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Dr Dawn Branley-Bell

Associate Professor

Department: Psychology

Dr Dawn Branley-Bell is an Associate Professor of Cyberpsychology & Director of the Psychology and Communication Technology Lab (PaCT Lab) at Northumbria University. She is a Medical Research Foundation Fellow, Chartered Psychologist (cPsychol.) and Chair of the British Psychological Society (BPS) Cyberpsychology Section.

You can find her on Twitter @TheCyberPsyche

Dawn Branley-Bell

Dr Branley-Bell specialises in cyberpsychology, health and wellbeing, and online behaviour. She has a keen interest in online communication around eating disorders, and self-harm, and the use of tech for health-related interventions. Other interests include exploring the positive side of internet usage, cybersecurity, and behaviour change.

She is the Principal Investigator for the RHED-C project (Remote Healthcare for Eating Disorders throughout COVID-19): https://research.northumbria.ac.uk/rhedc/

  • Please visit the Pure Research Information Portal for further information
  • ‘Chugging along, plugging in and out of it’:: Understanding a place-based approach for community-based support of mental health recovery, Claisse, C., Durrant, A., Branley-Bell, D., Sillence, E., Glascott, A., Cameron, A. 1 May 2024, In: Social Science & Medicine
  • Ethical Implications of AI-Powered Chatbots: Considerations for the AI Act: A Case Study of Tessa, Branley-Bell, D., Feiner, J., Prossnegg, S. 15 Feb 2024, In: Jusletter IT
  • Exploring Relationships between Chewing and Well-being: Design of a Remote Chewing Assessment System., McGrogan, C., Cartner, H., Ang, C., Dawes, H., Matcham, F., Mohamed, E., Branley-Bell, D. 4 Sep 2024, EHPS 2024: 38th Annual Conference of the European Health Psychology Society
  • Exploring relationships between chewing difficulty, eating experience, pain, and wellbeing: A cross-sectional self-report study, McGrogan, C., Matcham, F., Dawes, H., Ang, C., Cartner, H., Branley-Bell, D. 1 Oct 2024, In: Clinical Nutrition Open Science
  • Exploring Relationships Between Eating Experience and Well-Being: Developing an Altered Eating Scale, McGrogan, C., Cartner, H., Campbell, M., Deary, V., Irvine, K., Dawes, H., Ang, C., Matcham, F., Branley-Bell, D. 2 Sep 2024, British Society for Oral and Dental Research Annual Meeting, 2024
  • “In the Only House in the Whole World but Everyone Doing the Same” Co-designed Animation as a Method of Critical Enquiry to Explore HCI Considerations for Remote Eating Disorder Support, Murphy-Morgan, C., Collingham, H., Shaddock, H., Branley-Bell, D. 11 May 2024, Extended Abstracts of the 2024 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI EA '24), New York, US, ACM
  • “Some distance between us”: a UK mixed methods study exploring experiences of remote care for eating disorders during COVID-19, Murphy-Morgan, C., Brown, R., Love, C., Branley-Bell, D. 6 Jun 2024, In: Frontiers in Psychiatry
  • 'Stepping outside the red line': An exploration of two co-design methodologies exploring lived experiences of remote support for eating disorders throughout COVID-19 and beyond, Murphy-Morgan, C., Collingham, H., Malowaniec, P., Shaddock, H., Branley-Bell, D. 21 Jun 2024, Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Design4Health, Sheffield, Sheffield Hallam University
  • Chatbots for embarrassing and stigmatizing conditions: could chatbots encourage users to seek medical advice?, Branley-Bell, D., Brown, R., Coventry, L., Sillence, E. 27 Sep 2023, In: Frontiers in Communication
  • Designing remote care services for eating disorders: HCI considerations and provocations based upon service user experience and requirements, Branley-Bell, D., Murphy-Morgan, C. 23 Feb 2023

  • Please visit the Pure Research Information Portal for further information
  • Examination: PhD Viva Examination 2023
  • Membership of committee: The British Psychological Society (External organisation) 2021
  • Editorial work: Frontiers in Psychology (Journal) 2020
  • Editorial work: The British Psychological Society (Publisher) 2020
  • Editorial work: BPS Cyberpsychology Bulletin (Journal) 2019
  • Membership of committee: The British Psychological Society (External organisation) 2019

  • Psychology PhD
  • Psychology MRes
  • Psychology BSc (Hons)


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