Antonia Catherine Lyons is a New Zealand health psychology academic.

Career

Lyons completed her PhD at

Massey University Massey University ( mi, Te Kunenga ki Pūrehuroa) is a university based in Palmerston North, New Zealand, with significant campuses in Albany and Wellington. Massey University has approximately 30,883 students, 13,796 of whom are extramural or ...

in 1996. Her first academic post was as lecturer in health psychology at the

University of Birmingham , mottoeng = Through efforts to heights , established = 1825 – Birmingham School of Medicine and Surgery1836 – Birmingham Royal School of Medicine and Surgery1843 – Queen's College1875 – Mason Science College1898 – Mason Univers ...

, UK, from 1996 to 2002. She returned to Massey University (NZ; Albany and Wellington campuses) and rose to professor at this institution. Lyons took up the role of Professor of Health Psychology at

Victoria University of Wellington Victoria University of Wellington ( mi, Te Herenga Waka) is a university in Wellington, New Zealand. It was established in 1897 by Act of Parliament, and was a constituent college of the University of New Zealand. The university is well know ...

in 2018, where she is also Head of School, School of Health. In 2009, Lyons received a

Marsden Fund Marsden grants are the main form of contestable funding for fundamental, 'blue skies' research in New Zealand. Grants are made in all areas of research, in both science and the humanities. The grants are made from the Marsden Fund, which was establ ...

grant to study young adults, their drinking and social media called 'Young Adults, Drinking Stories and the Cult of Celebrity.' In 2004 Lyons received a fast-start Marsden Fund grant called 'Working hard, playing hard: Gender relations and alcohol consumption'. Lyons contributes to blogs such as

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and Sciblogs.co.nz

Selected works

* Lyons, A.C., McCreanor, T., Goodwin, I., & Moewaka Barnes, H. (Eds). (2017). ''Yout
drinking cultures in a digital world: Alcohol, social media and cultures of intoxication.
Abingdon UK: Routledge. *Rohleder, P & Lyons, A.C. (Eds.). (2015).
Qualitative research in clinical and health psychology
'' Basingstoke UK: Palgrave MacMillan. *Lyons, Antonia C., and Sara A. Willott. "Alcohol consumption, gender identities and women’s changing social positions."

Sex roles A gender role, also known as a sex role, is a social role encompassing a range of behaviors and attitudes that are generally considered acceptable, appropriate, or desirable for a person based on that person's sex. Gender roles are usually cente ...

59, no. 9-10 (2008): 694–712. * Lyons, Antonia C., and Kerry Chamberlain. Health psychology: A critical introduction.

Cambridge University Press Cambridge University Press is the university press of the University of Cambridge. Granted letters patent by Henry VIII of England, King Henry VIII in 1534, it is the oldest university press A university press is an academic publishing hou ...

, 2006. * Treharne, Gareth J., George D. Kitas, Antonia C. Lyons, and David A. Booth. "Well-being in rheumatoid arthritis: the effects of disease duration and psychosocial factors."

Journal of health psychology The ''Journal of Health Psychology'' is a peer-reviewed academic journal covering all aspects of health psychology. The Founder Editor is David F Marks who also served as editor-in-chief from 1996-2021. The current Co-Editor Team comprises Abigail ...

10, no. 3 (2005): 457–474. * Treharne, Gareth J., Antonia C. Lyons, David A. Booth, and George D. Kitas. "Psychological well‐being across 1 year with rheumatoid arthritis: Coping resources as buffers of perceived stress."

British journal of health psychology The ''British Journal of Health Psychology'' is a quarterly peer-reviewed scientific journal covering health psychology. It was established in 1996, when it was split off from the existing '' British Journal of Clinical Psychology''. It is publis ...

12, no. 3 (2007): 323–345.

References

External links

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