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 03: SDG 3 - Good Health and Well-beingGoal 04: SDG 4 - Quality Education

About Tracey

I enjoy working with the dietetic team to ensure that we deliver quality programmes. I was a key developer of the Objetcive Structured Clinical Examination (OSCE) for dietetic students, this has become an establsihed method for assessing practical skills in dietetic students prior to placement (Parkin & Collinson, 2019). I am activley involved in supporting IPE within the detetic progrmames to support better patient care and collegiate working. I lead the 'dietetics in practice module in year 3, and 'psychosocial aspecst of patient centred care ' in year 1. I support the development of communication and behaviour change skills across all years of the dietetic programmes. I am partciulary intersetd in supporting the development of empathic commuication skills. I am the programme lead for the MSc in Advanced Professional Practice in Dietetics, a role that allows me to work closely with clinical dietitians to support the development of their critical apprasial and research skills. In additon, to regularly  supervising UG, masters and PhD students.  I maintain an active role in delivering clinical supervisory skills training to practice educators across the southwest and in researching and developing education to support competency in skill attainment when communicating for behaviour change. In adiditon, research into self-care management , through structured education programmes and effective consulting skills and development and  maintenance of these skills in dietetic students is  ongoing. More recently, I have been focusing on motivation to support behaviour change and haev been working closely with psychologists using functional imagery traning (FIT) to support weight management. FIT has been shown to be 5 times more effective than motivational interviewing in supporting weight loss (Solbrig et al, 2019). 

 

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