Staff

Prof David P French

Title: Professor of Health Psychology
Subject group/area: Applied Research Centre in Health and Lifestyle Interventions
Telephone: +44 (0)2476 795429
Room: WF110
David French
Main Duties:
  • Postgraduate research MSc and PhD supervision
  • Applied Research
    • Education:
  • BSc (hons) Psychology
  • MSc Applied Psychology
  • PhD Health Psychology

    • Chartered Health Psychologist (with license to practice)

    Employment:
    • Reader, Coventry University
    • Lecturer, University of Birmingham
    • Wellcome Trust Training Fellow, University of Cambridge
    • Research Associate, University of Cambridge
    • Wellcome Trust Prize PhD student, Kings College London
    Research:
    • Interventions to change health-related behaviours (development and evaluation)
    • Walking
    • Emotional, cognitive, and behavioural effects of screening programmes
    • Risk communication
    • Illness cognition and social cognition models
    • Quantitative research methods
    Selected professional activities:
    • Invited external speaker at 15 academic departmental seminars in past 5 years
    • British Psychological Society journal, British Journal of Health Psychology (impact factor = 1.976 [2008])  Associate Editor
    • European Health Psychology Society journal, Psychology and Health (impact factor = 2.083 [2008]) Associate Editor
    • Society of Behavioural Medicine Journal, Annals of Behavioural Medicine (impact factor = 3.176 [2008]) Editorial Board member
    • Joint European Health Psychology Society/ British Psychological Society Division of Health Psychology conference in Bath 2008 scientific committee chair
    • NIHR Programme Grants for Applied Research Selection Panel, Sub-Panel B member for Competition 5 funding round in 2009, and Sub-Panel D member for Competition 6 in 2010.
    Selected publications:

    D French, K Vedhara, AA Kaptein & J Weinman (eds, 2010), Health Psychology (second edition).  Oxford: BPS Blackwell

    CAM Paddison, HC Eborall, SR Sutton, DP French, J Vasconcelos, AT Prevost, AL Kinmouth & SJ Griffin (2009).  Are people with negative diabetes screening tests falsely reassured?  Parallel group cohort study embedded in the ADDITION (Cambridge) randomised controlled trial.  British Medical Journal 339 (301); b4535

    AJ Farmer, AN Wade, DP French, J Simon, P Yudkin, A Gray, A Craven, L Goyder, RR Holman, D Mant, AL Kinmouth & HAW Neil on behalf of the DiGEM trial group (2009).  Blood glucose self-monitoring in type 2 diabetes: a randomised controlled trial. Health Technology Assessment 13 (15)

    DP French, H Eborall, S J Griffin, AL Kinmouth, AT Prevost & S Sutton (2009).  Completing a postal health questionnaire did not affect anxiety or related measures: randomized controlled trial. Journal of Clinical Epidemiology 62; 74-80

    S Hall, DP French & TM Marteau (2009).  Do perceptions of vulnerability and worry mediate the effects of a smoking cessation intervention for women attending for a routine cervical smear test?  A randomized controlled trial.  Health Psychology 28; 258-263

    DP French, AN Wade, P Yudkin, HAW Neil, AL Kinmouth & AJ Farmer (2008).  Self-monitoring of blood glucose changed non-insulin treated type 2 diabetes patients' beliefs about diabetes and self-monitoring in a randomised trial.  Diabetic Medicine 25; 1218-1228

    Selected Awards/Grants:

    AJ Wright, I Wellwood, DP French, C Wolfe, A Rudd & A Grieve.  Developing and piloting a behavioural, community-based intervention to increase walking among people with stroke.  NIHR Research for Patient Benefit Programme (Apr 2010-Mar 2013)  £249,395.

    DP French, J Dale, S Michie, A Szczepura, F Griffiths & N Stallard.  The development of an intervention to promote walking in primary care.  Medical Research Council (Oct 2008 - Mar 2011)  £315,584.

    DP French, J Dale & J Edmunds.  Developing and evaluating a brief intervention to promote walking in primary care.  Warwick and Coventry Primary Care Research (Sept 2008 - Sept 2011)  £54,538.

    J Dale & DP French.  'I'm not feeling well' and the energence of a new approach to manage GP demand.  The acceptability and impact of on-line self-assessment as an adjunct to face to face care in general practice.  Warwick and Coventry Primary Care Research (Sept 2007 - Sept 2010)  £53,250.

    HA Farmer, HA Neil, D Mant, P Yudkin, A Gray, S Ziebland, DP French, R Holman & AL Kinmouth.  A randomised controlled trial to determine the effect of vlood glucose self-monitoring in people with type 2 diabetes.  Department of Health Research and Development Health Technology Assessment Programme Oct 2002- Apr 2007)  £422,834.

    S Sutton, DP French, SJ Griffin, AT Prevost, AL Kinmouth.  Psychological impact of screening for diabetes.  The Wellcome Trust (Sept 2003 - Nov 2007)  £127,657.

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