Dr Aimie Hope

Personal statement:

I’m a social scientist who uses qualitative and quantitative methods in working on applied projects (e.g., environmental challenges, health, and education). I have experience of co-design methods, stakeholder engagement and qualitative and quantitative evaluation.

Key topic areas of research or interest:

• Environmental psychology
• Adaptation to limited energy resources (e.g., living off grid)
• Religious beliefs and how these may shape collective responses to climate change adaptation and mitigation
• Social practice theory and informing agent based models
• Stakeholder engagement
• Net zero
• Feasibility randomised control trials
• Qualitative evaluation
• Walking interviews
• Behavioural interventions (e.g., improving literacy, smoking cessation)

Publications:

ENVIRONMENTAL RELATED:

The impact of religious faith on attitudes to environmental issues and Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) technologies: A mixed methods study: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.techsoc.2014.02.003

The role of compensatory beliefs in rationalizing environmentally detrimental behaviors: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29657331/

Consumer engagement in low-carbon home energy in the United Kingdom: Implications for future energy system decentralization: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2214629618305413

Why on earth did I buy that? A study of regretted appliance purchases: https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsta.2016.0373

Householders’ readiness for demand-side response: A qualitative study of how domestic tasks might be shifted in time: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0378778819334024

Demystifying energy demand using a practice-centric agent-based model (working paper): https://openresearch.surrey.ac.uk/esploro/outputs/workingPaper/Demystifying-Energy-Demand-using-a-Practice-centric/99632165602346

“Little green lies”: Exploring compensatory beliefs within the environmental domain (PhD Thesis): https://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/13598/1/Little%20Green%20Lies.%20Exploring%20compensatory%20green%20beliefs.pdf

HEALTH RELATED:
An automated, online feasibility randomized controlled trial of a just-in-time adaptive intervention for smoking cessation (Quit Sense): https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37055073/

A smoking cessation smartphone app that delivers real-time ‘context aware’ behavioural support: the Quit Sense feasibility RCT: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38676391/

Protocol: Randomised controlled trial of a just-in-time adaptive intervention (JITAI) smoking cessation smartphone app: the Quit Sense feasibility trial protocol: https://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/11/4/e048204

Effects of an Increased Financial Incentive on Follow-up in an Online, Automated Smoking Cessation Trial: A randomized Controlled Study Within a Trial: https://academic.oup.com/ntr/advance-article/doi/10.1093/ntr/ntae068/7633118

Randomised controlled trial of a just-in-time adaptive intervention (JITAI) smoking cessation smartphone app: the Quit Sense feasibility trial protocol: https://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/11/4/e048204