Milan Minutes with Niall O’Hagan

Niall O’Hagan is an early-careers behavioural scientist working at the University of Nottingham in the UK. He has been working with Professor Eamonn Ferguson on the NHS Blood & Transplant funded PROMPT project researching how people interpret and interact with the English blood screening tool. This project encompasses interviews with both donors and recipients, surveys, readability testing and experiments. Niall presented his work at the recent IBST congress in Milan and was awarded a Harold Gunson Fellowship.

His background and research interests outside of blood is health psychology, specifically looking at drug misuse within gay male populations.

In the podcast, Niall reflects on his first ISBT congress experience and discusses his project findings.