Professional Details
| Degrees: |
| | B.Sc, Astronomy, 1992, University College London |
| | Ph.D, Psychology, 1997, Edinburgh |
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| Previous Appointments: |
| | 1997-2007: Research Fellow, University of Edinburgh |
| | 1995: Research Fellow, University of Nevada, Las Vegas |
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| Membership of Professional Organisations/External Bodies: |
| | Member of British Psychological Society (BPS) |
| | Member of the Bioelectromagnetics Society |
| | member of the Association for Psychological Science (APS) |
| | Council member for the Society for Psychical Research (SPR) |
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Area(s) of Interest
| Research Centre: |
| | Psychology Research Group |
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| Area(s) of Interest: |
| | Ecopsychology, biopsychology, hypnosis, parapsychology |
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| Units Led: |
| | Undergraduate Psychology
Experimental Design and Statistical Analysis (Level C)
Psychobiology (Level I)
Ecopsychology (Level H) |
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| Relevant Posts Within Industry/Academia: |
| | Editor of European Journal of Parapsychology.
Editorial Board of Journal of the Society for Psychical Research.
Reviewer for Journal of Environmental Psychology, Journal of Parapsychology, Perceptual and Motor Skills. |
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Profile
Generally speaking, my research looks at the way a person's environment might affect them, from the more obvious psychoperceptual aspects to more subtle physical stimuli. My previous research has looked specifically at behavioural and physiological responses to weak magnetic fields (from both natural and artificial sources), especially in relation to affective interpretations (i.e., does exposure to the fields result in an emotional experience) and to parapsychological experiences (e.g., extrasensory perception, interpretation of somewhere as being “haunted”).
My current focus has widened to a more ecological perspective of environmental effects, trying to understand what environmental factors (both physical and psychological) may be beneficial or detrimental to mental health. Two specific areas of interest are (i) cognitive models linking responses to local environment to mental states/health, and (ii) factors that promote a feeling of connection to the natural world (one of the primary predictors of “green” behaviours).
I have expertise in psychophysiology (skin conductance, photoplethysomography and electroencephalography), environmental psychology (especially ecopsychology), hypnosis and parapsychology.
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