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      Dr Nicola Payne

      ROLE: Associate Professor in Psychology
      SCHOOL: Science & Technology
      DEPARTMENT: Psychology
      TELEPHONE: +44 (0)20 8411 5467
      EMAIL: N.Payne@mdx.ac.uk
      1. Biography &
        Qualifications
      2. Learning &
        Teaching Interests
      3. Research Outputs &
        Interests
      4. Funded Research &
        Knowledge Exchange Projects
      5. Engagement &
        Impact

      • Biography &
        Qualifications

        Dr Nicky Payne joined the Psychology Department at Middlesex University in 2002. Her research focuses on:

        • Barriers to health behaviour and interventions to promote behaviour change, especially exercise and diet.
        • Occupational health psychology, especially work-life balance, including the impact of working life on health behaviour and interventions to promote healthy behaviour in the workplace. Recent research supported by Infertility Network UK and Working Families has also examined the workplace support available to help users of assisted reproductive technology manage work and treatment, and also how austerity has impacted on the work-life balance agenda in public sector organisations. Dr Payne is a member of the British Psychological Society Division of Occupational Psychology working group on work-life balance.

        Qualifications:

        • BSc (Hons) Psychology (Hertfordshire), MSc Health Psychology (City), PhD (Hertfordshire), PGCertHE (Middlesex)
        • Chartered Psychologist and full member of the BPS Division of Health Psychology
        • HCPC registered and practitioner Health Psychologist

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      • Learning &
        Teaching Interests

        Programme and module leadership:

        • MSc Health Psychology Course Director
        • Module leadership: Health, exercise and sport psychology (PSY3015); Psychosocial foundations and applications of health psychology (PSY4009); Psychological processes of illness and heath care delivery (PSY4110).

        External Examiner roles:

        • MSc Health Psychology, University of Bedfordshire (to 2010)
        • MSc Psychological Well-being, De Montfort University (to 2013)
        • MSc Health Psychology, University of Sussex (to 2015)

        Teaching interests:

        • Defining and measuring health
        • Theories of health behaviour
        • Attitude change and persuasion
        • Health promotion
        • Social inequalities in health

      • Research Outputs &
        Interests

        Occupational health psychology interests:

        • Work-life balance
        • The impact of the work environment and working life on individual and family health behaviours
        • Health behaviour change in the workplace (especially exercise and diet)

        Health psychology interests:

        • Stress and health behaviours
        • Theories of health behaviour (e.g. the Theory of Planned Behaviour)
        • Theory-based health behaviour change interventions (e.g. planning and implementation intentions).

        Examples of Current Projects:

        • The impact of austerity on the work-life balance agenda in the public sector
        • How users of assisted reproductive technology manage work and treatment
        • Work-life balance and well-being in the fire service
        • Experiences of mental health issues and training in emergency first-responders
        • Quality of life in children with sickle cell anemia
        • Evaluating a counselling service for socially disadvantaged women

        Research Supervision:

        • Kanchi Gunaratna. The impact of occupational stress on psychological well-being in the fire services (PhD awarded September 2009)
        • Padma Ramachandran. An investigation of occupational stress and coping among staff in Higher Education: A comparison between the UK and Malaysia (PhD posthumously awarded February 2013)
        • Christina Constantinou. A Multi-method Examination of Quality of Life and health behaviours in Paediatric Sickle Cell Disease.
        • Neelam Ghuman.Work-life balance in employees with different family structures.
        • Tasneem Wadee. Doctorate in Professional Studies in Psychology: Leading and Managing business transformation in a changing economic climate.

