining the effectiveness of community and general practice based physical activity and weight management interventions. Amanda currently leads a programme of work around testing the effects of physical activity calorie equivalent (PACE) food labelling on the purchase and consumption of food and drinks, and the role of standing desks during GP consultations. Amanda works closely with public health organisations, the NHS and other stakeholders. She is most interested in conducting randomised controlled trials, but also has a strong interest in conducting systematic reviews and interrogating large datasets. Amanda currently receives funding from a range of funding bodies and leads the following research awards:
Senior Research Associate in Behavioural Medicine, Loughborough University Kajal obtained her undergraduate degree in Psychology from Aston University, and her PhD from Loughborough University which focused on the implementation of a self-managed, physical activity intervention among breast cancer patients during active chemotherapy treatment. Following the completion of her PhD, Kajal took up a Research Associate position at Coventry University where she worked on a number of NIHR, MRC and CRUK funded projects developing and evaluating digital health interventions. Kajal joined Loughborough as a Senior Research Associate in September 2019. Kajal’s research focuses on the design, implementation, and evaluation of health-related behaviour change interventions, and providing individuals with the resources to make positive changes to their health and well-being. Kajal has a strong interest in digital behaviour change interventions and self-managed physical activity interventions for the prevention and management of cancer.
