Tracey Parkin

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Dr Tracey Parkin

Associate Professor
School of Health Professions (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. Tracey's work contributes towards the following SDG(s):

Goal 04: SDG 4 - Quality Education

About Tracey

 

Role

As programme lead, I enjoy working with the dietetic team to ensure that we deliver a quality programme. I have an active teaching role, leading the 'dietetics in practice' module in year 3 as well as leading communication skills/behaviour change training across the 3 years of the programme and at postgraduate level, as well as supervising dissertations for UG, Masters and PhD students. I maintain an active role in delivering clinical supervisory skills training to practice educators across the South West and in researching and developing education to support competency in skill attainment when communicating for behaviour change. In addition, research into self-care management, through structured education programmes and effective consulting skills is ongoing. More recently, I have been focusing on motivation to support behaviour change and have been working with psychologists using functional imagery training (FIT) in the area of weight management.

 

Supervised Research Degrees

Linda Solbrig: Functional Imagery Training, a novel, theory-based motivational intervention for weight-loss (2018)

Sarah Greene: Design and implementation of group based functional imagery training for weight loss (2024) 

 

 

Teaching

I teach undergraduate and postgraduate students 

I cover a range of dietetic areas, my specialist areas are:

  • diabetes / weight management
  • communication skills/behaviour change.
  • emapthy / motivation
  • self-care management / patient education

I teach communication and behaviour change skills to students with a focus on supporting self-care management of patients. This is delivered to undergraduate students across all years of the dietetic programmes and to other postgraduate healthcare professionals. I am interested in the health psychology underpinng behaviour change, motivation and self-care. I support  supervisory skills training in masters students as well as supporting delviery of  education in this area to practice educators across the South West.

 

Contact Tracey

InterCity Place, Plymouth Railway Station, North Road East,, Plymouth, PL4 6AB
+44 1752 588827