Health Behaviour Research Centre

UCL DEPARTMENT OF EPIDEMIOLOGY AND PUBLIC HEALTH
HEALTH BEHAVIOUR RESEARCH CENTRE

Jenny Saxton
Research Psychologist: Childhood Obesity

EXPERTISE
Childhood obesity; Children's eating behaviour; Children's physical activity; Parental Feeding; Children's body image.

RESEARCH
Research interests

The Twins Early Development Study (TEDS): Parental feeding styles
The Obesity-Phenotype Study: Children's body image

Current research
The Obesity-Phenotype Study: Year-two follow-up visits of a four-year longitudinal study investigating eating and physical activity behaviours predictive of later obesity in children; distribution of activity monitors to children aged 8-9 years for analysis of physical activity patterns.

Qualifications
2005 MSc Health Psychology, Queen Margaret University College, Edinburgh
2003 BSc in Psychology, University of Newcastle Upon Tyne

PUBLICATIONS

Viana, Sinde & Saxton (2007): The Children's Eating Behaviour Questionnaire: Associations with BMI in Portuguese Children. British Journal of Nutrition (in press)
Saxton, van Jaarsveld, Carnell & Wardle (2007): Socioeconomic disparities in feeding styles of parents with preschool age children in the UK (in preparation)
Saxton, Hill, Chadwick & Wardle (2007): The Children's Body Image Questionnaire: the influence of child weight status on accuracy of body size perception in 7-9 year old children (in preparation)

This page last modified 21 January, 2008 by Mark Livermore

CONTACT DETAILS
Telephone:
+44 (0)20 7679 0975
Internal: x40975
Fax:
+44 (0)20 7813 2848
Email: j.saxton@ucl.ac.uk

Postal address: Health Behaviour Research Centre, Department of Epidemiology & Public Health,
UCL, Gower Street, London, WC1E 6BT, UK

Office: Room 235, Brook House, 2-16 Torrington Place, London
WC1E 6BT