Catherine Talbot

Dr Catherine Talbot

  • Senior Lecturer In Psychology
  • Poole House P127, Talbot Campus, Fern Barrow, Poole, BH12 5BB
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Biography

I am a cyberpsychologist specialising in social media and its intersection with health and wellbeing. My research investigates the digital experiences of vulnerable and stigmatised groups. I have conducted research with a range of groups, including people with dementia, carers, people with eating disorders, and LGBTQ+ individuals. My current research focuses on young-onset dementia and the role of social media in facilitating social connection, self-expression, and a sense of identity.

I am a qualitative methodologist, with expertise conducting interviews with people with cognitive disabilities and vulnerable groups. In my research, I often apply qualitative methods of analysis to social media data such as blogs, tweets, and Instagram posts to understand lived experience. I am also interested in feminist psychology, particularly in improving psychological science and amplifying marginalized voices.

I am passionate about science communication and often write blogs, take part in public engagement events (e.g...

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Favourites

  • Harkin, L., Stuart, A., Stevenson, C., Talbot, C., Daly, R., Park, M.S.A., Katz, D., Gooch, D. and Price, B., 2024. Being cut off from social identity resources has shaped loneliness during the coronavirus pandemic: A longitudinal interview study with medically vulnerable older adults from the United Kingdom. Journal of Community and Applied Social Psychology, 34 (1).
  • Davidovic, A., Talbot, C., Hamilton-Giachritsis, C. and Joinson, A., 2023. To intervene or not to intervene: young adults’ views on when and how to intervene in online harassment. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, 28 (5).
  • Giebel, C., Lion, K.M., Lorenz-Dant, K., Suárez-González, A., Talbot, C., Wharton, E., Cannon, J., Tetlow, H. and Thyrian, J.R., 2023. The early impacts of COVID-19 on people living with dementia: part I of a mixed-methods systematic review. Aging and Mental Health, 27 (3), 533-546.
  • Giebel, C., Talbot, C.V., Wharton, E., Lorenz-Dant, K., Suárez-González, A., Cannon, J., Tetlow, H., Lion, K.M. and Thyrian, J.R., 2023. The early impacts of COVID-19 on unpaid carers of people living with dementia: part II of a mixed-methods systematic review. Aging and Mental Health, 27 (3), 547-562.
  • Greville-harris, M., Talbot, C.V., Moseley, R.L. and Vuillier, L., 2022. Conceptualisations of health in orthorexia nervosa: a mixed-methods study. Eating and Weight Disorders, 27 (8), 3135-3143.
  • Talbot, C.V., Talbot, A., Roe, D.J. and Briggs, P., 2022. The management of LGBTQ+ identities on social media: A student perspective. New Media and Society, 24 (8), 1729-1750.
  • Bartmess, M., Talbot, C., O’Dwyer, S.T., Lopez, R.P., Rose, K.M. and Anderson, J.G., 2022. Using Twitter to understand perspectives and experiences of dementia and caregiving at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. Dementia, 21 (5), 1734-1752.
  • Talbot, C.V. and Briggs, P., 2022. The use of digital technologies by people with mild-to-moderate dementia during the COVID-19 pandemic: A positive technology perspective. Dementia, 21 (4), 1363-1380.
  • Stuart, A., Talbot, C. et al., 2022. Loneliness in older people and COVID-19: Applying the social identity approach to digital intervention design. Computers in Human Behavior Reports, 6.
  • Thomas, L., Talbot, C.V. and Briggs, P., 2021. The Digital Lives of Student Mothers: A Consideration of Technologies That Support or Erode the Student/Parent Boundary. International Journal of Human Computer Studies, 154.
  • Talbot, C.V., O’Dwyer, S.T., Clare, L. and Heaton, J., 2021. The use of Twitter by people with young-onset dementia: A qualitative analysis of narratives and identity formation in the age of social media. Dementia, 20 (7), 2542-2557.
  • Talbot, C.V. and Briggs, P., 2021. "Getting back to normality seems as big of a step as going into lockdown": The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on People with Early to Middle Stage Dementia. Age Ageing, 50 (3), 657-663.
  • Branley-Bell, D. and Talbot, C.V., 2020. Exploring the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and UK lockdown on individuals with experience of eating disorders. Journal of Eating Disorders, 8 (1).
  • Talbot, C., O’Dwyer, S., Clare, L., Heaton, J. and Anderson, J., 2020. Identifying people with dementia on Twitter. Dementia, 19 (4), 965-974.
  • Talbot, C.V., O'Dwyer, S.T., Clare, L., Heaton, J. and Anderson, J., 2020. How people with dementia use twitter: A qualitative analysis. Computers in Human Behavior, 102, 112-119.

