HaPI Lab graduate Dr Jacob Keech has been awarded the 2021 Herman Schaalma PhD Award at the European Health Psychology Society Annual Conference. The Herman Schaalma Award is awarded annually to acknowledge a PhD dissertation in the field of health psychology of outstanding excellence in terms of originality, significance and rigour. The award aims to highlight excellence in PhD level research and to reinforce early career researchers to address key challenges in health psychology and adopt novel and rigorous theory and methodology. Dr Keech’s PhD thesis—The Influence of Stress Mindset on Health and Performance: Advancing Theory, Measurement, and Intervention—was conferred in 2019 and was supervised by A/Prof Kyra Hamilton, Prof Martin Hagger, and A/Prof Fran O’Callaghan. Dr Keech’s thesis contained four peer-reviewed publications published in Annals of Behavioral Medicine, Emotion, Brain & Behavior, and Psychology & Health.
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Dr Kyra Hamilton is an Associate Professor in health psychology and behavioural medicine in the School of Applied Psychology at Griffith University, Australia. She has both psychology and nursing qualifications and over 25 years’ experience in the health field. She has particular research interests in health behaviour motivation, self-regulation, and change. Dr Hamilton has won national and international awards for her research and is Chief Investigator on national competitive, industry, and internal grant funded projects. She is Associate Editor Applied Psychology: Health and Well-being and International Journal of Behavioral Medicine, Executive Editor Health Psychology Bulletin, and Editorial Board member Health Psychology Review, British Journal of Health Psychology, and Stress & Health. Dr Hamilton is the State Chair (Queensland) of the Australian Psychological Society College of Health Psychologists and the Australian National Delegate to the European Health Psychology Society.
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