
Profiles
Dr Tracey Parkin
Associate Professor
School of Health Professions (Faculty of Health)
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.
Qualifications
- BSc(Hons) Nutrition
- Postgraduate Diploma in Dietetics RD
- FETC
- PgCert LTHE
- FHEA
- PhD
Professional membership
- Member of the British Dietetic Association
- Registered with the Health Care Professions Council (HCPC)
- Member of Diabetes Management and Education Group (DMEG)
- Member of Diabetes UK
- Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (HEA)
Roles on external bodies
Teaching interests
- diabetes
- communication skills/behaviour change.
Staff serving as external examiners
External Examiner MSc Advanced Diabetes Educator (Children, Young people and Families) (MDIAB), Leeds Becket University 2014-2018
Research interests
- Communication skills around one to one consultations.
- Facilitating self care management
- Structured education programmes for people with long term/chronic conditions
- Motivation for long term behaviour change
- Dietary management of diabetes
- Prevention of diabetes
- communication /behaviour change skills training
- supervisory skills
- student training- placement education
Other research
motivating for behaviour change using functional imagery training FIT
Research degrees awarded to supervised students
Linda Solbrig: Functional Imagery Training, a novel, theory-based motivational intervention for weight-loss (2018)
Grants & contracts
Action AT (Ataxia Telangiectasia) The A-team: Co- guidance and investigating a novel complex home-based intervention to optimise long-term healthy living with ataxia telangiectasia (2019-2023)
PenCLAHRC, £60,000, Andrade J, Parkin T, Jones R. Functional Imagery Training as a personalized e-health intervention for weight loss (PhD studentship for Linda Solbrig) 2015-2017
Key publications
Key publications are highlighted
JournalsOther academic activities
Contributed to the International Society of Paediatric and Adolescent Diabetes (ISPAD) Nutrition guidelines on the role of behaviour approaches in diabetes education. Out l2007