Richard Clarke

Understanding How Pregnant People Seek and Use Vaccine Information

For my PhD, I set out to answer the following question: how do pregnant people make sense of vaccine information when they are deciding whether to take the antenatal pertussis vaccination? Pregnancy is a period of heightened responsibility, uncertainty, and information need, and vaccination during pregnancy sits at the intersection of trust, risk, and decisionContinue reading “Understanding How Pregnant People Seek and Use Vaccine Information”

Measuring trust in vaccination: A systematic review

One chapter of my PhD developed into what has since become my most cited paper: Measuring trust in vaccination: A systematic review. At the time, our motivation was straightforward. Trust was repeatedly identified as a key factor shaping vaccine acceptance and hesitancy, yet it was often poorly defined and inconsistently measured across studies. We wantedContinue reading “Measuring trust in vaccination: A systematic review”

Are Psychology Journals Anti-replication? A Snapshot of Editorial Practices

By the mid-2010s, psychology was in the midst of what became known as the replication crisis. High-profile findings were failing to replicate, and attention increasingly turned to the incentives shaping academic publishing. One commonly cited explanation was that journals prioritised novelty and positive results over replication, but there was little direct evidence about whether journalsContinue reading “Are Psychology Journals Anti-replication? A Snapshot of Editorial Practices”