        Publications:

        • Lewis, S., Anderson, D., Lyonette, C., Payne, N., & Woods, S. (eds.) (forthcoming 2016). Work-Life Balance in Times of Austerity and Beyond. Routledge.
        • Lyonette, C., Anderson, D., Lewis, S., Payne, N., & Woods, S. (forthcoming 2016) Work-life balance and austerity: implications of new ways of working in UK public sector organisations. In S. Lewis, D. Anderson, C. Lyonette, N. Payne & S. Woods (Eds.), Work-Life Balance in Times of Austerity and Beyond. Routledg
        • Lewis, S., Anderson, D., Lyonette, C., Payne, N., & Woods, S. (2016). Public sector austerity cuts and the work-life balance agenda: Under threat or a burning platform for change? Work, Employment and Society. Online first.
        • Sumodhee, D. & Payne, N. (2015). Healthy eating beliefs and intentions of mothers and their adult children: an intergenerational transmission perspective. Journal of Health Psychology. DOI: 10.1177/1359105315586214
        • Payne, N., Ciclitira, K., Starr, F., Marzano, L., & Brunswick, N. (2015). Evaluation of long-term counselling at a community health service for low-income women. Submitted to Counselling and Psychotherapy Research, 15(2), 79-87.
        • Constantinou, C., Payne, N. & Inusa, B. (2015). Assessing the Quality of Life of Children with Sickle Cell Anaemia using Self-, Parent-proxy and Healthcare Professional-proxy Reports. British Journal of Health Psychology, 20, 209-304.
        • Payne, N., van den Akker, O., Lewis, S. & Constantinou, C. (2015). Experiences of combining work and infertility treatment. Journal of Fertility Counselling, 22(1), 13-16.
        • Payne, N. (2013). Review of Research in Occupational Stress and Well Being (Volume 10): The Role of the Economic Crisison Occupational Stress and WellBeing. By Perrewe, P.L., Halbesleben, J.R.B. and Rosen, C.C. (Eds.).The Occupational Health Psychologist: Newsletter of the European Academy of Occupational Health Psychology, 10, 2, 11-12
        • Payne, N., Jones, F. & Harris, P.R. (2013). Employees' perceptions of the impact of work on health behaviours. Journal of Health Psychology,18,887-899.
        • Payne, N., Jones, F., & Kinman, G. (2012). Work-related stress and health behaviours. In J. Houdmont, S. Leka, & R. Sinclair (Eds.), Contemporary Occupational Health Psychology: Global Perspectives on Research and Practice, Volume 2. Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell. pp. 239-255.
        • Murdoch, M., Payne, N., Samani-Radia, D., Rosen-Webb, J., Walker, L., Howe, M. & Lewis, P. (2011). Family Based Behavioural Management of childhood obesity: Service evaluation of a group programme run in a community setting in the UK. European Journal of Clinical Nutrition, 65, 6, 764-767.
        • Payne, N., Jones, F. & Harris, P.R. (2010). Employees' perceptions of the impact of work on health behaviours.The Occupational Health Psychologist: Newsletter of the European Academy of Occupational Health Psychology, 7, 3, 12-13.
        • Payne, N., Jones, F. & Harris, P.R. (2010). A daily diary investigation of the effects of work stress on exercise intention implementation: Can planning overcome the disruptive effects of work? Psychology and Health, 25, 1, 111-129.
        • Ciclitira, K., Payne, N., Starr, F., Marzano, L. & Costa, A. (2010). Evaluation of Women & Health's Counselling Service: Report on a Longitudinal Clinical Research Project. A report for Women and Health, NHS Camden.
        • Elander, J., Pittam, G., Lusher, J., Fox, P. & Payne, N. (2010). Evaluation of an intervention to help students avoid unintentional plagiarism by improving their authorial identity. Assessment and Evaluation in Higher Education, 35, 2, 157 - 171.
        • Pittam, G., Elander, J., Lusher, J., Fox, P. & Payne, N. (2009). Student beliefs and attitudes about authorial identity in academic writing. Studies in Higher Education 34, 2, 153-170.
        • Payne, N. (2008). Learning, teaching and assessment of Health Psychology MSc courses: Results from a survey. Health Psychology Update, 17, 2, 34-40.
        • Payne, N. & Jones, F. (2007). Work stress and health behaviour: Daily diary methodology and multilevel modelling. Health Psychology Update, 16, 3, 13-18.
        • Payne, N. (2007). Learning, teaching and assessment in the postgraduate provision of health psychology. The Higher Education Academy Psychology Network Newsletter, 45, 3.
        • Payne, N. (2006). Learning, teaching and assessment in health psychology. Health Psychology Update, 15, 2, 4-5.
        • Jones, F., Kinman, G. & Payne, N. (2006). Work stress and health behaviours: a work life balance issue. In F. Jones, R. Burke & M. Westman (Eds.), Work Life Balance: A Psychological Perspective. London: Taylor Francis.
        • Payne, N., Jones, F. Harris, P.R. (2005). The impact of job strain on the predictive validity of the theory of planned behaviour: An investigation of exercise and healthy eating. British Journal of Health Psychology, 10, 115-131.
        • Payne, N., Jones, F. Harris, P.R. (2004). The role of perceived need within the theory of planned behaviour: a comparison of intentions to exercise and intentions to eat healthily. British Journal of Health Psychology, 9, 489-504.
        • Payne, N. (2004). A review of Polycystic Ovary Syndrome by G. T. Kovacs. Health Psychology Update, 12, 3, 73-74.
        • Payne, N., Jones, F. Harris, P. (2002). The impact of working life on health behaviour: the effect of job strain on the cognitive predictors of exercise. Journal of Occupational Health Psychology, 7, 4, 342-353.
        • Payne, N. (2001). Occupational stressors and coping as determinants of burnout in female hospice nurses. Journal of Advanced Nursing, 33, 3, 396-405.

