About
PhD Title: Signals that deter individuals from making physically active choices
Supervisors: Dr Frank Eves and Dr. Mike White
Qualifications
BSc (Hons) Sport and Exercise Science, University of Birmingham, 2009.
Biography
Guy is a PhD student currently writing up a thesis that draws together many different aspects of psychological science to help explain what drives our everyday exercise choices.
Research
Research groups: Behavioural Medicine Group, Sport and Exercise Psychology Group.
Other activities
Currently a research assistant on MRC funded project ‘Increasing Physical Activity in the Workplace.’
Publications
Publications
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Taylor-Covill, G. A. H. & Eves, F. F. (in prep). Overestimation of perceived slant: It’s not in your head, it’s in your thighs.
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Taylor-Covill, G. A. H. & Eves, F. F. (in prep). ‘Why the overweight should (but don’t) climb stairs.’
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Taylor-Covill, G. A. H. & Eves, F. F. (in prep). ‘A relationship between reported stair usage and perception of steepness.’
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Taylor-Covill, G. A. H. & Eves, F. F. (submitted). ‘Slant perception on screens and stairs: Effects of sex and fatigue in a laboratory environment.’
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Taylor-Covill, G. A. H. & Eves, F. F. (submitted). ‘When what we need influences what we see: A demonstration of embodied perception in the built environment.’
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Eves, F.F. & Taylor-Covill, G. A. H. (submitted). ‘Embodied Mass Index for stair perception: Effects of bodyweight and distance of perceived staircase slant.’
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Taylor-Covill, G. A. H. & Eves, F. F. (publication pending). ‘The accuracy of haptically perceived geographical slant.’
Conferences involved in:
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Lead role on the organising committee for a university funded day conference on ‘The Psychological Aspects of Physical Activity and Health across the Lifespan.’ Birmingham, May 2011.
Presentations given
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‘Why the overweight should (but don’t) take the stairs’ Treatment of Obesity Conference, Birmingham, June 2012.
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‘Why the overweight should (but don’t) take the stairs’ Universitas 21 Early Career Researchers Workshop, Birmingham, December 2011.
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‘Does what we need influence what we see? Implicit energy demands affect our perception of a locomotor challenge.’ 23rd Annual Meeting of the Human Behavior and Evolution Society, Montpellier, June 2011.
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‘Slope perception: once survival positive, now survival negative?’ 23rd Annual Meeting of the Human Behavior and Evolution Society, Montpellier, June 2011.