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University of Bedfordshire
Park Square
Luton
Bedfordshire
UK, LU1 3JU
Dr Angel Chater is a Chartered Psychologist with
the British Psychological Society and Registered Health Psychologist and Sport
and Exercise Psychologist with the UK Health Professions Council.
She is the Programme Manager for the BSc in Health Psychology and the Deputy Course Director of the MSc in Health Psychology and the MSc in Physical Activity, Nutrition and Health Promotion at the University of Bedfordshire (UoB).
She is also the Chair of the Publicity and Liaison Sub-Committee for the Division of Health Psychology and the UK national delegate for the European Health Psychology Society.
Angel’s research interests include health promotion, disease prevention and behaviour change interventions, particularly with children, and in the area of weight management and addiction. She is able to offer tailored behaviour-change intervention training through the consultancy and training unit (CTU) to a variety of health professionals.
Angel’s PhD focused on the psychological and parental influences of children’s health behaviours looking specifically at why some children perform healthy behaviours (healthy eating, physical activity) while others choose those that are known to be detrimental to health (smoking and alcohol use).
She has experience working as a Health Psychologist in Specialist Obesity Services at the Luton and Dunstable Hospital. In this role she supported individuals in their weight loss process with adherence to treatment protocol (pre and post-surgery for a surgical clinic or in conjunction with pharmacological and dietary interventions in a medical clinic), working with cognitions and beliefs around areas such as personal control, happiness and time management.
She has recently run projects on the connections between dieting, binge eating and weight concerns and the use of positive psychology (particularly happiness) and implementation intentions to assist people in losing weight. She is currently working on a proposal to continue research on weight management with a view to producing self-help literature.
Angel is also working on several major pieces of research. One example is in collaboration with the Sport and Exercise department at the Bedford campus. Using an extension of her findings from her PhD, this team are testing three kinds of intervention aimed at enhancing children’s physical activity levels.
Angel is working with a number of PhD students. This research is in areas such as alcohol awareness in adolescents, where they hope to produce a DVD game designed to reduce adolescent’s intentions to drink alcohol. Another area is an extension of her own PhD research which aims to address childhood obesity issues, based in Dubai.
Dr Angel Chater
Department of Psychology
University of Bedfordshire
Park Square
Luton
Bedfordshire
LU1 3JU
UNITED KINGDOM
T: +44 (0) 1582 489217
E: angel.chater@beds.ac.uk
