Amanda Pitkethly
Amanda Pitkethly

Dr Amanda Pitkethly

Lecturer

 0131 455 3201

  A.Pitkethly@napier.ac.uk

   

Biography

I am a lecturer and programme lead for the MSc Clinical Exercise Physiology programme (accreditation from Academy of Healthcare Sciences pending). I am also a BASES accredited HCPC registered Sport & Exercise Psychologist, and a practitioner and trainer of Motivational Interviewing and member of the Motivational Interviewing Network of Trainers (MINT). I am a co-founder of the Applied Psychologists in Physical Activity Network (APPAN). My main research interest is in the application of self-regulated learning and behaviour change in health and performance.

I have been our Higher Education partner with CIMSPA since 2018. Working on mapping professional standards to our endorsed BSc Physical Activity for Health programme (The Chartered Institute for the Management of Sport and Physical Activity). This programme that aims to develop a strong workforce to drive better health and wellbeing in our country.

I have also worked with colleagues on developing the Public Health Scotland Physical Activity Referral Standards to develop more consistency in this area.

We have been collaborating nationally to develop the curriculum framework for accredited MSc Clinical Exercise Physiology programmes, and along with colleagues, I have been developing the psychology module framework to sit in this national curriculum.

As an HCPC registered Sport & Exercise Psychologist, my practitioner experience includes working in physical activity and health with adolescents and adults in the general public and in clinical populations. Additionally, I work with athletes and coaches from many sports including martial arts, triathlon, rugby, touch rugby, field hockey, motor racing (including the WSeries 2022), football, swimming, golf, gymnastics and dressage, GB deaf athletes prior to and at the 2017 Deaflympics and currently on the UK Deaf Sport Performance Advisory Group; as well as business professionals, professional musicians, and dancers.

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An experimental COVID‐19 messaging study in a representative sample of the Scottish population: Increasing physical distancing intentions through self‐efficacy

Journal Article
Den Daas, C., Johnston, M., Hubbard, G., Dixon, D., Cristea, M., Davis, A., …Wyke, S. (2023)
An experimental COVID‐19 messaging study in a representative sample of the Scottish population: Increasing physical distancing intentions through self‐efficacy. British Journal of Health Psychology, 28(2), 439-450. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjhp.12632
Objectives Self-efficacy is important for adherence to transmission-reducing behaviours (e.g., physical distancing) as also shown in the CHARIS project. We aimed to show that ...

MSc CEP Curriculum Framework

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Jones, P. H., Green, . P. D., Whyte, P. G., Askew, A. P. C., Tolfrey, D. K., Scott, D. A., …Crozier, A. (2022)
MSc CEP Curriculum Framework. [Curriculum Framework]
The Academy of Healthcare Science (AHCS) approve education programmes to ensure that they allow students to meet Standards of Proficiency and principles of Good Clinical Pract...

Addressing concerns between curricula and employability: Can we do more?

Presentation / Conference
Leggate, M., & Pitkethly, A. (2022, June)
Addressing concerns between curricula and employability: Can we do more?. Paper presented at Advance HE's Curriculum Symposium, Leeds

Elena+ Care for COVID-19, A Pandemic Lifestyle Care Intervention: Intervention Design and Study Protocol

Journal Article
Ollier, J., Neff, S., Dworschak, C., Sejdiji, A., Santhanam, P., Keller, R., …Kowatsch, T. (2021)
Elena+ Care for COVID-19, A Pandemic Lifestyle Care Intervention: Intervention Design and Study Protocol. Frontiers in Public Health, 9, https://doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2021.625640
Background: The current COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic is an emergency on a global scale, with huge swathes of the population required to remain indoors for prolonged periods t...

Foresee the glory and train better: Narcissism, goal-setting and athlete training

Journal Article
Zhang, S., Roberts, R., Woodman, T., Pitkethly, A., English, C., & Nightingale, D. (2021)
Foresee the glory and train better: Narcissism, goal-setting and athlete training. Sport, Exercise, and Performance Psychology, 10(3), 381-393. https://doi.org/10.1037/spy0000264
Grandiose narcissism may be debilitative to athlete training because the opportunity for self-enhancement that motivates narcissists to strive is normally absent in training e...

Task-efficacy predicts perceived enjoyment and subsequently barrier-efficacy: investigating a psychological process underpinning schoolchildren's physical activity

Journal Article
Zhang, S., Wang, J., & Pitkethly, A. (2021)
Task-efficacy predicts perceived enjoyment and subsequently barrier-efficacy: investigating a psychological process underpinning schoolchildren's physical activity. International Journal of Sport and Exercise Psychology, 19(6), 943-956. https://doi.org/10.1080/1612197X.2020.1849352
Self-efficacy and perceived enjoyment have been recognised as important psychological correlates of children’s physical activity (PA). However, research investigating the psyc...

Performance strategies’ moderation of the interaction between adaptive and maladaptive narcissism on athlete training

Presentation / Conference
Zhang, S., Roberts, R., Pitkethly, A., & English, C. (2019, November)
Performance strategies’ moderation of the interaction between adaptive and maladaptive narcissism on athlete training. Presented at BASES Conference 2019, Leicester
Literature suggests that grandiose narcissism may be debilitative to athlete training because the opportunity for self-enhancement that motivates grandiose narcissists to stri...

Lead me to train better: Transformational leadership moderates the negative relationship between athlete personality and training behaviours.

Journal Article
Zhang, S., Beatie, S., Pitkethly, A., & Dempsey, C. (2019)
Lead me to train better: Transformational leadership moderates the negative relationship between athlete personality and training behaviours. Sport Psychologist, 33(2), 119-128. https://doi.org/10.1123/tsp.2018-0055
High-quality training environments are essential for athletic peak performance. However, recent research highlighted that athletes' personality characteristics could undermine...

The intervention effect of SMS delivery on Chinese adolescent's physical activity.

Journal Article
Lau, P. W. C., Pitkethly, A. J., Leung, B. W. C., Lau, E. Y., & Wang, J. (2019)
The intervention effect of SMS delivery on Chinese adolescent's physical activity. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 16(5), 787. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph16050787
To examine the effects of short messaging service (SMS) frequency and timing on the 13 efficacy of an SMS-intervention for Hong Kong Chinese adolescents. Sixty nine students a...

Providing pupils autonomous use of sit-stand desks; behaviour changes and teacher and pupil opinion following an 8 week intervention

Journal Article
Fowler, S., Pitkethly, A., Booth, J., Sproule, J., & Hutson, D. (2018)
Providing pupils autonomous use of sit-stand desks; behaviour changes and teacher and pupil opinion following an 8 week intervention. Journal of Physical Activity and Health, 15(10 Suppl 1), S74-S74. https://doi.org/10.1123/jpah.2018-0535
Parallel oral session : Wednesday 17th October

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