Rate My Professor Hayley Young

Professor Hayley Young is a Professor in the School of Psychology at Swansea University. Her research focuses on understanding how nutrition influences cognition, mood and eating behaviour. Specific areas of investigation include the role of dietary carbohydrates and glucoregulation on performance in children, ageing populations and during sleep; the cognitive, affective and cardiovascular consequences of minor changes in hydration; and individual differences in the processes underlying satiety. She has a particular interest in unravelling the interoceptive, autonomic and neural underpinnings of emotion regulation and how diet may impact these processes. Her work utilises methods spanning the social, behavioural and biological sciences.