Alexandra Gibson

Ally Gibson (MRSNZ) is a senior lecturer and acting programme director in Health Psychology. Ally currently holds a Marsden Fast-Start Fellowship with the Royal Society - Te Apārangi, leading research on people's experiences of mobile dating during the COVID-19 pandemic in Aotearoa New Zealand.

She has over 10 years' experience conducting a range of qualitative research projects relating to health, illness, and the practice of medicine. Her work is interdisciplinary, bridging health psychology, the sociology of health and illness, and public health. She is particularly interested in: mobile dating and intimacy; sexual and reproductive health; issues of gender, sexuality and identity; people's experiences of and responses to pressing health challenges (e.g., cancer; COVID-19); and concerns and experiences of inequity, marginalisation, and vulnerability in health.