        Publication Feed

        Experiences and psychological distress of fertility treatment and employment

        Payne, Nicola and Seenan, Susan and van den Akker, Olga (2018) Experiences and psychological distress of fertility treatment and employment. Journal of Psychosomatic Obstetrics & Gynecology . ISSN 0167-482X (Published online first)

        A sanctuary of tranquillity in a ruptured world: evaluating long-term counselling at a women’s community health centre

        Ciclitira, Karen and Starr, Fiona and Payne, Nicola and Clarke, Lisa and Marzano, Lisa (2017) A sanctuary of tranquillity in a ruptured world: evaluating long-term counselling at a women’s community health centre. Feminism & Psychology, 27 (4). pp. 530-552. ISSN 0959-3535

        Catch 22? Disclosing assisted conception treatment at work

        van den Akker, Olga and Payne, Nicola and Lewis, Suzan (2017) Catch 22? Disclosing assisted conception treatment at work. International Journal of Workplace Health Management, 10 (5). pp. 364-375. ISSN 1753-8351

        Public sector austerity cuts in the UK and the changing discourse of work–life balance

        Lewis, Suzan and Anderson, Deirdre and Lyonette, Clare and Payne, Nicola and Wood, Stephen (2017) Public sector austerity cuts in the UK and the changing discourse of work–life balance. Work, Employment and Society, 31 (4). pp. 586-704. ISSN 0950-0170

        New methods for stress assessment and monitoring at the workplace

        Carneiro, Davide and Novais, Paulo and Augusto, Juan Carlos and Payne, Nicola (2017) New methods for stress assessment and monitoring at the workplace. IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing . ISSN 1949-3045 (Published online first)

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      • Funded Research &
        Knowledge Exchange Projects

        Recent funding:

        Suzan Lewis, Clare Lyonette, Nicola Payne et al.Work-life balance in the recession and beyond. ESRC Seminar series. £23, 536.

        Nicola Payne and Olga van den Akker. Experiences of infertility and treatment. Infertility Network UK. £6,900.

      • Engagement &
        Impact

        External roles and memberships:

        • BPS Division of Occupational Psychology Work-life Balance Working Group member
        • European Academy of Occupational Health Psychology member
        • Work and Family Researchers Network member
        • Families and Work Network member
        • BPS Health Psychology Qualifications board member and Chief Examiner (to 2011)
        • Conference committee member: Conference of the European Academy of Occupational Health Psychology 2008, 2010, 2014, 2016
        • Conference committee member: Division of Health Psychology Annual Conference 2010
        • Conference committee reviewer: Division of Occupational Psychology Annual Conference 2011
        • Editorial board member, British Journal of Wellbeing, 2010-2011
        • Co-editor Health Psychology Update 2006-2009

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