People in the School of Mind Body and Society

Dr Jim Anderson

Jim has a broad interest in language-and-culture education and critical and creative approaches to pedagogy.

Dr Manuel Anglada-Tort

Manu studies how psychology and culture shape the ways people create and experience music, aesthetics, and the arts.

Dr Rozina Anwar

Professor Dennis Atkinson

Dennis is an internationally published academic whose most recent book focussed on art, equality and learning.

Prof. Christopher Baker

Religions; beliefs; postsecularity; social policy; activism; urban regeneration; co-production; corporate governance.

Marina Benini

Dance Movement Psychotherapy, Movement Analysis, child development, Mentalization, Clinical Supervision,

Prof. Claudia Bernard

Claudia’s interests are social work with children and families, gender-based violence, and critical race theory.

Dr Herb Blumberg

Herb's main interests are: small groups and social cognition; peace psychology; social issues; social research methods

Dr Ekaterina Braginskaia

Ekaterina's work engages with religion and society, minority faith activism, hospitality and refugee welfare

Dr Marinella Cappelletti

Marinella is a cognitive neuroscientist interested in studying how the brain learns and how it ages.



Kristen Catchpole

Dr Rebecca Chamberlain

Rebecca's research sets out to understand how and why individuals create and respond so powerfully to works of art.

Dr Robert Chapman

Robert's interests are in the areas of genetics, (non)typical developmental psychology and science communication.

Professor Rebecca Charlton

Rebecca is a Professor in Psychology at Goldsmiths.

Dr Yangguang Chen

Yangguang researches into the field of educational bilingualism, focussing on implications of educational policy.

Dr Arshia Amin Choudhury

Arshia is a Clinical Psychologist with research interests in adolescent mental health and crimes against women.

Dr Gianna Cocchini

Gianna is a cognitive neuropsychologist interested in distortions of body representation and awareness.

Dr Andrew Cooper

Andrew’s research understands how variations in personality traits is underpinned by emotional and motivational states.

Dr Emily Corbett

Emily is a specialist in children's and YA literature, with particular interest in twenty-first-century fiction.

Dr Emma Davies

Emma’s work focuses on the relationship between research, policy, and practice.  She currently leads research and development on trauma-informed practice in Higher Education.

Prof. Adam Dinham

Professor of Faith and Public Policy, and co-head of department of Social, Therapeutic and Community Studies

Louise Doherty

Louise's research interests range from, impact and evaluation to commensality and youth and community work more broadly.

Dr Nicole Eisen

Nicole is interested in the impact of mindfulness and compassion on mental health, wellbeing, and prosociality

Eugenia Drini

Professor Jan de Fockert

Jan is an expert in selective attention, studying how we prioritise the processing of relevant information in our environment.

Dr Kimberley Foster

Kimberley is an artist and researcher whose work focusses on pedagogical approaches to art practice in the art museum.

Professor Jonathan Freeman

Jonathan is an expert in media psychology and the human factors of digital media services and products.

Christopher French

Chris is an expert in the area of anomalistic psychology, focusing upon non- paranormal explanations for ostensibly paranormal experiences.

Tracey French

Tracey works with adolescents and families as a Registered Dance Movement Psychotherapist and Clinical Supervisor.

Dr Caroline Frizell

Dance Movement Psychotherapy, ecopsychology, new materialism, posthuman subjectivity, critical disability studies.

Professor Fiona Gabbert

Fiona is an expert in applied cognitive psychology, studying the reliability of human memory via understanding its strengths and weaknesses.

Professor Rosalyn George

Rosalyn's research interests coalesce around issues of social justice and equity in schools and Higher Education.

Dr Yael Gerson

Dr Francis Gilbert

Francis researches creativity in its many guises, often focusing upon imaginative teaching and creative writing.

Professor Agnieszka Golec de Zavala

Agnieszka proposed the theory of collective narcissism to explain prejudice and intergroup hostility. She investigates s

Professor Eve Gregory

Eve's interests are in early childhood bilingualism, family literacy and a sociocultural approach to literacy learning.

Dr Eric Harper

Psychoanalysis at the margins (Schizo-analysis, Intersectionality, Eco-Therapy, Activism, Moveable Frames, Dreams).

Hazel Dorrington

Dr Maria Herrojo Ruiz

María is interested in computational approaches to motor learning and decision making.

Dr Peter Holland

My research focusses on virtual reality and understanding the control and learning of actions and sequences of actions.

Dr Aminul Hoque

Aminul's work focusses on issues of multicultural Britain, youth policy, religion, race relations and Islamic feminism.

Victoria Hotchin

Victoria is interested in how insights from personality and social psychology can be used to improve wellbeing and intergroup relations.

Dr Stacey Humphries

Stacey studies how we represent conceptual knowledge, what makes us curious, and the cognitive basis of aesthetic experiences.

Dr Ashok Jansari

Ashok specializes in the field of neuropsychology, mainly in mental brain function we use every day including memory and face-recognition.

Professor Alice Jones

Alice is the Director of the Unit of School and Family Studies, studying school behaviour and socio-emotional development.

