Job title
Senior Lecturer in Psychology
Job responsibilities
Rachel is a senior lecturer in psychology and her current teaching includes Research Methods, Biological Psychology and a final year module which is focused on the biological bases of psychiatric disorders. Rachel is an admissions tutor, is a member of the Division of Psychology’s Ethics Committee and is currently chair of the School Forum.
Research, scholarly and professional interests
- Neuropsychopharmacological bases of disordered behaviour.
- Pharmacology and cognition.
- Atypical associative learning processes in relation to psychiatric and psychological dysfunction.
Previously, Rachel’s research interests have centred on associative learning and neuropsychopharmacological models of psychiatric disorders. More recently, Rachel has developed interests in the neuropsychopharmacological and cognitive processes involved in behavioural addiction and criminal behaviour.
External academic and professional activity
Member of the British Association for Psychopharmacology.
Information for prospective research students
Rachel is an experimental psychologist using primarily quantitative methods. She is interested in supervising projects in the following areas:
- Pharmacology and cognition.
- Atypical associative learning processes in relation to psychiatric and psychological dysfunction.
- Impulsivity.
