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Research in the School of Psychology

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Academic staff listed by position

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E. Charles Leek

Reader / Head of School

Research Interests: Vision, Cognitive, Neuroscience, Perception, Attention.

Valerie Morrison

Senior Lecturer / Deputy Head of School

Research Interests: Chronic disease outcomes; illness perceptions; coping; quality of life; cultural variation; patient and carer needs.

Steven P. Tipper

Professor / Deputy Head of School

Research Interests: Attention, Emotion, Embodiment, Action simulation.

Simon Watt

Senior Lecturer / Deputy Head of School

Research Interests: Binocular vision, visually guided action, virtual reality, depth perception

Richard P. Bentall

Professor of Clinical Psychology

Research Interests: Schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, paranoid delusions, cognitive behaviour therapy

Linda Clare

Professor of Clinical Psychology and Neuropsychology

Research Interests: My research group, Research in Ageing and Cognitive Health, focuses on promoting well-being in later life, prevention of age-related disability and dementia, cognitive rehabilitation, and improving quality of care for older people.

W. Miles Cox

Professor of the Psychology of Addictive Behaviours

Research Interests: Addictive behaviours, alcohol abuse, substance abuse, motivation, motivational assessment, motivational counselling, attentional bias, cognitive-motivational models

Paul Downing

Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience

Research Interests: Visual cortex, fmri, category selectivity, action perception, MVPA.

Virginia C. Mueller Gathercole

Professor of Psychology

Research Interests: First-language acquisition; theoretical approaches to acquisition; relationship between linguistic and cognitive development and categorisation in children and adults; cross-linguistic studies of language development, including work on Spanish, Welsh, and Korean; second-language acquisition; and bilingualism. She is the head of the Experimental-developmental research group in the Bilingualism Centre. The theoretical focus of this group is to study the interactions between bilinguals' two languages and between bilinguals' linguistic knowledge and categorisation. She is also currently involved in several other projects, including two for which she is PI: one ESRC-funded project is exploring the extent of cognitive effects of bilingualism on executive functioning in bilinguals across the lifespan, by examining the contributions of language dominance, linguistic and cognitive abilities, and socioeconomic factors to performance; and another WAG-funded project focuses on the development of assessment tools for Welsh bilinguals.

Richard P. Hastings

Professor of Psychology

Research Interests: Intellectual disability, autism, families, mental health, behaviour change, mindfulness.

Judy M. Hutchings

Professor

Research Interests: Conduct disorders, parenting, child social skills, anger management and problem solving, teacher classroom management, real world interventions and fidelity

C. Fergus Lowe

Professor

Research Interests: Behaviour change, diet and physical activity.

Robert D. Rafal

Professor of Clinical Neuroscience and Neuropsychology

Research Interests: Neuropsychology, Cognitive Neuroscience, Neuroanatomy, DTI, Perception, Attention.

Jane Raymond

Professor of Experimental Consumer Psychology

Research Interests: Human high-level visual perception with an emphasis on the effects of emotion and motivation on spatial and temporal attention; social-affective perception including face processing; visual attention in the marketplace and advertising; psychology of visual art. Behavioural, eye movement monitoring, EEG, and fMRI methodologies.

Kimron L. Shapiro

Chair of Cognitive Neuroscience

Research Interests: Attention, vision, cognitive neuroscience, working memory, biased competition.

Guillaume Thierry

Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience

Research Interests: Language, semantics, bilingualism, linguistic relativity, developmental dyslexia, object categorisation.

Oliver Turnbull

Professor / Head of College of Health and Behavioural Sciences

Research Interests: Neuropsychology, emotion,† delusional beliefs, confabulation, anosognosia, amnesia.

Robert Ward

Professor

Research Interests: attention, conflict between controlled and automatic behaviours, adaptive bases of social behaviours

Robert T. Woods

Professor of Clinical Psychology of the Elderly

Research Interests: Family care-givers of dementia sufferers; psychological factors related to strain and interventions to reduce strain; interventions to improve quality of life and function in people with dementia. Co-Director, Dementia Services Development Centre Wales

David Carey

Reader

Research Interests: Visual neuropsychology, sensorimotor control, cerebral asymmetry, visually-guided reaching, perception and action.

