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Psychology
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Professor Thom Baguley
School of Social Sciences
Subject(s): Health and Wellbeing, Psychology
Area(s) of expertise: Memory; Applied statistics
Viv Brunsden
School of Social Sciences
Subject(s): Psychology, Emergency Services, Health and Wellbeing, Society, Crime
Area(s) of expertise: Psychology of the emergency services (esp the fire and rescue service); Violence against emergency service workers; Posttraumatic reactions; Humanitarian assistance; Psychology of disaster; Community safety
Dr Matt Connell
School of Arts and Humanities
Subject(s): Celebrity, Music, Politics , Psychology, Social work/Counselling
Area(s) of expertise: Celebrity; DJ and Music Cultures; Politics; The psychology and sociology of communications and media; Family; Intergenerational issues
Professor Mark Griffiths
School of Social Sciences
Subject(s): Gambling, Gaming, Internet/Online, Psychology, Sexuality
Area(s) of expertise: Gambling (any area including psychology, social policy, cultural impact); Online gambling; Behavioural addictions (particular expertise in gambling addiction, videogame addiction, internet addiction, exercise addiction, sex addiction and workaholism); Psychology of fame and celebrity; Videogaming (any area including psychology, social policy and cultural impact); Online gaming; Cyberpsychology (psychology of online behaviour including all social media); Online excess; Online sexuality
Dr Maria Karanika-Murray
School of Social Sciences
Subject(s): Health and Wellbeing, Psychology, Business, Careers
Area(s) of expertise: Absenteeism; Presenteeism; Developing healthy organisations; Risk assessment; Risk management; Health at work; Promoting health at work; Psychosocial health; Resilience; Stress; Wellbeing at work; Work psychology and health
Dr Maria Kontogianni
School of Social Sciences
Subject(s): Health and Wellbeing, Internet/Online, Psychology, Relationships, Sexuality
Area(s) of expertise: Sexual disorders; Online identity; Conflict; Stereotyping; Attraction; Cheating in relationships; Intimate relationships; Jealousy; Gay parenting; Sexuality
Dr Maria Kontogianni
School of Education
Subject(s): Psychology, Gay and Lesbian , Relationships, Sex, Sexuality
Area(s) of expertise: Intimate relationships; conflict; jealousy; attraction; cheating in relationships; sexuality; sexual disorders; gay parenting; stereotyping; online identity
Dr Antoinette Minniti
School of Science and Technology
Subject(s): Sport , Psychology
Area(s) of expertise: Sport psychology; Attributions and attribution retraining; Motivation and performance enhancement
Dr Preethi Premkumar
School of Social Sciences
Subject(s): Health and Wellbeing, Medical , Society, Psychology
Area(s) of expertise: Psychological therapy; Psychosis; Brain imaging; Social relationships
Athalie Redwood-Brown
School of Science and Technology
Subject(s): Sport , Psychology
Area(s) of expertise: Sport psychology; Player behaviour; Critical incidents on the pitch; Score line effects; Performance analysis; Player statistics; Player work-rate; Player tracking; Automated tracking; Football; Swimming; Rowing
Dr Mark Sergeant
School of Social Sciences
Subject(s): Sexuality, Psychology, Science
Area(s) of expertise: Sex and sexuality; The biology of homosexuality; Olfaction (The sense of smell)
Serena Simmons
School of Social Sciences
Subject(s): Crime, Psychology
Area(s) of expertise: Criminal profiling; Mass and spree murder; Murder and serial murder; Rape and serial rape; Serial violent crime
Dr Simon Watts
School of Social Sciences
Subject(s): Health and Wellbeing, Relationships, Psychology
Area(s) of expertise: Quality of life in dementia; Love; Love relationships; Research methods; Qualitative research; Q methodology
Dr Glenn Williams
School of Social Sciences
Subject(s): Health and Wellbeing, Psychology, Society, Transport
Area(s) of expertise: Personality and stress; Psychology of wellbeing and happiness; Stress and wellbeing in the workplace; Commuting stress; The psychology of commuting and transport use; Encouraging more active and sustainable travel choices; Organisational change and stress; Arts participation and wellbeing; Community psychology; Developing a sense of community in society; Tackling social inequalities; Targeting social problems (i.e. poverty); Addressing prejudice
Dr Belinda Winder
School of Social Sciences
Subject(s): Crime, Health and Wellbeing, Psychology, Internet/Online
Area(s) of expertise: Fraud; Internet sex offenders; Offenders and mental health; Offending and health; Resettlement of offenders; Sex offenders; Sexual crime; Forensic psychology
