Centre staff
Dr Stuart Flint
Researcher in exercise psychology
Phone 0114 225 5582
E-mail s.flint@shu.ac.uk
Research interests/current work
Stuart's major research focus is the psychosocial effects of obesity and factors that influence exercise participation. His current research examines the portrayal of obesity in the media, anti-fat attitude intervention, factors that influence on body shape discrepancies and the effects of exercise environments.
Profile
Stuart joined Sheffield Hallam University in September 2011 from Aberystwyth University, where he studied for a PhD examining the social perceptions of obesity. As part of this research, Stuart examined implicit and explicit attitudes towards obesity, the portrayal of obesity in the media, the effect of media portrayal of obesity on self and other perception and counter conditioning as intervention to modify anti-fat attitudes.
He is currently a member of the British Psychological Society Obesity Working Group and recently contributed to a report sent to the House of Lords, with the aim of increasing the provision of psychology in the treatment and management of obesity. He has also been an active member of the British Psychological Society, British Association of Sport and Exercise Sciences and Psychology Postgraduate Affairs Group, having sat on a number of committees and contributed to the organisation of a number of conferences.
Professional memberships
- British Psychological Society (BPS)
- British Association of Sport and Exercise Science (BASES)
Selected publications
Flint, S. W. (in Press). Attitudes towards obese persons and controllability beliefs: clarifying previously reported data. Surgery for Obesity and Related Diseases.
Roberts, K., and Flint, S. W. (2011). Pharmacological Interventions. In British Psychological Society. Obesity in the UK: A psychological perspective (pp. 51-56). Leicester: British Psychology Society.
Park, S., and Flint, S. (2010). Performance psychology in action: a casebook for working with athletes, performing artists, business leaders, and professionals in high-risk occupations. The Sport and Exercise Psychologist, 25, 29.
Flint, S. (2010). Globesity: A planet out of control?, The Sport and Exercise Scientist, 23, 27.
Flint, S. (2009). 6th Wales Institute of Sport, Health and Exercise Science Conference. PsyPAG (Psychology Postgraduate Affairs Group) Quarterly, Issue 73.
Flint, S. (2010). The detrimental effects of co-exercisers and mirrored environments on sedentary women's feeling states. Sport and Exercise Psychology, 6, 67-69.
Flint, S. (2010). 2009 British Association of Sport and Exercise Sciences Annual Conference. Sport and Exercise Psychology, 6, 74-75.
Payne, S., Wood, S., Flint, S., Park, S. (2010). The 24th Annual Conference of the Psychology Postgraduate Affairs Group. Sport and Exercise Psychology, 6, 54-58.
Conference contributions
Invited speaker
Flint, S. W. (2009). Psychosocial aspects of obesity, British Pharmaceuticals Students Association Conference on Obesity, De Montfort University, March 2009.
Conference presentations
Flint, S.W. (2010). Media Portrayals of obesity, Proceedings of the British Association of Sport and Exercise Sciences Annual Student Conference, Aberystwyth University, April 2010.
Flint, S.W. (2009). Perceptions of obesity in UK adults, Proceedings of the British Association of Sport and Exercise Sciences Annual Conference, Leeds Metropolitan University, September 2009.
Flint, S.W. (2009). Perceptions of obesity in UK adults, PsyPAG Annual Conference, Cardiff University, July 2009.
Flint, S.W. (2009). UK Adults' Implicit and Explicit Perceptions of Obesity, PsyPAG Annual Conference, Cardiff University, July 2009. (Symposium)
Flint, S.W. (2009). Perceptions of obesity in UK adults, Wales Institute of Sport Health and Exercise Science Annual Conference, Aberystwyth University, July 2009.
Flint, S.W. (2008). 'When you see a fatty on a treadmill, it's quite funny': Social perceptions of obesity, Proceedings of the British Association of Sport and Exercise Sciences Annual Student Conference, University of Bedfordshire, April 2008.
Flint, S.W. (2008). Social perceptions of obesity, The British Psychology Society: Division of Sport and Exercise Psychology Inaugural Conference, London, December 2008.
