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Sanaya B. Pardiwalla

2nd Year Postgraduate
Supervisor: Professor Peter J. Rogers

telephone: +44 (0) 117 95 46620 email: Sanaya.Pardiwalla@bristol.ac.uk

Room 1.3, 5 Priory Road

Biographical Details

I graduated from the St. Xavier’s College and University of Mumbai, India in 2005 with a B.A. (Hons) in Psychology. I went on to do a M.A. in Counseling Psychology at the University of Mumbai in 2007. I came to the U.K. later on in 2007 and I completed my second postgraduate degree, which was a MSc. in Health Psychology at the University of Bath. My dissertation was supervised by Dr. Ed Keogh and it investigated how individual’s rate another person’s pain based on the facial expressions displayed by the person and how these ratings are in turn governed by gender-role stereotypes held by the person. It has been now been written up as a paper for publication.

I have undertaken a three-year PhD (2008-2011) and am currently in my 2nd year. I was awarded the Dorothy Hodgkin Postgraduate Award and funded by Cadburys plc and the BBSRC. I am supervised by Prof. Peter Rogers and collaborate with Dr. Yvonne Finnegan from Cadburys plc.


Research Interests

The PhD roughly seeks to explore how food labels and attitudes about chocolate have an influence on psychological factors like mood, and guilt as well as physical factors like post-consumption gastric sensations in the context of chocolate consumption.

The PhD also explores the role of ambivalence and craving in relation to liking and consumption of chocolate.

Publications

Keogh, E.M. & Pardiwalla, S.B. (2009) (submitted). Pain attributions to emotional expressions depend on the sex of the face.

Conference presentations/Talks

Pardiwalla, S.B. & Rogers, P.J. (2010) "I think I'll take this one"- Label effects and Individual differences in the Liking and Choosing of Chocolate. University of Bristol Annual Post-Graduate Conference, University of Bristol, 25th June.

Pardiwalla, S.B. & Rogers, P.J. (2010) Liking, Choosing and Eating Chocolate. Presentation at Cadburys plc, Uxbridge, 6th May.

Pardiwalla, S.B. & Rogers, P.J. (2010) Liking and Choosing Chocolate- Label effects and Individual differences. British Feeding and Drinking Group Conference, Maastricht, The Netherlands, 26th March.

Pardiwalla, S.B. & Rogers, P.J. (2009) Chocolate, Mood and Appetite: An exploration of Expectations and Individual differences. University of Bristol Annual Post-Graduate Conference, University of Bristol, 26th June.

Pardiwalla, S.B. (2008) Potential Topics for the PhD at University of Bristol Intake Group away day, University of Bristol, 7th November.

Pardiwalla, S.B. (2008) Investigating the role of gender-role stereotypes in explaining gender differences in the perception of facial expressions to pain, University of Bath Postgraduate conference, 1st September.

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