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Dr. Gala Morozova is a Research Fellow at the Moray House School of Education and Sport (University of Edinburgh) within the Institute for Sport, Physical Education and Health Sciences (ISPEHS). She holds Chartered Psychologist status from the British Psychological Society and is a member of the British Transplantation Society. She also serves as an External Examiner for the MMed in Psychiatry program at the University of Cape Town.
Dr. Morozova earned a PhD from the University of Edinburgh (2022), followed by an MSc by Research (2016), an MSc in Performance Psychology (2015), and a BSc/Specialist Degree in Psychology from St Petersburg State University (2013).
Her research focuses on the intersection of performance psychology and implementation science in hyperdynamic medical contexts. Key projects include optimizing decision-making expertise in organ retrieval teams and developing global autism education programs for low-resource settings. Her doctoral work analyzed change facilitation in the UK’s National Organ Retrieval Service (NORS), while current projects address international collaboration in autism education and cognitive training for organ retrieval specialists.
Dr. Morozova has secured grants including a Co-Investigator role in a Naked Heart Foundation-funded global autism initiative (2022–2025) and a Harmonised IAA grant for organ retrieval decision-making training (2025). Past grants include Wellcome Trust support for EDOR training prototypes and ISSF3 career development awards.
She leads the Human Performance Science Research Group and collaborates with organizations like the National Organ Retrieval Service. Her work spans simulation-based training, surgical team coordination, and forensic crime scene examination methodologies.
