Department of Psychology

Department of Psychology staff

Head of Department

Professor Sarah Bate – Individual differences in face recognition, prosopagnosia (face–blindness), face recognition in forensic settings, superior face recognition, oxytocin

Academic staff

Dr Bernhard Angele – Eye movements during reading, language comprehension, visual cognition
Professor Katherine Appleton – Human eating behaviour, appetite and healthy eating
Dr Gizem Arabaci – Roles of cognitive mechanism, mind wandering, trait level inattention
Dr Emily Arden–Close – Quality of life and adjustment to chronic illness in patients and their partners, Web-based interventions
Dr Janice Attard–Johnson – Visual perception, pupillary responses and eye movements, typical and atypical sexual interests, sexual offending, eye–witness memory, face processing
Dr George Bains - Clinical psychology, mental health, personality disorder, complex trauma, cognitive analytical therapy
Dr Helen Bolderston – Clinical psychology, mental health, acceptance-based psychotherapies, mindfulness, psychological wellbeing of health and social care professionals
Dr Sarah Collard – Epilepsy, psychosocial impact of exercising with a chronic condition, identity, health psychology, qualitative methodology
Dr Terri Cole – Behavioural investigative advice; forensic, particularly investigative psychology
Dr Kari Davies - Forensic, particularly investigative psychology, behavioural crime linkage, sex offending, policing
Dr Federica Degno - Cognitive and experimental psychology, visual cognition, eye movements, foveal and parafoveal processing during reading
Dr Simon Draycott – Clinical psychology, personality disorder, offending behaviour, motivation to change, schema therapy
Dr Jane Elsley – Working memory, feature binding, attention, cognitive ageing
Dr Alejandro Estudillo – Cognitive neuroscience, face processing, cognitive neuropsychology, cognitive psychology, mathematical cognition
Dr Géza Gergely Ambrus - Cognitive neuroscience, face perception, learning and memory, neuroimaging
Dr Maddy Greville–Harris – Clinical psychology, mental health, looked after children, attachment, disordered eating, patient-doctor interactions, placebo effects in chronic pain
Dr Nicola Gregory – Visual cognition, using eye-tracking in typical and clinical populations
Dr Doug Hardman – The psychology and philosophy of medical practice, clinical judgement, critical psychology, ethnography
Dr Xun He – Visual attention and perception, interpersonal processes
Dr Michelle Heward - Ageing and dementia; digital technologies and innovation, psycho-social interventions, inclusive environments, qualitative methods, coproduction and user involvement.
Dr Sarah Hodge – Cyberpsychology, morality, developmental psychology, video games
Dr Andrew Johnson – Modularity in working memory and sequence memory
Colin Johnson - Geographic profiling, Forensic, Investigative and Legal Psychology, Offender Demographics, Investigative Interviewing
Dr Marina Kilintari - Cognitive and systems neuroscience, cognitive and biological psychology, perception, action, EEG
Dr Julie Kirkby – Cognitive and developmental psychology, in particular eye movements, reading and visual cognition
Professor Changhong Liu – Face perception, cognition, social and cross-cultural psychology
Dr Otto Loberg – Eye movements and electrocortical activity during natural reading, visual cognition, electrocortical activity of attention, reading development
Dr Andrew Mayers – Mental health (postnatal depression, postpartum psychosis, children and young people), sleep
Professor John McAlaney – Social norms, behaviour change, substance use, digital addiction, cybersecurity
Professor Emeritus Sine McDougall - Cognitive processing of icons, symbols and signs; aesthetic appeal of interfaces, websites and icons; cognitive ergonomics, particularly visual search and comprehension of interfaces
Dr Natalie Mestry – Face processing, visual search, spectatorship of pictorial artworks
Dr Anna Metzger - Perception and action, touch and multsensory perception, movement control, machine learning
Dr Rachel Moseley – Autism spectrum conditions, language and semantic processing, embodied cognition
Dr Constantina Panourgia – Developmental psychology, risk and resilience, poverty, life adversity, emotional and behavioural adjustment
Dr Ben Parris – Cognitive control and frontal lobe functions
Dr Emma Portch – Language – mediated perception, emotional expressions, cognitive interviewing, facial composites
Dr Joanne Rechdan – Social and cultural influence on episodic memory, metamemory, investigative psychology, minority access to justice
Dr Laura Renshaw–Vuillier – Emotional experience and regulation, cognitive control, eating disorders, gambling, EEG, mHealth
Dr Ellen Seiss – Clinical and cognitive neuroscience: EEG methods; modulation of cognitive processes by emotional valence, personality, nutrition (glucose), or disease (OCD, Parkinson's disease)
Dr Shanti Shanker – Cognitive control, learning and memory in healthy controls, patients with focal lesions and dementia
Dr Rachel Skinner – Forensic psychology, cyber psychology, social media, social norms, behaviour change
Dr Tim Slattery – Visual cognition, eye movements, reading and language processing
Dr Fay Sweeting- Police misconduct, abuse of position, rape attirition, impact of rare auto-immune disease on quality of life
Dr Catherine Talbot – Cyberpsychology, cocial media, qualitative methods, dementia, eating disorders
Dr Jacqui Taylor – Cyberpsychology, psychology education, online teaching and learning, online deception
Dr Kevin Thomas – Judgement and decision–making; interplay between cognition and emotion
Dr Matteo Toscani – Visual and haptic perception of material properties, haptic exploration, metacognition in peripheral vision, eye movement recordings with computer graphics and machine learning
Professor Julie Turner–Cobb – Effect of stress and social relationships on physical health; psychoendocrine influences in chronic illness; cortisol measurement in adults and children
Dr Martin Vasilev – Attention and distraction, oculomotor control, reading, computational modelling, evidence synthesis
Dr Eleonora Vagnoni – Multisensory perception, peripersonal and interpersonal space representation, EEG methods, touch perception, the influence of emotion on visual and tactile perception
Dr Ruijie Wang - Cyberpsychology, human computer interaction, motivation in learning, eye tracking, mixed methods
Professor Jan Wiener – Spatial orientation, navigation and wayfinding; cognitive ageing; dementia
Alison Woodward - Complex PTSD, Dissociative Disorders, Psychotherapy, Trauma Therapy, Relational approach to recovery
Dr Alla Yankouskaya – Social neuroscience, neuroimaging, cognitive psychology
Dr Tara Zaksaite - Spatial navigation and spatial cognition, learning memory, and how these are influenced by personality variables, such as anxiety.

Demonstrators and technicians

Jastine Antolin – Eye-tracking technical support; gaze behaviour during dynamic videos and real-time social interaction, social anxiety and oxytocin
Natasha Burns - Neuroplasticity, neuroimaging, cognitive neuroscience, ageing, brain recording
Marianna Constantinou- Neuroimaging, memory, attention, future anticipation, ageing
Dr Matthew Green – Language comprehension; sentence parsing in humans and artificial systems
Alethea Guestini - Clinical neuropsychology, hypnosis, placebo, pain and mental health recovery, beliefs, expectations and suggestion
Cheryl I'anson - Cyberpsychology, Cybersecurity, Cyber Criminology and Investigative Forensic Psychology
Gemma Lovett - Social neuroscience, cognitive psychology, visual attention and perceptual biases
Michael Lowman - Cognitive psychology, neuropsychology, eye-movements, reading and visual cognition
Rebecca Legg - Cognitive psychology, working memory and sequence memory
Elliott Roch - Sport and exercise psychology
Daisy Roe - Cognitive psychology, order memory, response suppression