Pauline J. Horne

Reader

Research Interests: Behavioural interventions, healthy eating, physical activity, language development, language and categorisation, imitation

Debbie Mills

Reader

Research Interests: Brain and language development, effects of experience on brain development, bilingualism, the interaction between language and social development, face processing, Williams Syndrome

Martyn Bracewell

Senior Lecturer

Research Interests: Motor control, ocular motor control, errorless learning, behavioural neurology, neuropsychology, neuro-ophthalmology, cerebellum, parietal cortex, basal ganglia, epilepsy

Marketa Caravolas

Senior Lecturer

Research Interests: Literacy, Developmental, Psycholinguistics, Spelling, Cross-linguistic, Dyslexia. literacy. Phonological development in the context of alphabetic literacy. Cross-linguistic investigations of language-general and language-specific factors in reading and spelling development in typical and dyslexic populations.

Helen Henningham

Senior Lecturer

Research Interests: Research Interests: Early childhood interventions, child development and behaviour, global child development and mental health, observational assessments of child/caregiver behaviour, early childhood education.

Helen Henningham

Senior Lecturer

Research Interests: Research Interests: Early childhood interventions, child development and behaviour, global child development and mental health, observational assessments of child/caregiver behaviour, early childhood education.

George Houghton

Senior Lecturer

Research Interests: Language and selective attention, development of computational models, neural networks.

David K. Ingledew

Senior Lecturer

Research Interests: Motivation, individual differences, health-related behaviours, well-being, health promotion.

James Intriligator

Senior Lecturer

Research Interests: Vision, attention, perception, motivation, consumer, branding, advertising, marketing, innovation, signs, food

Christoph Klein

Senior Lecturer

Research Interests: Attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder. Development, intelligence, visual art, event related potentials, gaze movements.

Paloma Mari-Beffa

Senior Lecturer

Research Interests: Cognitive Control, sustained attention, selective attention, working memory, cognitive neuropsychology, task switching.

Jesse Martin

Senior Lecturer

Paul Mullins

Senior Lecturer

John Parkinson

Senior Lecturer

Research Interests: Motivation, Happiness, Behaviour Change, Cortico-Striatal Circuitry, Implicit Motives.

Michaela A. Swales

Senior Lecturer in Clinical Psychology

Research Interests: Adolescent development and psychopathology; effectiveness of dialectical behaviour therapy in the treatment of borderline personality disorder; cognitive mechanisms underlying mood disturbance and parasuicidal behaviour in adolescence.

Implementing DBT: selecting, training and supervising a team (The Cognitive Behaviour Therapist)

Marie-Josephe Tainturier

Senior Lecturer

Research Interests: Neuropsychology, aphasia, dyslexia, dysgraphia, reading, spelling, language disorders, bilingualism

Sandy Toogood

Senior Lecturer in Applied Behaviour Analysis

Michael Beverley

Lecturer

Research Interests: Evidence-based educational methods, precision teaching (PT), curriculum based measurement (CBM), response to intervention (RtI), reading instruction, direct instruction (DI), effective instruction and instructional design, staff performance and fluency training, fluency based instruction, accelerated learning

Stephan Boehm

Lecturer

Research Interests: Face and Person Recognition, priming, episodic memory, semantic memory, false memories and confabulation, ERP correlates of memory.

Caroline Bowman

Lecturer

Research Interests: Emotion, emotion-based learning, decision-making, schadenfreude.

Emily Cross

Lecturer

Research Interests: Action perception, learning, and expertise; observational learning; neuroaesthetics; social cognition; mirror systems; fMRI; TMS

Giovanni d'Avossa

Lecturer

Research Interests: fMRI, visual attention, behavioural neurology.

Dusana Dorjee

Lecturer

Research Interests: cognitive neuroscience of mindfulness; mindfulness and wellbeing; mindful emotion regulation; cognitive control and mindfulness; neural plasticity and mindfulness; mindfulness in education.

Mihela Erjavec

Lecturer

Research Interests: Imitation and other forms of social learning in infants and young children; developmental behaviour analysis; early development of taste preferences; development of effective behaviour change procedures and technologies; child health (healthy eating and exercise).

Erin Heerey

Lecturer

Research Interests: Social interaction, social cognition, nonverbal behavior, decision-making, reward, psychopathology.

Maggie Hoerger

Lecturer

Research Interests: Applied Behaviour Analysis, the application of ABA in regular and special schools, the evaluation of the quality of Early Intensive Behaviour Intervention, and behavioural momentum.

Steven Hosier

Lecturer

Research Interests: Addictive behaviours, student alcohol use, substance use disorders

Manon Jones

Lecturer

Research Interests: Reading fluency, dyslexia, visual word recognition, bilingualism, language production.

