School of Psychology
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Research in the School Psychology
The School has three main research groupings: Brain & Cognition; Health & Wellbeing; and Social & Developmental. All staff and postgraduate students belong to one or more of these groupings. Anyone interested in pursuing PhD or postdoctoral research in any of these areas should contact the relevant member of staff identified below.
Brain & Cognition Research into neuropsychological and cognitive processes
- Cognitive neuropsychological investigations of psychiatric and neurological patients [Nicola Edelstyn]
- Alcohol hangover, swearing and emotion, stress [Richard Stephens]
- Football heading as a cause of neuropsychological deficits [Andrew Rutherford]
- Language and visual word recognition [Sue Sherman]
- Memory, false memory and environmental context-dependent memory [Andrew Rutherford, Sue Sherman]
- Time perception [John Wearden]
- Cognitive control process, task switching, and attention [Jim Grange]
Health & Wellbeing Critical psychological approaches to understanding health and illness and promoting wellbeing
- Arts and Health [Michael Murray]
- Counselling psychology [Jane Hunt, Maggie Robson]
- Critical psychology (Discourse, Narrative, Social representation theory) [Emee Estacio, Michael Murray]
- Ecopsychology [John Hegarty]
- Health psychology (illness, disability, ageing, health promotion, stress) [Emee Estacio, Michael Murray, Sue Sherman, Chris Stiff]
- Music psychology (musical skill and development, everyday engagement with music, tone-deafness) [Alexandra Lamont]
- Social-community psychology [ Emee Estacio, Alexandra Lamont, Michael Murray ]
Social and Developmental Research into social relationships and development
- Family interactions - conversation analysis and discursive psychology [Alexandra Kent]
- Cyberpsychology [Chris Stiff]
- Domestic abuse and young people [Claire Fox]
- Children's humour styles [Claire Fox]
- Bullying [Claire Fox , Mark Trueman]
- Cognitive development [Martin Rowley]
- Groups [Chris Stiff]
- Interpersonal trust [Ken Rotenberg]
- Reputations [Chris Stiff]
Children and Young People in Society Special Interest Group
For those interested on conducting research with children and young people. The group is open to those across the university and external to Keele. Please contact Claire Fox (c.fox@keele.ac.uk) for details.
Recent and Current Funded Research
Psychology staff are involved in a wide range of research projects. Below is a sample of the projects that are externally funded on which staff are currently involved.
- ReADAPt: Relationahip Education and Domestic Abuse Prevention Education [EU Daphne III].
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From Boys to Men [ESRC]
- Humour Styles and Bullying in Schools (ESRC).
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Do groups view potential new members who are religious as desirable or undesirable? [British Academy]
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Promoting Independence And Social Engagement Among Older People [New Dynamics Of Ageing Programme]
- Ages and Stages (New Dynamics of Ageing (NDA) Programme)
- Children's Handling Of Uncertainty: The Influence Of An Unknown Reality [ESRC]
- Recognition Memory, Conscious Recollection And Familiarity In Patients With Nondementing Parkinson's Disease [ESRC]
- Investigation of Music programme In Primary Schools [ESRC]
- Enabling Children To Become Musicians [ESRC]
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