Speaker
Professor Clare Llewellyn
Professor of Psychology and Epidemiology, and co-leader of UCL-REACH (Research into Eating, ACtivity and Health) in the Department of Behavioural Science and Health, UCL
Biography
Clare Llewellyn is Professor of Psychology and Epidemiology, and co-leader of UCL-REACH (Research into Eating, ACtivity, and Health) in the Department of Behavioural Science and Health. After graduating from the University of Oxford in 2000 she had an initial career in the pharmaceutical industry, before retraining as a psychologist. In 2007 she undertook an MSc in Health Psychology at UCL, funded by the MRC. She went on to complete an ESRC/MRC-funded PhD in 2011 on the genetic epidemiology of appetite and growth in early life, under the supervision of the late Professor Jane Wardle at UCL. Following two postdoctoral positions - with Professor Wardle at UCL, and Professor Robert Plomin in King's College London's Social Genetic and Developmental Psychiatry Centre - she took up her first academic position as Lecturer at UCL in 2013, Associate Professor in 2018 and full Professor in 2024. She is Deputy Head of the Department of Behavioural Science and Health.
Clare is a longstanding member (and former elected trustee: 2014-2019) of the UK Association for the Study of Obesity; Europe's largest national obesity science organisation, and the UK's foremost charitable organisation dedicated to the understanding, prevention and treatment of obesity. She is also an Associate Fellow of the British Psychological Society. Clare is actively involved in public engagement and has published a practical, evidence-based book for parents and caregivers about nutrition and feeding in the early years.