Dr Anne Haase
anne.haase@bristol.ac.uk | 0117 331 1150
Anne is currently Senior Lecturer in Exercise, Nutrition and Health.
Her main interests range from exercise and health psychology and are directed toward physical activity and intervention, as well as health behaviours and attitudes around body image, dieting, obesity, and weight management in adolescent and adult populations. Other interests focus on perfectionism, anxiety and mental health in relation to physical activity and eating behaviours in exercisers and athletes, as well as clinical and community populations.
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 and obesity
- Perfectionism, social physique anxiety, impression management, self-presentation and self-perception
- Epidemiological studies in physical activity and depression
Further Information
- Publications (links to IRIS database)
- Research details
- Teaching
- Responsibilities
Research details
Current research interests include chronic disease-preventive health behaviours and attitudes (physical activity, food choice, weight management and dieting) and the benefits of exercise and diet in mental health (depression, eating disorders). Additional areas include body image and weight issues, along with a focus on perfectionism, social physique anxiety and disordered eating. Recent work explores mediating factors in the body checking cognitions and behaviours relationship in the eating disorders, as well as examining the facilitation of physical activity in people with depression. Her research employs a broad range of methods, including epidemiology, qualitative and quantitative methods, and experimental interventions.
Grants
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:
- Determinants of Physical Activity and Eating Behaviour
- 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 and Nutrition Programmes: Planning and Evaluation
Responsibilities
University of Bristol
- SACHS Research Committee
- Department Seminar Series