Dr Elizabeth Corker
School of Psychology
Lecturer in Clinical Psychology
e.corker@sheffield.ac.uk
Interdisciplinary Centre of the Social Sciences (ICOSS)
Full contact details
Dr Elizabeth Corker
School of Psychology
Interdisciplinary Centre of the Social Sciences (ICOSS)
219 Portobello
Sheffield
S1 4DP
School of Psychology
Interdisciplinary Centre of the Social Sciences (ICOSS)
219 Portobello
Sheffield
S1 4DP
- Profile
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Elizabeth Corker, PhD, DClinPsych, CPsychol, AFHEA is a Lecturer in Clinical Psychology and is based within the Clinical and Applied Psychology Unit.
Dr Corker’s research interests include individual and group human behaviour and how changing behaviour can impact health, wellbeing and global issues such as, discrimination and inequality. She has published >25 journal articles and is on the Editorial Board for the Annals of Behavioral Medicine. She has experience with designing and delivering teaching for undergraduate and postgraduate students as well as for professionals.
She completed her PhD in Psychology at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience in 2015. Her thesis explored the experience of self-stigma and its impact on self-esteem and empowerment in people experiencing mental distress and in people with a diagnosis of rheumatoid arthritis. She completed her PhD part-time, whilst working full-time as part of a team evaluating the Time to Change programme, which aimed to end discriminatory behaviour towards people experiencing mental distress.
Dr Corker is also a Chartered Clinical Psychologist after completing a Professional Doctorate in Clinical Psychology in 2019 at the University of East London.
- Qualifications
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MA(hons) Psychology 2007 University of St Andrews
MSc Health Psychology 2008 University College London
PhD Psychology 2016 IoPPN, King's College London
Professional Doctorate in Clinical Psychology 2019 University of East London
- Research interests
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Dr Corker has two broad areas of research interest. The first is the occurrence and impact of stigma and discrimination across different social groups, and the second is behaviour change.
- Publications
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Journal articles
- Associations of self-esteem in people with epilepsy. Epilepsy & Behavior, 183, 111109-111109.
- An ontological framework for organising and describing behaviours: The Human Behaviour Ontology [version 2; peer review: 3 approved with reservations]. Wellcome Open Research, 9. View this article in WRRO
- Understanding the barriers to hiring autistic people as perceived by employers in the United Kingdom.. Autism, 29(5), 1263-1274. View this article in WRRO
- An ontological framework for organising and describing behaviours: The Human Behaviour Ontology.. Wellcome open research, 9, 237.
- Translating the behaviour change technique taxonomy version 1 into Spanish: methodology and validation
[version 1; peer review: 2 approved]. Wellcome Open Research, 9. View this article in WRRO
- The behaviour change technique ontology: transforming the behaviour change technique taxonomy v1 [version 2; peer review: 4 approved]. Wellcome Open Research, 8. View this article in WRRO
- An ontological framework for organising and describing behaviours: The Human Behaviour Ontology [version 1; peer review: 3 approved with reservations]. Wellcome Open Research, 9. View this article in WRRO
- Specifying how intervention content is communicated: development of a style of delivery ontology [version 1; peer review: 1 approved]. Wellcome Open Research, 8, 1-22. View this article in WRRO
- The role of stress and health behaviour in linking weight discrimination and health: a secondary data analysis in England. BMJ Open, 13(9). View this article in WRRO
- The behaviour change technique ontology: transforming the behaviour change technique taxonomy v1 [version 1; peer review: 4 approved]. Wellcome Open Research, 8. View this article in WRRO
- Behaviour change techniques taxonomy v1: Feedback to inform the development of an ontology [version 2; peer review: 2 approved]. Wellcome Open Research, 7. View this article in WRRO
- Behaviour change techniques taxonomy v1: Feedback to inform the development of an ontology. Wellcome Open Research, 7. View this article in WRRO
- The impact of COVID-19 related regulations and restrictions on mobility and potential for sustained climate mitigation across the Netherlands, Sweden and the UK: a data-based commentary. UCL Open Environment, 4. View this article in WRRO
- Acceptability and facilitators of and barriers to point‐of‐care HIV testing in a homeless‐focused service in Gloucestershire: a qualitative evaluation. HIV Medicine, 23(3), 237-248.
- Interventions to increase personal protective behaviours to limit the spread of respiratory viruses: A rapid evidence review and meta‐analysis. British Journal of Health Psychology, 27(1), 215-264.
- Enabling countries to apply behavioural science in using global survey data to inform their Covid-19 policies.
- Interventions to increase personal protective behaviours to limit the spread of respiratory viruses: A rapid evidence review and meta-analysis.
- Interventions to increase personal protective behaviours to limit the spread of respiratory viruses: A rapid evidence review and meta-analysis.
- Improving recruitment to healthcare research studies: clinician judgements explored for opting mental health service users out of the time to change viewpoint survey. Journal of Mental Health, 28(1), 42-48.
- Coping with stigma and discrimination: evidence from mental health service users in England. Epidemiology and Psychiatric Sciences, 27(6), 577-588.
- Experience of the Time to Change programme in England as predictor of mental health service users' stigma coping strategies. Epidemiology and Psychiatric Sciences, 26(5), 517-525.
