Amanda’s research interests centre on the development and testing of interventions to support people to change unhealthy behaviours, quantifying the health benefits of behaviour change for patients with chronic diseases and implementation of evidence based behaviour change interventions in clinical practice. She is interested in exploring behaviour change as a means of primary, secondary and tertiary disease prevention. In particular, she has significant expertise in the field of tobacco addiction. She has been lead and co-applicant of funding awarded from the NIHR, MRC, NHS and CRUK for work within these fields.