@chantellewwood
Professor of Social Psychology and Behavioural Science at the University of Sheffield. Interested in behaviour change (with a focus on indoor air quality) and prejudice-reduction. Avid foodie/amateur green thumb. She/her
Picture of a pack of Dairy Milk Minis ice creams.
In 2024, my household obtained the dubious distinction (according to our Sainsbury’s Nectar supermarket points card) of being the #1 buyer of ‘The Jolly Hog Little Porker Chipolatas’ in Sheffield. This is our achievement from 2025.
Screenshot of title and abstract from the paper.
New paper out on #IndoorAirPollution, demonstrating that indoor PM2.5 concentrations (small particles that we can breathe in and that can harm health) are higher in homes in deprived areas, often exceeding WHO 24-hour limits
bmcpublichealth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
Logo picturing a stylised pair of lungs within an outline of a house, along with the word AirHub.
Really enjoyed our launch event yesterday for ‘Air Hub: Engineering Healthier Indoor Environments’, with our amazing partners. Looking forward to collaborating with researchers and stakeholders during this EPSRC @ukri.org funded network led by @abigailhathway.bsky.social
Air pollution must be recognised as a public health issue.
Our report 'A breath of fresh air' highlights evidence on the increased range of health impacts linked to air pollution.
The government needs to treat #airpollution as a serious & preventable health risk.
🔗 ow.ly/F3yq50Wc7wr
#CleanAirDay
Want to hear more about our project INGENIOUS and how findings may be used to improve indoor air quality? Come along to our online webinar on Monday.
Interested in our behaviour change intervention for improving ventilation in small businesses? You can download it here (in multiple languages). #PsySciSky
@alishasuhag.bsky.social
Paper title: Improving hospitality venue ventilation via behavioural change as a response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Highlights: 1) Ventilation of small-scale hospitality venues was below recommended standards; 2) Better ventilation barriers included limited guidance, funding, and venue ownership; 3) Motivations towards customer satisfaction conflicted with improving ventilation; 4) Introduction of new guidance increased ventilation actions in 3 of 6 venues; 5) Short-term CO2 monitoring helped to inform venue owners of ventilation performance
Our interdisciplinary paper on improving ventilation in the hospitality sector is now online! We found that a lack of guidance + conflicting priorities were key barriers to ventilation, and examine the effectiveness/acceptability of a motivational + guidance intervention. doi.org/10.1016/j.in...
Interested in using behavioural science to tackle pollution? I'm advertising a fully-funded interdisciplinary PhD project at the Uni of Sheffield with @sheffielddust.bsky.social & Darpan Das (Uni of York), to start Sep 2025. Application deadline 4th April! www.findaphd.com/phds/project... #PsySciSky
Screen shot of the abstract and public significance statement. The abstract reads as follows: Confronting prejudice is a promising strategy for reducing intergroup bias. The current meta-analysis estimated the effects of confronting prejudice on intergroup bias in the confronted person and examined the impact of potential moderators. Eligible studies measured intergroup bias in participants confronted versus not confronted for intergroup bias. A three-level mixed-effects analysis on 91 effect sizes found a significant, medium-sized effect of confronting prejudice on reducing intergroup bias (g+ = 0.54). There was only limited evidence of publication bias. Confrontation was differentially effective at reducing different types of intergroup bias with a medium-to-large effect on using or endorsing stereotypes, small-tomedium effects on behavior and behavioral intentions, and no significant effects on cognitive prejudice. Effects were otherwise largely robust to differences in confrontation, sample, and study design characteristics. Yet, studies predominantly focused on whether confronting the use of stereotypes reduced subsequent use of stereotypes in artificial settings, and primarily sampled U.S.-based, young, White adults, making it difficult to generalize effects to other forms of intergroup bias and populations, particularly in realworld settings. Studies also tended to measure intergroup bias immediately after confrontation, so the duration of effects over longer periods is less clear. To better evaluate the potential of confrontation as a prejudice reduction technique, future research should examine whether confronting prejudice reduces different forms of intergroup bias in more diverse participant samples and settings, over longer periods, and further test theoretical mediators of these effects.
