Richard Brown

Research Fellow

School: Psychology

Dr Richard Brown is a Research Fellow at Northumbria University working on the Double Dividend of Safety Project, investigating the impact of safety conditions on health behaviours and modelling the potential benefits of interventions. Richard also manages Urban Futures, an Interdisciplinary Research Theme at Northumbria working to improve quality of life and sustainability in urban areas.

Richard's research investigates the relationships between perceptions of risk and health behaviours. He also works with the Psychology and Communication Technology Lab at Northumbria exploring a range of public health issues using both quantitative and qualitative methods. Richard has previously held fellowships with the Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology and the Alan Turing Institute, is a non-practising solicitor, and writer for Psychology Today.

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Key Publications

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Digital hoarding and personal use digital data, Sillence, E., Dawson, J., Brown, R., McKellar, K., Neave, N. 2 Jan 2026, In: Human-Computer Interaction
Effects of Social Media Narratives on Affective and Behavioural Responses to Menopause Content: A Randomised Online Experiment with UK Perimenopausal and Post-Menopausal Women, Osborne, A., Brown, R., Sillence, E. 30 May 2026, In: JMIR Formative Research
AcademAI: Investigating AI Usage, Attitudes, and Literacy in Higher Education and Research, Brown, R., Sillence, E., Branley-Bell, D. 1 Sep 2025, In: Journal of Educational Technology Systems
A Call for Strategy on Eating Disorders: The Need for a Comprehensive Eating Disorder Strategy in England and Specific Guidance for the Remote Delivery of Eating Disorder Services., Brown, R., Murphy-Morgan, C., Downs , J., Branley-Bell, D. 27 Mar 2025, In: Journal of Eating Disorders
Content creators’ hopes and fears about artificial intelligence, Are, C., Briggs, P., Brown, R. 1 Dec 2025, In: Convergence
Objective risk exposure, perceived uncontrollable mortality risk, and health behaviors, Isch, C., Brown, R., Todd, P., Aktipis, A., Pepper, G. 1 Jan 2025, In: Journal of Public Health (Germany)
Situation Critical: Intensive Cybersecurity Care Needed, Coventry, L., Sillence, E., Brown, R., Branley-Bell, D., Mari, P., Saverio, C., Casaroli, A., Rizzoni, F., Magalini, S. 13 Mar 2025, Socio-Technical Aspects in Security - 12th International Workshop, STAST 2022, Revised Selected Papers, Cham, Switzerland, Springer
AcademAI: Investigating AI Usage, Attitudes, and Literacy in Higher Education and Research, Brown, R., Sillence, E., Branley-Bell, D. 20 Aug 2024
A Call for Strategy on Eating Disorders: The Need for a Comprehensive Eating Disorder Strategy in England and Specific Guidance for the Remote Delivery of Eating Disorder Services, Brown, R., Murphy-Morgan, C., Downs , J., Branley-Bell, D. 20 Nov 2024
Individual characteristics associated with perceptions of control over mortality risk and determinants of health effort, Brown, R., Sillence, E., Pepper, G. 1 Jun 2024, In: Risk Analysis