Gareth Hollands is a Principal Research Fellow in Evidence Synthesis and Behavioural Science, based at the EPPI Centre, UCL Social Research Institute. He is also an Honorary Senior Visiting Fellow at the University of Cambridge, where he is an Investigator on Behaviour Change by Design.

Gareth completed an undergraduate degree in Experimental Psychology at the University of Oxford, followed by clinical roles in the NHS and in HIV/AIDS counselling and research at the University of California San Francisco. He then studied for an MSc at UCL, and a PhD at the Institute of Psychiatry, King’s College London, both in Health Psychology.

His research interests include:

- The effects of risk communication on health behaviour and underlying cognitive and emotional mechanisms

- The role of automatic or non-reflective processes in behaviour change

- Evidence synthesis and its methods, principally in relation to behavioural interventions