Visiting Researcher

BSc, MSc, PhD, CPsychol

Email: F.Naughton@uea.ac.uk

Background

Felix is a Professor of Health Psychology within the School of Health Sciences at the University of East Anglia (UEA). He is a Visiting Senior Researcher in the Primary Care Unit and an Honorary Associate Professor at the University of Nottingham. Felix is a Registered Health Psychologist (Health and Care Professions Council), a chartered member of the British Psychological Society (BPS) and a full member of the Division of Health Psychology (DHP). He is President of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco in Europe (SRNT-E) and a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (SFHEA). He was awarded an academic fellowship from the Society for the Study of Addiction (2014-2016) and is an Associate Editor for the journal Addiction. He has served on multiple scientific committees, including the DHP, the European Health Psychology Society (EHPS; co-chair 2022), SRNT-E and the UCL Centre for Behaviour Change Digital Health and Wellbeing conference (co-chair 2019 and 2020). He serves as a standing member of Cancer Research UK’s Expert Review Panel for the Prevention and Population Research Committee (PPRC) panel. He was also a topic expert for the new NICE ‘Behaviour change: digital and mobile health interventions’ (NG183) advisory committee and currently serves on the ‘Tobacco: preventing uptake, promoting quitting and treating dependence’ (NG209) NICE committee.

Research Interests

Felix leads a research programme focused on the development and evaluation of digital and technology-focused behaviour change interventions across multiple health behaviours, particularly smoking cessation.

Selected Publications

See https://research-portal.uea.ac.uk/en/persons/felix-naughton/publications  for an updated list of publications