Dr Anne Haase
anne.haase@bristol.ac.uk | 0117 331 1150
Anne is currently Senior Lecturer in Exercise, Nutrition and Health.
Anne's research interests focus on individual and family-based theoretical approaches to lifestyle behaviour change, including chronic disease-preventive health behaviours (physical activity, food choice, weight management and dieting) and the benefits of exercise and diet in mental health (depression, eating disorders). Recent interventions aim to facilitate physical activity in hard to reach populations (adolescent girls, people with depression, pregnant women) while other work explores communication of health behaviours across generations in families. Additional areas include body image, weight issues and body checking, along with a focus on perfectionism and social physique anxiety. Her research employs various methodology ranging from qualitative and quantitative approaches to experimental interventions.
Main research interests:
- Behaviour change interventions for physical activity and eating
- Psychology of physical activity and eating behaviour change
- Physical activity and mental health (depression & anxiety)
- Eating behaviours, body image, eating disorders
- Perfectionism, social physique anxiety, impression management, self-presentation
- Epidemiological studies in physical activity and depression
Further Information
- Publications (links to IRIS database)
- Research details
- Teaching
- Responsibilities
Research details
Development of an after-school programme to increase physical activity and dance skills in 11-12 year old girls (Co-applicant; Dr R Jago PI – Funded by the MRC – National Prevention Research Initiative). The Bristol Girls Dance Project
Project TREAD: A pragmatic randomised control trial to evaluate physical activity as a treatment for depression. (Prof G Lewis PI - Funded by Health Technology Assessment/Department of Health)
Communication of messages between generations: What do families say about healthy behaviour. (Principle Investigator - Funded by The British Academy)
Family Heart Health Study: Examining nutrition and activity behaviours and beliefs in UK families. (Principle Investigator - Funded by Unilever)
Anne is working with colleagues from Institute of Psychiatry/St George's University of London on body checking in the eating disorders and with Bristol colleagues to analyse physical activity, depression and mental health data from the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children (ALSPAC).
Teaching
Unit Co-Coordinator for:
- Physical Activity and Nutrition Programmes: Planning and Evaluation
Unit Contributor for:
- Determinants of Physical Activity and Eating Behaviour
- Physical Activity and Nutrition Interventions
- Research Methods
- Physical Activity, Disease and Public Health
- Physical Activity and Nutrition Programmes: Planning and Evaluation
- Experimental Psychology: Level 3 undergraduate course
Responsibilities
University of Bristol
- School for Policy Studies Postgraduate Admissions Coordinator
- School for Policy Studies Graduate Research Committee
- School Ethics Committee - Centre representative
- Centre Ethics Committee Chair
- Centre Data Protection Officer
- Centre Research Seminar Series
External
- Board member - HTA Obesity-themed board (NIHR Evaluation, Trials and Studies)
- Panel member - ESRC Peer Review College
- Panel member - MRC Health Services and Public Health Research Board, and MRC Efficiency and Mechanism Evaluation Board,