Dr Han Newman, PhD, CPsychol
Exercise Coach
Han is a qualified personal trainer and exercise coach, with a PhD in Sport and Exercise Psychology from Loughborough University. Han runs Newman Sport Psychology alongside their work in academic teaching and research. They have been Programme Leader for the MSc in Sport and Exercise Psychology at Middlesex University, and their research specialises in the psychology of sport, exercise, and physical activity participation and engagement.
Han helps people to improve their relationship with exercise so that they can make positive change to their health and fitness in a way that aligns with their wider life, values and priorities. Han works with people who struggle to make exercise and physical activity a regular part of their life, and/or those who feel that their current relationship with exercise is having a negative impact on their wellbeing.
Han previously competed in strength sport events, but now enjoys lifting heavy things more casually, amongst other forms of activity that they enjoy! Away from work, Han can often be found watching sport, enjoying a beer in a (preferably sunny) location by the water, or having a dance!
Professional Memberships
CIMSPA Registered L3 Personal Trainer Practitioner.
Chartered Psychologist status (by research - CPsychol) with the British Psychological Society (BPS).
Professional Member of the British Association of Sport and Exercise Sciences (BASES).
Academic Qualifications
PhD (2020) Sport and Exercise Psychology and Sociology. Loughborough University.
MSc Psychology of Sport and Exercise (2015). Loughborough University.
MSc Psychology (2014). Middlesex University.
BSc (Hons) Sport and Exercise Science (2013). Middlesex University.
Academic Publications
Newman, H.J.H. (2024). Becoming a strongwoman: An auto/ethnographic study of the pursuit of strength, power, and gender aesthetics. In L. Nyhagen & J. Cooke (eds.) Intersectional Feminist Research Methodologies. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003399575
Peel, E. & Newman, H.J.H. (2023). “I don’t think that’s something I’ve ever thought about really before”: A thematic discursive analysis of lay people’s talk about legal gender. Feminist Legal Studies. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10691-022-09508-3
Pattinson, E.M., Newman, H.J.H. & Gabbay, L.R. (2022). Challenges accessing physical activity from a transgender perspective: A systematic review. Sport and Exercise Psychology Review. https://doi.org/10.53841/bpssepr.2022.17.2.19
Newman, H.J.H. & Witcomb G.L. (2022). Ripping up the rulebook: Challenges and opportunities in moving beyond the binary. In G. L. Witcomb & E. Peel (eds.) Gender Diversity and Sport: Interdisciplinary perspectives on increasing inclusivity. London: Routledge.
Newman, H.J.H. & Peel, E. (2022). “An impossible dream?”: Non-binary people’s perceptions of legal gender status and reform. Psychology & Sexuality. https://doi.org/10.1080/19419899.2022.2039753
Peel, E. & Newman, H.J.H. (2020). Gender’s wider stakes: Lay attitudes to legal gender reform. Feminists@Law. 10 (2). https://doi.org/10.22024/UniKent/03/fal.953
Newman, H.J.H., Howells, K.L., & Fletcher, D. (2016). The dark side of top level sport: An autobiographical study of depressive experiences in elite sport performers. Frontiers in Psychology, 7 (868). https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2016.00868