Interim Head of Department

  •  – Spatial orientation, navigation and wayfinding; cognitive ageing; dementia

Academic staff

  •  – Eye movements during reading, language comprehension, visual cognition

  •  – Human eating behaviour, appetite and healthy eating
  • – Roles of cognitive mechanism, mind wandering, trait level inattention
  •  – Quality of life and adjustment to chronic illness in patients and their partners, Web-based interventions
  • – Visual perception, pupillary responses and eye movements, typical and atypical sexual interests, sexual offending, eye–witness memory, face processing
  • - Clinical psychology, mental health, personality disorder, complex trauma, cognitive analytical therapy
  •  – Individual differences in face recognition, prosopagnosia (face–blindness), face recognition in forensic settings, superior face recognition, oxytocin
  •  – Clinical psychology, mental health, acceptance-based psychotherapies, mindfulness, psychological wellbeing of health and social care professionals
  • – Epilepsy, psychosocial impact of exercising with a chronic condition, identity, health psychology, qualitative methodology
  •  – Behavioural investigative advice; forensic, particularly investigative psychology
  • - Forensic, particularly investigative psychology, behavioural crime linkage, sex offending, policing 
  • - Cognitive and experimental psychology, visual cognition, eye movements, foveal and parafoveal processing during reading
  •  – Working memory, feature binding, attention, cognitive ageing
  • – Cognitive neuroscience, face processing, cognitive neuropsychology, cognitive psychology, mathematical cognition
  • - Cognitive neuroscience, face perception, learning and memory, neuroimaging
  • – Clinical psychology, mental health, looked after children, attachment, disordered eating, patient-doctor interactions, placebo effects in chronic pain
  •  – Visual cognition, using eye-tracking in typical and clinical populations
  • - Children and young people, social emotional and behavioural difficulties, county lines, gang culture, aging and dementia  
  • – The psychology and philosophy of medical practice, clinical judgement, critical psychology, ethnography
  •  – Visual attention and perception, interpersonal processes
  • - Ageing and dementia; digital technologies and innovation, psycho-social interventions, inclusive environments, qualitative methods, coproduction and user involvement. 
  • - Geographic profiling, Forensic, Investigative and Legal Psychology, Offender Demographics, Investigative Interviewing 
  • - Face processing, brain stimulation, cognitive training, prosopagnosia and cognitive neuroscience
  • - Cognitive and systems neuroscience, cognitive and biological psychology, perception, action, EEG
  •  – Cognitive and developmental psychology, in particular eye movements, reading and visual cognition
  •  – Face perception, cognition, social and cross-cultural psychology
  • - Cognitive neuropsychology, individual differences in face recognition, face perception, visual perception
  •  – Eye movements and electrocortical activity during natural reading, visual cognition, electrocortical activity of attention,  reading development
  • - Nuropsychology and cognitive psychology, lifespan development and aging, dementia, memory, spontaneous cognitive processes, visuospatial abilities
  •  – Mental health (postnatal depression, postpartum psychosis, children and young people), sleep
  •  – Social norms, behaviour change, substance use, digital addiction, cybersecurity
  • - Cognitive processing of icons, symbols and signs; aesthetic appeal of interfaces, websites and icons; cognitive ergonomics, particularly visual search and comprehension of interfaces
  • – Face processing, visual search, spectatorship of pictorial artworks
  • - Perception and action, touch and multsensory perception, movement control, machine learning
  •  – Autism spectrum conditions, language and semantic processing, embodied cognition
  • – Developmental psychology, risk and resilience, poverty, life adversity, emotional and behavioural adjustment
  •  – Cognitive control and frontal lobe functions
  • – Language – mediated perception, emotional expressions, cognitive interviewing, facial composites
  • - Mental health and psychological wellbeing, behaviour change, mind-body approaches to improving mental health and psychological wellbeing, physical activity behaviour, physical activity intervention design     
  • – Social and cultural influence on episodic memory, metamemory, investigative psychology, minority access to justice
  • – Emotional experience and regulation, cognitive control, eating disorders, gambling, EEG, mHealth  ​
  •  – Clinical and cognitive neuroscience: EEG methods; modulation of cognitive processes by emotional valence, personality, nutrition (glucose), or disease (OCD, Parkinson's disease)
  •  – Cognitive control, learning and memory in healthy controls, patients with focal lesions and dementia
  •  – Forensic psychology, cyber psychology, social media, social norms, behaviour change
  • - Police misconduct, abuse of position, rape attirition, impact of rare auto-immune disease on quality of life
  • - Person perception, face perception, body image, mate choice, evolution and human behaviour
  • – Cyberpsychology, cocial media, qualitative methods, dementia, eating disorders
  •  – Cyberpsychology, psychology education, online teaching and learning, online deception
  •  –  Judgement and decision–making; interplay between cognition and emotion
  • – Visual and haptic perception of material properties, haptic exploration, metacognition in peripheral vision, eye movement recordings with computer graphics and machine learning
  • – Effect of stress and social relationships on physical health; psychoendocrine influences in chronic illness; cortisol measurement in adults and children
  • – Multisensory perception, peripersonal and interpersonal space representation, EEG methods, touch perception, the influence of emotion on visual and tactile perception
  • - Cyberpsychology, human computer interaction, motivation in learning, eye tracking, mixed methods
  • - Stress & health, employees' wellbeing, occupational psychology, creative methods
  • - Complex PTSD, Dissociative Disorders, Psychotherapy, Trauma Therapy, Relational approach to recovery 
  • – Social neuroscience, neuroimaging, cognitive psychology
  • - Spatial navigation and spatial cognition, learning memory, and how these are influenced by personality variables, such as anxiety. 

Demonstrators and technicians

  • – Eye-tracking technical support; gaze behaviour during dynamic videos and real-time social interaction, social anxiety and oxytocin
  • - Neuroplasticity, neuroimaging, cognitive neuroscience, ageing, brain recording
  • - Cognitive control, non-invasive brain stimulation
  • - Neuroimaging, memory, attention, future anticipation, ageing
  • - Cognitive psychology, Neuropsychology, Emotion and Reward processing
  • – Language comprehension; sentence parsing in humans and artificial systems
  • - Clinical neuropsychology, hypnosis, placebo, pain and mental health recovery, beliefs, expectations and suggestion
  • - Cognitive Psychology, Cognitive control, Suggestion, Hypnosis
  • - Cyberpsychology, Cybersecurity, Cyber Criminology and Investigative Forensic Psychology
  • - Social neuroscience, cognitive psychology, visual attention and perceptual biases
  • - Cognitive psychology, neuropsychology, eye-movements, reading and visual cognition
  • - Cognitive psychology, working memory and sequence memory
  • Elliott Roch - Sport and exercise psychology
  • - Cognitive psychology, order memory, response suppression