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.
John Parkinson
Senior Lecturer
Research Interests: Motivation, Happiness, Behaviour Change, Cortico-Striatal Circuitry, Implicit Motives.
Marie-Josephe Tainturier
Senior Lecturer
Research Interests: Neuropsychology, aphasia, dyslexia, dysgraphia, reading, spelling, language disorders, bilingualism
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.
J. Carl Hughes
Senior Behaviour Analyst
Research Interests: Behaviour, evidence based education, precision teaching, special educational needs, training.
R. Crane
Research Officer
Research Interests: Mindfulness-Based Interventions, Teaching competency, intervention fidelity, implementation in the health service, depression.
Margaret Cecilia Jackson
Research Officer
Research Interests: Working memory, attention, face identification, facial expression perception, familiarity, expertise, information binding.
Pamela Martin-Forbes
Research Officer
Research Interests: Conduct disorder in young children and education interventions to lessen conduct problem behaviour in the classroom
Susan Nash
Research Officer
Research Interests: Autism; language and social development in pre-school children with and without developmental disabilities.
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.
Isabel R. Hargreaves
Honorary Professor
Research Interests: Psychological sequelae of childhood sexual abuse, Psychological influences on breastfeeding.
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.
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.
Frances L.Vaughan
Honorary Senior Lecturer
Research Interests: mindfulness, ACT, family caregivers, acquired brain injury, neuropsychological rehabilitation
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.
Mair Edwards
Honorary Lecturer
Research Interests: Childhood behavioural problems. Maternal mental health. Assessment of parenting skills.
Stephen Noone
Honorary Lecturer
Research Interests: Attributions of care staff towards challenging behaviour; autism; parent-child interactions with children who have learning disabilities.
Elin Walker Jones
Honorary Lecturer
Research Interests: Cultural and lingusitic diversity, bilingualism, EIBI,†Radical Behaviourism, intellectual disabilities, Autism.
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.
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.