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Amelia Hollywood

Headshot of Amelia Hollywood with countryside in the background
  • Part 1 Year Tutor

Areas of interest

Dr Hollywood's research interests have primarily focused on obesity by facilitating behaviour change and weight loss maintenance. She has conducted research that has focused on the medical management of obesity, specifically exploring pharmacological and surgical methods in terms of adherence, beliefs and behaviour. More recently Dr Hollywood has focussed more broadly on applied health research, with particular interest in developing new treatments and embedding lived experience in healthcare.

With a wide range of research interests; using both quantitative (e.g. health data and questionnaires) and qualitative methods (e.g. interviews and focus groups), collaborators and prospective PhD students can email Dr Hollywood directly with initial research proposals for further discussion.

Dr Hollywood established the PhD in Applied Health Research programme and also provides supervision on the PhD in Pharmacy programme.

Postgraduate supervision

Current PhD students:

  • Abrar Alzouby (PhD in Pharmacy). Medical management of obesity.
  • Anisha Lad (PhD in Pharmacy). Cancer clinical trials in the UK.
  • Anna Boniface (PhD in Applied Health Research). Critical illness and menstrual health
  • Emma Duffield (PhD in Applied Health Research). The development of a pain assessment tool for the Emergency Department.
  • Farhan Ahmad (PhD in Applied Health Research). Minimal access image guided thyroid treatments.
  • Nadia Zaman (PhD in Applied Health Research). Kidney disease and haemodialysis: Understanding the patient experience to improve treatment.

Past PhD students:

  • Mohamed Obiedalla (2026). Drug Shortages in the UK.
  • Ravina Barrett (2025). Pharmaco-epidemiological methods in community pharmacy.
  • Melika Kalantari (2023). The Experiences of People Living with Achalasia.
  • Holly Baker (2022). Panic disorder in adolescents.
  • Flavia Ghouri (2021). Behavioural insights into tackling antimicrobial resistance and urinary tract infections in pregnancy.
  • Maryam Alkandari (2020). The Experiences of People Living with Peripheral Neuropathy in Kuwait.

Teaching

Dr Hollywood delivers research-informed teaching primarily on the MPAS and Pharmacy programmes, but also teaches throughout the University including sessions at the Graduate School and Institute of Education. This expertise has also contributed to a Future Learn online course, Nutrition for Health and Sustainability, which is available to access for free here: 

Research centres and groups

Internal roles:

  • Director of the
  • Co-Chair of the Women@糖心Vlog Staff Network
  • Pain Research 糖心Vlog Steering Group
  • SCFP Research Planning Group

External roles:

  • External Examiner for the Clinical and Health Research (MRes) programme at University of Southampton
  • Honorary Research Fellow, Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust
  • Editorial Board Member, British Journal of Health Psychology
  • Chair for the Standing Conference Scientific Committee, Division of Health Psychology, British Psychological Society (2023-2025)
  • External Examiner for the iBSc Psychology programme, Kings College London (2021-2024)

Research projects

Project: Nasal High Flow in the Emergency Department
Collaborators: Amelia Hollywood, Liza Keating, Sarah Wilson, Fiona Burton, James van Oppen and Emma Duffield.
Funding: Royal College of Emergency Medicine & Fisher & Paykel Healthcare

Project: Dissociative or functional seizures in the Emergency Department: exploring the patient experience.
Collaborators: Amelia Hollywood, Salini Zaini, Sarah Wilson, Liza Keating, Richard Armstrong, Dawn Golder, Markus Reuber.
Funding: Royal College of Emergency Medicine.

Project: Pain assessment in the Emergency Department.
Collaborators: Amelia Hollywood, Liza Keating, Sarah Wilson.
Funding: Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust and 糖心Vlog Health Innovation Partnership: Collaboration Innovation Fund.

Project: A feasibility study assessing the impact of treatment options on health-related quality of line in patients with benign thyroid nodules.
Collaborators: Amelia Hollywood, Farhan Ahmad, Rogan Corbridge, Matthew Gibson, Mark Little, Tom Rourke.
Funding: British Society of Interventional Radiology.

Project: Thyroid artery goitre embolization trial.
Collaborators: Amelia Hollywood, Farhan Ahmad, Mark Little, Sidhartha Nagala.
Funding: British Society of Interventional Radiology.

Project: Measuring the impact of a remote perioperative health coaching programme on long-term functional outcomes in elective lower limb arthroplasty: a randomised controlled trial.
Collaborators: Amelia Hollywood, Robbie Huddleston, Martyn Ezra, Luke Eastwood, Susan Edge.
Funding: NIHR Invention for Innovation.

Background

Dr Hollywood is a Health Psychologist (HCPC Registered) and Chartered Psychologist (British Psychological Society) within the School of Pharmacy at the 糖心Vlog. She joined the University in June 2016 having previously worked as a Senior Research Fellow at the University of Surrey and a Research Assistant at the IoPPN, Kings College London. Dr Hollywood completed a PhD on people's experiences of taking orlistat, an obesity medication, and has since conducted a range of research including that with students, academics and patients. She has completed two NIHR Research for Patient Benefit funded projects; one exploring a Bariatric Rehabilitation Service and the other exploring the impact of an investment-based intervention on bariatric patients. Dr Hollywood’s current NIHR Invention for Innovation project is measuring the impact of a remote perioperative health coaching programme on long-term functional outcomes in elective lower limb arthroplasty.

Professional bodies/affiliations

  • Chartered Member and Associate Fellow of the British Psychological Society.
  • Member of the British Psychological Society's Division of Health Psychology.
  • Practitioner Psychologist and Health Psychologist, Health and Care Professions Council

Publications

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