Dr. Richard Lombard Vance
- Quality-of-life, well-being, and adjustment
- Smart and healthy ageing for all
- Psychoprosthetics and cognitive impairment, limb loss, and well-being/participation
Current research interests
I am interested in quality-of-life, well-being, and community/civic participation, their qualities, and particularly how these may change across the lifespan or how they interact with ageing, cognitive impairment, disability, or exposure to precarious life conditions. Some of this work intersects with human rights, deinstitutionalisation, and democratization of health & social care.
I maintain an interest in psychoprosthetics, or the psychology/neuropsychology of amputation/limb loss.
I also have a keen interest in researchers' own well-being, precarious conditions, and participation.
ORCiD: orcid.org/0000-0002-3307-9590 || OSF: https://osf.io/d6vap/
Programme Chair, MSc in Psychology and Wellbeing
Research Interests
Quality-of-life (QOL), well-being, and community participation
- How do we support people as they age with or without cognitive impairments? Ageing with cognitive impairment and/or disability
- What ecosystems support healthy ageing and well-being?
Psychoprosthetics and the Psychology of Limb Loss
Psychology, Human Rights, and Social & Economic Justice
- How do psychology and human rights interact, and how do we leverage them to improve care processes?
- Deinstitutionalisation, and democratising health & social care
Precarity & QOL
- How do precarious conditions influence human health, well-being, and quality-of-life?
- How can we support researchers' well-being?
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Academic Qualifications
- PhDProject: Neuropsychological Functioning and Prosthetic and Psychosocial Outcomes in People with Lower Limb Amputations