McAloney, Kareena

Dr Kareena McAloney-Kocaman

Senior Lecturer in Applied Health Psychology
Department of Psychology
Dr Kareena McAloney-Kocaman is a Chartered Psychologist, an Associate Fellow of the British Psychological Society, Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society. She holds a BSc (Hons) Social Psychology from the University of Ulster, a Postgraduate Diploma in Health Care Ethics and Law from the University of Manchester, and a PhD in Social Psychology from the University of Ulster.

Kareena is module leader for Applying Research Methods in Psychology; and lecturer on the Health Psychology module. Her research interests span social and health psychology with a particular interest in how identity and group memberships influence health and health behaviours. Kareena has research expertise in quantitative methods, particularly latent variable modelling. She is a member of the Parenting and Family Support Research Group, and the Substance Use and Misuse Research Group (both within Healthy Lives and Relationships) and the Safeguarding Health through Infection Prevention Research Group.