Professor Marie Reid

Professor Marie Reid

Professor of Clinical & Health Psychology/ Consultant Clinical Psychologist

Faculty and Department

  • Faculty of Health Sciences
  • School of Psychology and Social Work

Summary

Professor Reid is a Consultant Clinical Psychologist Practitioner and Health Psychologist, with an international reputation for her research on human feeding and eating problems, wide experience of the British University system and close links with the NHS. Currently, she is Hon. Consultant Clinical Psychologist with the Michael White Diabetes Centre at Hull Royal Infirmary. With a first degree in modern languages, she retrained as a psychologist after working in Italy, where she translated for and was inspired by an eminent Italian Psychiatrist.

Director of MSc Clinical Applications of Psychology

Module leader of Case Studies in Mental Health

Module leader of MSc Empirical Dissertationo

Recent outputs

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Journal Article

The Effect of a Very-Low-Calorie Diet (VLCD) vs. a Moderate Energy Deficit Diet in Obese Women with Polycystic Ovary Syndrome (PCOS)—A Randomised Controlled Trial

Deshmukh, H., Papageorgiou, M., Wells, L., Akbar, S., Strudwick, T., Deshmukh, K., …Sathyapalan, T. (2023). The Effect of a Very-Low-Calorie Diet (VLCD) vs. a Moderate Energy Deficit Diet in Obese Women with Polycystic Ovary Syndrome (PCOS)—A Randomised Controlled Trial. Nutrients, 15(18), Article 3872. https://doi.org/10.3390/nu15183872

More than signposting: Findings from an evaluation of a social prescribing service

White, C., Bell, J., Reid, M., & Dyson, J. (2022). More than signposting: Findings from an evaluation of a social prescribing service. Health and Social Care in the Community, https://doi.org/10.1111/hsc.13925

Schema Modes, Trauma, and Disordered Eating

Goddard, H., Hammersley, R., & Reid, M. (2022). Schema Modes, Trauma, and Disordered Eating. Journal of Cognitive Psychotherapy, 36(1), 70-95. https://doi.org/10.1891/JCPSY-D-20-00050

Beyond eating disorders: Towards a formulation-based approach

Reid, M., & Wicksteed, A. (2021). Beyond eating disorders: Towards a formulation-based approach. Clinical Psychology Forum, 2021(343), 9-16

The Effect of Free Androgen Index on the Quality of Life of Women With Polycystic Ovary Syndrome: A Cross-Sectional Study

Abdalla, M. A., Deshmukh, H., Mohammed, I., Atkin, S., Reid, M., & Sathyapalan, T. (2021). The Effect of Free Androgen Index on the Quality of Life of Women With Polycystic Ovary Syndrome: A Cross-Sectional Study. Frontiers in Physiology, 12, Article 652559. https://doi.org/10.3389/fphys.2021.652559

Research interests

Human eating behaviour

Eating disorders

Psychology of obesity

Schema Therapy

Lifestyle and mental health

Co-investigator

Project

Funder

Grant

Started

Status

Project

An introduction to Total Sweet Xylitol

Funder

Healthy by Nature Ltd

Grant

£1,600.00

Started

1 September 2019

Status

Complete

Postgraduate supervision

Professor Reid’s primary research interests are in human eating, including ordinary eating, disordered eating and obesity. She has also researched other topics in mental health. She currently supervises four PhD students:

Alice Cunningham: Understanding the phenomenological experience of schema therapy in those with an eating disorder.

Stephen Harrison: Exploring schemas of obesity and the role of schemas in adult obesity maintenance.

Clare Marney: Personality and disordered eating.

Callum Schofield: Eating behaviours in Huntington’s disease.

Clinical role

Consultant Clinical Psychologist WeightWise

2016 - 2019

WeightWise, which is Hull's Tier 3 service for obesity.

Consultant Clinical Psychologist Nuffield Health Hospital York

2012

Nuffield Health York Hospital

Honorary Consultant Clinical Psychologist Michael White Diabetes Centre

2011

Consultant Clinical Psychologist, Michael White Diabetes Centre, Hull Royal Infirmary.

Committee/Steering group role

Eating Disorders Faculty of the British Psychological Society

2016

She serves on the Eating Disorders Faculty of the British Psychological Society, and recently led on responding to draft NICE guidelines on eating disorders for the BPS.

British Psychological Society Obesity Task Force

2016

She serves on the BPS Obesity Task Force, which last year produced a report ‘Psychological Perspectives on Obesity’ and is currently addressing the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on the psychology of obesity. https://www.bps.org.uk/news-and-policy/new-bps-report-shows-psychology-key-beating-obesity-problem

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