Kasia Banas
Undergraduate Talent Lead and Programme Director | Co-Director of Students for Usher Institute
- Usher Institute
- College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine
Contact details
- Email: kasia.banas@ed.ac.uk
Address
- Street
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Teaching Organisation
Usher Institute, Usher Building
The University of Edinburgh
5-7 Little France Road
Edinburgh BioQuarter ‒ Gate 3 - City
- Edinburgh
- Post code
- EH16 4UX
Background
Kasia Banas is the Undergraduate Talent Lead and Programme Co-Director for the DDI Health and Social Care programme at the Usher Institute.
Shaping the future of a major new health & social care programme for Edinburgh & South East Scotland as part of the DDI initiative at the University of Edinburgh. The ‘Talent’ component of the health and social care sector programme includes data science enhancement of the undergraduate medical degree to a portfolio of master’s degrees and the development of continuing professional development (CPD). The programme ambition is to enable students and health and social care professionals realise the value of data to benefit the health and wellbeing of citizens.
Kasia has over ten years’ experience teaching in higher education; her portfolio includes courses in behavioural science, social and health psychology, as well as statistics and data science. She is also active in the scholarship of teaching and learning, focusing on building student belonging and removing barriers to education.
Kasia’s research focuses on applying social psychology to health behaviour: investigating the psychological factors involved in healthy eating, physical activity and adherence to medication.
Qualifications
P.G.Cert. Academic Practice, University of Edinburgh, Scotland.
PhD. The effect of social identity salience on healthy eating intentions and behaviour. University of Edinburgh, Scotland.
MSc. Psychology of Individual Differences. University of Edinburgh, Scotland.
MSc. Research Masters in Social Psychology. Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
BA (Hons). Social Sciences. University College Utrecht, The Netherlands.
Undergraduate teaching
Module Lead for Y2 Research and Evidence Based Medicine (part of the MBChB curriculum in the Edinburgh Medical School)
Programme Organiser for the BSc/BMedSci in Biomedical and Health Applications of Data Science
Postgraduate teaching
Co-Director of Students for the Usher Institute
Supervision of MSc students in the Usher Insitute and in Psychology
Open to PhD supervision enquiries?
Yes
Current PhD students supervised
Sumetha Uthayakumar, Advanced Care Research Centre, School of Engineering
Past PhD students supervised
Lara Wehbe, Healthy Cognition Lab
Research summary
Kasia’s research focuses on applying social psychology to health behaviour: investigating the psychological factors involved in healthy eating, physical activity and adherence to medication.