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DrDominika Kwasnicka

Adjunct Associate Professor

EnAble Institute

  • Adjunct Associate Professor
    EnAble Institute

BIOGRAPHY AND RESEARCH IMPACT

Dominika is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Health Psychology and Behavioural Medicine Research Group and is also affiliated with the Central Queensland University Physical Activity Research Group. Her research interests focus broadly on maintenance of behaviour change in public health. Her main research interests are motives for behaviour maintenance, habits, self-regulation, and coping with behavioural barriers. She is interested in exploring how environment and social networks influence human behaviour and how availability of physical and psychological resources shapes how people change and maintain health behaviours.

ACADEMIC POSITIONS

  • Postdoctoral Research Fellow
    Curtin University, School of Psychology and Speech Pathology, Perth, Australia1 Sep 2016 - 31 Mar 2016
  • Postdoctoral Research Fellow
    Central Queensland University, Physical Activity Research Group, Rockhampton, Australia1 Sep 2015 - 31 Mar 2017
  • Research Assistant/Associate
    Newcastle University, Medical School, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom1 Feb 2014 - 31 Aug 2015

DEGREES

  • PhD
    Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom1 Sep 2011 - 1 Sep 2015

POSTGRADUATE TRAINING

  • ESRC funded Master of Science in Public Health and Health Services Research – awarded with distinction
    Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom1 Sep 2010 - 1 Sep 2011
    Supervised by Sniehotta FF

LANGUAGES

  • Polish
    Can read, write, speak, understand and peer review
  • English
    Can read, write, speak, understand and peer review
  • Spanish; Castilian
    Can read, write, speak and understand

ROLE

  • Staff

FIELDS OF RESEARCH

  • 3202 - Clinical sciences
  • 3210 - Nutrition and dietetics
  • 3901 - Curriculum and pedagogy
  • 4202 - Epidemiology
  • 4203 - Health services and systems
  • 4206 - Public health
  • 5201 - Applied and developmental psychology
  • 5202 - Biological psychology
  • 5203 - Clinical and health psychology
  • 5205 - Social and personality psychology

DEPARTMENT

  • EnAble Institute