探花直播

• Body Image
• Body Perception
• Obesity
• Eating Disorders
• Weight Stigma
• Quantitative Data Analysis/Statistics

探花直播

• Postgraduate Certificate in Learning and Teaching in Higher Education 2022 - 2023
• Level 7 Academic Professional Apprenticeship Teaching Specialist Role 2022 鈥� 2023

University of Lincoln

• PhD in Psychology [The development and validation of new tools and techniques to assess perceptions of female body size/shape] 2018-2021

Lancaster University

• MSc Psychological Research Methods 2016-2017
• BA (Hons) Psychology and Management 2013-2016

• Associate Fellow of the Higher Education Academy聽

Courses:

• BSc (Hons) Psychology
• BSc (Hons) Psychology with Criminology
• BSc (Hons) Psychology and Counselling

Modules:

• PSY4045 Psychology of Individual Differences and Personality (Co-Module Leader)
• PSY5071 Stress and Health (Module Leader)
• PSY6097 Psychology Dissertation
• PSY7057 MSc Psychology Dissertation

Areas of current research:

• Perceptions of body composition (fat and muscle) in same-sex and opposite-sex samples
• Development and validation of novel computer-generated body scales
• Perceptions of and attitudes towards obesity

Faye Johnson-Hurt (second supervisor) - Experiences, motivations, and Characteristics of Kink identifying adults participating in ethical non-monogamous relationship styles.

Peer-reviewed journal articles:

• Ridley, B. J., Cornelissen, P. L., Maalin, N., Mohamed, S., Kramer, R. S., McCarty, K., & Tov茅e, M. J. (2024). Personal ideal, cultural ideal and optimal attractiveness: Are these constructs for body size and shape the same or different?. Body Image, 51, 101747.
• Groves, V., Ridley, B. J., Cornelissen, P. L., Maalin, N., Mohamed, S., Kramer, R. S., ... & Cornelissen, K. K. (2023). Men's perception of current and ideal body composition and the influence of media internalization on body judgements. Frontiers in Psychology, 14, 1116686.
• Ridley, B., Cornelissen, P. L., Maalin, N., Mohamed, S., Kramer, R., McCarty, K., Tov茅e, M. J. (2022) The degree to which the cultural ideal is internalised predicts judgments of male and female physical attractiveness. Manuscript submitted for publication
• Maalin, N., Mohamed, S., Kramer, R. S., Cornelissen, P. L., Martin, D., & Tov茅e, M. J. (2020). Beyond BMI for self-estimates of body size and shape: A new method for developing stimuli correctly calibrated for body composition.聽Behavior Research Methods, 1-14.
• Irvine, K. R., Irvine, A. R., Maalin, N., McCarty, K., Cornelissen, K. K., Tov茅e, M. J., & Cornelissen, P. L. (2020). Using immersive virtual reality to modify body image.聽Body image,听33, 232-243.
• Groves, V., Cornelissen, P., McCarty, K., Mohamed, S., Maalin, N., Tov茅e, M. J., & Cornelissen, K. (2019). How does variation in the body composition of both stimuli and participant modulate self-estimates of men鈥檚 body size?.聽Frontiers in psychiatry,听10, 720.

Conference papers:

• Maalin, N., Irvine, K. R., Irvine, A., Cornelissen, P. L., Ritchie, K. L., & Tov茅e, M. J. (2019). The use of 3D bodies in a 2D computerised and immersive virtual reality body image intervention. Proc. of 3DBODY.TECH 2019 - 10th Int. Conf. and Exh. on 3D Body Scanning and Processing Technologies.
• Mohamed, S., Maalin, N., Kramer, R., Irvine, A., Cornelissen, P. L., & Tov茅e, M. J. (2019). Development of a 3D Body Database to Improve Measures of Perceptual Male Body Image Distortion. Proc. of 3DBODY.TECH 2019 - 10th Int. Conf. and Exh. on 3D Body Scanning and Processing Technologies.

Maalin, N. (2025, April 29). The 鈥渃ortisol belly鈥� myth: When diet culture is rebranded as 鈥渨ellness.鈥� The Conversation.聽

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