Biography

Dr Julie Bayley is Associate Professor & Director of Research Impact and Culture, Northeastern University London.

Psychology

Julie is a BPS Chartered Psychologist, HCPC Registered Health Psychologist, and Associate Fellow of the British Psychology Society. She is also Policy Lead for the British Psychology Society Division of Health Psychology and previously an Honorary Clinical Associate Professor at Nottingham University Hospitals. Julie has been an applied researcher and intervention developer in behavioural science since 2003, and her PhD focused on developing impact-literate interventions for adolescent sexual health.

Julie’s professional life sits at the intersect of research, research management and impact.

Impact & research management

Julie works extensively within research impact, and has held a number of hybrid roles combining research, impact leadership and sector facing activities. Julie is Director of Research Impact and Culture at NUL, a role overseeing impact across the institution and supporting delivery on key agendas such as REF. She previously held a similar role as Director of Research Impact Development and founder/Director of the Lincoln Impact Literacy Institute (LILI), both at the University of Lincoln (UK). Julie undertakes extensive consultancy and commissioned research on impact across the sector, is an advisor on multiple projects, and collaborates nationally and internationally on initiatives to build healthy, impact-literate practice. She is also a member of REF 2029’s Research Diversity Advisory Panel and previously Director of Qualifications for the Association of Research Managers and Administrators (ARMA). Julie’s bestselling book ‘Creating Meaningful Impact: The Essential Guide to Developing an Impact-Literate Mindset’ was published in April 2023, and she has won the ARMA INORMS Excellence in Research Management Leadership award (2025), Advancing Research Impact in Society (ARIS) ‘Impact Innovations’ award (2022) and ARMA Research Impact Award (2015).

Research

Julie’s research combines her interests in impact, health psychology, behavioural science and patient centred outcomes. It also reflects her involvement in a number of initiatives as a vascular patient advocate and the experience of being a dementia carer for many years. The core theme of her research is ‘driving meaningful change in the real world’, and projects she is involved in include:

• Improving the likelihood of people-centred clinical research (NHS Health Research Authority)
• Developing impact frameworks for behaviour change in local authority provision (various)
• Series of public health and wellbeing service evaluations
• Developing standards for patient-based outcome measures in vascular care (ICHOM) and improved clinician-patient communication in venous thromboembolism (Vasculearn)
• Public Health Intervention Responsive Studies Team (PHIRST) (NIHR)
• “Advanced Strategic Platform for Inclusive Research Environments” – development of an intervention to support Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Initiatives (EPSRC)
• Programme of commissioned research for NIHR to develop impact planning and review tools
• Programme of research on adolescent sexual health, parent-child communication and  serious games

Selected publications

Mishra S, Klok FA, Le Gal G, de Wit K, Schwartz A, Luijten D, Sadeghipour P, Bayley J, Woller SC (2025). An assessment of evidence to inform best practice for the communication of acute venous thromboembolism diagnosis: a scoping review. Research and Practice in Thrombosis and Haemostasis, doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rpth.2025.102835   

Brunk, R., McKay, S., Bayley, J., & Colston, B. (2025). Discourses of violence: an analysis of the construction of power and impact in university sexual harassment policies. Journal of Gender-Based Violence (published online ahead of print 2025). Retrieved Apr 1, 2025, from https://doi.org/10.1332/23986808Y2025D000000077  

Bayley, J. and Fenby-Hulse, K. (2024). Hiding in plain sight: research management as a practice and profession in the scholarly ecosystem. In Handbook of Meta-Research (pp. 333-341). Edward Elgar Publishing.

Bayley, J.(2023). Creating meaningful impact: The essential guide to developing an impact-literate mindset. Emerald Publishing Limited. DOI: 10.1108/9781804551899  

Gwozdz, A.M., de Jong, C., Sousa Fialho, L., Likitabhorn, T., Sossi, F., Blancarte Jaber, P., Arbjerg Højen, A., Arcelus, J.I., Auger, W.R., Ay, C., Barco, S., Basso Gazzana, M., Bayley, J et al (2022). Development of an international standard set of outcome measures for patients with venous thromboembolism: an International Consortium for Health Outcomes Measurement (ICHOM) consensus recommendation. Lancet Haemotology, Volume 9, Issue 9, e698 – e706, https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanhae/article/PIIS2352-3026(22)00215-0/abstract  

Derrick, G.E. and Bayley, J. (2021). The Corona-Eye: Exploring the risks of COVID-19 on fair assessments of impact for REF 2021, Research Evaluation, 2021; rvab033, https://doi.org/10.1093/reseval/rvab033 

Bayley, J., Phipps, D., Roche, T. and Lodge, S., (2021). Open Scholarly Publishing and Knowledge Mobilization: Combining Two Initiatives to Achieve Social Impact. Scholarly and Research Communication, 12(1), pp.13-pp. 

Bayley, J. and Phipps, D. (2019). Extending the concept of research impact literacy: levels of literacy, institutional role and ethical considerations. Emerald Open Research, pp.1-14. 

Bayley, J.E. and Phipps, D. (2019). Building the concept of research impact literacy. Evidence & Policy: A Journal of Research, Debate and Practice, 15(4), pp.597-606. Journal site: https://bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/view/journals/evp/15/4/article-p597.xml. Repository version: https://pureportal.coventry.ac.uk/en/publications/building-the-concept-of-research-impact-literacy   

Bayley, J.E., Phipps, D., Batac, M. and Stevens, E., (2018). Development of a framework for knowledge mobilisation and impact competencies. Evidence & Policy: A Journal of Research, Debate and Practice, 14(4), pp.725-738. Journal site: https://bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/view/journals/evp/14/04/article-p725.xml. Repository version: https://pureportal.coventry.ac.uk/en/publications/development-of-a-framework-for-knowledge-mobilisation-and-impact-  

Bayley, J., Baines, D. and Brown, K., (2017). Developing the evidence-base for school sex education programmes: Contributions of an augmented Theory of Planned Behaviour, gender and school year across three contraceptive methods. Sexual Health, 14(6), pp.548-557 

Newby, K.V., Brown, K.E., Bayley, J., Kehal, I., Caley, M., Danahay, A., Hunt, J. and Critchley, G., (2017). Development of an intervention to increase sexual health service uptake by young people. Health promotion practice, 18(3), pp.391-399. 

Bayley, J.E., & Brown, K. E. (2015). Translating group programmes into online formats: establishing the acceptability of a parents’ sex and relationships communication serious game. BMC public health, 15(1),1.