UCL DEPARTMENT OF EPIDEMIOLOGY AND PUBLIC HEALTH
HEALTH BEHAVIOUR RESEARCH CENTRE
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Laura Webber
Research Student

EXPERTISE
Childhood Obesity; Environmental correlates for obesity risk; Children's eating behaviour; Parent feeding styles.

RESEARCH
Research interests

  1. Exploring individual differences in the aetiology of childhood obesity by working to further understand the characteristics of behavioural phenotypes for obesity risk.
  2. Investigating the child's unique home environment and how this can impact on a child's risk for obesity
  3. Researching how the home environment can be modified using behavioural interventions to reduce the risk of obesity, with specific interest in the mechanisms and utilisation of parent modelling.
Current research
The Obesity-Phenotype Study: A four year longitudinal study investigating behavioural phenotypes for obesity risk.

Phd: Studying the Child's unique environment and it's associations with obesity risk.

Current grants
Cancer-Research UK Phd studentship

BIOGRAPHY
Appointments

2005 - 2006 Research Assistant, Mental Health Research Network, University
           of Bristol
2004 - 2005 Assistant Psychologist National Spinal Injuries Centre, Stoke
           Mandeville Hospital

Qualifications
2004 BA Social & Political Sciences, Cambridge University

Other
BREATHE committee member (the British REsearch And Training in HEalth Psychology initiative).

PUBLICATIONS

This page last modified 25 May, 2010 by Mark Livermore

Laura Webber
CONTACT DETAILS
Telephone:

+44 (0)20 7679 1736
Internal: x41736
Fax:
+44 (0)20 7679 8354
Email: l.webber@ucl.ac.uk

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

Office: Room 208,
1-19 Torrington Place,
WC1E 7HB

University College London- Gower Street, London, WC1E 6BT - Telephone: +44 (0)20 7679 8306 - © 2008 UCL


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