Mrs Olga Utkina

  • Executive Assistant to Head of School (Health & Wellbeing Professional Services)

telephone: 0141 353 7629
email: Olga.Utkina-Macaskill@glasgow.ac.uk

MRC/CSO Social and Public Health Sciences Unit, School of Health and Wellbeing, University of Glasgow, Clarice Pears Building, 90 Byres Road, Glasgow, G12 8TB

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Biography

Olga graduated with a Mechanical Engineering Degree from the Leningrad Shipbuilding University in 1993.

After starting a family, Olga began her working career as a Marketing and Project Manager for one of Kazakhstan’s leading direct marketing companies in 1999, before moving to Scotland in 2008. Here, Olga worked as a Facilities Manager and Business Co-ordinator at Horizon Scotland, Graham & Sibbald and Penumbra before moving to the University of Glasgow in 2015.

Olga joined the MRC/CSO Social and Public Health Sciences Unit in February 2015. She was a project support administrator for the Complexity Programme from 2015 till September, 2024. She was a member of the HelpMeDoIt! trial team, leading various qualitative components of the study. The HelpMeDoit! study seeks to harness social support to help people lose weight using new technologies. She was involved in working on the MRC and NIHR funded guidance update for Developing and Evaluating Complex Interventions (published in 2021). She is also an administrator for ASSIST Global- Feasibility study of a peer-led, school-based, adolescent smoking prevention intervention in culturally different middle income countries.

In October, 2024 Olga joined School of Health and Wellbeing as an Executive Assistant for Head of School.

Olga’s other current and previous roles:

  • Member of the University Shadow Board
  • Member of the local organising committee for the International Conference of Behavioural Medicine, Glasgow 2021. 
  • Administrator for the Solutions Focussed Research Theme
  • Member of the Athena Swan promotion work group
  • Member of the SPHSU’s Research Fox Group

Publications

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2020

Simpson, S. A. et al. (2020) An app, web and social support based weight loss intervention for adults with obesity: the ‘HelpMeDoIt!’ feasibility randomised controlled trial. Pilot and Feasibility Studies, 6, 133. (doi: 10.1186/s40814-020-00656-4) (PMID:32968544) (PMCID:PMC7501712)

Simpson, S. A. et al. (2020) An app-, web- and social support-based weight loss intervention for adults with obesity: the HelpMeDoIt! feasibility RCT. Public Health Research, 8(3), (doi: 10.3310/phr08030) (PMID:32186839)

2017

Matthews, L. et al. (2017) Study protocol for the ‘HelpMeDoIt!’ randomised controlled feasibility trial: an app, web and social support based weight loss intervention for adults with obesity. BMJ Open, 7(10), e017159. (doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2017-017159) (PMID:29074513) (PMCID:PMC5665248)

2016

Simpson, S.A. et al. (2016) Mobilising Social Support: Insights for the Development of a Web and App Based Intervention for Weight Loss. 14th International Congress of Behavioral Medicine: Behavioral Medicine: Making an Impact in the Modern World (ICBM 2016), Melbourne, Australia, 7-10 December 2016. S59-S60. (doi: 10.1007/s12529-016-9586-3)

Simpson, S. A. , Matthews, L. , Pugmire, J. , Moore, L. and Utkina-Macaskill, O. (2016) Mobilising Social Support: Insights from the Development of a Web and App based Intervention. 2nd Behaviour Change Conference: Digital Health and Wellbeing, London, England, 24-25 Feb 2016. (doi: 10.3389/conf.FPUBH.2016.01.00067)

This list was generated on Mon Jan 20 22:22:52 2025 GMT.
Jump to: Articles | Conference or Workshop Item
Number of items: 5.

Articles

Simpson, S. A. et al. (2020) An app, web and social support based weight loss intervention for adults with obesity: the ‘HelpMeDoIt!’ feasibility randomised controlled trial. Pilot and Feasibility Studies, 6, 133. (doi: 10.1186/s40814-020-00656-4) (PMID:32968544) (PMCID:PMC7501712)

Simpson, S. A. et al. (2020) An app-, web- and social support-based weight loss intervention for adults with obesity: the HelpMeDoIt! feasibility RCT. Public Health Research, 8(3), (doi: 10.3310/phr08030) (PMID:32186839)

Matthews, L. et al. (2017) Study protocol for the ‘HelpMeDoIt!’ randomised controlled feasibility trial: an app, web and social support based weight loss intervention for adults with obesity. BMJ Open, 7(10), e017159. (doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2017-017159) (PMID:29074513) (PMCID:PMC5665248)

Conference or Workshop Item

Simpson, S.A. et al. (2016) Mobilising Social Support: Insights for the Development of a Web and App Based Intervention for Weight Loss. 14th International Congress of Behavioral Medicine: Behavioral Medicine: Making an Impact in the Modern World (ICBM 2016), Melbourne, Australia, 7-10 December 2016. S59-S60. (doi: 10.1007/s12529-016-9586-3)

Simpson, S. A. , Matthews, L. , Pugmire, J. , Moore, L. and Utkina-Macaskill, O. (2016) Mobilising Social Support: Insights from the Development of a Web and App based Intervention. 2nd Behaviour Change Conference: Digital Health and Wellbeing, London, England, 24-25 Feb 2016. (doi: 10.3389/conf.FPUBH.2016.01.00067)

This list was generated on Mon Jan 20 22:22:52 2025 GMT.

Biography

Olga graduated with a Mechanical Engineering Degree from the Leningrad Shipbuilding University in 1993. After starting a family, Olga began her working career as a Marketing and Project Manager for one of Kazakhstan’s leading direct marketing companies in 1999, before moving to Scotland in 2008. Here, Olga worked as a Facilities Manager and Business Coordinator at Horizon Scotland, Graham & Sibbald and Penumbra before moving to the University of Glasgow in 2015. Olga joined the MRC/CSO Social and Public Health Sciences Unit in February 2015. She is an administrator for the Complexity Programme and was a member of the HelpMeDoIt! trial team, leading various qualitative components of the study. The HelpMeDoit! study seeks to harness social support to help people lose weight using new technologies. She worked on the MRC and NIHR funded guidance update for Developing and Evaluating Complex Interventions (published in 2022). Olga’s other roles:  Member of the local organizing committee for the International Conference of Behavioural Medicine, Glasgow 2020.  Administrator for the ASSIST Global Study  Member of the Athena Swan promotion work group  Member of the SPHSU’s Research Fox Group.