Birmingham City University
- Postgraduate Certificate in Learning and Teaching in Higher Education 2022 - 2023
- Level 7 Academic Professional Apprenticeship Teaching Specialist Role 2022 – 2023
University of Lincoln
- PhD in Psychology [The development and validation of new tools and techniques to assess perceptions of female body size/shape] 2018-2021
Lancaster University
- MSc Psychological Research Methods 2016-2017
- BA (Hons) Psychology and Management 2013-2016
Areas of current research:
- Perceptions of body composition (fat and muscle) in same-sex and opposite-sex samples
- Development and validation of novel computer-generated body scales
- Perceptions of and attitudes towards obesity
Faye Johnson-Hurt (second supervisor) - Experiences, motivations, and Characteristics of Kink identifying adults participating in ethical non-monogamous relationship styles.
Peer-reviewed journal articles:
- Ridley, B. J., Cornelissen, P. L., Maalin, N., Mohamed, S., Kramer, R. S., McCarty, K., & Tovée, M. J. (2024). Personal ideal, cultural ideal and optimal attractiveness: Are these constructs for body size and shape the same or different?. Body Image, 51, 101747.
- Groves, V., Ridley, B. J., Cornelissen, P. L., Maalin, N., Mohamed, S., Kramer, R. S., ... & Cornelissen, K. K. (2023). Men's perception of current and ideal body composition and the influence of media internalization on body judgements. Frontiers in Psychology, 14, 1116686.
- Ridley, B., Cornelissen, P. L., Maalin, N., Mohamed, S., Kramer, R., McCarty, K., Tovée, M. J. (2022) The degree to which the cultural ideal is internalised predicts judgments of male and female physical attractiveness. Manuscript submitted for publication
- Maalin, N., Mohamed, S., Kramer, R. S., Cornelissen, P. L., Martin, D., & Tovée, M. J. (2020). Beyond BMI for self-estimates of body size and shape: A new method for developing stimuli correctly calibrated for body composition. Behavior Research Methods, 1-14. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13428-020-01494-1
- Irvine, K. R., Irvine, A. R., Maalin, N., McCarty, K., Cornelissen, K. K., Tovée, M. J., & Cornelissen, P. L. (2020). Using immersive virtual reality to modify body image. Body image, 33, 232-243. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bodyim.2020.03.007
- Groves, V., Cornelissen, P., McCarty, K., Mohamed, S., Maalin, N., Tovée, M. J., & Cornelissen, K. (2019). How does variation in the body composition of both stimuli and participant modulate self-estimates of men’s body size?. Frontiers in psychiatry, 10, 720. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2019.00720
Conference papers:
- Maalin, N., Irvine, K. R., Irvine, A., Cornelissen, P. L., Ritchie, K. L., & Tovée, M. J. (2019). The use of 3D bodies in a 2D computerised and immersive virtual reality body image intervention. Proc. of 3DBODY.TECH 2019 - 10th Int. Conf. and Exh. on 3D Body Scanning and Processing Technologies. https://doi.org/10.15221/19.142
- Mohamed, S., Maalin, N., Kramer, R., Irvine, A., Cornelissen, P. L., & Tovée, M. J. (2019). Development of a 3D Body Database to Improve Measures of Perceptual Male Body Image Distortion. Proc. of 3DBODY.TECH 2019 - 10th Int. Conf. and Exh. on 3D Body Scanning and Processing Technologies. https://doi.org/10.15221/19.173
Maalin, N. (2025, April 29). The “cortisol belly” myth: When diet culture is rebranded as “wellness.” The Conversation. https://theconversation.com/the-cortisol-belly-myth-when-diet-culture-is-rebranded-as-wellness-254362
