Prof Caitlin Notley

Chair of Addiction Sciences

University of East Anglia

Biography

Caitlin Notley is a social scientist, with extensive experience running qualitative studies as stand alone projects, to develop interventions, or alongside clinical trials. Her particular areas of research expertise are tobacco smoking cessation, relapse prevention and trajectories of electronic cigarette use. Professor Notley leads the Addiction Research Group at the University of East Anglia, and is Director of the Faculty of Medicine and Health ‘Citizen’s Academy’. She is an experienced Cochrane review author, as a member of the Tobacco Addiction Group, and an Associate Editor for the journals Addiction and Nicotine and Tobacco research. Currently, Professor Notley is leading two large NIHR funded randomised controlled trials evaluating a relapse prevention intervention and smoking cessation support, including the offer of a vape starter kit, for patients attending hospital emergency departments.