Dr Neil Boyle
School of Psychology
Research Fellow
n.boyle@sheffield.ac.uk
Interdisciplinary Centre of the Social Sciences (ICOSS)
Full contact details
Dr Neil Boyle
School of Psychology
Interdisciplinary Centre of the Social Sciences (ICOSS)
219 Portobello
Sheffield
S1 4DP
School of Psychology
Interdisciplinary Centre of the Social Sciences (ICOSS)
219 Portobello
Sheffield
S1 4DP
- Qualifications
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- PhD Psychology
- BSc (Hons) Psychology
- Adv. Dip. Learning Disabilities Nursing
- Research interests
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I am a biological psychologist interested in the relationships between stress, cognition and health; the effects of stress on eating behaviour; and potential for nutrients and diet to moderate stress vulnerability. I also have an interest in the promotion of healthy, sustainable diets, the impacts of food insecurity, and population health.
- Publications
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Journal articles
- Increasing fibre intake in the UK: lessons from the Danish Whole Grain Partnership. British Journal of Nutrition, 1-14. View this article in WRRO
- Impacts of the Ukraine–Russia Conflict on the Global Food Supply Chain and Building Future Resilience. EuroChoices, 22(1), 14-19.
- Proxy longitudinal indicators of household food insecurity in the UK. Emerald Open Research, 1(10).
- A Combination of Green Tea, Rhodiola, Magnesium, and B Vitamins Increases Electroencephalogram Theta Activity During Attentional Task Performance Under Conditions of Induced Social Stress. Frontiers in Nutrition, 9, 935001.
- A combination of green tea, rhodiola, magnesium and B vitamins modulates brain activity and protects against the effects of induced social stress in healthy volunteers. Nutritional Neuroscience, 25(9), 1845-1859.
- Healthy soil, healthy food, healthy people: an outline of the H3 project. Nutrition Bulletin, 46(4), 497-505. View this article in WRRO
- A Combination of Magnesium, B Vitamins, Green Tea and Rhodiola Attenuates the Negative Effects of Acute Psychosocial Stress on Subjective State in Adults. Current Developments in Nutrition, 4(Suppl 2), nzaa067_023-nzaa067_023.
- Un traitement combiné de magnésium, vitamines B, rhodiola et thé vert améliore l’humeur subjective et le bien-être durant un stress aigu : résultats préliminaires d’un essai contrôlé randomisé contre placebo. Nutrition Clinique et Métabolisme, 34(1), 69-69.
- Effects of milk-based phospholipids on cognitive performance and subjective responses to psychosocial stress: A randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial in high-perfectionist men. Nutrition, 57, 183-193.
- The relationship between obesity and cognitive health and decline. Proceedings of the Nutrition Society, 76(4), 443-454.
- The effects of magnesium supplementation on subjective anxiety. Magnesium Research, 29(3), 120-125.
- Rinsing, independent of energy and metabolism, improves ego depleted self-control performance. Appetite, 101, 228-229.
- Examining techniques for measuring the effects of nutrients on mental performance and mood state. European Journal of Nutrition, 55(6), 1991-2000.
- No effects of ingesting or rinsing sucrose on depleted self-control performance. Physiology & Behavior, 154, 151-160.
- Stress responses to repeated exposure to a combined physical and social evaluative laboratory stressor in young healthy males. Psychoneuroendocrinology, 63, 119-127.
- Dreading the boards: stress response to a competitive audition characterized by social-evaluative threat. Anxiety, Stress & Coping, 26(6), 690-699.
- Connected Food: First Steps for an Ambitious National Food Strategy. Nutrients, 16(19), 3371-3371.
- What does ‘co-production’ look like for food system transformation? Mapping the evidence across Transforming UK Food Systems (TUKFS) projects. Nutrition Bulletin.
- Proxy longitudinal indicators of household food insecurity in the UK. Emerald Open Research, 3, 16-16.
- The Effects of Carbohydrates, in Isolation and Combined with Caffeine, on Cognitive Performance and Mood—Current Evidence and Future Directions. Nutrients, 10(2), 192-192.
- The Effects of Magnesium Supplementation on Subjective Anxiety and Stress—A Systematic Review. Nutrients, 9(5), 429-429.
- Commentary: Neural correlates of expected risks and returns in risky choice across development. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 9.
Chapters
- Macronutrients and cognitive performance, Lifetime Nutritional Influences on Cognition, Behaviour and Psychiatric Illness (pp. 131-159).
Conference proceedings papers
- Meeting UK Fibre Intake Recommendations in Food Insecure Households: The Availability of Fibre from Redistributed Surplus Food. The 14th European Nutrition Conference FENS 2023
- How Can We Encourage Primary School Children to Choose and Consume High-Fibre Breakfast Products?. The 14th European Nutrition Conference FENS 2023
- Research group
- Grants
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- 2022 Research England Policy Support Fund: Leeds City Council policy-based secondment funding. Evidence-based Policy Secondment: Delivering the Leeds Food Strategy. (PI): £14,487.
- 2022 BBSRC - Transforming the UK Food System Programme Flexibility Fund: Using slow cookers to increase fibre intake in disadvantaged communities. (PI): £9,975
- 2021 BBSRC – Knowledge Exchange Mini Project: Engaging with hard to reach populations. (Researcher Co-I): £9,898.
- 2020 UKRI – Strategic Priorities Fund Transforming the UK Food System programme grant: Healthy soil, Healthy food, Healthy people (H3): (Researcher Co-I). 2021-2026, £6,144,270.
- 2020 Industrial Sponsor (Sanofi Aventis): Development of a measure of the cognitive sequelae of headache. (Researcher Co-I): £426, 065
- 2019 BBSRC - Diet Research Industry Club: Short-term scientific or industrial missions (STSIMs). Diet & Health Seeding Award. (Researcher Co-I): £5,140
- 2018 N8 Agrifood Local Pump Priming Award: Understanding the risks to existing food supplies at the city level. (PI): £8,500. Collaborative project with University of Sheffield, University of Liverpool, & Lancaster University.
- 2017 N8 Agrifood Strategic Pump Priming Award: People to Food, Food to People: towards integrating access to food for older people into planning, transport policy and community services. (Co-I): £24,200. Collaborative project with Newcastle University, University of Liverpool, & Lancaster University.
- 2017 Industrial Sponsor (Sanofi Aventis): Acute Effect of Minerals and botanicals in Combination or Isolation on Cognitive Performance, Neural Activity, and Subjective and Cortisol Response to Acute Stress. (Researcher Co-I): £422,390.
- PhD Opportunities
I am not currently accepting applications for PhD study.
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