Shihui Yu

Profile

I completed the MSc Psychological Approaches to Health at the University of Leeds. Currently I am undertaking a Ph.D. and working as a teaching assistant in the School of Psychology. My Ph.D. project focuses on infant feeding, responsive feeding, satiety/satiation responsiveness, and alexithymia. Both my master and my Ph.D. are supervised by Professor Marion Hetherington. 

As a PGR rep and a member of the Equality, Diversity & Inclusion Committee in the School of Psychology, my interests lie not only in doing research but also in bringing PGRs together within our school, to create a sense of community where we call home.

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Research interests

My master's project focused on the satiation process in which we explored the association between eating cessation (measured by the Reasons Individuals Stop Eating Questionnaire, AKA “RISE-Q”) and other eating traits including Satiety Responsiveness (AEBQ), mindful eating traits, and interoception.

My Ph.D. project aims to explore the impact of the “baby translator” on the improvement of maternal responsiveness towards infant appetite cues. We have validated the shorter version of RISE-Q which is named RISE-Q15 (Chawner et al., 2022) and we are interested in whether caregivers’ “tune-in” to their own satiation cues, and their affect (alexithymia) are associated with their recognition of their infants’ hunger and satiety cues during mealtimes.

Research interests:

• Human appetite
• Satiation/satiety
• Infant feeding
• Responsive feeding
• Parental sensitivity
• Mindful eating
• Interoceptive awareness
• Intuitive eating
• Childhood obesity
• Alexithymia

Qualifications

• M.Sc. Psychological Approaches to Health (Merit)
• B.Sc. Applied Psychology (Hons)
• B.A Journalism (Hons, secondary degree)