Optimising nutrition interventions: Harnessing the power of adolescent values and motivations. Do rural dwellers experience cancer differently? Co-supervisor.Ģ019-2022 Sara Simao. University of Aberdeen (Elphinstone Scholarship). Primary supervisor.Ģ021-2024 Adegoke Alabi. Decision fatigue in health and healthcare. University of Aberdeen (Institute of Applied Health Sciences competitive studentship). Exhibition on obesity and direct engagement with MSPs and Scottish Government Diet & Health Policy Team on health psychology’s contribution to the obesity agenda (2018)Ģ021-2024 Mona Maier. Invited academic member of Future Strategy Stakeholder Group Invited member expert review panel of new Dietary Guidance for Scotland Manifesto contributor and British Psychological Society representative.įood Standards Scotland (2017-present). FFS/16/12/06.īritish Psychological Society (2019) Understanding Obesity. Īllan JL (2016) Behavioural Science: Making healthy choices easier.
īritish Psychological Society Briefing: Public policy priorities for Scotland (2018). British Psychological Society response to The Scottish Government ‘A healthier future – action and ambitions on diet, activity and healthy weight’.īritish Psychological Society Briefing: Developing a Scottish Healthy Weight Strategy (2018). Moffat H, Shearer R, Allan JL, Clark M, Dale H, Dombrowski S & Ozakinci G (2018). British Psychological Society response to the Scottish Government ‘Reducing Health Harms of Foods High in Fat, Sugar or Salt’. Research AreasĬlarke M, Dale H, Smith J & Allan JL (2019). I work as part of a multi-disciplinary team, and my work is currently, and has been previously, funded by the MRC, ESRC, CSO, RSE, Wellcome Trust, Cancer Research UK and the Scottish Government. My primary interest is the ‘executive functions’, a group of cognitive processes that allow people to plan, initiate and maintain complex patterns of behaviour in order to achieve goals, but I also have a strong interest in the development of methods to measure behaviour in real time. how people stick to diets how performance is maintained when fatigued, why willpower fails, etc) and how environments and systems can be modified to prompt healthier choices and behaviours.
food choices diagnostic decisions treatment decisions, etc) how behaviour is controlled over time (e.g. In particular, I am interested in how health relevant decisions are made (e.g. My research focuses on the cognitive determinants and consequences of health relevant behaviours/ processes such as eating, physical activity and stress. She is Past Chair of the British Psychological Society Division of Health Psychology Scotland (2018-20) and currently sits on the European Health Psychology Society's Executive Committee. Julia is a British Psychological Society Chartered Psychologist and an HCPC registered Practitioner Health Psychologist. After a brief spell as a core-funded Research Fellow (2011-2012), Julia took up a position as a Lecturer in 2012 and was promoted to Senior Lecturer in 2014. Joining the group in August 2004 as a Research Fellow, Julia worked with Prof Derek Johnston (2004-2006) looking at the objective assessment of activity limitations and stress-related heart rate in real time, before being awarded a Chief Scientist Office Fellowship (2006-2011 mentored by Prof Marie Johnston) to investigate the role of cognitive/executive function in the control of dietary behaviour. Julia is a Senior Lecturer in Health Psychology in the Institute of Applied Health Sciences and Deputy Lead of the Aberdeen Health Psychology Group. Infohub Opening Hours Mon - Thu 09:00 - 17:00 Fri 10:00 - 17:00 Sat - Sun Closed.