Jackie Andrade

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Professor Jackie Andrade

Professor in Psychology
School of Psychology (Faculty of Health)

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The Global Goals

In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. Jackie's work contributes towards the following SDG(s):

Goal 03: SDG 3 - Good Health and Well-beingGoal 04: SDG 4 - Quality EducationGoal 13: SDG 13 - Climate Action

About Jackie

Professor of Psychology

My research focuses on the psychological processes underpinning human motivation. We have shown the importance of mental imagery for drug and food cravings and for motivation for healthy behaviours. Our quest to create cravings for healthy goals led to a new intervention for strengthening motivation, functional imagery training or FIT. A clinical trial (Sobrig et al, 2019) showed that FIT boosted weight loss five times compared with established motivational support. 
I am also interested in psychological aspects of anaesthesia. 
I talk about my research on anaesthesia and weight loss here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AFTywtZBdNc

Supervised Research Degrees

Joana Galvao Gomes da Silva Creative technologies for behaviour change

Jonathan Rhodes Functional Imagery Training to increase resilience in athletes

Sophie Homer Social anxiety and paranoia: A mixed methods investigation

Linda Solbrig: Functional Imagery Training, a novel, theory-based motivational intervention for weight-loss 

Annegret Schneider: The psychological cycle of dental anxiety 

Jessica Skorka-Brown: Cognitive processes in craving: from the laboratory to the real world (2010-2014) 

Sophie Pettit: Cognitive effects of Hormone Replacement Therapy (part-time, 2008-2013)

Christine Boomsma: Role of mental imagery in motivation for sustainable behaviours (2009-2012)

Helen Batey: Intrusive thoughts and mindfulness in deliberate self-harm (2007-2010)

Joanna Blackburn: Craving in eating disorders (2005-2009)

Lisa-Marie Berry : Cognition and craving (2004-2008) 

Steven Lilley: Eye movements and traumatic recollections (DClinPsy, 2002-2005)

Lynne Barker : Implicit cognition following frontal brain injury 

Catherine Deeprose: Learning during anaesthesia (1999-2002)

Nathalie Panabokke: Role of visual imagery in cigarette craving (2001-2004)         

Michael Bywaters: The role of affect in vividness of imagery (1999-2003)

Harshada Patel: Children’s memory for colour 

Yuet Yee Yim: Visuo-spatial working memory 

Alison Rowlands: Effect of eye movements on vividness of traumatic imagery (DClinPsy)

 

Teaching

Motivational interviewing and functional imagery training

Motivation

Imagery

Health behaviour change

 

Highlights

Prof Jackie Andrade - REF Impact case study REF Impact Case Study
 Changing understanding and practice in anaesthesia

Jackie Andrade Inspiring behaviour change with mental imagery
Jackie Andrade is Professor in Psychology and recognised globally for her work in craving and behaviour change

brain neurons There’s so much about humans you can’t control in a lab, so you have to be that much more creative
Academic spotlight: Jackie Andrade, Professor in Psychology

Brain Lose weight, stop smoking, exercise more: the psychology behind positive behavioural change
 Whether it’s reducing alcohol consumption, increasing physical activity, or promoting healthy eating, researchers at the University of Plymouth have found that mental imagery can play an integral part when it comes to changing habits.