Dr Stephanie Quinton
Lecturer
BSc (joint hons, 2i) Psychology with Sports Science, University of Birmingham, UK,1994
MSc (distinction) Psychology and Health, University of Stirling, UK,1995
PhD (awarded) University of Manchester, UK, 1998
CPsychol - Health Psychology (practising certificate since January 2005)
MA Education Research (distinction), University of Central Lancashire, UK, 2006
Postgraduate Certificate in Research Student Supervision (awarded), University of Central Lancashire, UK, 2006
Postgraduate Certificate in Teaching and Learning in Higher Education (awarded), University of Central Lancashire, UK, 2002
Stephanie Quinton
Bio
Having left school in 1983 I worked in a couple of different secretarial jobs for Boots Pharmaceuticals. I then went to the University of Birmingham as a mature student in 1991. I continued with postgraduate study at The Universities of Stirling ( Scotland ) and Manchester . After doing some travelling I joined The University of Central Lancashire, UK in 2000. Whilst there I taught and supervised research at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels. I am a Chartered Health Psychologist (British Psychological Society) and have facilitated various eating disorder self-help groups in the UK for 10 years. I joined CSU in July 2007.
Teaching
- Foundations of Psychology I - PSY 102
- Foundations of Psychology II - PSY102
- Psychopathology - PSY304
- Cognition PSY 307
- Psychological Assessment - PSY404
- Issues in health Psychology - PSY427
- Advanced topics in Psychology ('Eating Behaviour and Disorders') - PSY429
- Clinical Psychologist in Practice - PSY527
Supervision
- Honours research projects - PSY424
- Group research projects - PSY436
Research
Some of my current research interests include: eating disorders and psychopathology, dietary restraint, digit ratio (2D:4D) and eating disorders, relationship between eating attitudes and the expression and recognition of emotion, motivation to diet and perceived benefits of diet clubs.
Recent publications
Qualter, P., Quinton, S., Wagner, H. & Brown, S. (in press). Alexithymia, interpersonal distrust and loneliness in male and female college students. Journal of Social and personal Relationships.
Shorter, L., Brown, S. L., Quinton, S. J. & Hinton, L. (in press). Relationships between body shape discrepancies with admired celebrities and disordered eating in young women. Journal of Applied Social Psychology.
Manning, J. T. & Quinton, S. (2007). Digit ratio (2D:4D) is associated with self-reported attractiveness in men and women: evidence from 255116 participants in the BBC internet survey. Journal of Individual Differences, 28, 73-77.
Quinton, S. & Wagner, H. L. (2005). Emotional expression, alexithymia and characteristics associated with eating psychopathology in nonclinical women. Personality and Individual Differences, 38, 1163 - 1173.
Quinton, S. (2004). Processing of five types of ‘threat’ information in anorexic and bulimic women. European Eating Disorders Review, 12, 184 – 189.
Membership of professional associations and groups
- The British Psychological Society (BPS)
- Chartered Health Psychologist (BPS)
- Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (HEA)
- Academy for Eating Disorders - USA (AED)
- Australia & New Zealand Academy for Eating Disorders (ANZAED)
