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. |
BSc (Eng), BSc (Pysch), DPhil, CPsych, AFBPS |
Psychology in the workplace, including the psychology of safety at work, job stress and work engagement. | |
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. | |
BSc, MSc, PhD, CPsychol, FHEA, AFBPsS | Neuropsychology and neuroscience, including memory, aging and the early neurodegenerative process, language, and cognition. | |
BSc, MA, PhD | Individual and cultural differences in social cognition, including research on decision making, judgment, attention, curiosity, and other aspects of social cognition. | |
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. | |
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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. |