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Eamonn Ferguson

Professor of Health Psychology, Faculty of Science

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Biography

Eamonn Ferguson is a Professor of Health Psychology and leads the Prosocial Health Behaviours (PHB) Lab.

He graduated from the University of York in 1998 with a BSc (Hons) in Psychology and was awarded his PhD from the University of Nottingham in 1991. He is a chartered health and occupational psychologist, a Fellow of the Royal Society for Public Health, an Associate Fellow of the British Psychological Society, and co-founding president of the British Society for the Psychology of Individual Differences (www.bspid.org.uk/). He was elected as a Distinguished International Affiliate of Division of Health Psychology of the American Psychological Society in 2014. He is an associate scientific member of the Biomedical Excellence for Safer Transfusion (BEST) collaboration He sits on and advises committees on blood donor policy. He is a member of the NHS Blood and Transplant 'For the Individual Assessment of Risk' (FAIR) Steering group, where he heads up the behavioural science research. This work on FAIR has contributed to UK policy changes to donor selection policy with respect to enhanced equality around (i) sexuality and sexual behaviour and (ii) donors from minority communities. He is also a steering group member of the "Blood Donation and HIV International Expert Reference Group (BHIERG)" for the: New Zealand Blood Service. He won the University's Institute of Policy and Engagement Best Policy Impact Initiative award in 2022 for the FAIR work and was awarded the Vice-Chancellors Medal 2022.

Teaching Summary

I currently teach altruism and cooperation to final year undergraduates. I have previously taught personality theory and statistics at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels.I supervise taught… read more

Research Summary

Professor Ferguson's research focuses is on (i) cooperation and altruism and (ii) pain. The work on cooperation and altruism focuses on how theoretical models of human cooperation and altruism can… read more

Selected Publications

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