Lauren Gatting
Office: Administration Building, Level 2, Mental Health and Wellbeing, Gartnavel Royal Hospital, G12 0XH (currently working remotely)
E-Mail: L.Gatting.1@research.gla.ac.uk
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3693-2013
Research title: Using Picture Narratives to Support Equitable and Informed Participation in Lung Cancer Screening
Research Summary
Lauren Gatting is currently undertaking a research-based PhD looking at the use of picture narratives in communication about cancer screening. The project is using the development and testing of print lung cancer screening information for people living in Glasgow, as a case study. As with all communications research, this project is interdisciplinary, bridging between graphic medicine and graphic public health, determinants of lung screening participation, human information interaction and decision making research. For more information, go to the project website https://sites.google.com/view/picturing-lung-screening/home
Lauren previously worked as a research assistant within the Institute of Health and Wellbeing, University of Glasgow, working in the area of Health Psychology and Behavioural Science.
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Conference
Use of graphic narrative and health behaviour concepts in cancer screening leaflets: a content analysis [Poster] 33rd annual conference of EHPS, Dubrovnik, Croatia, 09/2019
Using graphic narratives in medical information for people invited to cancer screening – a graduate research project [Poster] Graphic Medicine conference – Que(e)rying Graphic Medicine: Paradigms, Practices and Power, Brighton, England, 07/2019
Making lung screening decisions EASIer with visual narratives: Creating Engaging, Accessible and Supportive Information materials [Poster] 32nd conference of the EHPS, Galway, Ireland, 08/2018
What does cancer screening mean to women from deprived neighbourhoods: a discourse analysis [Oral] 31st conference of the EHPS, Padova, Italy, 08/2017
What impact do monetary incentives and questionnaire length have on mailed health psychology survey response? [Poster] European Health Psychology Society & BPS Division of Health Psychology Annual Conference, Aberdeen, Scotland, 08/2016
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Additional Information
Communications and Application Manager, CREATE, European Heath Psychology Society Early Career Network, from 04/2018 to 03/2021
Chief editor, Ihawkes, University of Glasgow Institute of Health and Wellbeing Postgraduate and Early Career researchers blog, from 09/2017 to 02/2021
Graphic Recorder for four 2-hour research workshops for the research project ‘Creating a faith-based intervention for Muslim women in Scotland to encourage uptake of cancer screening: A community participation project', 02/2021
