Staff research interests (Psychology)
Dr Joydeep Bhattacharya BE PhD (Reader)
Neural signal processing and integrative brain functioning; oscillatory brain dynamics; network connectivity analysis; non-linear dynamics and chaos; time series analysis; multisensory processing; insight problem solving; perception of music and visual art; neuro-aesthetics.
Professor Frank Bond BA PGDip MSc PhD ICTLHE (Head of Department from Sept 2009)
Occupational health psychology: evaluating process and outcome in stress management and work reorganisation interventions; identifying organisational and psychological factors that predict health and work effectiveness; cognitivebehaviour therapies at work.
Dr Andrew Bremner BA DPhil (Lecturer)
Perceptual and cognitive development; object knowledge and spatial representation in infancy and early childhood; the development of visual perception in early infancy; the development of crossmodal perception in infancy; the development of learning and cognitive control.
Dr Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic BSc MSc MPhil PhD (Senior Lecturer)
Individual differences; personality and intelligence; human performance; organisational psychology; creativity; emotional intelligence; consumer behaviour; and psychometrics.
Dr Gianna Cocchini BSc PhD (Lecturer)
Neuropsychology; visuo-spatial disorders, in particular unilateral neglect and extinction; unawareness of illness (anosognosia); attention and memory disorders in patients suffering from Alzheimer Disease.
Dr Andrew Cooper BA PhD (Lecturer)
Individual differences; biologically based theories of personality; psychometrics and personality assessment; mood induction and emotion; emotion regulation; decision-making; problem gambling.
Dr Debbie Custance BSc PhD (Lecturer)
Developmental-comparative psychology with special emphasis on social learning and parentoffspring relationships in human and non-human primates and domestic dogs.
Professor Jules Davidoff BSc PhD DSc CPsychol FBPsS (Director, Centre for Cognition, Computation and Culture)
Cognitive neuropsychology and cognitive psychology: object and face perception, objectknowledge and its relationship to object and action naming. All aspects of colour processing.
Dr Jan de Fockert MSc PhD (Lecturer)
Visual selective attention, in particular the role of control functions of the frontal cortex in distractor processing. Functional neuroimaging of selective attention.
Dr Jonathan Freeman MPhil PhD (Managing Director, i2 media research limited and part-time Senior Lecturer)
Motivations and barriers to the adoption and use of interactive media (digital TV, internet, broadband, mobile, computer games). Attitudes towards and consumption of media and technology, user experience, user-centred design, usage scenarios for new media products and services, and subjective and objective measurement of presence in virtual and mixed reality environments.
Professor Christopher C French BA PhD CPsychol FBPsS FRSA (Head, Anomalistic Psychology Research Unit)
The psychology of paranormal belief and ostensibly paranormal experiences.
Dr Lorna Goddard BSc PhD (Lecturer)
The use of autobiographical memory in social problem-solving, particularly in relation to depression, gender and Asperger syndrome. Autobiographical memory in visual impairment.
Dr Alice Gregory BA PhD (Senior Lecturer)
Developmental psychopathology, anxiety, depression, sleep problems, longitudinal epidemiology and behavioural genetics.
Dr Nigel Guenole BA MA GradDipApplStat PhD (Lecturer)
The role of perceived fairness in determining employee support for controversial organisational policies. Measurement techniques for the assessment of leadership capability. The role of personality in the prediction of leader emergence as opposed to leader effectiveness. The application of modern statistical methods like mixture modelling to issues in organisational psychology.
Dr Pam Heaton BSc PhD (Reader)
Neuropsychology of musical cognition. Musical and linguistic pitch processing in neurodevelopmental disorders. Savant syndrome.
Dr Elisabeth Hill BSc PhD CPsychol (Senior Lecturer)
Cognitive aspects of neurodevelopmental disorders including executive function, social cognition and motor coordination across the lifespan. Disorders of interest include autism spectrum disorder and developmental coordination disorder. Autism and Employment.
