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Psychological Research
Head of Centre : Professor Michael Murray
PGR Director: Dr Alexandra Lamont
The Centre has two main psychology research groups, Brain & Cognition and Social & Community Psychology, and an interdisciplinary grouping concerned with Health and Wellbeing. 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, or consult with the PGR link for more information.
Brain & Cognition
Brain & Cognition - Research into neuropsychological and cognitive processes
- Cognitive neuropsychological investigations of psychiatric and neurological patients [Nicola Edelstyn]
- Psychobiological investigations of swearing, alcohol hangover, chewing gum and stress induced by travelling [Richard Stephens]
- Football heading as a cause of neuropsychological deficits [Andrew Rutherford, Richard Stephens]
- 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]
Social & Community
Social & Community - Research into social relationships and development and community engagement
- Bullying; humour; domestic abuse [Claire Fox , Mark Trueman]
- Cognitive development; education [Martin Rowley]
- Groups, reputations, cyberpsychology [Chris Stiff]
- Interpersonal trust; loneliness [Ken Rotenberg]
- Critical psychology (Discourse, Narrative, Social representation theory) [Emee Estacio, Michael Murray]
- Social-community psychology [Emee Estacio, Alexandra Lamont, Michael Murray ]
Health & Wellbeing
Health & Wellbeing - Critical psychological approaches to understanding health and illness and promoting wellbeing
- Arts, ageing and health [Michael Murray, Alex Lamont]
- Counselling psychology [Jane Hunt, Maggie Robson ]
- Ecopsychology [John Hegarty]
- Health psychology (illness, disability, ageing, health promotion, stress) [Emee Estacio, Alexandra Lamont, Michael Murray, Sue Sherman, Chris Stiff]
- Music psychology (musical skill and development, everyday engagement with music [Alexandra Lamont]
- Palliative care and intellectual disability [Sue Read]
- Stroke rehabilitation [Sue Hunter]
- Mental health; Psychology of caring (Helena Priest)
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.
- Promoting Independence And Social Engagement Among Older People (New Dynamics Of Ageing Programme)
- Role of theatre in representations of ageing (New Dynamics of Ageing 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]
- Preventing domestic abuse (European Community)
- Bullying and humour (ESRC)
