Professor Vincent Deary

Professor

School: Psychology

Vincent Deary Staffprofile Northumbriauniversity225

Vincent is a writer, researcher, and practitioner health psychologist. He started his academic career fairly late in life, completing his Medical Research Council (MRC) Fellowship funded PhD in 2011. Prior to this he worked mainly as a Cognitive Behavioural Therapist with an interest in researching new interventions. Thanks to the MRC funding, he made the transition from clinician to clinical academic and continues to focus on the development and trialling of new interventions for a variety of health complaints. He still works clinically one morning a week in the UK’s first trans-diagnostic fatigue clinic. When he was 50 he published his first book, How We Are. This is the first part of the How To Live trilogy, published by Penguin Press. These books bring together his clinical and academic interests, along with his interest in philosophy, literature and popular culture, to paint a portrait of human life, suffering and well-being.

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Campus Address

Room 143E
Northumberland Building, Northumbria University
Newcastle upon Tyne
NE1 8ST

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Key Publications

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“Rest recharges my energy”; experiences and perceptions of rest in adults with long-term conditions and fatigue in rehabilitation: a qualitative study, Ackah, M., Deary, V., Abonie, U., Hettinga, F., Hackett, K. 30 Jan 2026, In: Disability and Rehabilitation
A pragmatic double blind remote pilot feasibility randomised controlled trial of a self-management app for people with Sjögren disease, Hackett, K., Campbell, M., Pakpahan, E., Vines, J., Lendrem, D., McCready, J., Rapley, T., Ellis, J., Deary, V., McColl, E., McCallum, C. 3 Jun 2025, In: Frontiers in Digital Health
Awakening the sense of the possible: the Symptoms Clinic as liminal affective technology, Greco, M., Deary, V., Fryer, K., Sanders, T., Burton, C. 1 Oct 2025, In: Social Science and Medicine
Exploring rest advice in fatigue interventions in rehabilitation among adults with long-term conditions: a systematic scoping review of the reporting of rest in randomised controlled trials, Ackah, M., Abonie, U., Hackett, K., Deary, V., Owiredu, D., Hettinga, F. 1 Sep 2025, In: Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
How is wakeful rest operationalized and measured in daily life among adults with and without long‐term conditions? A systematic scoping review, Ackah, M., Hackett, K., Deary, V., Hettinga, F., Boakye, H., Abonie, U. 4 Sep 2025, In: PM&R
Life after meningitis: A qualitative study exploring survivors' experience of living with sequelae, Balint, C., Deary, V., Rodrigues, A. 2 Dec 2025, In: Psychology & Health
Multiple Symptoms Study 3 – An extended-role general practitioner clinic for patients with persistent physical symptoms: a Randomised Controlled Trial, Burton, C., Mooney, C., Sutton, L., White, D., Dawson, J., Fryer, K., Greco, M., Horspool, M., Neilson, A., Rowlands, G., Sanders, T., Thomas, R., Thomas, S., Cooper, C., Woodward, J., Turton, E., Waheed, W., Kumar, P., Ridsdale, K., Mallender, E., Deary, V. 2 Apr 2025, In: Health and Social Care Delivery Research
Optimising and beta-testing a user-centred, accessible, self-management rehabilitation smartphone app (reCOVer) for long-COVID fatigue using qualitative interview methods, McCready, J., Campbell, M., McCay, K., Moore, J., Deary, V., Vines, J., Higgs-McCallum, C., Webster, D., Ellis, J., Newton, J., Nobbs, C., Rapley, T., Hackett, K. 27 Oct 2025, In: Disability and Rehabilitation
Response to treatment in the Multiple Symptoms Study 3 trial – Authors' reply, Burton, C., Deary, V., Mooney, C., Sutton, L., Cooper, C. 5 Apr 2025, In: The Lancet
A Smartphone App to Support Self-Management for People Living With Sjögren's Syndrome: Qualitative Co-Design Workshops, McCallum, C., Campbell, M., Vines, J., Rapley, T., Ellis, J., Deary, V., Hackett, K. 17 Apr 2024, In: JMIR Human Factors

PGR Supervision

Amy Allan What is the impact of the Academic Health Sciences Network North East North Cumbria (AHSN NENC) in the North of England? Start Date: 01/09/2020

Qualifications

PhD August 01 2010
Psychology MSc September 01 1999
Information not provided British Association of Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy (BABCP) 1995