Background

Qualifications

Stage 2 Qualification in Health Psychology, British Psychological Society (2015)

PhD Public Health (2015) Newcastle University  Title: Evaluation of an internet based weight loss intervention

MSc Health Psychology, Teesside University (2011)

BSc (Hons) Applied Psychology, Liverpool John Moore's University (2008)

Memberships

British Psychological Society Division of Health Psychology

Research

I am a chartered health psychologist and my interests include obesity and related diseases, weight loss interventions, nutrition, physical activity and applying theories to develop effective behaviour change interventions to understand health behaviours.

Publications

• Haste A, Adamson AJ, McColl E, Araujo-Soares V, Bell R. Problems recruiting and retaining postnatal women to a pilot randomised controlled trial of a web-delivered weight loss intervention. BMC Research Notes 2018, 11, 203.
• Penn L, Rodrigues A, Haste A, Marques MM, Budig K, Sainsbury K, Bell R, Araújo-Soares V, White M, Summerbell C, Goyder E, Brennan A, Adamson AJ, Sniehotta FF. NHS Diabetes Prevention Programme in England: formative evaluation of the programme in early phase implementation. BMJ Open 2018, 8, e019467.
• Haste A, Adamson AJ, McColl E, Araujo-Soares V, Bell R. Web-Based Weight Loss Intervention for Men With Type 2 Diabetes: Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial. JMIR Diabetes 2017, 2(2), e14.
• Haste A, Rodrigues AM, Penn L, Bell R, Summerbell CD, White M, Adamson AJ, Sniehotta FF. The NHS Diabetes Prevention Programme in England: Lessons learnt from process evaluation of the demonstrator site phase. In: 9th World Congress on Prevention of Diabetes and its Complications. 2016, Atlanta, GA, USA: Endocrine Practice.
• Sherrington A, Newham JJ, Bell R, Adamson A, McColl E, Araujo-Soares V. Systematic Review and meta-analysis of internet-delivered interventions providing personalised feedback for weight loss in overweight and obese adults. Obesity Reviews 2016, 17(6), 541-551.
• Rodrigues AM, Sherrington A, Penn L, Bell R, Summerbell CD, White M, Adamson AJ, Sniehotta FF. OP80 Formative evaluation of the UK NHS diabetes prevention programme demonstrator phase: review of baseline information. In: Society for Social Medicine 60th Annual Scientific Meeting. 2016, York, UK: Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health.
• Sherrington A, Newham J, Araujo-Soares V, Adamson A, McColl E, Bell R. Systematic review of internet-based interventions providing individualised feedback for weight loss in overweight adults. In: Nutrition Society Summer Meeting. 2013, Newcastle: Cambridge Press.