All Stories

  1. The psychobiology of art

    Article • October 2025, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Rachel C Sumner

  2. Does Allostatic Load in 50–89‐Year‐Olds Predict the Development of Frailty? Evidence From a National Longitudinal Study Over 12 Years

    Article • Stress and Health, December 2024, Wiley

    Dr Rachel C Sumner

  3. 72 The role of conservation projects for health enhancing physical activity (HEPA): holistic benefits for volunteers whilst enhancing environmental biodiversity - a blue space case study

    Article • European Journal of Public Health, September 2024, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Rachel C Sumner

  4. Scattered Black and Whites

    Article • January 2024, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Rachel C Sumner

  5. Hero Contract

    Article • November 2023, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Rachel C Sumner

  6. Medical Heroism

    Article • November 2023, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Rachel C Sumner

  7. Misappropriation of Heroism

    Article • November 2023, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Rachel C Sumner

  8. Frontline Heroes

    Article • January 2023, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Rachel C Sumner

  9. Solidarity appraisal, meaning, and markers of welfare in frontline workers in the UK and Ireland during the Covid-19 pandemic

    Article • SSM - Mental Health, December 2022, Elsevier

    Dr Rachel C Sumner

  10. High expectations and unreciprocated effort in societal exchange: Lessons from the pandemic about psychological forces that influence burnout

    Article • November 2022, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Rachel C Sumner

  11. In it together?: Exploring solidarity with frontline workers in the United Kingdom and Ireland during COVID‐19

    Article • British Journal of Social Psychology, September 2022, Wiley

    Dr Rachel C Sumner

  12. Moving towards a multidimensional dynamic approach to nature and health: A bioavailability perspective

    Article • People and Nature, October 2021, Wiley

    Dr Rachel C Sumner

  13. Allostatic load and mental health during COVID-19: The moderating role of neuroticism

    Article • Brain Behavior & Immunity - Health, October 2021, Elsevier

    Dr Rachel C Sumner

  14. “We shouldn’t waste a good crisis”: the lived experience of working on the frontline through the first surge (and beyond) of COVID-19 in the UK and Ireland

    Article • Psychology & Health, June 2021, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Rachel C Sumner

  15. “It's Like a Kick in the Teeth”: The Emergence of Novel Predictors of Burnout in Frontline Workers During Covid-19

    Article • Frontiers in Psychology, May 2021, Frontiers

    Dr Rachel C Sumner

  16. Arts on prescription: observed changes in anxiety, depression, and well-being across referral cycles

    Article • Public Health, March 2021, Elsevier

    Dr Rachel C Sumner

  17. High ideals: the misappropriation and reappropriation of the heroic label in the midst of a global pandemic

    Article • Journal of Medical Ethics, February 2021, BMJ

    Dr Rachel C Sumner

  18. Grace Under Pressure: Resilience, Burnout, and Wellbeing in Frontline Workers in the United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland During the SARS-CoV-2 Pandemic

    Article • Frontiers in Psychology, January 2021, Frontiers

    Dr Rachel C Sumner

  19. Grace Under Pressure: Resilience, burnout, and wellbeing in frontline workers in the UK and Ireland during the SARS-Cov-2 pandemic

    Article • September 2020, Center for Open Science

    Dr Rachel C Sumner

  20. Moving towards a multidimensional dynamic approach to nature and health: A bioavailability perspective. Theoretical paper with full literature review.

    Article • April 2020, Center for Open Science

    Dr Rachel C Sumner

  21. A walk on the wild side: How interactions with non‐companion animals might help reduce human stress

    Article • People and Nature, February 2020, Wiley

    Dr Rachel C Sumner

  22. Unemployment, employment precarity, and inflammation

    Article • Brain Behavior and Immunity, January 2020, Elsevier

    Dr Rachel C Sumner

  23. Factors associated with attendance, engagement and wellbeing change in an arts on prescription intervention

    Article • Journal of Public Health, April 2019, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Rachel C Sumner

  24. ‘Light in dark places’: exploring qualitative data from a longitudinal study using creative arts as a form of social prescribing

    Article • Arts & Health, July 2018, Taylor & Francis

    Mark Redmond, Dr Rachel C Sumner

  25. ‘Artlift’ arts-on-referral intervention in UK primary care: updated findings from an ongoing observational study

    Article • European Journal of Public Health, February 2018, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Rachel C Sumner

  26. Unemployment as a chronic stressor: A systematic review of cortisol studies

    Article • Psychology & Health, October 2016, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Rachel C Sumner

  27. Unemployment is associated with lower cortisol awakening and blunted dehydroepiandrosterone responses

    Article • Psychoneuroendocrinology, July 2016, Elsevier

    Dr Rachel C Sumner

  28. Prospective Relationship between Hemispheric Lateralisation and CD4+ T Cells in Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type 1

    Article • NeuroImmunoModulation, January 2014, Karger Publishers

    Andrew Parton, Dr Rachel C Sumner

  29. The relation between hemispheric lateralisation and measures of immune competence and adherence in Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type 1 (HIV-1)

    Article • Retrovirology, May 2012, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Rachel C Sumner

  30. Hemispheric lateralisation and immune function: A systematic review of human research

    Article • Journal of Neuroimmunology, December 2011, Elsevier

    Andrew Parton, Dr Rachel C Sumner