Anna Crossland
Associate Lecturer (Maternity Cover)

Research

Overview

Piloting the use of body illusions for treating Anorexia Nervosa

Projects

My PhD project focusses on interoception in the perinatal period. Interoception is the awareness and perception of visceral feelings, which may be different in pregnancy. The project will focus on understanding these differences between how pregnant and no-pregnant women perceive and interpret their visceral signals. This will involve developing and validating a self-report measurement of interoception, and testing whether current measures of interoception are valid during pregnancy. We will also test whether interoceptive abilities during pregnancy have any relationship with body satisfaction in the perinatal period, and on postnatal outcomes.

Grants

• I am funded by ESRC on the AQM pathway

Collaborators

• Dr Catherine Preston
• Dr Liz Kirk (Anglia Ruskin University)

Teaching

Undergraduate

• GTA sessions with year 1 and 2 students on Research Methods, Perception & Cognition (P+C), Social, Personality & Abnormal (SPA), Brain & Behaviour (B+B) and Development & Learning (D+L). Marking on Research Methods, Perception & Cognition (P+C), Social, Personality & Abnormal (SPA) and Development & Learning (D+L).
• Developing and teaching ‘Introduction to Psychology’ and 'Health Psychology' (credited courses) and teaching a short course on mental health, for the Centre for Lifelong Learning.

Other teaching

• A-level psychology (2005-2017)

Publications

Selected publications

• Crossland, A., Kirk, E., & Preston, C. (2022). Interoceptive sensibility and body satisfaction in pregnant and non-pregnant women with and without children. Scientific Reports, 12(1), 16138.

Teaching

Undergraduate

• Module Leader for Clinical Research Methods (Developmental Disorders and Clinical Practice MSc)