Trish Gorely
Professor, Physical Activity for Health
Lead for Research
PhD, MEd, DipGrad, BPhEd
01463 279811
Biography
Trish Gorely is Professor of Physical Activity for Health and Head of Research for the Centre of Rural Health Sciences. She joined UHI in 2017 having previously held teaching and research positions in sport and exercise psychology at the University of Stirling, Loughborough University and the University of Queensland. She completed her postgraduate studies at the University of Western Australia and her undergraduate degree in sport science at the University of Otago, New Zealand.
Research
Trish’s main research interests are in psychological and behavioural aspects of physical activity, sedentary behaviour and health. Her work is underpinned by behavioural epidemiology and most recently has focused on the design and evaluation of behaviour change interventions. Trish has been involved in a number of randomised controlled trials of behaviour change interventions (e.g., PREPARE, STAND, Girls Active). Populations she has worked with include children and adolescents, young adults, individuals at high risk of type 2 diabetes, older adults, and adults with peripheral arterial disease. She has received funding from the Medical Research Council, NIHR, government departments, health charities and commercial partners. Trish has published extensively in psychology, public health, and behavioural medicine in internationally recognised journals; her current H-index is 43 (Scopus) and 59 (Google Scholar). Trish is the co-author of the textbook Psychology of Physical Activity (Routledge, 2021) which is now in its 4th edition.
Teaching
Supervised over 10 PhD students to completion.
External examiner for 16 PhD’s from Universities in Australia, New Zealand, Norway and UK.
Trish has a postgraduate Certificate in tertiary education. Over her career she has lead modules in a variety of subjects at both undergraduate and postgraduate level and has lead the curriculum development for two different MSc programmes. Her current role in UG teaching is as the theme lead for physical activity for health. At postgraduate level she is the module lead for research methods and supervisor for dissertation students.
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