SYMPOSIUM THEMES:

• Exercise and Mental Health research
• Exercise and Mental Health practice

The link to the online symposium will be emailed closer to the time.

Each video presentation will be broadcast at scheduled times throughout the symposium with opportunities to ask questions via text box submissions during the presentation.

KEYNOTE SPEAKER:

Dr Florence KinnafickFlorence completed her undergraduate degree, BSc Sport Science and Psychology, at University of Southampton before gaining her MSc in Exercise and Health Science at University of Bristol in 2006. From there, she worked as a research assistant at UCL on the ESRC funded Millennium Cohort Study. She graduated from University of Birmingham in 2013 with a PhD before joining University of Northampton as Lecturer in Exercise Psychology from 2012-2016. She is now a psychology lecturer at Loughborough University.

Florence is a Chartered Psychologist (CPsychol) of the British Psychological Society and a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.Florence’s research employs both quantitative and qualitative methodologies to explore the social contextual and environmental determinants of physical activity behaviour change (long-term persistence, drop out and lapses). More specifically she has investigated who and what is perceived as a source of support for behaviour change. This has included facilitating increased quality of motivation using mobile technology and also investigating the effect of exercise intensity and the physical environment on psychological well-being. She has worked with various population groups including school aged youth, employees and mental health service users.