Lauren McCall

Health Psychology Graduate

Expertise

Research Methods, Health Psychology


Education

MSc, Health Psychology, University of Nottingham

Highlights

Lauren McCall holds an MSc in Health Psychology (Distinction) from the University of Nottingham and a BSc in Psychology from Oxford Brookes University.

Her MSc independent research project investigated barriers and facilitators to smoking cessation advice in private dental consultations, for which she received the MSc Health Psychology Overall Independent Research Project Prize.

She has a background in health and wellbeing practice, having worked as a Health and Wellbeing Coach and Programme Lead at Enable, and previously as a healthcare assistant and support worker in care settings.

She is certified in Motivational Interviewing and holds a Level 2 Certificate in Mental Health First Aid and Advocacy. She wrote for Simply Psychology as a freelance contributor, specialising in health psychology and research methods.

Professional Experience

  • Flu Coordinator, Enable (2025–present)
  • Enable (2023-2025): Health and Wellbeing Programme Lead
  • Healthcare Assistant (2021-2023): delivered outstanding dementia care tailored to the individual needs of each person living with dementia.
  • Support worker (2020-2021): provided physical and emotional support for people living with Angelman syndrome, cerebral palsy, epilepsy, and learning difficulties.

Education

  • Health Psychology MSc, University of Nottingham (September 2021- September 2022): Relevant modules: Qualitative Research Methods; Quantitative Methods; Context and Perspectives in Health Psychology; Understanding, Predicting, and Changing Health Behaviors, Health Care Contexts, Chronic Illness.
  • Psychology BSc. (Hons), Oxford Brookes University (September 2017- June 2020): Relevant modules: Social, Cognitive, Biological, and Developmental Psychology; Advanced Statistics and Experimental Method for Psychology; Qualitative Methods; Motivating Health Behavior; Questionnaire Design; Psychology of Mental Health Conditions.
  • Dissertation: focused on whether selective attention is involved in driving the same-location advantage in feature-matching tasks.

Publications