Research Interests:  Behaviour change, decision making, adaptive capacity, commercial fishing, climate change and health behaviours.

 

Research Aims:  To use psychological theories of decision making and behaviour change to improve understanding and prediction of adaptive capacity in commercial fishers. I am also interested in predicting health behaviours using models of decision making.  

 

Expected Research Outcomes: Development of guidelines for communication with commercial fishers to improve the uptake of adaptive behaviours; Improved understanding of why commercial fishers choose to or not to adapt to the risks they face; By sharing findings with commercial fishers, they may learn from how others have responded to a range of challenges.

 

Current Projects

Investigating commercial fishers’ attitudes and perceptions of industry sustainability

Investigating cultural difference of the relationships between health-related cognitions and behaviour.

Life in the Tropics: Sun Exposure and UV Protection

 

Publications

Boynton, R., Swinbourne, A.L., Lindsay, D. & Morris, K.R. (2015, October). An investigation of alcohol consumption in North

Queensland: An application of the PW model. Poster presented at the Townsville Health Symposium.

Boynton, R. Swinbourne, A.L., Lindsay, D. & Morris, K.R. (2013, July). The efficacy of

the PW model to predict drinking behaviour cross-culturally. Paper presented at the meeting of the International Conference on Managing the Asian Century, Singapore.

Boynton, R. Swinbourne, A.L., Lindsay, D. & Morris, K.R. (2013, July). A cross-cultural application of the Prototype-Willingness

model. Poster presented at the meeting of the European Health Psychology Society, Bordeaux, France.

Boynton, R., Swinbourne, A., McShane, C. & Sheaves, M. (2016). Promoting resilience in regional Australian industries: A case

study of the North Queensland commercial fishing industry. Poster presented at the Australian Regional Development Conference 2016, 5 – 6 September, Canberra, Australia.

Boynton, R. Tobin, R., Nicotra, B. & Swinbourne, A.L. (2015, May). Understanding decision making in commercial fishers: An

application of the socio-cognitive model of proactive private adaptation to climate change. Poster presented at the European Climate Change Adaptation Conference, Copenhagen, Denmark.