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After an initial career working on the commercial side of the pharmaceutical industry, I retrained as a psychologist, completing an MSc in Health Psychology, then a PhD focusing on genetic influences on appetite and growth, both at University College London (UCL). I am a Lecturer in Behavioural Obesity Research and co-leader of the Obesity research group at the Department of Behavioural Science and Health, UCL. The main focus of my work is to understand why some individuals gain weight, but others remain effortlessly lean, in response to the current ‘obesogenic’ environment. Given that body weight is highly heritable, researchers have been tasked with marrying up the seeming paradox of both genetic and environmental determination of weight. The hypothesis that we have been developing in our group is that ‘obesity genes’ influence weight through their effects on appetite, thereby providing a platform for gene-environment interaction – that is, individuals who inherit a more avid appetite are susceptible to overeating in an environment with an abundant food supply, and at risk of excessive weight gain. I am also interested in understanding better the aetiological overlap underlying both predispositon to obesity, and predisposition to eating disorders.
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The Lancet. Child & adolescent healthno. 4 (2024): 270-279
CURRENT PSYCHOLOGYno. 6 (2024): 5377-5387
Frontiers in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (2024)
JMIR research protocols (2024): e55193-e55193
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