Professor Gozde Ozakinci

Professor and Deputy Dean of Faculty

Psychology Stirling

Professor Gozde Ozakinci

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I have received my BA in Psychology in Bogazici University, Istanbul. Having had a chance to volunteer as a research assistant in health psychology during my undergraduate years which really attracted me to that field. I took a year of community service volunteering in a psychiatric hospital, Whitchurch Hospital, Wales and decided that I wanted to pursue postgraduate training in health psychology. I did my MSc in Health Psychology at the University College London, under the supervision of Profs Charles Abraham and John Weinman. I then worked as a teaching assistant at Istanbul Bilgi University. I returned to my postgraduate training and arrived at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey through an Excellence Fellowship. Having completed my PhD under the supervision of Prof Howard Leventhal, I took up a post-doctoral fellowship at the University of St Andrews. In 2021, I started as Professor in Psychology at the University of Stirling. I was the Chair of British Psychological Society, Division of Health Psychology- Scotland, 2020-2022 and am currently the President-Elect for European Health Psychology Society.

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