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Jake Sallaway-Costello

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  • Education:

    Manor School and Sports College (Northamptonshire)

    Northampton School for Boys (Northamptonshire)

    Bangor University (Gwynedd)

    Birmingham City University (West Midlands)

  • Qualifications:

    9 x GCSEs (English, Maths, Science, French, Music, Geography, PE, RE, Citizenship)

    3 x A-Levels (Psychology, Sociology, Music)

    University degree (BSc Clinical and Health Psychology)

    Teaching qualification (PGCHE Learning & Teaching in Higher Education)

    Doctorate (PhD Public Health)

  • Work History:

    Kennel Assistant (Chalkwell Kennels and Cattery)

    Customer Sales Representative (Domino’s Pizza)

    Dryslope Ski Instructor (Llandudo Snowsports Centre)

    Research Assistant (Centre for Eating and Activity Research)

    Lecturer in Public Health (Birmingham City University)

  • Current Job:

    Assistant Professor in Public Health Nutrition (University of Nottingham)

    Founder & Company Director (The Real Junk Food Project Central)

    People-Planet-Health Co-lead (International Union of Health Promotion & Education)

    • About Me:

      I’m a nutritional psychologist, using psychology to support public health nutrition and health promotion, and I live in the National Forest 🌿 I love watching horror movies and going on holiday in the USA! 🇺🇸

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      Outside my work in nutritional psychology and health promotion, I like…

      ⛷  Alpine skiing

      🎹  Playing the piano

      🐕  Walking my dogs

      📈  Running two businesses

      🍎  Finding new vegan foods

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      I’m a lecturer at the University of Nottingham, where I teach nutrition and dietetics students the social and behavioural aspects of nutrition.

      🎓  Teaching health psychology applied to food and nutrition

      🔬  Doing psychosocial research to understand eating behaviour

      🌍  Supporting the World Health Organisation’s sustainability work

      🍏  Designing psychologically-informed community nutrition programmes

      🌽  Giving advice to food businesses to help them support healthy diets

      My favourite part of my job is travelling all over the world, to explore how people experience food and health in diverse cultures, and how we can value those experiences to design psychologically-informed health promotion programmes to support healthy and sustainable eating. In the last few years, I’ve explored the psychology of food and health in the United States 🇺🇸 Germany 🇩🇪 New Zealand 🇳🇿 Poland 🇵🇱 China 🇨🇳 Canada 🇨🇦 Spain 🇪🇸 and South Africa 🇿🇦 .

    • My Typical Day:

      Every day starts with a strong coffee! I spend most of my day teaching nutritional and health psychology,  and designing upcoming lectures. I often break up the day with virtual meetings with social scientists in Switzerland, and public health scientists in Canada, as part of our ongoing work to implement my ideas into healthy and sustainable eating programmes. I will also spend some time writing up my research, around psychosocial theory and how it can help us understand the diet.

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      An example of a typical day, last week…

      09:00   Make coffee and read emails

      09:30   Give a lecturer on food and the unconscious mind

      11:30   Supervision meeting with student nutrition researcher

      12:00   Working lunch call with WHO to plan health policy event

      12:30   Write part of a journal article on psychology of veganism

      14:30   Call community kitchen leads in Birmingham for an update

      15:00   Plan a seminar on food freedom and cognitions of the diet

      16:30   Speak to IUHPE HQ in Canada about an upcoming conference

      17:00   Water my office plants, clean up the coffee machine, and go home!

    • What I'd do with the prize money:

      I’d use it to get my students out in local communities talking to people about how we can use food to improve physical 🏋️‍♀️ mental 🧠 and social 👥 wellbeing.

    • My Interview

      • How would you describe yourself in 3 words?

        Food & nutrition psychologist

        What did you want to be after you left school?

        A relationship and couples counsellor

        Were you ever in trouble at school?

        Only once, when I crashed into my teacher's car...

        Who is your favourite singer or band?

        David Guetta

        What's your favourite food?

        Humous!

        If you had 3 wishes for yourself what would they be? - be honest!

        1) More time to explore exciting food cultures 2) A eco-friendly way to travel the world sustainably 3) More opportunities for people with good ideas to share them

        Tell us a joke.

        What part of a meal makes you the most sleepy? The nap-kin.

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