Funding
  • 2021 - £180,178 (KTP) Identifying beliefs and barriers in prescribing behaviour (KTP Supervisor).
  • 2019 - £1,500 (Aston University) Support for University-wide Placement Podcast Pilot.
  • 2019 - £34,122 (LHS) Full-Time PhD Studentship; Katie Edwards (Associate Supervisor).
  • 2019 - £42,491 (LHS, Aston University) Nutrition Laboratory, Aston Brain Centre. 
  • ​2018 - £68,244 (LHS) Full-Time PhD Studentship; Chris Delivett (Associate Supervisor).
  • ​2017 - £68,244 (LHS) Full-Time PhD Studentship; Lily Hawkins (Primary Supervisor).
  • 2017 - £10,000 (BPS) Fruit and Vegetable Maths Masters: disseminating psychological evidence in a fun mobile application to improve children’s eating through the home, preschool or school (Co-Investigator).
  • ​2016 - £68,244 (LHS) Part-Time PhD Studentship; Nicola-Jayne Tuck (Primary Supervisor).
  • 2016 - £4000 (AHRG) Development of a Food Cognition Battery to Investigate Memory for Food (Principal Investigator).
  • 2015 - £870,164 (BBSRC) Interactions between metabolic, cognitive and reward processes in appetite (Co-Investigator).
  • 2014 - £1600 (UoB) Summer Studentship - Comparing social norm effects in lean and obese volunteers (Principal Supervisor).
  • 2013 - £333,367 (ESRC) A social norms approach to encourage healthier eating (Co-Investigator).
  • 2012 - £2388 (UoB) Summer Studentship - Testing of a social norms approach to encouraging healthier eating (Co-Supervisor).
Awards
  • Early Career Researchers Event in Food 2015 - Award for Presentation
  • British Association of Psychopharmacology Conference Bursary 2014
  • Conference Bursary, British Feeding and Drinking Group 2010-2014
  • Life and Environmental Sciences, Small Grant Award 2012 
  • Guarantors of Brain, Travel Award 2012 
  • Experimental Psychology Society, Grindley Grant 2012 
  • Hannah Steinberg Award, British Association for Psychopharmacology 2012 
  • Nominated for and accepted onto the Excellence in Science Program 2012 (AAAS)
Media / Public Engagement
  • 2017 - Interviewed for Popular Science Article "Here’s how scientists are tricking you into eating your veggies" 
  • 2017 - Daily Express Article on Memory for Food
  • 2017 - Columnist for the Healthy Food Guide. Series on "The Psychology of Food"
  • 2016 - Appeared on Channel 4's "Tricks of The Restaurant Trade" as an expert in Eating Behaviour.  
  • 2013 - Co-hosted the ESRC Festival of Social Science Psychology event at Library of Birmingham 
Editorial Board
  • Frontiers in Psychology - Eating Behaviour
  • Frontiers in Psychiatry - Psychopharmacology
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Journal Reviewer
  • Appetite
  • American Journal of Clinical Nutrition
  • British Journal of Nutrition
  • Cognitive Development
  • Health Psychology
  • International Journal of Behavioral Medicine
  • Journal of Psychopharmacology
  • Journal of Public Health
  • Obesity
  • Physiology and Behaviour
  • PLOS ONE
  • Public Health Nutrition​
Present/previous Professional Memberships
  • Chartered Membership of the British Psychological Society (BPS)
  • British Association of Psychopharmacology (BAP)
  • Association for the Study of Obesity (ASO)
  • British Feeding and Drinking Group (BFDG)
  • Society for the Study of Ingestive Behaviour (SSIB)
  • American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • Institute of Food Science & Technology​ (IFST)​

Committees
  • SSIB Membership Committee (2015 - 2018)
Admin/Organisation
  • Programme Director BSc Psychology (Aston University), 2020 - Present
  • Head of Placement Year Psychology (Aston University), 2018 - 2019
  • Athena Swan Psychology Lead (Aston University), 2017 - Present
  • Head of Second Year Psychology (Aston University), 2016 - 2018
  • Ingestive Behaviour Group Seminar Series Organiser (IBG), 2011 - 2015
  • Doctoral Researcher Development Award (DRDA) Manager, 2013
  • Principal Organiser of Treatment of Obesity Conference (TOC), 2012

​Supervision
Dr Thomas has mentored and supervised 71 undergraduate research projects and short-term research placements to completion and 11 postgraduate projects to completion (International interns and Masters students).

Teaching
Dr Thomas has taught Research Methods, Developmental Psychology and Good Experimental Practice. He presently lectures on the Neural Control of Appetite.