Matt conducts research into the psychological mechanisms that underlie alcohol problems and other addictions. He is particularly interested in the roles of decision-making and impulse control in addiction, recovery, and behaviour change more broadly.

To give some examples, he conducts laboratory research to investigate determinants of motivated behaviour, and he works with people with alcohol problems to study the process of recovery and to investigate novel translational treatments.

Amber is interested in the application of computational models of decision-making that derive from the field of cognitive neuroscience to addiction research, including alcohol use disorder and recovery from it.

Her wider research interests include ‘meaning in life’ and how this construct relates to patterns of substance use, the development and application of novel quantitative techniques to explore behaviour change more broadly, and methodology, reproducibility, and Open Science.

Tom studies learning and decision making. Much of his research looks at risk and bias, and their management, in decision making. He is also interested in skill learning, using measures of behaviour informed by work done in computational theory, robotics and neuroscience. More recently a strand of his research looks at complex decisions, and the psychology of reason, argument and persuasion.

Michelle has recently completed her Master’s in health psychology at King’s College London. She has delved in research that explored the interplay between psychological processes and health behaviours. This exploration has applied to the realms of chronic pain, sleep, treatment adherence and the nocebo effect phenomenon. Joining the research team will expand her interests to include alcohol-related research.