Professor Ken Jones

Dr Natacha Kennedy

Amanda Kipling

Amanda researches the healing nature of the arts in schools, which forms the basis of her doctoral study.

Professor Yulia Kovas

Research in bio-psycho-social factors in development; aetiology of individual differences; accessible genetics.

Dr Madoka Kumashiro

Madoka is a personality and social psychologist whose research interest is in personal growth and well-being.

Dr Betty Liebovich

Dr Karina J Linnell

Karina studies visual cognition, attention, perception and awareness, as well as cross-cultural and individual differences in these fundamental processes.

Dr Vally Lytra

Vally investigates multilingualism in society and language education in migration and minority contexts

Professor Vicky Macleroy

Dr. Magna Aidoo

Magna Aidoo has worked in academia and policy development in UK and internationally, particularly in the Commonwealth

Dr Miranda Matthews

Dr Evelyne Mercure

Evelyne studies infant neurocognitive development and especially the impact of language and communicative experience

Dr Chris Millora

Chris explores the links between youth learning/literacies and social justice, particularly in Global South contexts.

Dr James Moore

James is an expert in the cognitive neuroscience of voluntary action

Professor Daniel Müllensiefen

I'm a music psychologist and Co-Director of the MSc in Music, Mind, and Brain.

Brenda Naso

Brenda Naso is a Dance Movement Psychotherapist with an interest in embodied processes, somatic practices and trauma as a psychophysical experience.

George Nicholls

Dr Nicola Walker

Group CBT, Group Psychotherapy, Teaching and Learning in CBT.

Dr Chrysanthi Nigianni

I am interested in research on the fields of feminist theory, sexuality, psychoanalysis, posthuman ecophilosophies

Dr Pearson Nkhoma

My interests are Child Exploitation; Modern Slavery, Immigration & Trafficking; Gender; Poverty & Social Inequality

Dr Hilary Norman

My research to date has focussed on mental health and wellbeing, and specifically on suicide and self-harm.

Nikki Oldhams

Helen Omand

Helen Omand is an HCPC registered art psychotherapist with experience working with children and adults.

Dr Diana Omigie

Diana has research interests that revolve around the behaviour, physiology and neurology of music-induced emotions.

Professor Tara Page

Dr Bence Palfi

Bence`s research focuses on decision-making in human-AI interactions, meta-science and improving research practices

Edyta Pankowska

Lara Paquete Pereira

Lara is a Co-convener and lecturer in Community Studies.

Henrietta Patience

Dr Sarah Pearce

Dr Panagiotis Pentaris

thanatology, loss and grief, EDI, religion, social policy and justice, research and ethics, transhumanism

Professor Alan Pickering

Alan’s research aims to understand the cognitive functions and behaviours that are affected by rewards.

Dr Maggie Pitfield

Professor Len Platt

Len’s major interest is in the politics of text and the ways culture performs in politically strategic ways.

Professor Linda Pring

Developmental psychology and neuroscience, including savant syndrome, is central to Linda’s research.

Dr Caroline Rix

Caroline is a teaching only member of staff, with particular interest in developing approaches to teaching, as well as internet psychology.

Sophie Roberts

Having qualified in 2008, Sophie worked as an Art Psychotherapist within a large NHS Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS) Multidisciplinary team.

Dr Sinead Rocha

Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience of Music

Dr Cristina Ros i Solé

Professor Michael Rosen

Poet and children’s author, Michael’s research areas include processes of naming and the poetics of everyday speech.

Dr Marina Rova

An interdisciplinary practitioner with over 20 years experience in educational, clinical and community contexts.

Vicki Ryf

Vicki’s research interests centre on creativity and English teaching in the Early years and primary classroom.

Faris Sanhaji

Dr Esther Sayers

Dr Adrian Scott

Adrian has a broad interest in forensic psychology, specialising in the areas of sexual violence and human memory.

Professor Farzana Shain

Camilla Stanger

Dr Mark Taylor

Systemic Approaches, AI and Social Work, Social Work Policy, Staff Retention in Social Work, Social Work and Diversity.

Dr Naomi Thompson

Naomi is a sociologist of youth and inclusion with a particular interest in faith and other intersecting identities

Dan Timariu

Safeguarding, trauma-informed practice, social work workforce, digital technologies (social media, AI)

Dr Teemu Toivainen

Teemu main research interests are individual differences in creative cognition, cognitive abilities and personality.

Dr Atlas Torbati

Professor Anna Traianou

Andy Turner

Andy has over thirty years’ experience in community and youth work as a practitioner, activist, trainer and manager.

Professor Max Velmans

Max’s research is in consciousness studies, particularly integrating philosophy and psychology in clinical practice.

Professor José van Velzen

José’s research focuses on multisensory processing, spatial attention, body representation and sensory processing in the context of motor behaviour.

Neil Walton

Professor Paul Warmington

Dr Andrew Wilkins

Mr David Woodger

With thirty years’ experience in community development, David works with young people on issues of race and adoption.

Dr Gordon Wright

Gordon studies the personality and everyday behaviour of liars, lie detectors and antagonistic individuals

Dr Carmen Yau

Disability and Wellbeing; Gender, Sexuality & Relationships; Social Work; Narrative & Art Practice; Digital Humanities;