Role
As a senior lecturer, Harry’s time is divided between research and teaching students how to think more clearly about theory and methods in psychology.
Career overview
MA (cantab) Natural Sciences, University of Cambridge: 2002
PhD, Developmental Psychology, University of Bristol: 2007
Fast Stream Statistician, UK civil service: 2005-2007
Postdoctoral Fellow, Birkbeck College, University of London: 2007-2010
Postdoctoral Researcher, Institute of Education, UCL, University of London: 2010-2012
Lecturer, Kingston University: 2012-2014
Lecturer, University of Nottingham: 2014-2016
Research areas
Harry’s research interests include cognitive development, developmental disorders, cognitive structure, language, lexico-semantics, metaphor, short-term memory, working memory, attention, route learning, computational modelling, methodology, neuropsychology, and philosophy of mind.
Examples of his current projects include:
- the role of semantic representation in verbal short-term memory
- contextual effects of humour comprehension in developmental disorders.
Sponsors and collaborators
Current grant: Building a foundation to develop an intervention to remediate humour comprehension deficits in autism and Down syndrome (BA / Leverhulme)