Dr Georgia Butler
Faculties, deparments and locations
- Faculty of Business and Social Sciences
- Department of Psychology
- School of Law, Social and Behavioural Sciences
- Penrhyn Road
Senior Lecturer
- Email:
- gk.butler@kingston.ac.uk
About
I obtained my PhD from the University of Greenwich on the topic of impulsivity and risk taking behaviour in clinical and non clinical populations. This included research with recreational drugs users, women with anorexia nervosa, children and adolescents with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.
At Kingston University I teach bio-psychology at undergraduate and postgraduate level, mental health and brain function, neuropsychology and neuro-rehabilitation. I am course leader for the MSc Psychology (conversion).
Qualifications
- PhD - University of Greenwich
- BSc Psychology (Hons) - London Guildhall University
- PG Certificate in Teaching and Learning - Kingston University
Domains
- My research focuses on impulsive behaviour in populations with impaired impulse control, such as licit and illicit drug users and individuals with dysfunctional eating behaviours.
- I am also interested in wider aspects of drug use, including the non medical use of prescription drugs and cognitive enhancing drugs.
- Wider aspects of eating behaviours, including the role of social media and food addiction.
- Mental health in drug users, dysfunctional eating behaviour and people with food addiction.
- Mental health in hard to reach populations such as construction workers. In 2019 with consultancy research funding from a SME rail infrastructure provider, mental health in their employees was investigated.
- Second supervisor to a PhD student investigating the role of oxytocin on eating.
Specialisms
- Eating Behaviours
- Drug Use and addiction
- Impulsivity
- Risk taking behaviour
Scholarly affiliations
- Graduate Member of the BPS
Publications
Impulsivity dimensions and their associations with disinhibited and actual eating behaviour
Goodwin, Alexandra L., Butler, Georgia K.L. and Nikčević, Ana V., 2023, Eating Behaviors, pp 101752
Intranasal oxytocin reduces attentional bias to food stimuli
Burmester, V., Butler, G. and Terry, P., 2021, Appetite (168), pp 105684
Oxytocin reduces post-stress sweet snack intake in women without attenuating salivary cortisol
Burmester, V., Gibson, E. L., Butler, G., Bailey, A. and Terry, P., 2019, (212), pp 112704
Attitudes of intravenous drug users in London towards the provision of drug consumption rooms
Butler, Georgia, Chapman, Dita and Terry, Philip, 2018, Drugs: Education, Prevention and Policy (25), 1, pp 31-37
Subjective self-control and behavioural impulsivity coexist in anorexia nervosa
Butler, G.K.L. and Montgomery, A.M.J., 2005, Eating Behaviors (6), 3, pp 221-227
Impulsivity, risk taking and recreational 'ecstasy' (MDMA) use
Butler, G.K.L. and Montgomery, A.M.J., 2004, Drug and Alcohol Dependence (76), 1, pp 55-62
A quantitative study of eating attitudes and body shape concerns in elite rowers
Butler, Georgia and Kennedy, Leonora(2015). In: BPS Division of Health Psychology Annual Conference 2015, 16-18 Sep 2015 :London, U.K.
Recreational drug use, impulsivity, risk taking and anxiety
Butler, Georgia and O’Leary, N(2010). In: 25th Annual Conference of the BPS Psychobiology Section, 1-3 Sept 2010 :Windermere, UK
The relationship of impulsivity with alcohol consumption and alcohol related problems
Butler, Georgia and John, K(2009). In: 24th Annual Conference of the BPS Psychobiology Section, 2-4 Sept 2009 :Windermere, UK
Intravenous drug users attitudes to drug consumption rooms
Butler, G.K.L. and Chapman, D.(2008). In: 23rd Annual Conference of the BPS Psychobiology Section, 3-5 Sep 2008 :Windermere, U.K.
Polydrug use is associated with self-report impulsivity and risk taking but not digit ratio
Butler, G.K.L. and Chapman, D.(2006). In: 2006 Psychobiology Annual Meeting, 18-20 Sep 2006 :Windermere, UK
Self-reported impulsivity and 'ecstasy' (MDMA) use
Butler, G.K.L. and Harrison, K.N.(2005). In: 2005 Psychobiology Section Annual Meeting, 14-16 Sep 2005 :Cardiff, U.K.
Impulsiveness, inattention and risk-taking in medicated adolescents with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder
Butler, GK and Montgomery, AMJ(2002). In: British Association for Psychopharmacology Summer Meeting, 21-24 Jul 2002 :Harrogate, U.K.
Recreational ecstasy (MDMA) use is associated with increases in risk-taking and self-report scores for impulsiveness, venturesomeness and novelty-seeking
Butler, GKL and Montgomery, AMJ(2001). In: British Association for Psychopharmacology Summer Meeting, 22-25 Jul 2006 :Harrogate, U.K.
Ecstasy (MDMA) use is associated with risk-taking and increased self-report scores for impulsiveness, and novelty-seeking
Butler, G. and Montgomery, A.M.J.(2001). In: The 24th Annual Meeting of the Canadian College of Neuropsychopharmacology, 17-20 Jun 2001 :Banff, Canada