Dr Fiona Matley
PhD, MSc, MA, BA(Hons)
Post-Doctoral Research Assistant
School of Psychology, Social Work and Public Health

Role
Teaching and supervision
Courses
Modules taught
Fiona has previously provided teaching support for the Psychology (BSc(Hons) course at Oxford Brookes University, across several modules including:
- Psychological Interventions,
- An Introduction to Psychological Research,
- Qualitative Methods in Psychology and
- Foundations of Cognitive Psychology.
Research
Fiona is an early career researcher whose work focuses on reducing alcohol consumption, smoking cessation, and supporting healthy ageing. Fiona’s main research interests involve supporting adults to make positive changes that can enhance their health and wellbeing in mid and later life. Fiona has experience in intervention development and evaluation, patient public involvement, systematic reviews, and qualitative and quantitative methodologies.
My research explores the following topics:
- Using automatic processes to change drinking behaviour in midlife adults.
- Knowledge, attitudes and current practice of health professionals regarding the use of e-cigarettes and other smoking cessation interventions in cancer survivors (funded by Cancer Research UK).
- Evaluating the impact of patient and public involvement (PPI) in the life after prostate cancer diagnosis study (LAPCD).
- UK teachers’ views on the content and format of Personal, Social, Health and Economic Education (PSHE).
- Testing social status and family socialization hypotheses of alcohol use in Norwegian young people: a causal mediation analysis.
Research group membership
- Healthy Ageing & Care Network (Oxford Brookes University)
- INEBRIA (International Network on Brief Interventions for Alcohol and Other Drugs)
- Service User Involvement Committee (Faculty of Health & Life Sciences, Oxford Brookes University)
- Prevention Science Group (Faculty of Health & Life Sciences, Oxford Brookes University)
- UK Society for Behavioural Medicine
Groups
Publications
Professional information
Memberships of professional bodies
Membership:
Healthy Ageing & Care Network Steering Committee (Oxford Brookes University)
Health Behaviour and Wellbeing Research Group (Oxford Brookes University)
Society for the Study of Addiction
UK Society for Behavioural Medicine
Further information:
ORCiD: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5322-2852
Research Gate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Fiona_Matley
Bluesky Social: @betterhealthforall.bsky.social
LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/fmatleyFurther details
- Research Gate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Fiona_Matley
- LinkedIn: https://uk.linkedin.com/in/fiona-matley-85413625