People in the School of Mind, Body and Society
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Staff list
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
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 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.
Chloe Maslin
Moral Economy | Vocation and Professional Identity | Social Work Workforce | Collective Action and Unionisation
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
Dr Eugenia Drini
I conduct research on psychotherapeutic processes, trauma, and digital mental health.
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.
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
Dr Eric Harper
Psychoanalysis at the margins (Schizo-analysis, Intersectionality, Eco-Therapy, Activism, Moveable Frames, Dreams).
Madison Harvey
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Dr Maria Herrojo Ruiz
Maria 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.
Amanda Kipling
Amanda researches the healing nature of the arts in schools, which forms the basis of her doctoral study.
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.
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
Lara Paquete Pereira
Lara is a Co-convener and lecturer in Community Studies.
Henrietta Patience
Dr Sarah Pearce
Dr Panagiotis Pentaris
Thanatology (death, dying and bereavement) - Social policy and justice - Research and ethics - Gender and Sexuality
Jez Pinfold
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 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
Dr Mark Taylor
Developmental, Systemic and Psychodynamic Approaches in Social and Therapeutic Work. Social Work and AI.
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
Atlas Torbati is a Senior lecturer on MA Understanding Domestic Violence and Sexual Abuse (UDVSA) at Goldsmiths, University of London.
Professor Anna Traianou
Andy Turner
Andy has over thirty years’ experience in community and youth work as a practitioner, activist, trainer and manager.
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
Susan Westman
Susan specialises in social policy, applied social science, community development and issues of social justice.
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;