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  • 2026 - Research.com Psychology in United Kingdom Leader Award
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  • Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, United Kingdom
  • Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, United Kingdom
  • Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, United Kingdom
  • Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, United Kingdom
  • Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, United Kingdom
  • Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, United Kingdom

Overview

Susan Michie is affiliated with University College London in the United Kingdom and has an extensive research portfolio in the intersection of health, medicine, and psychology. Their work spans topics including health professions, medicine, and psychological aspects of health behavior and interventions.

Their main fields of study include:

  • Health Professions
  • Medicine
  • Psychology

Within these fields, Michie's subfields of study cover a range of areas related to health and behavior:

  • General Health Professions
  • Applied Psychology
  • Clinical Psychology
  • Infectious Diseases
  • Epidemiology

Their research frequently addresses key topics such as:

  • Health Policy Implementation Science
  • Behavioral Health and Interventions
  • COVID-19 and Mental Health
  • COVID-19 Epidemiological Studies
  • Biomedical Text Mining and Ontologies
  • Community Health and Development
  • Mobile Health and mHealth Applications

Recent significant publications authored or co-authored by Michie illustrate their focus on behavior change and health policy, particularly during the COVID-19 pandemic:

  • Multidisciplinary research priorities for the COVID-19 pandemic: a call for action for mental health science (2020, The Lancet Psychiatry)
  • The Lancet Commission on lessons for the future from the COVID-19 pandemic (2022, The Lancet)
  • Applying principles of behaviour change to reduce SARS-CoV-2 transmission (2020, Nature Human Behaviour)
  • A classification of motivation and behavior change techniques used in self-determination theory-based interventions in health contexts (2020, Motivation Science)
  • Development of an online tool for linking behavior change techniques and mechanisms of action based on triangulation of findings from literature synthesis and expert consensus (2020, Translational Behavioral Medicine)

Collaboration is an important aspect of Michie's research activity. Frequent coauthors include:

  • Robert West
  • Janna Hastings
  • Marie Johnston
  • Richard Amlôt
  • Fabiana Lorencatto

Their work has been predominantly published in well-known venues specializing in healthcare and medical research, such as:

  • Wellcome Open Research
  • BMJ
  • BMJ Open
  • Addiction
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

Susan Michie has been recognized as a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in the United Kingdom.

Best Publications

  • Developing and evaluating complex interventions: The new Medical Research Council guidance

    Peter Craig;Paul Dieppe;Sally Macintyre;Susan Michie

  • The behaviour change wheel: a new method for characterising and designing behaviour change interventions.

    Susan Michie;Maartje M van Stralen;Robert West

  • Better reporting of interventions: Template for intervention description and replication (TIDieR) checklist and guide

    Tammy C Hoffmann;Paul P Glasziou;Isabelle Boutron;Ruairidh Milne

  • The Behavior Change Technique Taxonomy (v1) of 93 Hierarchically Clustered Techniques: Building an International Consensus for the Reporting of Behavior Change Interventions

    Susan Michie;Michelle Richardson;Marie Johnston;Marie Johnston;Charles Abraham

  • Multidisciplinary research priorities for the COVID-19 pandemic: a call for action for mental health science.

    Emily A. Holmes;Emily A. Holmes;Rory C O'Connor;V. Hugh Perry;Irene Tracey

  • Validation of the theoretical domains framework for use in behaviour change and implementation research

    James Cane;Denise Ann O'Connor;Susan Michie

  • Making psychological theory useful for implementing evidence based practice: a consensus approach

    S Michie;M Johnston;Charles Abraham;R Lawton

  • A guide to using the Theoretical Domains Framework of behaviour change to investigate implementation problems

    Lou Atkins;Jill J Francis;Jill J Francis;Rafat Islam;Denise O'Connor

  • Using the Internet to promote health behavior change: A systematic review and meta-analysis of the impact of theoretical basis, use of behavior change techniques, and mode of delivery on efficacy

    Thomas L Webb;Judith Joseph;Lucy Yardley;Susan Michie

  • A Taxonomy of Behavior Change Techniques Used in Interventions

    Charles Abraham;Susan Michie

  • Interventions to improve antibiotic prescribing practices for hospital inpatients

    Peter Davey;Charis A Marwick;Claire L Scott;Esmita Charani

  • Effective Techniques in Healthy Eating and Physical Activity Interventions: A Meta-Regression

    Susan Michie;Charles Abraham;Craig Whittington;John McAteer

  • The Behaviour Change Wheel: A Guide To Designing Interventions

    Susan Michie;Lou Atkins;Robert West

  • Developing and Evaluating Complex Interventions: New Guidance

    Peter Craig;Paul Dieppe;Sally Macintyre;Susan Michie

  • From Theory to Intervention: Mapping Theoretically Derived Behavioural Determinants to Behaviour Change Techniques

    Susan Michie;Marie Johnston;Jillian Joy Francis;Wendy Hardeman

  • A refined taxonomy of behaviour change techniques to help people change their physical activity and healthy eating behaviours: the CALO-RE taxonomy.

    Susan Michie;Stefanie Ashford;Falko F. Sniehotta;Stephan U. Dombrowski

  • Developing theory-informed behaviour change interventions to implement evidence into practice: a systematic approach using the Theoretical Domains Framework

    Simon David French;Simon David French;Sally Elizabeth Green;Denise Ann O'Connor;Joanne Ellen McKenzie

  • Theories of behaviour and behaviour change across the social and behavioural sciences: a scoping review

    Rachel Davis;Rona M Campbell;Zoe Hildon;Laura Hobbs

  • Reducing waste from incomplete or unusable reports of biomedical research

    Paul Glasziou;Douglas G Altman;Patrick Bossuyt;Isabelle Boutron

  • Demographic and attitudinal determinants of protective behaviours during a pandemic: A review

    Alison Bish;Susan Michie

Frequent Co-Authors

Robert West
Robert West University College London
Marie Johnston
Marie Johnston University of Aberdeen
Jamie Brown
Jamie Brown University College London
Theresa M. Marteau
Theresa M. Marteau University of Cambridge
Jill J Francis
Jill J Francis University of Melbourne
Charles Abraham
Charles Abraham University of Exeter
Lucy Yardley
Lucy Yardley University of Bristol
Jeremy M. Grimshaw
Jeremy M. Grimshaw Ottawa Hospital
Wendy Hardeman
Wendy Hardeman University of East Anglia
Jane M Blazeby
Jane M Blazeby University of Bristol

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