![Dr Daniel Powell Dr Daniel Powell](/img/200x200/staffpages/uploads/s05dp4/avatar/D7jw7pjBf2mV3czmuxiCI6PhXoxCDmuhh0DaMKg5.jpeg)
PhD, CPsychol, FHEA
Senior Lecturer
- About
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- Email Address
- daniel.powell@abdn.ac.uk
- Telephone Number
- +44 (0)1224 438101
- Office Address
1st Floor, Health Sciences Building
Foresterhill Campus
Aberdeen, AB25 2ZD
- School/Department
- School of Medicine, Medical Sciences and Nutrition
Biography
I am a Senior Lecturer in Health Psychology and the Programme Director for the MSc Health Psychology.
I joined the Aberdeen Health Psychology Group in 2014, having completed my PhD at the University of Southampton, and have been here ever since. I teach across a range of postgraduate courses, and became a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy in 2019.
My research typically uses intensive longitudinal methods (ecological momentary assessment) to investigate contextual and temporal influences on stress and fatigue, clinical symptoms, and self-regulation. I lead our Stress and Health Research Theme and organise and chair our monthly Health Psychology workshops, which are to support all researchers, practitioners, and students with an interest in health psychology and behaviour change.
I currently supervise five PhD students: Mona Maier, Marina Maciver, Dr Leia Kane, Frank You, and Heidi Kane.
I am a Chartered Member of the British Psychological Society (BPS), and full member of the BPS Division of Health Psychology (DHP), European Health Psychology Society (EHPS), and UK Society for Behavioural Medicine (UKSBM).
Qualifications
- PhD Psychology2014 - University of Southampton
Fatigue and salivary cortisol in relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis: investigation in everyday life
- MSc Health Psychology2009 - University of Southampton
- BSc (Hons) Psychology2007 - University of the West of England
Memberships and Affiliations
- Internal Memberships
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- Programme Lead MSc Health Psychology
- Chair of the Aberdeen Health Psychology Group Research & Practice Workshop
- Member of the IAHS Staff Development Group
- Member of the IAHS Postgraduate Teaching Committee
- Member of the School Ethics Review Board PGT Research Committee
- External Memberships
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- Chartered Psychologist, British Psychological Society (BPS)
- Full Member of the Division of Health Psychology, BPS
- Member of the European Health Psychology Society
- Member of the UK Society for Behavioural Medicine
- Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
Prizes and Awards
- Stan Maes Early Career Award, European Health Psychology Society, 2019
- Rosemary Anne Price Student Award, MS Society, 2013
- Research
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Research Overview
My primary expertise is in methods that facilitate research in everyday life, using real-time assessments (i.e. ecological momentary assessment; EMA) to study changing phenomena within individuals.
My research interests are broadly within Health Psychology, with a particular focus on
- Stress and psychoneuroendocrinology
- Self-regulatory fatigue and decision fatigue
- Work, effort, and reward
- Within-person processes in health and illness
I have extensive experience with interdisciplinary working and have ongoing collaborations with researchers in health services, health economics, labour economics, nutrition, primary care, emergency medicine, bioengineering, and epidemiology.
I am a core member of the Aberdeen Health Psychology Group and an interdisciplinary member of the Aberdeen Centre for Labour Market Research.
I am always keen to hear from potential collaborators, particularly in relation to using EMA methods, or the examination of fatigue or stress.
Research Areas
Applied Health Sciences
Psychology
Research Specialisms
- Health Psychology
- Quantitative Psychology
- Research Methods in Psychology
- Psychobiology
Our research specialisms are based on the Higher Education Classification of Subjects (HECoS) which is HESA open data, published under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International licence.
Supervision
I am currently supervising five PhD Students on the following projects:
Mona Maier - Decision fatigue in healthcare professionals
Marina Maciver - Quality of life in young people with major limb amputations
Dr Leia Kane - Everyday stress, recovery, and heart-rate variability in emergency medical doctors
Frank You - Changing behaviour to enable design and delivery of low carbon trials
Heidi Kane - Investigation of stress in dentistry students
Supervisees
- MONA MAIER
- MISS MARINA MACIVER
- DR LEIA KANE
- MR SUI YOU
- MISS HEIDI KANE
- Teaching
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Programmes
- Postgraduate, 3 stage, September start
Teaching Responsibilities
I lead the the professionally-accredited MSc Health Psychology programme as Programme Director.
I also coordinate the following:
- PU5053 - Stress, Personality & Health
and teach content for students in the following courses:
- PU5053 - Stress, Personality & Health
- PU5022 - Health Behaviour & Behaviour Change
- PU5029 - Health Psychology Research Review
- PU5041 - Public Health in Action (Online)
- PU5054 - Advanced Quantitative Methods and Analysis for Psychology
- PU5552 - Public Health in Action
- RN5503 - Clinical Nutrition for Disease Prevention (Online)
- RN5505 - Clinical Nutrition
I supervise postgraduate taught students in PU5909 - Health Psychology Research Projects. My PhD student supervision is detailed in the Research tab.
I'm open to supervising one Medical Humanities Project (ME33A2) each year - do contact me if interested.