Really pleased that our meta-analysis on prejudice confrontation (with @lilitou.bsky.social) has now been published in Psychological Bulletin. We find that confronting prejudice is an effective bias reduction technique (but there is more research to be done!): doi.org/10.1037/bul0...
#PsySciSky
Really interesting perspectives on the current state of UK HE
We're hiring! Join our team in Sheffield as a Research Assoc for BR-UK.
This 3.5 year post will support a work package on Methods & Evidence Synthesis, working closely with Prof @princellewelyn.bsky.social & Dr Harriet Baird.
Apply by Fri 21st February here: jobsite.sheffield.ac.uk/job/Research...
🔥 Hot Take: What’s holding back behavioral research on climate change mitigation? 🌍
Behavioral science has substantial potential for contributing to solving the climate crisis, but I see two critical challenges limiting its impact🧵👇
#ClimateAction #BehavioralScience #Sustainability
I am frequently asked if people can reproduce published images of the Behaviour Change Wheel and the COM-B model. Please, no need to contact me as the answer is always yes, if cited correctly. #OpenScience. The original article is implementationscience.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.... .. & book ...
Discover the #TISP Dataset now out in #ScientificData! The open access dataset includes responses from 71,922 people in 68 countries on their perceptions of science, science communication, and climate change attitudes. 🌍🧵 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
I had a little chuckle to myself while etching this mini bottle to use for propagating houseplant cuttings. Husband didn’t get the joke. Must be psychology humour! #PsySciSky
Children deserve clean air in classrooms flyer. Includes information about indoor air pollution
Safe Air School’s updated flyer with enhanced sources and references is available to download and share.
With thanks to @mishwoz.bsky.social for her expertise.
Further resources coming soon…
#SafeAirSchools
A clear and accessible summary of why we shouldn’t use wood burning stoves (if you’ve got other means to heat your home).
Interested in finding out what research we’re doing on indoor air quality? Our overview paper on ‘The INGENIOUS project: Towards understanding air pollution in homes’, led by @niccarslaw.bsky.social has now been published in Environmental Science: Processes & Impacts pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...
Fun fact: if you're buying from a creator on etsy, you can reduce their etsy selling fees from 6.5% to 2.5% by ordering via 'shopname.etsy.com' instead of 'etsy.com/shopname' or searching from the main site. It costs you the same but the creator makes more
Interesting paper about regional, national and institutional variation in promotion criteria for full professor #AcademicSky
You know what we express far too infrequently in organisations? Gratitude. And I don’t mean a perfunctory ‘thanks’. I mean proper, heartfelt, authentic gratitude. For a job well done. For valuable advice. For excellence. For support. For just being there for us. For achieving aims. For inspiring…
It’s beautiful this morning, isn’t it!
Are you a cognitive psychologist with some free time this September? Then plz consider spending your time with us in ESCOP, hosted in Sheffield, UK
ESCOP is going to be brilliant, and Sheffield is so great. If you're unsure, just google "peak district" to give you some motivation
www.escop2025.com
In this video, Marianne Day talks about our recently published paper on the barriers UK employers perceive to hiring autistic people. We used behavioural science frameworks to explore barriers - you can also read the paper here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... #AutRes
Yes please, Susan, if there’s still space in the starter pack
This sounds very cool! Great potential resource for systematic review/meta-analysis
New paper on self-objectification by the brilliant
Zhuo Hu, demonstrating that Lindner & Tantleff-Dunn's Self-Objectification Beliefs and Behaviors Scale is valid for measuring self-objectification in cisgender heterosexual men as well as women- doi.org/10.1016/j.bo...
We’ve just had one on prejudice confrontation (a meta-analysis) accepted for publication- let me know if you’d like an advanced copy :)
An amazing and eye-opening experience supervising this work as part of Ankita Mishra's PhD thesis. Brilliant to see this valuable work on Minoritised women's experiences of domestic abuse and mental health during COVID-19, published.
