Rate My Professor Richard Clarke

Richard Clarke is a Senior Lecturer in Psychology at the University of Gloucestershire. He holds a PhD in Epidemiology and Population Health from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine awarded in 2020, an MSc in Psychological Research Methods from the University of Exeter awarded in 2010, and a BSc (Hons) in Psychology from the University of Leeds awarded in 2008. He joined the University of Gloucestershire in 2022 following postdoctoral research positions at the University of Southampton and the University of Newcastle. Prior to these roles he completed additional research and teaching appointments across several UK institutions.

Clarke specialises in quantitative health and environmental psychology with a focus on trust, risk perception and information-seeking behaviour in relation to public health and climate change. He is the Academic Course Leader for the MSc in Health Psychology and serves as Deputy Research Ethics Lead for the School of Education, Health and Sciences. He leads quantitative research methods teaching across psychology programmes and supervises undergraduate and postgraduate dissertations. His publications include Clarke, R. M., Paterson, P., and Sirota, M. (2019) on determinants of satisfaction with information for pertussis vaccination during pregnancy in Vaccine; Paterson, P. and Clarke, R. M. (2021) on vaccine hesitancy and climate change risk communication in The Lancet Planetary Health; and several studies on COVID-19 vaccination beliefs and behaviours published in PLOS One and BMC Public Health between 2020 and 2023. Clarke contributes to editorial and committee activities in health psychology and environmental psychology through his research outputs and teaching leadership.