Journal Articles

  • Vuillier, L., Greville-Harris, M., Talbot, C.V., May, L. and Moseley, R.L., 2024. Early evaluation of a DBT-informed online intervention for people with eating disorders. Journal of Eating Disorders, 12 (1).
  • Greville-Harris, M., Vuillier, L., Goodall, S., Talbot, C.V., Walker, C. and Appleton, K.M., 2024. Striving for the perfect diet? The mediating role of perfectionism in the relationship between obsessive compulsive symptoms and traits of Orthorexia Nervosa. Journal of Eating Disorders, 12 (1).
  • Watson, J., Talbot, C. et al., 2024. A systematic review of digital access to post-diagnostic health and social care services for dementia. Int J Geriatr Psychiatry, 39 (7), e6119.
  • Wilson, C., Talbot, C.V. and Scott, G.G., 2024. Online self-presentation: Psychological predictors and outcomes. Telematics and Informatics Reports, 14.
  • Giebel, C., Talbot, C.V. et al., 2024. The landscape of inequalities in dementia across Europe: First insights from the INTERDEM taskforce. International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, 39 (5).
  • Harkin, L., Stuart, A., Stevenson, C., Talbot, C., Daly, R., Park, M.S.A., Katz, D., Gooch, D. and Price, B., 2024. Being cut off from social identity resources has shaped loneliness during the coronavirus pandemic: A longitudinal interview study with medically vulnerable older adults from the United Kingdom. Journal of Community and Applied Social Psychology, 34 (1).
  • Talbot, C.V., Roe, D., Anderson, J.G., Donnellan, W.J., Wilson, S.A. and O’Dwyer, S.T., 2024. Unpaid carers’ experiences of supporting people with dementia to use social media. Aging and Mental Health, 28 (7), 977-984.
  • Ramsden, E. and Talbot, C.V., 2024. The Role of TikTok in Students’ Health and Wellbeing. International Journal of Mental Health and Addiction.
  • Bell, B.T., Talbot, C.V. and Deighton-Smith, N., 2024. Following Up on #Fitspiration: A Comparative Content Analysis and Thematic Analysis of Social Media Content Aiming to Inspire Fitness From 2014 and 2021. Psychology of Popular Media.
  • Branley-Bell, D., Talbot, C.V., Downs, J., Figueras, C., Green, J., McGilley, B. and Murphy-Morgan, C., 2023. It’s not all about control: challenging mainstream framing of eating disorders. Journal of Eating Disorders, 11 (1).
  • Talbot, C.V., Campbell, C.E.R. and Greville-Harris, M., 2023. “Your struggles are valid, you are worthy of help and you deserve to recover”: narratives of recovery from orthorexia nervosa. Eating and Weight Disorders, 28 (1).
  • Pownall, M., Talbot, C.V., Kilby, L. and Branney, P., 2023. Opportunities, challenges and tensions: Open science through a lens of qualitative social psychology. British Journal of Social Psychology, 62 (4), 1581-1589.
  • Davidovic, A., Talbot, C., Hamilton-Giachritsis, C. and Joinson, A., 2023. To intervene or not to intervene: young adults’ views on when and how to intervene in online harassment. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, 28 (5).
  • Branney, P.E., Brooks, J., Kilby, L., Newman, K., Norris, E., Pownall, M., Talbot, C.V., Treharne, G.J. and Whitaker, C.M., 2023. Three steps to open science for qualitative research in psychology. Social and Personality Psychology Compass, 17 (4).
  • Giebel, C., Lion, K.M., Lorenz-Dant, K., Suárez-González, A., Talbot, C., Wharton, E., Cannon, J., Tetlow, H. and Thyrian, J.R., 2023. The early impacts of COVID-19 on people living with dementia: part I of a mixed-methods systematic review. Aging and Mental Health, 27 (3), 533-546.
  • Giebel, C., Talbot, C.V., Wharton, E., Lorenz-Dant, K., Suárez-González, A., Cannon, J., Tetlow, H., Lion, K.M. and Thyrian, J.R., 2023. The early impacts of COVID-19 on unpaid carers of people living with dementia: part II of a mixed-methods systematic review. Aging and Mental Health, 27 (3), 547-562.
  • Talbot, C.V. and Coulson, N.S., 2023. 'I found it the only place that spoke the same language': a thematic analysis of messages posted to an online peer support discussion forum for people living with dementia. Age and Ageing, 52 (1).
  • Stuart, A., Talbot, C. et al., 2023. Digital Intervention in Loneliness in Older Adults: Qualitative Analysis of User Studies. JMIR Formative Research, 7.
  • Greville-harris, M., Talbot, C.V., Moseley, R.L. and Vuillier, L., 2022. Conceptualisations of health in orthorexia nervosa: a mixed-methods study. Eating and Weight Disorders, 27 (8), 3135-3143.