- Viewpoint survey of mental health service users’ experiences of discrimination in England 2008–2014. Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica, 134(S446), 6-13.
- Public knowledge, attitudes, social distance and reported contact regarding people with mental illness 2009–2015. Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica, 134(S446), 23-33.
- Qualitative analysis of mental health service users’ reported experiences of discrimination. Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica, 134(S446), 14-22.
- The economic costs of mental health‐related discrimination. Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica, 134(S446), 34-44.
- Improving mental health service responses to domestic violence and abuse. International Review of Psychiatry, 28(5), 423-432.
- Internalised stigma in people with rheumatoid arthritis: a cross sectional study to establish the psychometric properties of the ISMI-RA. BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders, 17(1).
- Factors associated with experienced discrimination among people using mental health services in England. Journal of Mental Health, 25(4), 350-358.
- How does self stigma differ across people with psychiatric diagnoses and rheumatoid arthritis, and how does it impact on self-esteem and empowerment?. Psychology, Health & Medicine, 21(8), 993-1005.
- Experience of stigma and discrimination reported by people experiencing the first episode of schizophrenia and those with a first episode of depression: The FEDORA project. International Journal of Social Psychiatry, 61(5), 438-445.
- How much does mental health discrimination cost: valuing experienced discrimination in relation to healthcare care costs and community participation. Epidemiology and Psychiatric Sciences, 24(5), 423-434.
- Viewpoint survey of mental health service users’ experiences of discrimination in England 2008–2012. Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology, 49(10), 1599-1608.
- Effect of the Time to Change anti-stigma campaign on trends in mental-illness-related public stigma among the English population in 2003–13: an analysis of survey data. The Lancet Psychiatry, 1(2), 121-128.
- Discrimination against people with severe mental illness and their access to social capital: findings from the Viewpoint survey. Epidemiology and Psychiatric Sciences, 23(2), 155-165.
- Experiences of discrimination among people Using mental health services in England 2008-2011. British Journal of Psychiatry, 202(s55), s58-s63.
- Discrimination in relation to parenthood reported by community psychiatric service users in the UK: a framework analysis. BMC Psychiatry, 13(1).
- Mass social contact interventions and their effect on mental health related stigma and intended discrimination. BMC Public Health, 12(1).
- England's Time to Change Antistigma Campaign: One-Year Outcomes of Service User-Rated Experiences of Discrimination. Psychiatric Services, 63(5), 451-457.
- Ovarian and cervical cancer awareness: development of two validated measurement tools. Journal of Family Planning and Reproductive Health Care, 38(3), 167-174.
- Newspaper coverage of mental illness in the UK, 1992-2008. BMC Public Health, 11(1).
- Stigma and discrimination: the silent disease. International Journal of Clinical Practice, 55(2), 138-140.
- Development of Templates to Enable Countries to Apply Behavioural Science in Using Global Survey Data to Inform Their COVID-19 Policies. Qeios, 5(4).
- Development of templates to enable countries to apply behavioural science in using global survey data to inform their COVID-19 policies. Qeios. View this article in WRRO
- E36 The Effect of Self-Stigma on Self-Esteem and Empowerment in People with Rheumatoid Arthritis: A Mixed Methods Study. Rheumatology.
Conference proceedings
- The role of stress and health behaviour in linking weight discrimination and health: a secondary data analysis in England. EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF PSYCHOLOGY OPEN, Vol. 82 (pp 180-181)
- ASSOCIATIONS OF PERCEIVED WEIGHT DISCRIMINATION WITH MENTAL AND PHYSICAL HEALTH AND MEDIATING EFFECTS OF HEALTH BEHAVIOURS AND STRESS. PSYCHOSOMATIC MEDICINE, Vol. 82(6) (pp A54-A55)
- The Viewpoint discrimination survey - the extent of discrimination faced by mental health service users in England. Psychiatrische Praxis, Vol. 38(S 01)
- Evaluation of Time to Change, a nationwide anti stigma campaign. Psychiatrische Praxis, Vol. 38(S 01)
Preprints
- Enabling countries to apply behavioural science in using global survey data to inform their Covid-19 policies, Qeios Ltd.
- The impact of COVID-19 related regulations and restrictions on mobility and potential for sustained climate mitigation across the Netherlands, Sweden and the UK: A data-based commentary., UCL Press.
- Associations of self-esteem in people with epilepsy. Epilepsy & Behavior, 183, 111109-111109.
- Research group
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Wellbeing of individuals and society
- Grants
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- The Colt Foundation (2023-2025; £66,703): Understanding and tackling the barriers to employment experienced by autistic adults
- ESRC (2023-2028): Behavioural Research UK Leadership Hub (BR-UK)
- Teaching activities
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Dr Corker teaches on the Professional Doctorate in Clinical Psychology course, as well as providing some teaching for final year undergraduates.
- Professional activities and memberships
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- Inclusion and Anti-Discrimination lead for the DClin
- Academic Lead for the Ethnic Minorities Research Inclusion hub
- Chartered psychologist
- Member of the division of Clinical Psychology
- Member of the division of Health Psychology
- Fellow - Higher Education Academy
- PhD Opportunities
I am not currently accepting applications for PhD study.
We advertise PhD opportunities (Funded or Self-Funded) on FindAPhD.com
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