About
Dr Catrin Griffiths is a Chartered Health Psychologist (BPS and HCPC registered) and Lecturer in Public Health at Swansea University.
Catrin has over 14 years of research and teaching experience in applied research, appearance/body image and health psychology.
Her research interests are focused on infant feeding, breastfeeding, health psychology, burn injuries, breast cancer and reconstruction, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), public health, eating disorders and body image/ appearance research. Previous work has involved identifying the protective factors, concerns and support needs of people who have a condition or injury that has affected their appearance and those with body image concerns.
Catrin has experience in the development and testing of health promotion interventions and patient reported outcome measure (PROMs). She previously worked at the Centre for Appearance Research (CAR) in UWE, Bristol for over 11 years and led a programme of research to develop the CARe Burn Scales, which are a set of patient reported outcome measures (i.e. PROMs) to identify quality of life for people who have experienced a burn injury.
For more information and to access free copies of the scales visit: Home (careburnscales.org.uk)
The CARe Burn Scales Team welcome national and international collaborations and have worked with teams in Finland and Norway to translate and validate the scales into Finnish and Norwegian.
If you are a clinician or researcher interested in translating and validating the CARe Burn Scales into a different language, please do get in touch.
At Swansea University, Catrin teaches on the MSc Public Health and Health Promotion and BSc Health and Social care programmes and supervises undergraduate and post graduate dissertation students and doctoral/PhD students.