  • Galvin, J., Evans, E.H., Talbot, C.V., Wilson, C. and Richards, G., 2022. The associations between autistic traits and disordered eating/drive for muscularity are independent of anxiety and depression in females but not males. PLoS ONE, 17 (10 October).
  • Nolen, E., Siegel, J.A., Pownall, M., Talbot, C. and Dann, C., 2022. “I feel more protective over my body:” A brief report on pregnant women's embodied experiences during the COVID-19 pandemic. Body Image, 42, 197-204.
  • Talbot, C.V., Talbot, A., Roe, D.J. and Briggs, P., 2022. The management of LGBTQ+ identities on social media: A student perspective. New Media and Society, 24 (8), 1729-1750.
  • Pownall, M., Eyles-Smith, E. and Talbot, C.V., 2022. Constructions of family relationships in a COVID Christmas: An analysis of television advertisements on YouTube. Feminism and Psychology, 32 (3), 357-375.
  • Bartmess, M., Talbot, C., O’Dwyer, S.T., Lopez, R.P., Rose, K.M. and Anderson, J.G., 2022. Using Twitter to understand perspectives and experiences of dementia and caregiving at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. Dementia, 21 (5), 1734-1752.
  • Talbot, C.V. and Briggs, P., 2022. The use of digital technologies by people with mild-to-moderate dementia during the COVID-19 pandemic: A positive technology perspective. Dementia, 21 (4), 1363-1380.
  • Stuart, A., Talbot, C. et al., 2022. Loneliness in older people and COVID-19: Applying the social identity approach to digital intervention design. Computers in Human Behavior Reports, 6.
  • Talbot, C.V. and Branley-Bell, D., 2022. #BetterHealth: A qualitative analysis of reactions to the UK government’s better health campaign. Journal of Health Psychology, 27 (5), 1252-1258.
  • Talbot, C.V. and Pownall, M., 2022. “If your institution refuses to provide what you need, create it yourself”: Feminist praxis on #AcademicTwitter. Feminism and Psychology, 32 (1), 101-118.
  • Pownall, M., Talbot, C.V., Henschel, A., Lautarescu, A., Lloyd, K.E., Hartmann, H., Darda, K.M., Tang, K.T.Y., Carmichael-Murphy, P. and Siegel, J.A., 2021. Navigating Open Science as Early Career Feminist Researchers. Psychology of Women Quarterly, 45 (4), 526-539.
  • Branley-Bell, D. and Talbot, C.V., 2021. “It is the only constant in what feels like a completely upside down and scary world”: Living with an eating disorder during COVID-19 and the importance of perceived control for recovery and relapse. Appetite, 167.
  • Pownall, M., Vasilev, M., Talbot, C. et al., 2021. Embedding open and reproducible science into teaching: A bank of lesson plans and resources. Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in Psychology.
  • Pownall, M., Talbot, C.V., Henschel, A., Lautarescu, A., Lloyd, K.E., Hartmann, H., Darda, K.M., Tang, K.T.Y., Carmichael-Murphy, P. and Siegal, J., 2021. Navigating Open Science as Early Career Feminist Researchers. Psychology of Women Quarterly, 45 (4), 526-539.
  • Thomas, L., Talbot, C.V. and Briggs, P., 2021. The Digital Lives of Student Mothers: A Consideration of Technologies That Support or Erode the Student/Parent Boundary. International Journal of Human Computer Studies, 154.
  • Talbot, C.V., O’Dwyer, S.T., Clare, L. and Heaton, J., 2021. The use of Twitter by people with young-onset dementia: A qualitative analysis of narratives and identity formation in the age of social media. Dementia, 20 (7), 2542-2557.
  • Talbot, C.V. and Briggs, P., 2021. "Getting back to normality seems as big of a step as going into lockdown": The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on People with Early to Middle Stage Dementia. Age Ageing, 50 (3), 657-663.
  • Branley-Bell, D. and Talbot, C.V., 2020. Exploring the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and UK lockdown on individuals with experience of eating disorders. Journal of Eating Disorders, 8 (1).
  • Talbot, C., O’Dwyer, S., Clare, L., Heaton, J. and Anderson, J., 2020. Identifying people with dementia on Twitter. Dementia, 19 (4), 965-974.
  • Talbot, C.V., O'Dwyer, S.T., Clare, L., Heaton, J. and Anderson, J., 2020. How people with dementia use twitter: A qualitative analysis. Computers in Human Behavior, 102, 112-119.
  • Talbot, C.V., Gavin, J., van Steen, T. and Morey, Y., 2017. A content analysis of thinspiration, fitspiration, and bonespiration imagery on social media. Journal of Eating Disorders, 5 (1).

