Dr Jane Smith

Jane is a Senior Lecturer (Education & Research) in the Exeter Collaboration for Academic Primary Care (APEx). She contributes to teaching on psychology applied to health, research methods and evidence-based practice, conducts applied health research across a range of clinical areas, provides supervision for PhD and project students, and has leadership roles in research capacity building. 

Jane joined APEx in June 2017 after working as a Researcher in Psychology Applied to Health in the University of Exeter Medical School since November 2012. Prior to that she was a Lecturer in Health Psychology (from 2003) and researcher (from 1999) in the Norwich Medical School where she also completed a part-time PhD in health psychology. This followed a period working in Australia as a Researcher in the Physical Activity and Health research group at Deakin University, and previously in project management and health administration roles at a Division of General Practice in Melbourne. Jane began her research career prior to that as a Research Assistant in a Research and Development Support Unit hosted by what was then the Department of Social Medicine at the University of Bristol.