Research output per year
Research output per year
School of Life & Health Sciences, Aston University, Aston Triangle
B4 7ET Birmingham
United Kingdom
Accepting PhD Students
PhD projects
I am accepting PhD students: please contact me to discuss project ideas.
I am an experimental social psychologist interested in how people’s complex social environments impact upon health and wellbeing. One theme of my research focuses on the psychological processes that influence addictive behaviours, with a particular focus on alcohol consumption. The other focuses on how social cognition develops, and is altered, through health and disease.
I am also an expert in Open Science: I am Aston’s Local Network Lead for the UK Reproducibility Network (UKRN), a member of the Framework for Open & Reproducible Research Training (FORRT), and an Action Editor for Registered Reports for Addiction Research & Theory, and Peer Community In. I am the Author of "A Student's Guide to Open Science: How the Replication Crisis can Reform Psychology", published by Open University Press.
2022-2023: £19,750, Principle Investigator, Research England: Enhancing Research Culture.
2022-2023: £97,000, Principle Investigator, Experimental Psychology Society (EPS) with matched contribution from the Institute of Health & Neurodevelopment.
2022-2023: £2,600, Co-Principal Investigator, The Society for the Teaching of Psychology (STP).
2019-2020: £60,000, Co-Principal Investigator, NHS Health Education England.
2018-2019: £15,000, Principal Investigator, Vice Chancellor’s Early Career Research Award, University of the West of England.
I am the Programme Director of the Single Honours Psychology programme at Aston University.
I teach on the following undergraduate and postgraduate modules:
PY1504 Developmental & Social Psychology, Year 1 Psychology
PY3505 Addiction & Impulsivity, Final Year Psychology
PYM717/727 Advanced Research Methods, MSc Health Psychology
PY3501 Undergraduate Psychology Research Project
PYM707, MSc Research Project
2020-Present: Lecturer in Psychology, School of Health & Life Sciences, Aston University, Birmingham.
2017-2020: Lecturer in Social Psychology, Department of Health & Social Sciences, University of the West of England (UWE), Bristol.
2016-2017: Teaching Associate, Department of Psychology, Lancaster University.
2013-2016: Graduate Teaching Assistant, Department of Psychology, Edge Hill University.
Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (HEA)
UK Reproducibility Network (UKRN)
Experimental Psychology Society (EPS)
Framework for Open & Reproducible Research Training (FORRT)
ReproducibiliTEA Journal Club Lead
2023-Current: Evelyn Murray (Primary Supervisor)
2023-Current: Michelle Oxtoby (Associate Supervisor)
2023-Current: Yanli Wan (Associate Supervisor)
Available to supervise PhD students in the above research areas. Please contact: [email protected]
SFHEA, Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, Aston University
Award Date: 30 Nov 2023
PhD, Edge Hill University
2 Sept 2013 → 2 Sept 2016
Award Date: 2 Sept 2016
PG Cert, Edge Hill University
Award Date: 29 Jun 2015
BSc, Edge Hill University
2 Sept 2010 → 2 Sept 2013
Award Date: 1 Jul 2013
External Examiner, MSc Psychology Conversion programme, University of Worcester
1 Jun 2023 → 1 Jun 2027
Higher Education Advisory Board, McGrawHill publishers
26 Jan 2022 → …
Action Editor: Peer Community In Registered Reports
2021 → …
Action Editor: Addiction Research & Theory
2021 → …
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Research output: Unpublished contribution to conference › Poster › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review