Susan Michie

Susan Michie (born 19 June 1955, London, England) is professor of health psychology at University College London, United Kingdom.

Academic career

Michie studied experimental psychology at Oxford University, obtaining a BA in experimental psychology in 1976, and a DPhil in developmental psychology in 1982. She studied clinical psychology at the Institute of Psychiatry, London University, obtaining an MPhil in clinical psychology in 1978. She is a chartered clinical psychologist and a chartered health psychologist, and fellow of the British Psychological Society.^[1]

Michie worked as a clinical psychologist with children and families at the Royal Free Hospital, London. In 1989, she joined the Royal Free School of Medicine’s Health Psychology Unit as a senior research fellow in clinical health psychology. She developed a psychology service for staff, an organisational consultancy service for managers and taught a variety of professions. Her research focused on the areas of antenatal care and screening, and occupational stress in health care staff and students.

In 1993, Michie moved to the Psychology and Genetics Research Group, King's College London where she conducted research into the process and outcome of genetic counselling, public and professional attitudes towards genetic testing, informed choice and decision making about prenatal screening and genetic testing, and the psychological impact of predictive genetic testing. She continued her clinical work, consultancy and research at the Royal Free Hospital’s Occupational Health and Safety Unit part-time.

In 2002, Michie joined the Psychology Department of University College London (UCL), where she is Professor of Health Psychology. She is Director of UCL’s Centre for Behaviour Change (www.ucl.ac.uk\behaviour-change)and of its Health Psychology Research Group.

Her current research includes developing methodologies for designing and evaluating theory-based interventions to change behaviour, and advancing scientific knowledge about, and applications of, behaviour change interventions. She leads the Human Behaviour-Change Project (www.humanbehaviourchange.org).

Michie has served as President of the European Health Psychology Society and chair of the British Psychological Society’s Division of Health Psychology and was elected a Fellow of the BPS in 2001. She is a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences, the Academy of Social Sciences, the European Health Psychology Society, and the USA’s Society of Behavioral Medicine and Academy of Behavioral Medicine Research.

Personal life

Susan Michie is the daughter of the late biologist Dame Anne McLaren and computer scientist Donald Michie and sister of the economist Jonathan Michie. She was married to the trade union official Andrew Murray (1981–97) and has three children, Jessica Katharine Murray, Jack Douglas Murray and Laura Catriona Murray. She has served as National Executive Committee member and president of the London Region of the trade union MSF and is a member of the Communist Party of Britain.

References

External links

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