Professor Aimee Aubeeluck

Aimee joined the School of Health Sciences in July 2024.  She is a Professor of Health Psychology and Head of School.

Aimee is both a Chartered Psychologist (British Psychological Society) and Registered Health Psychologist (Health and Care Professions Council). She has a BA (Hons) in Psychology, a MSc in Health Psychology and holds a Post Graduate Certificate in Higher Education.  She was awarded her PhD in Health Psychology in 2005.

She is a Health Psychology Stage 2 Assessor and Registered Applied Psychology Practice Supervisor with the British Psychological Society, a Registration Assessor for the Health and Care professionals Council and a Principal Fellow of AdvanceHE (PFHEA). She is also the current Chair of the BPS Division of Health Psychology.

Aimee has a progressive body of scholarly and research activity, making a substantial and sustained contribution to research informed curricula that is widely recognised.  Her work focuses around two key areas:  

Student focused teaching and support – Aimee is active in teaching and learning specific research and has a strong track record in delivering on a high quality student experience that leads to student success.  Her work in this area includes the development of a critical thinking tool for use in an HE setting with colleagues from the University of Derby and Cambridge University Assessments, as well as exploring psychological experiences such as the imposter phenomenon and the role of clinical supervision in developing resilience in Health Sciences students from a cross cultural perspective.

Health Psychology – Aimee has been research active predominantly within the areas of chronic disease, quality of life and behaviour change research. Her work focuses on the impact of chronic and neurological disease on the quality of life of individual’s and their family carers. She also has expertise in scale development and psychometrics.

Aimee has a strong track record of success in knowledge creation and exchange predominantly through teaching consultancy. For example, she was the Equality Diversity and Inclusivity Lead for the British Psychological Society Division of Health between 2020 and 2022, overseeing Equality Impact Assessments across the Division and feeding into policy at a national level;  She provides consultancy to the Health and Care Professionals Council to ensure that current standards are accessible to students and engages with local Schools and College’s through collaboration on research projects, educational benchmarking and facilitating transition to University.

Aimee has an established and widely recognised reputation as a teaching specialist at a local, national and international level. She is well networked, having sustained collaboration and engagement with external partners and stakeholders in the development and delivery of Health Sciences curricular. Aimee is passionate about the transformational nature of Higher Education and committed to developing highly skilled healthcare professionals and generating new evidence through research activity to improve population health.