Dr Laura Joyner
| Name | Dr Laura Joyner |
|---|---|
| Job title | "Research Fellow, Suicide Prevention Research" |
| Research institute | |
| Primary appointment | Psychology |
| Email address | l.joyner@mdx.ac.uk |
| ORCID | https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5035-6932 |
| Contact category | Academic staff (past) |
Biography
Biography Laura is a Research Fellow in Suicide Prevention Research currently working on the project "Effectiveness of Surveillance Technologies to Prevent Suicides at High-Risk Locations". Following a career working in public relations and digital marketing she received her MSc Psychology from the University of East London in 2020. She then completed her PhD in Psychology at the University of Westminster in 2023, with the thesis "Why Do People Spread Disinformation on Social Media? The Role of Social Identity and Perceived Morality". Laura is broadly interested in the influence of technology, social contexts, and morals on judgements and behaviour.
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Moral leniency towards belief-consistent disinformation may help explain its spread on social media
Joyner, L., Buchanan, T. and Yetkili, O. 2023. Moral leniency towards belief-consistent disinformation may help explain its spread on social media. PLoS ONE. 18 (3). https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0281777Why do people share political information and misinformation online? Developing a bottom-up descriptive framework
Perach, R., Joyner, L., Husbands, D. and Buchanan, T. 2023. Why do people share political information and misinformation online? Developing a bottom-up descriptive framework. Social Media + Society. 9 (3), pp. 1-16. https://doi.org/10.1177/20563051231192032The Online Behaviour Taxonomy: a conceptual framework to understand behaviour in computer-mediated communication
Kaye, L., Rousaki, A., Joyner, L., Barrett, L. and Orchard, L. 2022. The Online Behaviour Taxonomy: a conceptual framework to understand behaviour in computer-mediated communication. Computers in Human Behavior. 137. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2022.107443Suicide prevention measures at high-risk locations: a goal-directed motivation perspective
Joyner, L., Mackenzie, J.M., Willis, A., Phillips, P., Cliffe, B., Marsh, I., Pettersen, E., Hawton, K. and Marzano, L. 2025. Suicide prevention measures at high-risk locations: a goal-directed motivation perspective. Behavioral Sciences. 15 (8). https://doi.org/10.3390/bs15081009The use of smart surveillance technologies for suicide prevention in public spaces: a professional stakeholder survey from the United Kingdom
Joyner, L., Cliffe, B., Mackenzie, J.M., Pettersen, E., Marsh, I., Phillips, P. and Marzano, L. 2026. The use of smart surveillance technologies for suicide prevention in public spaces: a professional stakeholder survey from the United Kingdom. BMC Public Health. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-026-26739-0Effectiveness of surveillance technology for the prevention of suicides in public spaces: a systematic review
Joyner, L., Cliffe, B., Mackenzie, J.M., Hawton, K., Craig, P. and Marzano, L. 2026. Effectiveness of surveillance technology for the prevention of suicides in public spaces: a systematic review. BMJ Public Health. 4 (3). https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjph-2025-004286Surveillance technologies for suicide prevention in public places: a scoping review of their nature and feasibility
Cliffe, B., Joyner, L., Marzano, L., Phillips, P., Willis, A., Craig, P., Hawton, K., Deidda, M., Ciminata, G., Pettersen, E., George, C., Dark, A., Marsh, I., Mahmood, A. and Mackenzie, J.-M. 2026. Surveillance technologies for suicide prevention in public places: a scoping review of their nature and feasibility. Archives of Suicide Research. https://doi.org/10.1080/13811118.2026.2666413Moral values and trust in science
Joyner, L. 2026. Moral values and trust in science. Current Opinion in Psychology. 67. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.copsyc.2025.102212Environmental risk factors for railway suicide: a nationwide analysis of England's mainline network (2019-2021)
Marzano, L., Brown, S., Spence, R., Joyner, L., Norman, H., Fields, B., Barbin, A., Kruger, I. and Hart, S.M. 2025. Environmental risk factors for railway suicide: a nationwide analysis of England's mainline network (2019-2021). Archives of Suicide Research. https://doi.org/10.1080/13811118.2025.2595428Using surveillance technologies to prevent suicides in public spaces: ethical, legal, acceptable?
Mackenzie, J., Marsh, I., Cliffe, B., Joyner, L., George, C., Dark, A., Pharoah, R. and Marzano, L. 2025. Using surveillance technologies to prevent suicides in public spaces: ethical, legal, acceptable? George, C., Whitehouse, D. and Duquenoy, P. (ed.) MDX 2025 Health IT Workshop on Emerging Technologies in Healthcare: Legal, Ethical, Social & Governance Aspects. Middlesex University, London, UK 26 - 27 Jun 2025 Middlesex University. pp. 49-52Individual differences in sharing false political information on social media: deliberate and accidental sharing, motivations and positive schizotypy
Buchanan, T., Perach, R., Husbands, D., Tout, A., Kostyuk, E., Kempley, J. and Joyner, L. 2024. Individual differences in sharing false political information on social media: deliberate and accidental sharing, motivations and positive schizotypy. PLoS ONE. 19 (6). https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.03048551430
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