Staff in the Department of Psychology

Dr Caspar Addyman

Caspar investigates the cognitive, social and emotional development of babies using a combination of behavioural research and computational modelling.

Professor Michael Banissy

Michael is an expert in social neuroscience, studying how we perceive and interact with each other.

Dr Alexandra Bailey

Alexandra’s research interests are in the areas of online and offline sexual offending, and women who have offended.

Dr Elaine Beattie

Elaine's main research interests are personality and associative learning; neuroticism, trait anxiety, and individual differences in fear and disgust reactivity.

Professor Joydeep Bhattacharya

Joy studies complex human behaviour including music, language, aesthetics, decision making, flow and creativity.

Dr Herb Blumberg

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

Emma Davies PhD SFHEA

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.

Dr Marinella Cappelletti

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



Dr Rebecca Chamberlain

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

Dr Rebecca Charlton

Rebecca is an expert in cognitive ageing, studying age-related changes in brain and how they influence cognition and social-cognition.

Dr Gianna Cocchini

Gianna’s expertise is in cognitive neuropsychology, with particular interest on body mental representation and cognitive disorders caused by brain lesions

Dr Andrew Cooper

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

Dr Deborah Custance

Deborah’s research is in comparative-developmental psychology; studying human and non-human primate behaviour.

Professor Jules Davidoff

Jules researches the mental representation of objects, the relationship between our memory and recognition of them.

Tiffany Elmore

Professor Jan de Fockert

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

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.

Professor Fiona Gabbert

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

Dr Lorna Goddard

Lorna is an expert in cognition and psychopathology, studying how memory and future thinking interact with emotion and the self-concept.

Agnieszka Golec de Zavala

Agnieszka is an expert in social and personality psychology studying intergroup relations, prejudice and narcissism, especially collective narcissism.

Professor Alice Gregory

Alice is an expert in the science of sleep, studying the links between sleep and psychopathology across the lifecourse

Dr Maria Herrojo Ruiz

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

Professor Elisabeth Hill

Elisabeth’s research concerns cognitive dysfunction across and within neurodevelopmental disorders.

Peter Holland

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

Kate Hughes

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.

Dr Alice Jones

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

Jo Kenrick

Jo's research involves applying cognitive psychology to the forensic area with a specific focus on deception.

Professor Yulia Kovas

Yulia is an expert in psychology and behavioural genetics, studying individual differences and complex processes through which they develop.

Dr Gustav Kuhn

Gustav is an expert in cognitive psychology, studying how we perceive the world and manipulate people beliefs and experiences

Dr Madoka Kumashiro

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

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 Evelyne Mercure

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

Caoimhe McAnena

Caoimhe research interests are in the area of personality disordered offenders, especially sexual offenders.

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.

Dr Lucy Oldfield

Clinical Psychology

Dr Diana Omigie

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

Dr Guido Orgs

I am a cognitive neuroscientist and dancer studying action & body perception, dance, choreography and live performance.

Professor Alan Pickering

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

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.

Dr Adrian Scott

Adrian has interests in forensic psychology, focussing on stalking, investigative interviewing and eyewitness testimony.

Professor Peter Smith

Peter is a developmental psychologist, with interests in school bullying, children’s play, and grandparenting.

Professor Lauren Stewart

Lauren is an expert on how music is represented in the mind and brain.

Fatos Selita

Fatos Selita — a Barrister of England and Wales and an Attorney of the State of New York — is a Director of AIR Courses.

Dr Devin Terhune

Devin studies the neurocognitive mechanisms underlying time perception and how awareness can be regulated by suggestion.

Dr Teemu Toivainen

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

Professor Tim Valentine

Tim works to understand our ability to recognise people’s faces, currently focussing on eyewitness identification.

Professor Max Velmans

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

Dr José van Velzen

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

Dr Keon West

Keon is an expert in intergroup social psychology, investigating how we treat people we see as different from ourselves.

Dr Gordon Wright

Gordon studies the personality and behaviour of liars, lie-detectors, Machiavellians, Narcissists, and Psychopaths

Dr Daniel Yon

Daniel studies how our actions and expectations influence how we perceive and make decisions about the world around us.

Dr Tegan Penton

Tegan is interested in how autistic and non-autistic people perceive and interpret their actions; and in using brain stimulation methods to address this.