Tracey Lloyd

Lecturer

Research Interests: Intellectual disability and autism spectrum disorders, especially family functioning and mindfulness and acceptance-based therapies.

Richard Ramsey

Lecturer

Research Interests: action observation; gaze perception; perspective taking and theory-of-mind; imitation; fmri; social neuroscience.

Ayelet Sapir

Lecturer

Research Interests: Spatial attention, inhibition of return, endogenous and exogenous orienting, Visual, Neglect, fMRI, Brain lesions, Neuropsychology

Fay Short

Lecturer

Research Interests: Research Interests: Body Representation (Body Schema, Peripersonal and Extrapersonal Space, Virtual Body Representations); Learning and Education (Higher Education); Counselling (esp. in Higher Education)

Vasiliki Totsika

Lecturer

Research Interests: Intellectual and developmental disabilities, autism spectrum disorders: challenging behaviours; parental psychological adaptation; quality of life in young children, adults and older adults, family members; family intervention and support; the Active Support model; staff training amd intervention outcomes with relation to activity engagement and quality of life. Children with life-limiting conditions: emotional and behavioural development; family adaptation.

Dawn Wimpory

Lecturer/Practitioner in Clinical Psychology

Research Interests: Autism, social timing, autism genetics, musical interaction therapy, social interaction, symbolic functioning, teasing.

Juliet Ruth Bennett

Training Network Administrator

J. Carl Hughes

Senior Behaviour Analyst

Research Interests: Behaviour, evidence based education, precision teaching, special educational needs, training.

Julie Davies

Teaching Associate

Nia Griffith

Teaching Associate

Jill Williams

Teaching Associate

Becca Henderson

Research Co-Ordinator

R. Crane

Research Officer

Research Interests: Mindfulness-Based Interventions, Teaching competency, intervention fidelity, implementation in the health service, depression.

Filipe Cristino

Research Officer

Nick Davis

Research Officer

Corinna Grindle

Research Officer

Bronson Harry

Research Officer

Margaret Cecilia Jackson

Research Officer

Research Interests: Working memory, attention, face identification, facial expression perception, familiarity, expertise, information binding.

James Lawler Keidel

Research Officer

Jan-Rouke Kuipers

Research Officer

Eleanor Lane

Research Officer

Kevin MacKenzie

Research Officer

Pamela Martin-Forbes

Research Officer

Research Interests: Conduct disorder in young children and education interventions to lessen conduct problem behaviour in the classroom

Helen Morgan

Research Officer

Susan Nash

Research Officer

Research Interests: Autism; language and social development in pre-school children with and without developmental disabilities.

Sharon Nelis

Research Officer

Bradley Daniel Nicholas

Research Officer

Catherine Quinn

Research Officer

Daniel Roberts

Research Officer

Einir Roberts

Research Officer

Mark Vincent Roberts

Research Officer

Judith Soulsby

Research Officer

Research Interests: Use of Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy as a psychosocial treatment to prevent depressive relapse, and to improve mental and physical health, including depression, anxiety, and psychological responses to diagnosis of cancer.

Rocio Perez Tattam

Research Officer

Martijn van Koningsbruggen

Research Officer

Jorien Van Paasschen

Research Officer

Alison Wiggett

Research Officer

Barbara Baragwanath

Research Project Support Officer

Polly Barr

Research Project Support Officer

Jennifer Cooney

Research Project Support Officer

Catrin Eames

Research Project Support Officer

Andrew Fischer

Research Project Support Officer

Nia Goulden

Research Project Support Officer

Gemma Griffith

Research Project Support Officer

Alexandra Hindley

Research Project Support Officer

Catrin Owen Hughes

Research Project Support Officer

Hannah Jelley

Research Project Support Officer

Mariel Jones

Research Project Support Officer

Ivan Kennedy

Research Project Support Officer

Robin Stewart Samuel Kramer

Research Project Support Officer

Vicky Lovett

Research Project Support Officer

Heather Melville

Research Project Support Officer

Nikolaas Nutter Oosterhof

Research Project Support Officer

Sahdia Parveen

Research Project Support Officer

Candy Patterson

Research Project Support Officer

Ralph Pawling

Research Project Support Officer

Sholto Robert Radford

Research Project Support Officer

Marie Remouit-Burrows

Research Project Support Officer

Emily Jane Roberts

Research Project Support Officer

Jennifer Roberts

Research Project Support Officer

Christopher Saville

Research Project Support Officer

Simon Viktor

Research Project Support Officer

Margiad Ellen Williams

Research Project Support Officer

Yanjing Wu

Research Project Support Officer

John Duncan

Honorary Professor

Shimon Edelman

Honorary Professor

Isabel R. Hargreaves

Honorary Professor

Research Interests: Psychological sequelae of childhood sexual abuse, Psychological influences on breastfeeding.

