Dr Kevin Matlock
Junior Research Fellow in the Social Sciences
Education
BA MA (Humboldt State), PhD (South Denmark)
Dr Matlock works in the Department of Psychiatry managing a variety of research projects related to well-being in university students. These projects are conducted in parallel with six other universities across the UK as part of a collaboration with the Nurture-U Research Consortium. Before coming to the University of Oxford, Dr Matlock held professional appointments at universities in North America, Asia, and Europe, conducting research related to biopsychology and lecturing on a broad range of topics in psychology. He completed a PhD Fellowship in Medical Psychology at the University of Southern Denmark, and he now holds a Junior Research Fellowship in Social Sciences at Worcester College.
Dr Matlock’s primary research interest is in understanding and improving well-being, in particular using multi-domain frameworks for quality of life where well-being is conceptualised across the physical, psychological, social, and environmental domains. He has pursued this interest using a mixed-method approach, including descriptive case studies for adults and adolescents with developmental disabilities at the community level, as well qualitative thematic analysis and large-scale quantitative analysis of clinical trial data for patients with diabetes at the international level.