Claudia Teran – PA | Active commute | Behaviour change | Health promotion

Claudia Teran Escobar is a Bolivian psychologist. After a bachelor's degree in Bolivia and a master's degree in applied and affective psychology in Switzerland, she is now a doctoral student at the University of Grenoble-Alpes. Passionate about Behaviour Change research and its applications for health promotion and the promotion of ecological behaviour, she is part of the multidisciplinary project "MobilAir". Her Phd research is about combining geography, economy and psychology in order to understand obstacles and levers to sustainable and active commuting (spatial context, socio-economic and/or psychological factors). She is part of an interdisciplinary team (geographers, economists, psychologists, epidemiologists, atmospheric physicists and chemistry researchers), they are all trying to reduce air pollution in Grenoble (France). As a part of her thesis she elaborates an evidence- and theory-based behavioural intervention aiming car reduction that will take place next year. --- This podcast episode is sponsored by Fibion Inc. | The New Gold Standard for Sedentary Behaviour and Physical Activity Monitoring Learn more about Fibion: fibion.com/research--- Physical Activity Researcher Podcast have created a ‘Purchase Guide for Researchers: Accelerometer-based Activity Trackers’. You can download it from here.---