Amanda McCloat
Biographic Data
| ID | 6260025 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Amanda McCloat |
| GIVEN NAMES | Amanda |
| FAMILY NAME | McCloat |
| SIGNATURE | MCCLOAT A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Ollscoil na Gaillimhe – University of Galway |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7735-1090 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 42 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 14 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Self-determination theory in the secondary school classroom
Self-Determination Theory (SDT) seeks to explain the development of intrinsic motivation by supporting the basic needs of autonomy, relatedness and competence. Decades of research have supported its application to educational contexts, linking it to wellbeing, academic resilience and performance. Despite this, formal schooling during adolescence is often associated with the opposite. A scoping review was chosen to map evidence available on ‘If an…
Domestic cooking and food behaviours during the Covid-19 pandemic and the cost-of-living crisis
This scoping review examined how the COVID-19 pandemic and cost-of-living crisis have influenced domestic cooking and food-related behaviours. Following PRISMA-ScR, a systematic search across five databases and grey literature sources identified 4955 records. After screening, 98 studies published between 2020 and 2024 were included. Most studies were conducted in the UK (22.4 %) and USA (18.4 %) and employed cross-sectional (94.9 %) and quantitat…
‘I want food to be tasty and healthy’
Ensuring that children and adolescents receive adequate nutrition is a cornerstone of public health globally, supporting their growth, development, and long-term well-being, but not enough is known about children and adolescents’ perspectives on nutrition. The aim of this study was to obtain the perceptions and attitudes of school-aged children and adolescents (4–18 years) on existing models and approaches to food education and food messages. Dat…
Recipes for Success
Purpose: To evaluate the effectiveness of a practical food skills and nutrition education workshop and investigate the attitudes towards, and knowledge of, nutrition among young amateur Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA) players. Design and method: A quantitative study using a pre-/post-intervention study design assessed nutritional knowledge, food preparation skills, cooking skills confidence, attitudes towards nutrition, and future diet and food…
Fun with food - A parent-child community cooking intervention reduces parental fear and increases children's perceived competence
From the pandemic to the pan
Objective: This study aimed to investigate the impact of COVID-19 on time spent cooking and parental inclusion of children in cooking. The secondary aim was to investigate differences between those who frequently included their children in cooking activities during the COVID-19 pandemic and those who included their children less, on a number of factors such as working from home, parents’ diet quality and cooking skills confidence. Design: Cross-c…
Cook Like A Boss
The effects of nutrition and health claims on the nutrient composition of single and subsequent meal servings
Nutrition and health claims (NHCs) can help individuals make better food choices. While NHCs have been found to influence consumer perceptions and consumption, there has been less focus on how claims influence the nutritional composition of servings. There has also been little attention paid to longer term or compensatory effects of claims on subsequent food selection. This manuscript details two studies considering these matters. Study 1 (n = 60…
Guidelines for designing age-appropriate cooking interventions for children
Teachers’ experiences of enacting curriculum policy at the micro level using Bernstein’s theory of the pedagogic device
This study examines the experiences of teachers in the Republic of Ireland, as agents of the pedagogic device, in enacting curriculum policy at the micro level of the classroom. It explores their enactment of policy at a time of significant curriculum reform of junior secondary school education. Drawing upon the findings of in-depth interviews with teachers, this study integrates Bernstein’s Theory of ‘Pedagogic Device’ with Ball’s concept of ‘po…
Domestic cooking and food skills
Domestic cooking skills (CS) and food skills (FS) encompass multiple components, yet there is a lack of consensus on their constituent parts, inter-relatedness, or measurement, leading to limited empirical support for their role in influencing dietary quality. This review assessed the measurement of CS and FS in adults (>16 years); critically examining study designs, psychometric properties of measures, theoretical basis, and associations of CS/F…
Increasing intention to cook from basic ingredients
The impact of video technology on learning
Barriers and facilitators to cooking from ‘scratch’ using basic or raw ingredients
Barriers and facilitators to cooking from ‘scratch’ using basic or raw ingredients
