Dr Elizabeth Anne Broadbent

Bachelor of Engineering degree with Honours (Electrical and Electronic) Canterbury University. Graduate Diploma in Arts (Massey).MSc and PhD in Health Psychology, University of Auckland.

Associate Professor

In: Psychological Medicine » School of Medicine » Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences

Biography

Elizabeth initially trained as an electrical and electronic engineer at Canterbury University to pursue her interest in robotics. She then worked at Transpower, Électricité de Tahiti, and Robotechnology. After becoming interested in the psychological aspects of robotics and in psychoneuroimmunology, she obtained her MSc and PhD in health psychology, supported by a Bright Futures Top Achiever Doctoral Award.

She received an Early Career Award from the International Society of Behavioural Medicine and Early Career Research Excellence Award from the University of Auckland. She was a visiting academic at the school of psychology at Harvard University and in the Program in Science, Technology, and Society at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Boston, USA. In August 2017, she will return to Boston with a Fulbright award for four months.

Her current research interests include how stress affects our health, how our body posture affects our mood, interventions to help patients make sense of and cope with illness, and human-robot interaction in health contexts. Her work has been supported by grants from many agencies including the Health Research Council, Auckland Medical Research Foundation, Heart Foundation, Oakley Mental Health Research Foundation, Maurice and Phyllis Paykel Trust, and the Foundation of Research Science and Technology.

Research | Current

Research interests

Stress and wound healing
Coping with chronic illness
Illness perceptions
Risk perceptions
Patients’ drawings of their illness
Human-robot interactions
Embodied cognition

Teaching | Current

HLTHPSYC 715 Research Methods in Health Psychology (course coordinator)

HLTHPSYC 714 Health Psychology (guest lecturer)

HLTHPSYC 122 Behaviour, Health and Development (guest lecturer)

HLTHPSYC 744 Research topic

Postgraduate supervision

PhD

Hayley Robinson, Amy Richardson, Claire O'Donovan

MHlthPsyc

Debbie Johanson, Hemisha Priya, Jessee Fia'Ali'i, Randi Collin

Areas of expertise

Health Psychology

Committees/Professional groups/Services

Associate Editor: Journal of Behavioral Medicine

Editorial Board: British Journal of Health Psychology; Psychology & Health

Director Health Psychology Programme

Research Committee

Selected publications and creative works (Research Outputs)

Robinson, H., Norton, S., Jarrett, P., & Broadbent, E. (2017). The effects of psychological interventions on wound healing: A systematic review of randomized trials. British journal of health psychology, 22 (4), 805-835. 10.1111/bjhp.12257
Other University of Auckland co-authors: Paul Jarrett
Liang, A., Piroth, I., Robinson, H., MacDonald, B., Fisher, M., Nater, U. M., ... Broadbent, E. (2017). A pilot randomized trial of a companion robot for people with dementia living in the community. Journal of the American Medical Directors Association, 18 (10), 871-878. 10.1016/j.jamda.2017.05.019
Other University of Auckland co-authors: Bruce MacDonald
Richardson, A. E., Tennant, G., Morton, R. P., & Broadbent, E. (2017). A Self-Regulatory Intervention for Patients with Head and Neck Cancer: Pilot Randomized Trial. Annals of behavioral medicine : a publication of the Society of Behavioral Medicine, 51 (5), 629-641. 10.1007/s12160-017-9885-1
Robinson, H., Ravikulan, A., Nater, U. M., Skoluda, N., Jarrett, P., & Broadbent, E. (2017). The role of social closeness during tape stripping to facilitate skin barrier recovery: Preliminary findings. Health psychology : official journal of the Division of Health Psychology, American Psychological Association, 36 (7), 619-629. 10.1037/hea0000492
Other University of Auckland co-authors: Paul Jarrett
Koschwanez, H., Robinson, H., Beban, G., MacCormick, A., Hill, A., Windsor, J., ... Broadbent, E. (2017). Randomized clinical trial of expressive writing on wound healing following bariatric surgery. Health Psychology, 36 (7), 630-640. 10.1037/hea0000494
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/2292/34530
Other University of Auckland co-authors: John Windsor, Mia Jullig, Andrew MacCormick, Andrew Hill, Roger Booth
Robinson, H., Jarrett, P., Vedhara, K., & Broadbent, E. (2017). The effects of expressive writing before or after punch biopsy on wound healing. Brain, Behavior, and Immunity, 61, 217-227. 10.1016/j.bbi.2016.11.025
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/2292/33249
Other University of Auckland co-authors: Paul Jarrett
Wilkes, C., Kydd, R., Sagar, M., & Broadbent, E. (2017). Upright posture improves affect and fatigue in people with depressive symptoms. Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry, 54, 143-149. 10.1016/j.jbtep.2016.07.015
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/2292/30135
Other University of Auckland co-authors: Mark Sagar
Broadbent, E. (2017). Interactions with Robots: The Truths We Reveal About Ourselves. Annual Review of Psychology, 68, 627-652. 10.1146/annurev-psych-010416-043958
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/2292/32094