Dr Emily Oliver awarded grant from Richard Benjamin Trust

Pictured: Dr Emily Oliver of the Department of Sport and Exercise Science with Catrin Roberts, Welsh Government Project Lead for the Strategic Regeneration of Blaenau Ffestiniog.

Dr Emily Oliver has successfully been awarded a grant of £10,000 from the Richard Benjamin Trust for research examining engagement in community regeneration.  The project, which will explore the application of a value-oriented behaviour change technique, is centred around work being conducted in Blaenau Ffestiniog in collaboration with Catrin Roberts (Regeneration Manager, Welsh Government). The Richard Benjamin Trust was set up to promote innovative research in neglected areas in the fields of occupational or social psychology and this is exciting research that has potentially wide-ranging impact for both communities and individuals in the area. This builds on Dr Oliver’s previous work on the role of social environments in behaviour change, for which she recently received an International Congress of Psychology Emerging Psychologists’ Scholarship (60 awarded world-wide with only 20 to scholars in developed nations).

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