Dr Alison Osborne

Senior Research Assistant

Department: Psychology

Alison is a Senior Research Assistant in Psychology based in the Psychology & Communication Technology (PaCT) Lab. Currently she is working in the well citizen challenge area within the Centre for Digital Citizens focussing on the role of digital technologies in women’s health communications. Alison’s research interests include identity, well-being, EDI, digital health, Armed Forces, mixed methodologies.

Prior to joining PaCT Lab, Alison was involved in a number of projects, including research on veterans’ reluctance to access help for alcohol problems; the health and social well-being of older veterans with limb-loss; the health and social care needs of the Armed Forces Community, military families’ experience of casualty notification, developing a peer support model for military bereaved families and the psychosocial well-being of Danish military children.

Most notably, Alison was the lead author on the ‘Lost and Found: The LGBT+ Veteran Community and the Impacts of the Gay Ban’ report. Working with Fighting With Pride, this was the first UK research project exploring the experiences and impact of the ban for LGBT+ veterans.

Alison completed a BSc (Hons) in Psychology, MRes in Psychology and her PhD at Northumbria University.

Campus Address

B104
Coach Lane Campus West

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Key Publications

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Menopause apps: personal health tracking, empowerment and epistemic injustice, Sillence, E., Osborne, A., Kemp, E., McKellar, K. 12 Mar 2025, In: Digital Health
Exploring Alternative Socio-Technical Systems for Careful Data Work in Recovery Contexts, Claisse, C., Osborne, A., Sillence, E., Glascott, A., Cameron, A., Durrant, A. 16 Jan 2025, CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '25), New York, United States, ACM
Being a military child in Denmark: Young people’s experiences of living with a parent with PTSD, Watson, P., Osborne, A. 8 Jan 2025, In: PLoS Mental Health
The Impact of the Historic Policy to Ban Homosexuality in the UK Armed Forces: The Lived Experience of LGBT + Veterans, Osborne, A., McGill, G. 1 Sep 2024, In: Sexuality Research and Social Policy
Integration of Research into EMDR Practice: Exploration of Methods, Osborne, A., Gates, J., Mann, E., Wilson-Menzfeld, G. 20 Apr 2023, The Oxford Handbook of EMDR, Oxford, Oxford University Press
Military service and alcohol use: a systematic narrative review, Osborne, A., Wilson-Menzfeld, G., McGill, G., Kiernan, M. Jun 2022, In: Occupational Medicine

Professional Activity

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Oral presentation: “Armed with knowledge”: Can technology impact experiences of epistemic injustice in health? 2024
Oral presentation: The role of technology in accessing digital health information on menopause 2024
Oral presentation: Discriminatory ‘Gay Ban’ Policy in the UK Armed Forces 2024
Other: Westminster Roundable Event on LGBT+ Veterans 2023
Oral presentation: Presentation to HRH The Princess Royal 2022
Other: Do experiences of loneliness differ across the lifespan? 2022