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Research Supervisors

The Psychology Team offers research supervision in the following subject areas:

Name	Qualifications	Field of Study
Dr Esther Burkitt	BA, MSc, PhD, CPsychol, CSci	Children’s use and benefits of expressive devices to communicate through their drawings, factors which facilitate artistic development, and the influences of colour on children’s memory and learning.
Professor Nik Chmiel	BSc (Eng), BSc (Pysch), DPhil, CPsych, AFBPS	Psychology in the workplace, including the psychology of safety at work, job stress and work engagement.
Dr Sue Churchill	BA, MRes, PhD	Social psychology and health. In particular, investigating the effectiveness of interventions to promote health-enhancing behaviour relating to diet, alcohol consumption, exercise, condom use and smoking cessation.
Dr Antonina Pereira	BSc, MSc, PhD, CPsychol, FHEA, AFBPsS	Neuropsychology and neuroscience, including memory, aging and the early neurodegenerative process, language, and cognition.
Dr Roy Spina	BSc, MA, PhD	Individual and cultural differences in social cognition, including research on decision making, judgment, attention, curiosity, and other aspects of social cognition.
Dr Ian Tyndall	BA, PhD	Examining cognitive verbal processes that may underlie the development and maintenance of clinical anxiety disorders, such as Specific Phobia, from a behaviour-analytic perspective.
Dr Thomas Gladwin	PhD	The efficacy and mediating mechanisms of novel computerized training methods for mental health issues, the further development of implicit measures of emotional reactivity, and brain stimulation using tDCS to enhance training effects.
Dr Moitree Banerjee	PhD	Engagement in mindfulness-based interventions, effectiveness of mindfulness-based interventions, measurement of engagement in psychological therapies and self-help versions of psychological interventions
Dr Lucie Clements	BSc, MSc, PhD	Optimal performance in the performing arts, in particular the application of sports psychology principals in dance.