Dr Joanne Fox
Lecturer in Psychology, Programme Director BSc (Hons) Health Psychology
Telephone: +44 (0)131 474 0000
E-mail: jfox@qmu.ac.uk
Summary Biography
- Health Psychology lecturer at Queen Margaret University 2001-
- Academic Disabled Student Co-ordinator 2002- 2008
- Programme Leader for BSc Health Psychology 2001-
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Research Interests
- Transition from “acute” to “chronic” pain
- Behavioural outcomes in epidemiology
- Public health perspectives on pain and other conditions
- Occupational health – psychosocial factors and health in the workplace
- Measures of pain experience
- Gender and sex differences in pain
- Life after lower-limb amputation
- Diagnostic processes in chronic pain
- Management of chronic pain in the current NHS
- Psychosocial adjustment to chronic illness
- Family factors and chronic illness
- Individual experience of hospitalisation
- Positive health psychology and pain
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Previous Research Projects
- Pain in the Scottish working populations: psychosocial and work factors in relation to pain experience and response (PhD, Department of Public Health Medicine, University of Glasgow)
- Personality Change in Dementia: A behavioural comparison between individuals with symptoms analogous to dementia and individuals with End Stage Renal Disease (MRes, Department of Psychology, University of Strathclyde)
- Job satisfaction in X-Ray Baggage Screeners; and various human-computer interaction studies (Centre for Human Sciences, DERA, Farnborough)
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