Rate My Professor Hannah Uren

Dr. Hannah Uren is a Lecturer in the Curtin School of Population Health within the Faculty of Health Sciences at Curtin University, Perth, Australia. She holds a PhD in Psychology and a Bachelor of Psychology (Honours), both obtained from Curtin University. Uren commenced her lecturing role in March 2021 and is affiliated with the Curtin Institute for Energy Transition. Her academic career has progressed from PhD candidature, during which she contributed to significant research on environmental behaviors, to her current position where she supervises postgraduate students and delivers teaching in psychology-related subjects.

Uren's research centers on the psychological determinants of health and environmental behavior. She explores the interplay between individuals and their environments, with particular emphasis on environmental policy acceptance, perceptions of environmental activism, sustainable diets, and the impact of messaging on pro-environmental actions. Her work seeks to produce high-quality, theory-based applied research that benefits the natural environment and enhances quality of life. Uren's publications appear in esteemed journals such as Environment and Behavior, Journal of Social Issues, Deviant Behavior, and Drug and Alcohol Review. Key publications include 'High-Status Pro-Environmental Behaviors: Costly, Effortful, and Visible' (2021, cited 88 times), 'Overestimating One’s “Green” Behavior: Better-Than-Average Bias May Function to Reduce Perceived Personal Threat from Climate Change' (2020, cited 75 times), 'My cup of tea: Behaviour change intervention to promote use of reusable hot drink cups' (2020), 'Green-tinted glasses: how do pro-environmental citizens conceptualize environmental sustainability?' (2019), and 'Community Gardening: Basic Psychological Needs as Mechanisms to Enhance Individual and Community Well-Being' (2018). More recent contributions encompass 'Health, Environment or Taste? Using the Theory of Planned Behaviour to Predict Plant-Based Milk Consumption' (2025), 'Profiling ambivalence in the context of nonsuicidal self-injury' (2023), 'Advancing the implementation of take-home naloxone by community pharmacists' (2024), and studies on group-based walks for older adults. With over 483 citations on Google Scholar, her scholarship influences fields including environmental psychology, policy, energy transition, behavior change, and sustainable diets.