Eamonn Ferguson

Eamonn Ferguson serves as Professor of Health Psychology in the Faculty of Science at The University of Nottingham. He is a chartered health and occupational psychologist with significant professional recognition.

His educational background includes a B.Sc. in Psychology from York University (1985) and a Ph.D. from Nottingham University (1992).

Professor Ferguson's research centers on personality-health outcome relationships, with three primary emphases:

• Personality and motivation's influence on pro-social behavior in blood/organ donation contexts and public goods game experiments
• Personality trait impacts on medical training learning processes and implications for selection/training protocols
• Mechanisms linking health anxiety and personality to symptom reporting behaviors

His scientific honors include:

• Fellow of the Royal Society for Public Health
• Associate Fellow of the British Psychological Society

He currently contributes as Committee Member for the Scientific Pandemic Influenza Advisory Committee Behaviour & Communication Sub-Group (UK Department of Health) and co-founded the British Society for the Psychology of Individual Differences.