Members of the Psychological Sciences Research Group (PSRG)
Find out more about our members, our theme affiliations, our research interests, and visit our more detailed staff profiles.
Key to the abbreviated research themes
AW - Ageing Well
ACN - Applied Cognition and Neuroscience
OPE - Optimising Performance and Engagement
PPH - Promoting Psychological Health
Staff members with primary affiliation to Psychological Sciences Research Group
| Name and theme | Key research interests |
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Dr Chris Alford |
Performance, behaviour, cognition, sleep, drugs, alcohol, caffeine, psychophysiology, EEG |
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Dr Gamze Arman |
Business expatriates and immigrants, female career development, abusive supervision |
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Dr Selma Babayigit |
Language, cognition and literacy development, bilingual, English as an additional language, Turkish |
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Dr Lucy Blake |
Family relationships, child development, estrangement, mental health, young people |
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Kate Bradley |
Psychometric assessment, selection and development, artificial intelligence, diversity, growth mindset |
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Dr Caroline Brown |
Psychophysiological, attention, cognitive development, autism, emotion, mindfulness |
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Dr Sarah Brown |
Weight management, cardiac rehabilitation, yoga for health and wellbeing |
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Dr James Byron-Daniel |
Applied sport psychology, exercise interventions, performance, lifespan physical activity |
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Dr Mike Chase |
Community psychology, mixed methods evaluations, and health provision experiences |
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Dr Jasmine Childs-Fegredo |
Yoga-integrated psychotherapy, mindfulness, school mental health, counselling psychology |
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Dr Gary Christopher |
Neuropsychological testing, dementia, ageing, emotion regulation, executive function, caffeine |
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Dr Kait Clark |
Visual cognition, attention, perceptual learning, training, expertise, individual differences |
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Dr Toni Dicaccavo |
Counselling psychology, parentification, compassion focused therapy, CBT |
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Andy Eastwood |
Psychopharmacology, social cognition, alcohol-related aggression, emotional face processing |
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Dr Eva Fragkiadaki |
Psychotherapy change and outcome, qualitative methods, mixed methods |
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Dr Jennie Ferrell |
Cognitive development, social cognition, counterfactual reasoning, group dynamics |
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Emma Gaskin |
Forensic psychology; face memory, perception and recognition; identifying offenders |
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Dr Miltos Hadjiosif |
Counselling psychology, wounded healer, community psychology, narrative, popular culture |
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Adam Harvey |
Verbal and nonverbal lie-detection, memory performance, investigative interviewing |
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Dr Priscilla Heard |
Visual perception, illusions, facial expression |
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Danny Holmes |
Mental health, sports performance, group dynamics, performing under pressure |
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Dr Nicola Holt |
Creativity, art and health, schizotypy, anomalous experiences, experience sampling |
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Dr Iris Holzleitner |
Face perception, social cognition, evolutionary psychology, morphometrics, open science |
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Dr Nic Hooper |
Acceptance and commitment therapy, applied behaviour analysis |
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Dr Jane Humphreys |
Under fives cognitive/social development, lifespan transitions, teaching and learning |
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Dr Kris Kinsey |
Cognitive neuroscience, EEG, eye tracking, attention, vision, lexical dyslexia |
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Identity, narrative, migration, international development, health communication, gender, media |
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Dr James Macdonald |
Consciousness, attention, perception, mind-wandering, mental imagery, neuronal oscillations |
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Dr Jane Meyrick |
Sexual health and well-being, public health, sexual violence prevention |
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Dr Chris Pawson |
Community psychology, mental health, child development, ethology behavioural ecology. |
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Gemma Pike |
Proactivity, social identity, careers, psychological capital, coaching, workplace wellbeing |
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Dr Paul Redford |
Organisational and business psychology, individual differences, motivation, creativity, learning |
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Dr Claire-Marie Roberts |
Career termination, psychopathology, oculomotor behaviour, professional practice, women's sport |
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Dr Niklas Serning |
Therapeutic use of psychedelics, critical psychology, post-psychology, young people |
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Mr Ben Steeden |
Leadership, leadership potential, recruitment, unconscious bias, ageism, wellbeing |
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Dr Abby Tabor |
Embodied cognition, active inference, noncommunicable diseases, pain, built environment |
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Dr Zoe Thomas |
Mental health, complex presentations, dual diagnosis |
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Dr Miles Thompson |
Acceptance and commitment therapy, chronic pain, community psychology |
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Dr Trang Tran |
Psychological wellbeing, cultural adaptation, ecological development, intercultural practices |
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Dr Tony Ward |
Cognitive representation, psychotherapy, pluralism, integration, emotion processing, online simulation |
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Matt Wood |
Human computer interaction, qualitative methods, critical psychology, human sexuality |
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Lindsay Woodford |
Overtraining, mental health, sport psychology |
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Dr Nancy Zook |
Executive functions, ageing, neuropsychological tests |
Staff members with secondary affiliation to Psychological Sciences Research Group
| Name and theme | Main research group at UWE Bristol |
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Dr Philippa Carr |
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Professor Phillippa Diedrichs |
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Dr Emily Dodd |
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Dr Laura Fogg-Rogers |
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Dr Emma Halliwell |
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Dr Nikki Hayfield |
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Dr Elizabeth Jenkinson |
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Dr Mary Keeling |
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Dr Helen Malson |
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Dr Tim Moss |
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Dr Christine Ramsey-Wade |
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Dr Harriet Shortt |
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Dr Amy Slater |
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Dr Catherine Warner |
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Nigel Williams |
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Dr Heidi Williamson |
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