Rebecca Band

Becky is a Senior Research Fellow at the University of Southampton. She is a psychologist and expert in the role of interpersonal processes in health, and her research focuses on how the relationships in people’s lives are important for wellbeing, health management and health outcomes. She also has expertise in behaviour change and the development and optimisation of complex interventions.

Becky is currently the Principal Investigator on the NIHR funded PALS project – a community based research trial exploring whether a social network intervention can help connect people who feel lonely and isolated to people and activities within their network and local community. She is also currently a co-applicant on the Research for Public Benefit funded HI-COVE project exploring the impact of long-covid black and minority ethnic groups in the UK.