Dr Michelle Tester-Jones, PHIRST EMPower Senior Evaluator

Michelle is one of the leads within NIHR PHIRST EMPower.

Michelle is an environmental psychologist and lecturer in public involvement and public health.

She works jointly within the European Centre for Environment and Human Health (ECEHH) and the School for Public Health Environments Research at Exeter (SPHERE).

Her research in the ECEHH focuses on the use and experiences of the natural environment for common mental health problems such as depression and anxiety, and she has most recently been involved in the delivery of BlueHealth, and Nature on prescription, a feasibility study exploring nature based social prescribing for common mental health disorders.

She also supports the delivery of the NIHR SPHR public involvement and engagement strategy, the innovation in involvement strand of the SPHR areas for research innovation, and is responsible for a number of SPHR locally focused evaluation projects.