Events

We recently held a one-day workshop on Wednesday 22nd October 2025, designed for healthcare professionals involved in the care of individuals who have head and neck cancer. The training focused on the critical role of health behaviour change for improving long-term outcomes and quality of life pre and post cancer treatment.

Grounded in current research and best practice, this workshop offered both theoretical insights and actionable strategies, enabling health professionals to support behaviour change more confidently and effectively for people living with head and neck cancer.

About the speakers: Dr Andy Levy and Dr Roganie Govender

Andy is a Chartered Psychologist and academic based at Edge Hill University, with a strong interest in applying behavioural science to real-life health issues. He collaborates with multidisciplinary teams to create practical, evidence-based approaches that help people make meaningful, lasting changes to their health behaviours. Much of Andy’s work centres on improving quality of life for people living with and beyond illness, particularly those recovering from head and neck cancer. He’s passionate about translating behaviour change theory into accessible, everyday strategies that healthcare professionals and community groups can apply in both clinical and non-clinical settings.

 Roganie is a consultant clinical academic speech and language therapist at University College London Hospital and Associate Professor at UCL Head and Neck Academic Centre. Since completing her PhD in Behavioural Science and Health at UCL, Roganie is keen to ensure that behaviour change is incorporated into prehab and rehab interventions delivered by health care professionals working in cancer. She has developed a theory-based behaviour change intervention for swallowing pre-habilitation and recently completed a multi-centre pilot trial of the same. She intends to apply the learning from this process to support increased use of behaviour change in practice.

The workshop was held in the Novotel, Paddington Village, 3 Paddington Village, Off Grove Street, Liverpool, L7 3FA