Guidelines for designing age-appropriate cooking interventions for children
The impact of video technology on learning
Increasing intention to cook from basic ingredients
Fun with food - A parent-child community cooking intervention reduces parental fear and increases children's perceived competence
Cook Like A Boss
Barriers and facilitators to cooking from ‘scratch’ using basic or raw ingredients
Domestic cooking and food skills
Domestic cooking skills (CS) and food skills (FS) encompass multiple components, yet there is a lack of consensus on their constituent parts, inter-relatedness, or measurement, leading to limited empirical support for their role in influencing dietary quality. This review assessed the measurement of CS and FS in adults (>16 years); critically examining study designs, psychometric properties of measures, theoretical basis, and associations of CS/F…
Increasing intention to cook from basic ingredients
The impact of video technology on learning
Teachers’ experiences of enacting curriculum policy at the micro level using Bernstein’s theory of the pedagogic device
This study examines the experiences of teachers in the Republic of Ireland, as agents of the pedagogic device, in enacting curriculum policy at the micro level of the classroom. It explores their enactment of policy at a time of significant curriculum reform of junior secondary school education. Drawing upon the findings of in-depth interviews with teachers, this study integrates Bernstein’s Theory of ‘Pedagogic Device’ with Ball’s concept of ‘po…
Guidelines for designing age-appropriate cooking interventions for children
From the pandemic to the pan
Objective: This study aimed to investigate the impact of COVID-19 on time spent cooking and parental inclusion of children in cooking. The secondary aim was to investigate differences between those who frequently included their children in cooking activities during the COVID-19 pandemic and those who included their children less, on a number of factors such as working from home, parents’ diet quality and cooking skills confidence. Design: Cross-c…
Cook Like A Boss
The effects of nutrition and health claims on the nutrient composition of single and subsequent meal servings
Nutrition and health claims (NHCs) can help individuals make better food choices. While NHCs have been found to influence consumer perceptions and consumption, there has been less focus on how claims influence the nutritional composition of servings. There has also been little attention paid to longer term or compensatory effects of claims on subsequent food selection. This manuscript details two studies considering these matters. Study 1 (n = 60…
Recipes for Success
Purpose: To evaluate the effectiveness of a practical food skills and nutrition education workshop and investigate the attitudes towards, and knowledge of, nutrition among young amateur Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA) players. Design and method: A quantitative study using a pre-/post-intervention study design assessed nutritional knowledge, food preparation skills, cooking skills confidence, attitudes towards nutrition, and future diet and food…
Fun with food - A parent-child community cooking intervention reduces parental fear and increases children's perceived competence
‘I want food to be tasty and healthy’
Ensuring that children and adolescents receive adequate nutrition is a cornerstone of public health globally, supporting their growth, development, and long-term well-being, but not enough is known about children and adolescents’ perspectives on nutrition. The aim of this study was to obtain the perceptions and attitudes of school-aged children and adolescents (4–18 years) on existing models and approaches to food education and food messages. Dat…
Self-determination theory in the secondary school classroom
Self-Determination Theory (SDT) seeks to explain the development of intrinsic motivation by supporting the basic needs of autonomy, relatedness and competence. Decades of research have supported its application to educational contexts, linking it to wellbeing, academic resilience and performance. Despite this, formal schooling during adolescence is often associated with the opposite. A scoping review was chosen to map evidence available on ‘If an…
Domestic cooking and food behaviours during the Covid-19 pandemic and the cost-of-living crisis
This scoping review examined how the COVID-19 pandemic and cost-of-living crisis have influenced domestic cooking and food-related behaviours. Following PRISMA-ScR, a systematic search across five databases and grey literature sources identified 4955 records. After screening, 98 studies published between 2020 and 2024 were included. Most studies were conducted in the UK (22.4 %) and USA (18.4 %) and employed cross-sectional (94.9 %) and quantitat…
Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet (10 works) · Psychology (10 works) · Medicine (9 works) · Food Science (5 works) · Psychological intervention (5 works) · Eating Disorders and Behaviors (4 works) · Qualitative research (4 works) · Business (3 works) · Child Nutrition and Feeding Issues (3 works) · Computer Science (3 works)