COVID-19 work

Daryl was the Deputy Chair of the British Psychological Society's (BPS) COVID-19 Coordinating Group (2020-2021) as well as a member of the BPS Behavioural Science and Disease Prevention workstream (2020- ). He also led the BPS COVID-19 Research Priorities Group. See below for some relevant resources, links and papers:

British Psychological Society's COVID-19 Coordinating Group

British Psychological Society's COVID-19 Resources

British Psychological Society's Behavioural Science and Disease Prevention

Research Priorities for the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond: A call to action for psychological science. pdf here

Behavioural science and disease prevention: Psychological guidance. pdf here

Template for Rapid Iterative Consensus of Experts (TRICE). pdf here

The psychological and occupational impact of the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic on UK surgeons: A qualitative investigation pdf

Mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic: Exploring the role of psychological flexibility and stress-related Variables. pdf


Systematic review of interventions to promote physical distancing behavior during infectious disease pandemics/epidemics. Social Science & Medicine. pdf here

Daryl gives an invited talk as part of a COVID-19 Expert Panel at the International Congress of Neurosciences, Colombia (26th November 2020).

On-going COVID-19 Research Projects


LOCOMOTION: LOng COvid Multidisciplinary consortium: Optimising Treatments and servIces across the NHS.


Daryl is a co-investigator on new £3.4M research project entitled LOCOMOTION funded by NIHR led by Dr Manoj Sivan (University of Leeds) and Professor Brendan Delaney (Imperial College London). This exciting research project aims to create a “gold standard” approach for the treatment of long COVID.


LOng COvid Multidisciplinary consortium: Optimising Treatments and servIces across the NHS (LOCOMOTION): Protocol for mixed-method study. pdf here


UK COVID-19 Mental Health & Wellbeing study

Mental health and wellbeing during the COVID-19 pandemic: longitudinal analyses of adults in the UK COVID-19 Mental Health & Wellbeing study. pdf here

Effects of COVID-19-related worry and rumination on mental health and loneliness during the pandemic:  Longitudinal analyses of adults in the UK COVID-19 Mental Health & Wellbeing study. pdf here

Probable COVID-19 infection is associated with subsequent poorer mental health and greater loneliness in the UK COVID-19 Mental Health & Wellbeing study. pdf here

Information seeking, mental health and loneliness: Longitudinal analyses of adults in the UK COVID-19 Mental Health & Wellbeing Study. pdf here

Longitudinal analyses of the UK COVID-19 Mental Health & Wellbeing Study (COVID-MH) during the second wave of COVID-19. pdf here