Dr Katalin Ujhelyi Gomez, NIHR ARC NWC Research Associate in the Department of Primary Care and Mental Health, University of Liverpool. Katalin is a mixed methods researcher with a counselling and health psychology background. She is currently training to be a partitioner (health) psychologist to extend her research work into practice and help people live a better-quality life through the application of behavioural science and psychotherapy. She believes that a person’s ability to change behaviour is not only individual responsibility, but it is key to consider the person’s context, such as their psychological and social health, and the wider societal factors. She has conducted research primarily in substance misuse, and comorbid substance use and mental health problems, in addition to the multimorbidity of mental health problems and alcohol attributable non-communicable diseases. She has also conducted research around building resilience with reference to COVID-19 geographies to provide recommendations on strengthening resilience in British Cities for future pandemics. She has also explored the social and psychological factors of COVID-19 specifically in the Liverpool City Region. Katalin has experience in conducting and critically appraising systematic reviews, designing and evaluating interventions, and patient and public involvement and engagement. Katalin’s current research and practice interest centres around how we can help people lead a healthier lifestyle and eat better through psychological therapies while considering their wider context.
