Dr. Sue Sherman

Title: Lecturer
Phone: (+44) 01782 7 33384
Email:
Location: Dorothy Hodgkin Building 1.88
Role: 2nd year tutor, Programme Director for the Applied BSc, Athena SWAN Champion
Contacting me: My office hour is on Mondays 4-5pm. If you are unable to come at this time, you are welcome to knock on my door on the off-chance or to make an appointment for a time that is convenient by emailing me.
SSherman

I joined the School in September 2005 having been a lecturer at the University of Sheffield (Department of Human Communication Sciences) and the University of Kent (Psychology Department). I have a multidisciplinary background (BSc (Hons) in Computational Linguistics, MA in Psycholinguistics, PhD in Cognitive Psychology), with current research interests predominantly in the domain of cognitive psychology as well as some aspects of social and health psychology.

I am a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, a Chartered Psychologist and an Associate Fellow of the British Psychological Society.

False memory: My research is concerned with aspects of implicit and explicit memory, particularly in the context of false memory. I investigate the nature and quality of false memories using the Deese-Roediger-McDermott (DRM) paradigm, to address issues such as how false memories can be distinguished from true memories. Most recently I have been focusing on the different types of stimuli that can give rise to false memories such as brand names and famous faces.

Cervical cancer and HPV: I am interested in the psychological impact of issues surrounding cervical cancer. I currently have funding from the North Staffordshire Medical Institute to explore the psychological distress caused to women with cervical cancer by discovering that their smear history included a misread smear. I am also interested in the public awareness of and understanding about the HPV virus which causes cervical cancer.

Supervising projects: I would be happy to hear from undergraduate or postgraduate students who might be interested in exploring one of the topics listed above.

I am a member of the Research Institute for Life Course Studies.

I am the Honorary Secretary of the British Psychological Society (BPS) Cognitive Section.   

I am also a member of the Experimental Psychology Society (EPS) and the Society for Applied Research in Memory and Cognition (SARMAC). 


Selected publications:

 

Sherman, S. M., & Kennerley, J. (in press). The organisation of musical semantic memory: Evidence from false memories for familiar songs. Memory.

Sherman, S. M., Moss, E. L., & Redman, C. W. E. (2013). The Invasive Cervical Cancer Review: Psychological Issues Surrounding Disclosure. Cytopathology, 24, 77-80.

* This article was selected as Editor's Choice*

Sherman, S. M. (2013). False recall and recognition of brand names increases over time. Memory, 21, 212-219.

Moss, E. L., Sherman, S. M., Pearmain, P., & Redman, C. W. E. (2012). The NHS cervical screening programme audit of invasive cervical cancers: who benefits? BJOG, 119, 1-4.

Sherman, S. M., & Jordan, T. R. (2011). Word frequency effects in long term semantic priming and false memory. British Journal of Psychology, 102, 559-568.

Sherman, S. M., & Moran, E. (2011). Creating false memories for brand names. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 25, 336-340. 

 

 

Year 1

  • PSY10018 Individuals and Society 1 (lecturer, seminar leader)
  • PSY10017 Mechanisms and Principles 1 (lecturer, seminar leader)
  • PSY10016 Research Perspectives and Quantitative Methods (lecturer and lab leader)
  • PSY10020 Natural, Unnatural, Supernatural (lecturer)

Year 2

  • PSY20018 Factorial Experimental Designs and ANOVA (lecturer and lab leader)
  • PSY20005 Biological Psychology, Perception and Cognition (module leader and lecturer)

Year 3

  • PSY30102 Eyewitness Testimony (module leader and lecturer)
  • PSY30099 Key Readings in Cognitive Psychology (module leader and lecturer)
  • PSY30061 Final Year Project