Dr Marie Kotzur

Research Associate (Mental Health & Wellbeing)

telephone: 01412113904
email: Marie.Kotzur@glasgow.ac.uk

University of Glasgow; Institute of Health and Wellbeing, Gartnavel Royal Hospital, Administration Building; 1st floor, 1055 Great Western Road, Glasgow, G12 0XH

ORCID iD https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6921-5075

Biography

Marie Kotzur joined Mental Health and Wellbeing in December 2017. She is a research associate with a background in health psychology and behavioural science. Her work focuses on the prevention and early diagnosis of cancer through increased screening participation. Since February 2018 Marie has worked with Katie Robb on a project funded by the CSO to develop and trial a planning support tool to reduce practical barriers to bowel cancer screening.

In May 2015 Marie joined the Institute of Health and Wellbeing to work with Katie Robb on a NAEDI-funded project which identified unique practical barriers to bowel cancer screening among women otherwise inclined to participate in cancer screening. This work has contributed to our understanding of why some women participate in breast and cervical, but not bowel cancer screening.

Marie is passionate about supporting people in finding better way to preserve their health. She received a BA (Psychology) from University College Cork (Ireland) in 2010 and a PhD in 2017, also from University College Cork. Her doctoral research investigated the predictors of cervical screening cancer screening participation among Irish women. This project aimed to better understand what influences decision-making and attendance for smear tests.

Research interests

Behavioural science
Health psychology
Preventive health care
Social psychology
Motivation
Decision-making
Mixed methodology research

Publications

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Number of items: 9.

2020

Kotzur, M. , McCowan, C. , Macdonald, S. , Wyke, S. , Gatting, L., Campbell, C., Weller, D., Crighton, E., Steele, R. J.C. and Robb, K. A. (2020) Why colorectal screening fails to achieve the uptake rates of breast and cervical cancer screening: a comparative qualitative study. BMJ Quality and Safety, 29, pp. 482-490. (doi: 10.1136/bmjqs-2019-009998) (PMID:31879320)

2019

McCowan, C. et al. (2019) Comparing uptake across breast, cervical and bowel screening at an individual level: a retrospective cohort study. British Journal of Cancer, 121(8), pp. 710-714. (doi: 10.1038/s41416-019-0564-9) (PMID:31481732) (PMCID:PMC6889480)

Kotzur, M. and Robb, K. (2019) Cancer: Breast. In: Llewellyn, C., Ayers, S., McManus, C., Newman, S., Petrie, K., Revenson, T. and Weinman, J. (eds.) Cambridge Handbook of Psychology Health and Medicine. Series: Cambridge handbooks in psychology. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge. ISBN 9781316625873

2017

Kotzur, M. , Wyke, S. , Macdonald, S. , Steele, R., Weller, D., Campbell, C., Crighton, E., Mccowan, C. and Robb, K. (2017) Strategies to Increase Bowel Screening Uptake: a Focus Group Study of Non-participants. UK Society for Behavioural Medicine Annual Scientific Meeting, Liverpool, United Kingdom, 13-14 Dec 2017. (Unpublished)

Kotzur, M. , Wyke, S. , Macdonald, S. , Steele, R., Weller, D., Campbell, C., Crighton, E., Mccowan, C. and Robb, K. (2017) Involving Future Users in Developing Cancer Screening Interventions: a Case Study. European Health Psychology Society Conference 2017, Padova, Italy, 29 Aug - 02 Sep 2017. (Unpublished)

2016

Kotzur, M. , Wyke, S. , Macdonald, S. , Steele, R., Weller, D., Campbell, C., Crighton, E., Mccowan, C. and Robb, K. (2016) Improving Bowel Screening Uptake: Lessons from Higher Uptake of Breast and Cervical Screening. UK Society for Behavioural Medicine 12th Annual Scientific Meeting, Cardiff, Wales, 01-02 Dec 2016. (Unpublished)

Kotzur, M. , Wyke, S. , Macdonald, S. , Steele, R., Weller, D., Campbell, C., Crighton, E., Mccowan, C. and Robb, K. (2016) ‘Not that one’: Understanding Why Women Screen for Breast and Cervical, but not Bowel Cancer. European Health Psychology Society & BPS Division of Health Psychology Annual Conference 2016. European Health Psychologist 18(Supp.): 492., Aberdeen, Scotland, 23-27 Aug 2016.