Team Details

The Happy to Chat research team consists of several Brunel colleagues with spanning interdisciplinary expertise, ranging from Marketing communications and consumer behaviour, Gerontology, Public Health Economics, Public Engagement and Business Accounting.

Professor Dorothy Yen

Expert in Marketing, Communications and Consumer Behaviour

Dorothy started the idea of Happy to Chat. She developed the Happy to Chat packs and takes a lead improving the Happy to Chat intervention and promoting it as a societal movement. Dorothy says, “Poppy flowers are for the Remembrance Day; Pink Ribbons are for breast cancer. My dream is that one day people will understand what Happy to Chat stands for, just like how we understand the poppy or the pink ribbon. If you see someone wearing it while out and about, you know you can have a chat with this person as, she/he is Happy to Chat.”