Kasia Banas
Undergraduate Talent Lead and Programme Director | Co-Director of Students for Deanery of Molecular Genetic and Population Health Sciences
- Usher Institute
- College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine
Contact details
- Email: kasia.banas@ed.ac.uk
Address
- Street
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Usher Institute – University of Edinburgh
Old Medical School
Teviot Place - City
- Edinburgh
- Post code
- EH8 9AG
Background
Kasia Banas is the Undergraduate Talent Lead and Programme Co-Director for the DDI Health and Social Care programme at the Usher Institute.
Shaping the future of a major new health & social care programme for Edinburgh & South East Scotland as part of the DDI initiative at the University of Edinburgh. The ‘Talent’ component of the health and social care sector programme includes data science enhancement of the undergraduate medical degree to a portfolio of master’s degrees and the development of continuing professional development (CPD). The programme ambition is to enable students and health and social care professionals realise the value of data to benefit the health and wellbeing of citizens.
Kasia has over ten years’ experience teaching in higher education; her portfolio includes courses in behavioural science, social and health psychology, as well as statistics and data science. She is also active in the scholarship of teaching and learning, focusing on building student belonging and removing barriers to education.
Kasia’s research focuses on applying social psychology to health behaviour: investigating the psychological factors involved in healthy eating, physical activity and adherence to medication.
Qualifications
P.G.Cert. Academic Practice, University of Edinburgh, Scotland.
PhD. The effect of social identity salience on healthy eating intentions and behaviour. University of Edinburgh, Scotland.
MSc. Psychology of Individual Differences. University of Edinburgh, Scotland.
MSc. Research Masters in Social Psychology. Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
BA (Hons). Social Sciences. University College Utrecht, The Netherlands.
Undergraduate teaching
Module Lead for Y2 Research and Evidence Based Medicine (part of the MBChB curriculum in the Edinburgh Medical School)
Course Organiser for the honours option Data Science for Health and Biomedical Sciences (Edinburgh Medical School)
Postgraduate teaching
Course Organiser for Introduction to Statistics in Health and Social Care
Open to PhD supervision enquiries?
Yes
Current PhD students supervised
Lara Wehbe (Healthy Cognition Lab, University of Glasgow)
Research summary
Kasia’s research focuses on applying social psychology to health behaviour: investigating the psychological factors involved in healthy eating, physical activity and adherence to medication.
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Digital Health Education: Exploring Accessibility and Inclusivity issues in Synchronous ONLINE Learning
In:
Health Education Journal
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Submitted) -
Calculating self-concept structure indices, including Linville’s H: Toward standardization and replication
In:
Collabra
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1525/collabra.38597
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
It’s easy to maintain when the changes are small: Exploring environmentally motivated dietary changes from a self-control perspective
In:
Collabra, vol. 8
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1525/collabra.38823
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
How conceptualising obesity as a disease affects beliefs about weight, and associated weight stigma and clinical decision-making in health care
In:
British Journal of Health Psychology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/bjhp.12625
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (E-pub ahead of print) -
“I'm not alone”: Outcomes of a faculty-wide initiative for co-creating inclusive science curricula through student-staff partnership
In:
International Journal for Academic Development
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/1360144X.2021.1988618
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (E-pub ahead of print) -
A Meaty Issue: The Effect of Meat-related Label Terminology on the Willingness to Eat Vegetarian Foods
In:
Food Quality and Preference, vol. 96
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foodqual.2021.104413
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
Breaking the Binary: Conceptions of Sex and Gender in Undergraduate Science
In:
Teaching & Learning Inquiry, vol. 9
DOI: https://doi.org/10.20343/teachlearninqu.9.2.6
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
Where do I belong? How a sense of identity with vet school and university impacts veterinary student wellbeing.
Research output: Contribution to Conference › Abstract (Published) -
Structure, Content and Inter‐relationships between Self‐aspects: Integrating Findings from the Social Identity and Self Complexity Traditions
In:
European Journal of Social Psychology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/ejsp.2760
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
A demonstration of the collaborative replication and education project: Replication attempts of the Red-Romance effect
In:
Collabra, vol. 5
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1525/collabra.177
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published)