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Dr Kathleen Mulligan

Senior Research Fellow

School of Health & Psychological Sciences Department of Health Services Research and Management

Contact details

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Dr Kathleen Mulligan M107A, Myddelton Street Building
City, University of London
Northampton Square
London EC1V 0HB
United Kingdom

About

Overview

Kathleen is a Chartered Psychologist whose background is in health psychology. She joined City University in 2012, having previously worked at University College London, King's College London and Queen Mary University of London.

Kathleen completed her MSc and PhD in Health Psychology at UCL and then worked as a research fellow at UCL where her main area of research was in self-management of long-term conditions. After working in trial management at King's College London and Queen Mary University of London, Kathleen moved to City in 2012. She works jointly with the University and the East London NHS Foundation Trust to develop research in long-term conditions.

Qualifications

  • BSc (Hons) Psychology, Brunel University, United Kingdom
  • MSc Health Psychology, University College London, United Kingdom
  • PhD Health Psychology, University College London, United Kingdom

Employment

  • Honorary Senior Research Fellow, East London NHS Foundaiton Trust, May 2012 – present
  • Senior Research Fellow, City University London, May 2012 – present

Memberships of professional organisations

  • British Psychological Society (ASBPsS)

Research

Research overview

Kathleen's current research includes:
- Management of diabetes in people with severe mental illness
- Coping with juvenile idiopathic arthritis
- Medication adherence
- Fatigue in long-term conditions
- Behavioural strategies to prevent urinary tract infections

Research areas

- Health Psychology
- Self-management of long-term conditions
- Development and evaluation of self-management interventions

Research centres

- Centre for Health Services Research
- Centre for Healthcare Innovation Research

Principal collaborators

Internal collaborators:

- Professor Stanton Newman
- Dr Shashi Hirani
- Dr Mark Haddad

External Collaborators
- Dr Kate Corlett, East London NHS Foundation Trust
- Diabetes Specialist Nursing Team, East London NHS Foundation Trust
- Selina Fifield, East London NHS Foundation Trust
- Raguraman Padmanabhan, East London NHS Foundation Trust
- Professor Lucy Wedderburn, UCL GOS Institute of Child Health, University College London, Centre for Adolescent Rheumatology Versus Arthritis, and NIHR Biomedical Research Centre at GOSH
- Professor Frank Chinegwundoh, Barts Health NHS Trust

Research students

Paul Williams

Publications

Publications by category

Chapters (8)

  • (2019). Cambridge Handbook of Psychology, Health and Medicine. In Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-1-108-47499-3.
  • McBain, H., Mulligan, K. and Newman, S.P. (2015). Nonpharmacologic pain management. Rheumatology (pp. 401–405). Elsevier.
  • Mulligan, K., Steed, L. and Newman, S.P. (2009). Different types and components of self-management interventions. In Newman, S.P., Steed, E. and Mulligan, K. (Eds.), Chronic physical illness: Self-management and behavioural interventions (pp. 64–77). London: Open University Press. ISBN 978-0-335-21786-1.
  • Steed, L., Mulligan, K. and Newman, S.P. (2009). Development and evaluation of self-management interventions. In Newman, S.P., Steed, E. and Mulligan, K. (Eds.), Chronic physical illness: Self-management and behavioural interventions (pp. 135–147). London: Open University Pres. ISBN 978-0-335-21786-1.
  • Mulligan, K. and Newman, S. (2001). Rheumatoid arthritis. Cambridge Handbook of Psychology, Health and Medicine (pp. 850–852). Cambridge University Press.
  • Mulligan, K. and Newman, S. (2001). Self-management interventions. Cambridge Handbook of Psychology, Health and Medicine (pp. 393–397). Cambridge University Press.
  • Mulligan, K. and Newman, S. (2001). Coronary heart disease: heart failure. Cambridge Handbook of Psychology, Health and Medicine (pp. 654–656). Cambridge University Press.
  • Newman, S. and Mulligan, K. (2000). The psychology of rheumatic diseases. (pp. 773–786).

Conference papers and proceedings (18)

Journal articles (59)

Posters (2)

Other

  • Morgan, S., Hilari, K., Mulligan, K., Weir, K.A. and Sparks, F. (2021). A systematic review of mealtime recommendation interventions provided to carers of school-aged children who have oropharyngeal dysphagia (PROSPERO 2021 CRD42021257596).

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