Find out more about our members, our theme affiliations, our research interests, and visit our more detailed staff profiles.

Key to the abbreviated research themes:

ACN - Applied Cognition and Neuroscience
OPE - Optimising Performance and Engagement
PPH - Promoting Psychological Health

Staff members with primary affiliation to Psychological Sciences Research Group

Name and theme Key research interests

Dr Gamze Arman
(OPE)

Business expatriates and immigrants, female career development, abusive supervision

Dr Amelia Baldwin
(PPH)

Psychotherapy, spirituality, social justice, intersectionality, transcultural counselling, hate crime

Dr Lucy Blake
(PPH)

Family relationships, child development, estrangement, mental health, young people

Dr Nicola Blunden
(PPH)

Co-production, creativity, epistemic justice, improvisation, decoloniality, pluralism, trauma therapy, supervision

Kate Bradley
(OPE)

Psychometric assessment, selection and development, artificial intelligence, diversity, growth mindset

Dr Sarah Brown
(PPH)

Weight management, cardiac rehabilitation, yoga for health and wellbeing

Dr James Byron-Daniel
(PPH)

Applied sport psychology, exercise interventions, performance, lifespan physical activity

Dr Tanya Carpenter
(PPH)

Counselling psychology, psychodynamic theory and therapy, evolutionary psychology, neurodiversity

Dr Mike Chase
(PPH)

Community psychology, mixed methods evaluations, and health provision experiences

Manos Christodoulakis
(PPH)

Counselling, psychotherapy, addictions, alcohol use disorder, autoethnography, horror fiction

Dr Kait Clark
(ACN)

Visual cognition, attention, perceptual learning, training, expertise, individual differences

Dr Toni Dicaccavo
(OPE PPH)

Counselling psychology, parentification, compassion focused therapy, CBT

Dr Andy Eastwood
(ACN PPH)

Psychopharmacology, social cognition, alcohol-related aggression, emotional face processing

Dr Darren Ellis
(PPH)

Emotion, social media, mental health apps, surveillance, disclosure

Dr Jennie Ferrell
(PPH)

Cognitive development, social cognition, counterfactual reasoning, group dynamics

Dr Charlotte Flothmann
(PPH)

Migration and displacement, culturally-sensitive trauma support, collaborative research methods

Dr Eva Fragkiadaki
(PPH)

Psychotherapy change and outcome, qualitative methods, mixed methods

Emma Gaskin
(ACN)

Forensic psychology; face memory, perception and recognition; identifying offenders

Niki Gibbs
(PPH)

School-based counselling, whole-school approach, supervision in education

Dr Miltos Hadjiosif
(PPH)

Counselling psychology, wounded healer, community psychology, narrative, popular culture

Danny Holmes
(OPE)

Mental health, sports performance, group dynamics, performing under pressure

Dr Nicola Holt
(ACN PPH)

Creativity, art and health, schizotypy, anomalous experiences, experience sampling

Dr Iris Holzleitner
(ACN)

Face perception, social cognition, evolutionary psychology, morphometrics, open science

Rob Hutton
(OPE)

Cognitive work, performance, human factors, ergonomics, expertise, safety, knowledge

Dr Abigail Jackson
(ACN PPH)

Autism, neurodevelopmental disorders, childhood development, interventions, embodied interactions, play

Dr Elizabeth Jenkinson
(PPH)

Health psychology, behaviour change, NHS practice, patient experiences

Dr Scott Jones
(ACN)

Attention, face recognition, perceptual learning, visual perception

Dr Jennifer Kinloch
(ACN PPH)

Behavioural decision-making, associative learning, societal issues, mental health

Dr Kris Kinsey
(ACN)

Cognitive neuroscience, EEG, eye tracking, attention, vision, lexical dyslexia

Dr Emily Le Roux-Rutledge
(PPH)

Identity, narrative, migration, international development, health communication, gender, media

Dr James Macdonald
(ACN)

Consciousness, attention, perception, mind-wandering, mental imagery, neuronal oscillations

Finn McEvoy
(OPE PPH)

Community psychology, mental health and well-being, critical consciousness, mixed methodology

Dr Jane Meyrick
(PPH)

Sexual health and well-being, public health, sexual violence prevention

Marcus Nel
(OPE)

Body image, sport injury, performance, mental health, motivation, culture

Dr Chris Pawson
(OPE PPH)

Community psychology, mental health, child development, ethology behavioural ecology.

Gemma Pike
(OPE PPH)

Proactivity, social identity, careers, psychological capital, coaching, workplace wellbeing

Dr Cody Porter
(ACN PPH)

Lie detection, investigative interviewing, mental health and offending behaviour

Dr Lindsey Roberts
(PPH)

Health psychology, medication adherence, antibiotic stewardship, one health, anthrozoology

Alison Rouse
(PPH)

Therapeutic benefits of creative practice, arts-based research, counselling, trauma

Dr Jemma Sedgmond
(ACN OPE PPH)

Eating behaviour, cognitive control, brain stimulation, behaviour change

Dr Kayleigh Sheen
(PPH)

Maternity staff mental health, perinatal psychology, reproductive wellbeing, trauma

Ben Steeden
(OPE)

Leadership, leadership potential, recruitment, unconscious bias, ageism, wellbeing

Dr Abby Tabor
(ACN)

Embodied cognition, active inference, noncommunicable diseases, pain, built environment

Dr Zoe Thomas
(PPH)

Mental health, complex presentations, dual diagnosis

Dr Miles Thompson
(PPH)

Social justice, community and liberation psychologies, ACT, chronic pain

Dr Trang Tran
(PPH)

Psychological wellbeing, cultural adaptation, ecological development, intercultural practices

Dr Maddie Tremblett
(PPH)

Healthcare interactions, conversation analysis, delicate topics, uncertainty, risk

Dr Joe Walsh
(ACN PPH)

Pain, non-verbal behaviour, attention, ASMR

Dr Tony Ward
(ACN PPH)

Cognitive representation, psychotherapy, pluralism, integration, emotion processing, online simulation

Lindsay Woodford
(OPE)

Overtraining, mental health, sport psychology

Dr Nancy Zook
(ACN)

Executive functions, ageing, neuropsychological tests

Other members

Name Status

Dr Claire-Marie Roberts

Visiting Research Fellow

Dr Priscilla Heard

Visiting Research Fellow

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