Qualifications: PhD, MSc in Critical Health Psychology, BSc

Dr. Kimberley Norman is a Research Fellow with a focus on the multi-leveled nature of obesity healthcare and weight management. Her work utilises participatory and co-design research methodologies to reduce inequity, support the healthcare workforce, and increase the quality of life for individuals and communities living with obesity.

Due to the complexities of obesity and weight management, Dr. Norman's work spans multiple disciplines, including the impacts of living with obesity in political, physiological, psychological, social, economic, and culturally specific contexts. With strong qualitative expertise, her current research investigates how to implement communication strategies in primary and allied healthcare clinical consultations in a way that is non-stigmatising for people living with obesity.

Dr. Norman is the Vice-Chair and incoming Chair of the world's largest primary care research group, NAPCRG, Trainee Committee, with annual conferences attended by over 1,000 policymakers, researchers, clinicians, and students from around the world. She is a member and advisor for Australia's peak coalition body for improving obesity health outcomes, The Obesity Collective. She works to raise the voices of people living with obesity in research and policy spaces through her position as a Leadership Member of Australia's obesity lived experience consumer advocacy group, The Weight Issues Network, which aims to reduce stigma and improve health outcomes for people living with obesity. She is also an advisory member for Franklin Women, Australia's professional community dedicated to supporting women working in diverse disciplines, career levels, and organisations across the health and medical research ecosystem.

Prior to this, Dr. Norman was awarded three independent scholarships to complete her PhD at Waikato University in New Zealand, which explored the experiences of communicating obesity health messages in primary care, producing seven publications. Her MSc at Massey University in Critical Health Psychology focused on the lived experiences of long-term significant weight loss in women. This thesis utilised a social constructionist approach with social identity and stigma theoretical lenses to explore weight change experiences.

Dr. Norman is currently accepting MSc and PhD students.