Dr Charlotte Hardman

Summary

Research interests

• Determinants of eating behavior in children;
• Affective and motivational determinants of eating (liking and wanting);
• Expectations about satiety and satiation;
• Attentional bias for food-related stimuli and attentional training;
• Increasing healthy lifestyle behaviours;
• Obesity.

Current projects include:

• Dopamine, appetite and food “addiction”.
• Affective (liking) and non-affective (wanting) determinants of eating.
• Attention and food (attentional bias and attentional training).
• Psychological predictors of weight change in university students
• ‘Attachment orientation’, parental feeding strategies and eating behavior in children.
• Distraction and over-eating in children.

Funding and awards

• Hardman, C. A. (Principal Investigator), Horne, P. J., & Lowe, C. F. (2006-07). The development of an intervention to increase physical activity in children. Wales Office of Research and Development for Health and Social Care research grant, £56,447 (non-FEC).
• World Health Organisation Counteracting Obesity Award 2006. I was a member of the group who received this award for the Food Dudes Healthy Eating Programme in Ireland. ESRC postgraduate research studentship (2002-2005).

Presentations at Scientific Meetings (selected)

• Hardman, C.A., Herbert, V.M.B., Brunstrom, J.M., Munafò, M.R., & Rogers, P.J. (2011). Effects of acute tyrosine/phenylalanine depletion on appetite and food reward. Oral presentation at the Cognitive Influences on Eating Behaviour Day Conference, Birmingham, UK.
• Hardman, C.A., Herbert, V.M.B., Brunstrom, J.M., Munafò, M.R., & Rogers, P.J. (2011). Effects of acute tyrosine/phenylalanine depletion on appetite and food reward. Oral presentation at the Benjamin Franklin Lafayette Seminar, Frejus, France.
• Hardman, C.A., Etchells, K.A., Houstoun, K.V.E., Munafò, M.R., & Rogers, P.J. (2011). Does attentional bias for food cues drive overeating? Oral presentation at the British Feeding and Drinking Group annual meeting, Belfast, UK.
• Hardman, C. A. (2011). Fighting the flab with the ‘Fit Food Dudes’: Increasing healthy eating and physical activity in children. Internal seminar, School of Experimental Psychology, University of Bristol, UK.
• Hardman, C.A., Lowe, C.F., & Horne, P.J. (2007). Increasing physical activity in children: applying the principles from the Food Dude Healthy Eating Programme. Poster presented at the 6th Annual Conference of the International Society of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity, Oslo, Norway.
• Hardman, C. A., Lowe, C. F., & Horne, P. J. (2005). Increasing physical activity in children: A pedometer and reward-based intervention. Poster presented at the 4th Annual Conference of the International Society of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
• Hardman, C.A., Lowe, C.F., Horne, P.J., & Owens, R.G. (2004). A pedometer and reward-based intervention to increase physical activity in children. Oral presentation at the 8th International Congress of Behavioral Medicine, Mainz, Germany.

Invited talks

• Hardman, C.A., Lowe, C.F., & Horne, P.J. (2008). Changing children’s diets: call on the Food Dudes Programme. Invited oral presentation at the Division of Pediatric Psychologists annual meeting, Belfast, UK.
• Hardman, C.A., Lowe, C.F., & Horne, P.J. (2005). Increasing fruit and vegetable consumption and physical activity in primary school children. Invited oral presentation at the 2nd All-Wales Symposium on Exercise Science, Sports Medicine Research and Sports Psychology, Cardiff, UK.
• Hardman, C.A., Lowe, C.F., & Horne, P.J. (2005). Increasing fruit and vegetable consumption and physical activity in primary school children. Invited oral presentation at the Child Obesity Day Conference, London, UK.
• Hardman, C.A., Lowe, C.F., & Horne, P.J. (2004). Changing the nation’s diet: an effective procedure to increase fruit and vegetable consumption in children. Invited oral presentation at the British Crop Protection Council Seminars – Crop Science and Technology, Glasgow, UK.

Biography

I graduated from the University of Leeds in 2000 with a BSc in Psychology (1st class). I then worked as a research assistant in the School of Psychology at Bangor University on a multi-component school-based intervention to increase fruit and vegetable consumption in children (the Food Dudes Programme). In my PhD research, also conducted at Bangor (2002-2005), I developed and evaluated an intervention to increase children’s physical activity (the Fit ‘n’ Fun Dudes Programme). I remained at Bangor to conduct post-doctoral research during which I was involved in the roll-out and large-scale evaluation of the Food Dudes programme in the UK and overseas. In August 2009, I joined the School of Experimental Psychology at the University of Bristol to work with Professor Peter Rogers.

Memberships

Organisations

School of Experimental Psychology

Experimental Psychology staff

• Experimental Psychology academic staff
• Experimental Psychology research staff

Research themes

• Brain, Behaviour, and Health

Recent publications

• Hardman, CA, Herbert, VMB, Brunstrom, JM, Munafò, MR & Rogers, PJ 2012, ‘Dopamine and food reward: Effects of acute tyrosine/phenylalanine depletion on appetite’. Physiology and Behavior, vol 105., pp. 1202 - 1207
• Oldham-Cooper, R, Hardman, C, Nicoll, C, Rogers, P & Brunstrom, J 2011, ‘Playing a computer game during lunch affects fullness, memory for lunch, and later snack intake’. American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, vol 93., pp. 308 - 313
• Hardman, C, McCrickerd, K & Brunstrom, J 2011, ‘Children’s familiarity with snack foods changes expectations about fullness’. American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, vol 94., pp. 1196 - 1201
• Hardman, C, Horne, P & Lowe, C 2011, ‘Effects of rewards, peer-modelling and pedometer targets on children's physical activity: A school-based intervention study’. Psychology & Health, vol 26., pp. 3 - 21
• Hardman, C, Etchells, K, Houstoun, K, Munafo, M & Rogers, P 2011, ‘Does attentional bias for food cues drive overeating?’. in: Appetite., pp. 559 - 559
• Horne, P, Hardman, C, Lowe, C, Tapper, K, Noury, JL, Madden, P, Patel, P & Doody, M 2009, ‘Increasing parental provision and children’s consumption of lunchbox fruit and vegetables in Ireland: the Food Dudes intervention’. European Journal of Clinical Nutrition, vol 63., pp. 613 - 618
• Horne, P, Hardman, C, Lowe, C & Rowlands, A 2009, ‘Increasing children’s physical activity: a peer-modelling, rewards and pedometer-based intervention’. European Journal of Clinical Nutrition, vol 63., pp. 191 - 198
• Hardman, C, Horne, P & Lowe, C 2009, ‘A home-based intervention to increase physical activity in girls: the Fit ‘n’ Fun Dudes program’. Journal of Exercise Science and Fitness, vol 7., pp. 1 - 8
• Hardman, C, Horne, P & Rowlands, A 2009, ‘Children’s pedometer-determined physical activity during school-time and leisure-time’. Journal of Exercise Science and Fitness, vol 7., pp. 129 - 134
• Lowe, C, Horne, P, Hardman, C & Tapper, K 2006, ‘A peer-modelling and rewards-based intervention is effective in increasing fruit and vegetable consumption in children’. Preventive Medicine, vol 43., pp. 351 - 352

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