Staff Profile
Dr Devashish Ray
Research Associate
- Email: devashish.ray@ncl.ac.uk
- Personal Website: https://behscipru.nihr.ac.uk/staff/dr-devashish-ray/
- Preventive Medicine · Medical & Health Profession Education · Evidence Based Medicine Behaviour change Implementation interventions
From a background in Paediatrics Medicine, I have embarked on a career change. This new career direction aligns my skills with the interests and aptitudes that I am currently developing through education, employment and various voluntary sector roles. My previous work experiences abroad for almost 15 years in the role of a Healthcare professional as part of multi-disciplinary teams, to deliver both acute and long term care, in hospital and community-based settings have developed my capacity to multi-task and manage competing priorities within research and training activities and planning and development and delivery of services. The diverse roles I have pursued in my career in different geographical and cultural domains have helped me develop excellent communication skills and effective cross- cultural competency skills.
1. PhD project: Co-designing a behaviour change/ training intervention to support health visitors' implementation of guidelines to prevent early childhood obesity
Mixed methods systematic review: published
Co-development of a behaviour change/ training intervention: submitted to target Journal
2. Current research: I work as part of a multidisciplinary team in the NIHR Policy Research Unit (PRU) in Behavioural Science, contributing to a range of research projects.
The Unit is a collaboration between Newcastle University, University College London, University of Warwick, and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. The Unit has a collaborating network of experts in public health and public and patient involvement (PPI).
The aim of the PRU is to inform government policy on health, preventing ill-health and health systems. We use behavioural science evidence, theory and methods to support decision-making.
I have experience in both formal and informal teaching in my previous professional career, as a clinician.
Lecturer role:
- Topic: Health Psychology approaches to Public Health Intervention; Module HSC8042 (Public Health Intervention)
- Topic: Disordered attitudes to eating in children; Module PSY3033 (Eating and Weight disorders)
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Articles
- Ray D, Dhami R, Lecouturier J, McGowan LJ, Mukherjee A, Vlaev I, Kelly MP, Sniehotta FF. Falsification of home rapid antigen lateral flow tests during the COVID-19 pandemic. Scientific Reports 2024, 14, 3322.
- Ray D, Sniehotta F, McColl E, Ells L, O'Neill G, McCabe K. A collaborative approach to develop an intervention to strengthen health visitors' role in prevention of excess weight gain in children. BMC Public Health 2022, 22(1), 1735.
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Review
- Ray D, Sniehotta F, McColl E, Ells L. Barriers and facilitators to implementing practices for prevention of childhood obesity in primary care: a mixed methods systematic review. Obesity Reviews 2022, 23(4), 13417.