Amelia Philips

Amelia Philips is a SPHeRE PhD Scholar (Structured Population and Health-services Research Education programme, funded by the Health Research Board) and an affiliate PhD scholar of the HRB-TMRN, based in the College of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences at the University of Galway. She holds a BA (Hons) in Psychology from South East Technological University and a first-class honours MSc in Health Psychology from the University of Galway.

Since completing her MSc in 2023, Amelia has worked as a research assistant at the University of Galway on several projects, most recently Exploring Consultation Exercises in Scoping Reviews (CESR), where she worked with experts in evidence synthesis, led recruitment, took a lead role in data collection and analysis, and wrote the final research paper.

Her doctoral research, “Using behavioural science to improve recruitment and retention of health policymakers in trials of knowledge translation (KT) interventions”, aims to inform trial evaluations of KT interventions that help policymakers use evidence in public-health decision-making. Specifically, she will explore how public health policymakers and their organisations can be recruited to, and retained in, trials of KT interventions. Amelia is supervised by Dr Elaine Toomey (Centre for Health Research Methodology, School of Nursing and Midwifery, University of Galway), Prof Molly Byrne (School of Psychology, University of Galway) and Prof Shaun Treweek (Health Services Research Unit, University of Aberdeen).