Dr Jolel Miah

Dr Jolel Miah

Jolel is a Health Psychologist registered with the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) and a Chartered Psychologist on the British Psychological Society (BPS) register. He is also a board member of the British Psychological Society’s Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion Committee and a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. Jolel is deeply committed to promoting inclusivity and supporting student development. With experience in diverse environments, including the HMP prison service and founding a mental health charity, he is passionate about applying psychology to improve health outcomes within communities, students, and peers.

He studied at the University of Hertfordshire and Bedfordshire and has served as a guest lecturer at the University of West London and the University of Buckingham. Jolel also taught at the University of Sunderland before joining the University of Westminster.

His research interests include exploring the role of psychosocial factors—such as motivation, emotion, and social influences—on physical activity behaviours, including engagement, adherence, and long-term maintenance. He is also interested in examining the relationship between the public and access to healthcare, focusing on the social, cultural, and psychological factors that influence individuals’ interactions with and navigating healthcare environments.


Sustainable Development Goals
In brief

Research areas

Exploring the complex role of psycho-social predictors in shaping physical activity behaviours, including motivational, emotional, and social influences on engagement, adherence, and long-term maintenance and Investigating the relationships between the public and access to healthcare spaces, including social, cultural, and psychological factors that influence how individuals interact with and navigate healthcare environments

Skills / expertise

Developing public Health Interventions to Reduce Health Inequalities, Designing health behaviour change programs for individuals and communities and Providing Motivational Interviewing training to allied health care professionals (e.g., Nurses, Doctors) across various settings (e.g., prisons, community care, hospitals)

Supervision interests

Examining Patient and Public psychological experiences of health care and Investigating the psycho-social predictors of physical activity across different demographics, including how factors such as age, gender, socio-economic status, and cultural background influence engagement and adherence to physical activity behaviours.