Dr Madoka Kumashiro BA BSc MA PhD (Lecturer)
Social psychology and personality – self in interpersonal contexts: role of close others on facilitating self-regulation and motivation; individual differences and interpersonal processes; balancing personal and relational needs; personal and relational well-being.
Dr Karina Linnell MA MSc PhD (Lecturer)
Visual attention and perception, visual attention and action, visual attention and memory, and the role of visual objects. Visual perception, especially grouping and object constancies. Neuropsychological studies of attention and perception. Brain imaging of attention.
Daniel Müllensiefen MA DPhil
Music cognition; memory and psychology of learning; computational models of the mind; cognitive modelling, machine learning, and algorithms; similarity perception and musical similarity; forensic psychology and copyright issues; computational analysis of music, in particular popular music; computational linguistics.
Professor Alan Pickering BA PhD (Head of Department until Sept 2009)
Memory; neuropsychology; attention; amnesia; frontal lobe functions; the biological basis of personality and especially its relationship with behaviour under reward and dopaminergic neurotransmission; formal modelling of learning; schizophrenia; psychological statistics; psychopharmacology.
Professor Jane Powell BA MPhil PhD
Chartered Clinical Psychologist Neuropsychology; brain injury; rehabilitation after brain injury; psychopharmacology; cognitive assessment; assessment of disability and participation; addiction; motivation and motivational impairments.
Professor Linda Pring BSc PhD CPsychol AFBPsS
Developmental cognitive neuropsychology, with an emphasis on early social behaviour, reading and memory; the psychology of visual handicap; talent and intelligence with respect to savant performance.
Dr Luke D Smillie BA PhD (Lecturer)
Motivation-based models of individual differences; effects of reward on learning and motivation; personality (especially extraversion, impulsivity, BAS); decision-making and category-learning; applications (eg workplace, clinical populations).
Professor Peter Smith BA PhD CPsychol FBPsS (Head, Unit for School and Family Studies)
Social development in the home and school; play; friendship; aggression and bullying in childhood; grandparent/grandchild relationships; human ethology and sociobiology.
Dr Lauren Stewart BSc MSc PhD (Senior Lecturer)
Neuro-cognitive aspects of musical behaviour including musical learning, the generation of musical expectancies and disorders of musical listening.
Professor Timothy Valentine BSc PhD CPsychol FBPsS
Face recognition; eyewitness identification and testimony; psychology and law.
Dr José van Velzen MSc PhD (Lecturer) Visual, tactile and auditory attention and crossmodal links between modalities; response preparation and the interaction with perception and selective processing; spatial processing in egocentric and allocentric space; spatial processing in the blind.
Professorial Fellow Professor John Gruzelier MA PhD FBPsS FIOP
EEG neurofeedback, particularly in relation to creativity and the performing arts; schizophrenia and personality disorders; hypnosis and energy medicine.
Emeritus Professor Clive Fletcher BA PhD CPsychol FBPsS
Occupational psychology; the influence of personality and cognitive factors in self assessment and self awareness; performance appraisal and performance management; assessment centres.
Professor Max Velmans BSc PhD CPsychol FBPsS
Consciousness studies, with a particular focus on integrating work in philosophy, cognitive psychology, neuropsychology, and mind/body relationships in clinical practice.
Emeritus Reader Dr Herb Blumberg MA PhD AFBPsS
Social psychology and social research methods, particularly group processes, social cognition, conflict resolution, social exchange.
- MSc in Cognitive & Clinical Neuroscience
- MSc in Foundations in Clinical Psychology & Health Services
- MSc in Music, Mind & Brain
- MSc in Occupational Psychology/MSc in Organisational Behaviour
- MSc in Research Methods in Psychology
- MSc in the Science of Psychology, Genetics & Education
- MPhil & PhD in Psychology
- Staff research interests
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