2024/25 Taught Postgraduate Module Catalogue

PSYC5920M Theory and Intervention in Food and Nutrition

15 creditsClass Size: 50

Module manager: Dr Kristine Beaulieu
Email: k.beaulieu@leeds.ac.uk

Taught: Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) View Timetable

Year running 2024/25

Pre-requisite qualifications

At least an upper second-class honours degree in Psychology or a discipline containing a substantial amount of psychology and research

Module replaces

PSYC5907M Theory and Intervention in Food and Nutrition

This module is not approved as an Elective

Module summary

This module is designed to build students’ understanding of the complexity of the relationship between food and health. Taking a psychological approach, it draws on diverse perspectives, each demonstrating unique positions and methodologies. Students will integrate different approaches e.g. biological, experimental, and clinical to real world challenges such as malnutrition and obesity, and seek interventions for prevention or treatment.

Objectives

This module will:

1. Develop a detailed understanding of key issues relating to food and health. Students will learn to integrate a number of different approaches e.g. biological, experimental, and clinical to real world problems such as obesity in early life and adulthood and malnutrition, and to take a problem-solving approach to such issues.

2. Facilitate students’ skills in drawing on a wide range of psychological theories and research in relation to food and health issues.

3. Provide students with the knowledge and skills to formulate, present and justify behavioural recommendations for interventions within the field of nutrition.

4. Expand students’ ability to identify and critically discuss key issues in applying psychological theory to globally relevant nutrition challenges.

Teaching will take the form of small- to mid-sized group lectures as well as the problem-based learning tasks and related group-based workshops of which there are two during the module. These provide the appropriate depth and breadth of information on a wide range of topics, while also encouraging student participation and group discussion and collaboration to develop solutions to practical issues raised by the thematic content of the module and applied to real world situations.

Learning outcomes
On successful completion of the module students will have demonstrated the following learning outcomes relevant to the subject:

1.The ability to draw on a wide range of psychological theories and contemporary research in relation to food and health issues

2. Advanced knowledge to the point where students are able to formulate behavioural recommendations for interventions within the field of obesity

3. Knowledge of relevant research literature that can be applied to develop an intervention in the field of malnutrition

4. Critical awareness of relevant issues such that students are able to present and justify recommendations for such interventions

5. Knowledge and experience to identify and critically discuss key issues in translating psychological theory to globally relevant nutrition challenges

Skills Learning Outcomes

On successful completion of the module students will have demonstrated the following skills learning outcomes:

1. Application of relevant theoretical and empirical literature to solving real world problems

2. Developing group working skills

3. Skills in critical evaluation of empirical research

4. Written communication skills

Syllabus

Physical activity, energy balance and appetite control
Obesity in adults and “functional” foods
Behaviour change interventions for weight management
Intermittent fasting & meal/exercise timing
Anorexia of ageing
Marketing, food choices and childhood obesity
Susceptibility to obesogenic behaviours in early life
Weight stigma

Teaching methods

Delivery type	Number	Length hours	Student hours
Lecture	8	2.00	16.00
Seminar	3	2.00	6.00
Private study hours			128.00
Total Contact hours			22.00
Total hours (100hr per 10 credits)			150.00

Opportunities for Formative Feedback

The module will have specific sessions designed to support each summative assessment (2xPBL reports), where students will have the opportunity to discuss plans and progress with the module leader and receive feedback of direct relevance to their assessed work, thus supporting their performance on summative work.

Methods of assessment

Coursework

Assessment type	Notes	% of formal assessment
Assignment	PBL report 1 (1,500 words)	40.00
Assignment	PBL Report 2 (1,500)	60.00
Assignment	Plans for PBL Reports (Formative)	0.00
Total percentage (Assessment Coursework)		100.00

Normally resits will be assessed by the same methodology as the first attempt, unless otherwise stated

Reading list

The reading list is available from the Library website

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