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Body Image, Eating Disorders, Eating Disorder Rehabilitation, Anorexia Nervosa, Muscle Dysmorphia

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Biography

Faculty Director of Transnational Education, Academic Lead for St George's Medical School partnership and Assistant Professor at the Psychology Department, Faculty of Health and Life Sciences, Northumbria University.

In the position of Faculty Director of Transnational Education, ensuring the quality of health and life science programmes, such as psychology, sports science, applied science and nursing programmes run globally in partnership with Northumbria University. Partnerships in countries such as Singapore, Sri Lanka, Hong Kong and Spain amongst others. Development of new partnerships globally for educational delivery.

In the position of the Lead of St George's Medical School partnership, ensuring seamless collaboration between Northumbria University and St George's University for the programme development and teaching provision and quality assurance amongst other academic aspects. St George's Medican School has three main sites globally, with the main site in Grenada, West Indies, and runs independent medical school education, producing high quality graduates mainly to US market.

Most recent research in body image, body image distortion and eating disorders as well as stimulus development for investigation of perceptual component of body image distortion. Prior clinical work in acute and chronic brain injuries and eating disorders, along with prior research in neuromagnetic correlates of rehabilitation and language, specifically naming and anomia treatment. Supervision of PhD students in body image related projects. Supervision of dissertations and postgraduate thesis. Teaching Eating Disorders to both medical students and psychology students.

Research interests

Transnational Education, Medical School Education, Body Image, Eating Disorders, Rehabilitation, Anorexia Nervosa, Muscle Dysmorphia

Further Information

National and international research collaboration (e.g., Lincoln University, Norway, Germany, Australia).

Transnational educational activity globally.

Education/Academic qualification

Psychology, PhD, What does it mean to have distorted body image in Anorexia Nervosa Spectrum Disorders

MSc

MA

BA (Hons)

BSc (Hons)

External positions

University of Dundee

1 Sept 20191 Sept 2023

University of Exeter

1 Sept 2019 → …

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