Non-course Teaching Responsibilities
Dr Gertraud (Turu) Stadler and I established a Summer School in Intensive Longitudinal Methods in 2018, which is held annually. The 2024 Summer School will be held in Berlin, Germany in July/August.
- Publications
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Assessing decision fatigue in general practitioners’ prescribing decisions using the Australian BEACH dataset
Medical Decision MakingContributions to Journals: ArticlesImpact of fly-in fly-out work on health behaviours and affective states: A daily diary study
Stress and Health, vol. 40, no. 3, e3361Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/smi.3361
- [OPEN ACCESS] http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstream/2164/23713/1/Kwadwo_etal_SH_Impact_of_fly_VoR.pdf
- [ONLINE] View publication in Scopus
Understanding patterns of fatigue in health and disease: protocol for an ecological momentary assessment study using digital technologies
BMJ Open, vol. 14, no. 5, e081416Contributions to Journals: ArticlesPragmatic evaluation of methods for retrieving unpublished information on comparator interventions in a systematic review of smoking cessation trials
Psychology & Health, vol. 39, no. 4, pp. 435-451Contributions to Journals: ArticlesCan continuous heart rate variability monitoring, combined with contextual and psychological measures be used to detect patterns of stress and recovery in medical doctors?
UK Society for Behavioural Medicine, pp. D1.10Contributions to Conferences: PostersFree-living Physical Activity and Executive Function: A Multi-Study Analysis of Age Groups and Times of Day
Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society, vol. 24, no. 1, 100425Contributions to Journals: ArticlesHealth and Related Behaviours of Partners of Fly-in Fly-out Workers in Australia: A Cross-sectional Study
Community, Work and Family, vol. 47, no. 1, pp. 78-97Contributions to Journals: ArticlesPerformance-related pay, mental and physiological health
Industrial Relations, vol. 63, no. 1, pp. 3-25Contributions to Journals: ArticlesStress in performance-related pay: the effect of payment contracts and social-evaluative threat
Stress, vol. 26, no. 1, 2283435Contributions to Journals: ArticlesQuality of Life in Young People with Limb Loss: A Systematic Review
Disability & RehabilitationContributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/09638288.2023.2270908
- [ONLINE] View publication in Scopus
Within-person associations between psychological and contextual factors and lapse incidence in smokers attempting to quit: A systematic review and meta-analysis of Ecological Momentary Assessment studies
Addiction, pp. 1216-1231Contributions to Journals: Articles“A Switch Went off in My Whole Body”:: Lived Experiences of Fatigue and Post-Exertional Malaise in Long Covid
Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference Proceedings- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3544549.3585846
Rotation work in the resources sector: a systematic review of the impact on workers’ families
Psychology & HealthContributions to Journals: ArticlesApplication of Ecological Momentary Assessment in Studies with Rotation Workers in the Resources and Related Construction Sectors: A Systematic Review
Safety and Health at Work, vol. 14, no. 1, pp. 10-16Contributions to Journals: Review articlesHealth and related behaviours of fly-in fly-out workers in the mining industry in Australia: a cross-sectional study
International Archives of Occupational and Environmental Health , vol. 96, pp. 105-120Contributions to Journals: ArticlesSalivary cortisol in university students after the COVID-19 pandemic
Comprehensive Psychoneuroendocrinology, vol. 12, 100160Contributions to Journals: ArticlesMultiple health-related behaviours among Fly-In Fly-Out workers in the mining industry in Australia: A cross-sectional survey during the COVID-19 pandemic
PloS ONE, vol. 17, no. 10, e0275008Contributions to Journals: ArticlesCost of Health-Related Work Productivity Loss among Fly-In Fly-Out Mining Workers in Australia
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, vol. 19, no. 16, 10056Contributions to Journals: ArticlesPublic acceptability of non-pharmaceutical interventions to control a pandemic in the United Kingdom: a discrete choice experiment
BMJ Open, vol. 12, no. 3, e054155Contributions to Journals: ArticlesDelivering brief physical activity interventions in primary care: a systematic review of the prevalence, and factors associated with delivery, receipt, and patient receptivity
The British Journal of General Practice, vol. 72, no. 716, pp. e209-e216Contributions to Journals: Review articlesPerformance-Related Pay and Objective Measures of Health after Correcting for Sample Selection
Working Papers: Discussion Papers- [ONLINE] https://docs.iza.org/dp15000.pdf
Remember to stay positive: Affect and prospective memory in everyday life
Applied Cognitive Psychology, vol. 36, no. 1, pp. 179-190Contributions to Journals: ArticlesUnderstanding health behaviours in context: A systematic review and meta-analysis of Ecological Momentary Assessment studies of five key health behaviours
Health Psychology Review, vol. 16, no. 4, pp. 576-601Contributions to Journals: ArticlesMental Well-Being during COVID-19: A Cross-Sectional Study of Fly-In Fly-Out Workers in the Mining Industry in Australia
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, vol. 18, no. 22, 12264Contributions to Journals: ArticlesHow does the type of payment you receive impact your health?
FuturumContributions to Journals: Articles