Behavioural Sciences Unit

Associate Professor Claire Wakefield

University of Southampton

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Location
Southampton, United Kingdom
Funding
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Application deadline
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About the project

Associate Professor Claire Wakefield will be a Diamond Jubilee International Visiting Fellow at the University of Southampton from 2016 to 2019.

Visiting Fellow and Host

Fellow: Associate Professor Claire Wakefield, Behavioural Sciences Unit, Kids Cancer Centre, The University of New South Wales

Hosts: Professor Claire Foster, Professor of Psychosocial Oncology / Director of Macmillan Survivorship Research Group & Dr Anne-Sophie Darlington, Associate Professor, Health Sciences.

Aims of the collaboration

To develop collaborative work focused on:

To provide mentorship for developing researchers in the field of paediatric psychology.

To foster collaboration in shared research interests across the disciplines of health sciences, medicine, psychology and computer science.

  • interventions for families with a child or a parent with cancer
  • understanding patterns of recovery and enhancing health and wellbeing of younger women diagnosed with breast cancer
  • supporting treatment-related decision-making of younger women diagnosed with breast cancer

Research areas

Behavioural Sciences UnitPsychologyOncologysciencesCancer

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