Nicola Kayes

Nicola M. Kayes is a New Zealand health psychologist, director of the Centre for Person Centred Research and professor of rehabilitation at Auckland University of Technology (AUT).

Kayes graduated from the University of Auckland with a BSc in 1997 and MSc in 1999 for her thesis titled "The Role that Illness Perceptions Play in the Adjustment to Multiple Sclerosis".

[1] She completed a PhD at AUT titled "Physical activity engagement in people with Multiple Sclerosis" in March 2011.

[2] In November 2019, Kayes was promoted to full professor at AUT.

[3] As of 2021 she is immediate past president of the New Zealand Rehabilitation Association[4] and a principal investigator with Brain Research New Zealand.