Chapters

  • Talbot, C. and Dunne, T., 2024. Dementia and digital selfhood: social networks and identity construction in the age of social media. Handbook of Social Media Use Online Relationships, Security, Privacy, and Society Volume 2. Academic Press, 245-261.

Internet Publications

Theses

Profile of Teaching PG

  • Advanced Research Methods
  • Research Project Supervisor

Profile of Teaching UG

  • Applied Clinical Psychology
  • Social Psychology and Individual Differences
  • Human Computer Interaction
  • Psychology of Social Media and Videogames
  • Research Methods and Analysis

Grants

  • Dementia Grant Development and Knowledge Exchange: Building Cross-University Partnerships (British Academy Early Career Researcher Network South West, 01 Nov 2023). Awarded
  • What are the long-term impacts and implications of the pandemic on accessing and using health and social care for dementia? (The Pandemic Institute, 16 Jan 2023). In Progress
  • Harnessing social media to support people living with dementia: A framework to guide training and resource development (British Academy, 03 Oct 2022). In Progress
  • Work-life balance through the eyes of women in academia with caring responsibilities (Women's Academic Network, 13 Sep 2021). In Progress
  • What motivates food choices in individuals with orthorexic tendencies? (QR Funding, 14 Apr 2021). In Progress

External Responsibilities

  • British Psychological Society, Early Career Researcher Representative (2020-)
  • British Psychological Society Cyberpsychology Committee, Committee Member

Public Engagement & Outreach Activities

  • Dementia and Digital Technologies during the COVID-19 pandemic (22 Sep 2021)
  • The Ways We Know Ourselves and Others Online (09 Jun 2021)
  • Technology and social media for people with young onset dementia
  • Digital inequalities in dementia

Conference Presentations

  • BPS Psychology of Women and Equalities Section Annual Conference 2022, “It gives access to a different layer of meaning” – photo-production as a feminist research method, 06 Jul 2022, Windsor

Qualifications

  • DPhil in Medical Studies (University of Exeter, 2020)

Honours

  • Winner (I'm a Scientist Get Me Out Of Here, Community Zone, 2020)
  • Rising Researcher (PsyPAG, 2019)
  • Researchers' Choice Communication Award (Shortlisted) (Elsevier, 2018)
  • Helen Haste Award for Creativity and Innovative Writing in Psychology (University of Bath, 2016)

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