Kyra Hamilton

Kyra Hamilton, Ph. D., is Professor in the School of Applied Psychology at Griffith University, Australia, and director of the Health and Psychology Innovations research laboratory (HaPI; 2. She is also Docent, Behaviour Change at the Univesity of Jyvaskyla, Finland and affiliate member in the Health Sciences Research Institute at the University of California, Merced, USA. Her areas of expertise and innovation are health behaviour motivation, self-regulation, and change. She is particularly interested in understanding the multiple effects of motivational, volitional, and automatic processes on health behaviour and the translation of research findings into policy and practice. She works closely in partnerships with industry, government organisations, and community groups to design community engaged, contextually tailored, and culturally appropriate behavioural interventions. She serves as Editor-in-Chief of Psychology and Health and is editorial board member of multiple journals. She is a Fellow of the Australian Psychological Society and European Health Psychology Society.