Alan Jackson

Honorary Professor

David T. Jones

Honorary Professor

Robert S. P. Jones

Honorary Professor

Research Interests: Reducing challenging behaviour in people with learning disabilities; functional analysis; mental health problems in people with learning disabilities.

Bill Lindsay

Honorary Professor

Friedemann Pulvermuller

Honorary Professor

Ian H. Robertson

Honorary Professor

J. Mark G. Williams

Honorary Professor

Research Interests: Cognitive models and treatment of depression and parasuicide; autobiographical memory and emotion; personality and disorder; experimental consumer psychology.

Paul Birch

Honorary Senior Lecturer

Laurence P. Chesterman

Honorary Senior Lecturer

Susan Clarke

Honorary Senior Lecturer

Rudi Coetzer

Honorary Senior Lecturer

Rhys Davies

Honorary Senior Lecturer

Janet Feigenbaum

Honorary Senior Lecturer

Tracey C. Heads

Honorary Senior Lecturer

Peter J. Higson

Honorary Senior Lecturer

Thomas R Lynch

Honorary Senior Lecturer

Frances L.Vaughan

Honorary Senior Lecturer

Research Interests: mindfulness, ACT, family caregivers, acquired brain injury, neuropsychological rehabilitation

K. Addy

Honorary Lecturer

M. J. Richard Corney

Honorary Lecturer

Alan Dowey

Honorary Lecturer

Neil A. Dugdale

Honorary Lecturer

Research Interests: Development of language and symbolic/cognitive functioning in children; experimental analysis of human and animal learning processes; language learning in chimpanzees.

Christine

Honorary Lecturer

Paula Durlach

Honorary Lecturer

Caroline Eayrs

Honorary Lecturer

Mair Edwards

Honorary Lecturer

Research Interests: Childhood behavioural problems. Maternal mental health. Assessment of parenting skills.

Sue Evans

Honorary Lecturer

Christine Handley

Honorary Lecturer

Faramarz Hashenpour

Honorary Lecturer

Stephanie Hastings

Honorary Lecturer

Heidi Heard

Honorary Lecturer

C. Hinds

Honorary Lecturer

Vanessa Hope

Honorary Lecturer

Cathrine Howells

Honorary Lecturer

Fiona N. Newell

Honorary Lecturer

Stephen Noone

Honorary Lecturer

Research Interests: Attributions of care staff towards challenging behaviour; autism; parent-child interactions with children who have learning disabilities.

Rossela Roberts

Honorary Lecturer

Gillian Anne Ross

Honorary Lecturer

Elin Walker Jones

Honorary Lecturer

Research Interests: Cultural and lingusitic diversity, bilingualism, EIBI,†Radical Behaviourism, intellectual disabilities, Autism.

Jan Watts

Honorary Lecturer

Colin R. Wilsher

Honorary Lecturer

Peter A. Woods

Honorary Lecturer

Tracey Bywater

Honorary Senior Research Fellow

Research Interests: Tracey's area of interest and expertise lies in the design and implementation of randomised controlled trials of evidence based parent and school interventions to assess behavioural and health outcomes.

A. Charles Catania

Honorary Research Fellow

Nick C. Ellis

Honorary Research Fellow

Research Interests: First, second and foreign language acquisition; implicit and explicit learning and memory; imagery; reading and spelling acquisition; working memory; computational modelling; developmental dyslexia; applied psycholinguistics.

Javad Fadardi

Honorary Research Fellow

Research Interests: The relationship between motivation and attention and psychopathology with an emphasis on addictive behaviours. Cognitive processes underlying attentional bias for psychopathology-related stimuli. Development of a computerized intervention to correct psychopathological attentional bias. Classic and emotional-Stroop Tests and studying processes influencing the precision of attentional measurement by use of these tests.

S. Hammond-Rowley

Honorary Research Fellow

Michael C. Jackson

Honorary Research Fellow

Rod I. Nicolson

Honorary Research Fellow

Zindel Segal

Honorary Research Fellow

Stuart J. Sime

Honorary Research Fellow

Bethan Mair Williams

Honorary Research Officer

Rosamund James

Research Support

Lester Bath

Research Administrative Assistant

Rachel Morris

Information Officer WERN