Role
Dr Andrew Dunn is a Senior Lecturer in Psychology. He teaches across all levels of the Psychology degrees and is the Course Leader for the MSc/MRes Psychological Research Methods degrees. Andrew has research interests in perception, memory, attention, evolutionary approaches and developmental psychology. He is also interested in visual motor action, space and location processing, and perceptual illusions. Andrew teaches across all levels of the undergraduate and postgraduate degrees in Psychology and has taught perception, cognition, developmental psychology, evolutionary psychology and research methods. His other responsibilities include tutorials, projects and extended essay supervision.
Career overview
Education:
University of York (Oct 1999 / Sept 2002)
Ph.D. Psychology – A Dual Route Account of Vision for Action and Perception: The Effects of the Judd Illusion on Pointing and Line Matching. (Viva Voce: Dec 2003)
University of York (Oct 1996 / June 1999)
BSc Psychology (Hons) 2.1
Employment:
Nottingham Trent University (2003 / current)
Senior Lecturer (full time)
University of York (1999/2002)
Tutorial Assistant
York St John University College of Leeds (2001)
Visiting Lectureship
Administrative roles/Internal Committee Membership:
Combined Hons Associate Programme leader (2004/05)
Admissions Tutor for Psychology (2005/07)
Senior Admissions Tutor for Psychology (2007/2013)
University Steering Group for Diploma Qualifications (2008/09)
Staff Student Consultative Committee (2006/07)
Psychology Management Group (2007/08)
Research Seminar co-ordinator (2015/2018)
Research committee representative (2016/2018)
Programme leader MSc/MRes Psychological Research methods (2016/ current)
Athena Swan Working Group (2016/2018)
School Research Conference Committee organiser (2017/2018), lead (2018,2020)
College Degree Research Committee (2018/2020)
School Research Ethic Committee – Chair Psychology (2019/current)
Research areas
Andrew Dunn is an experimental psychologist interested in perception, memory and attention. His view is that humans have evolved as social animals – biological entities in a physical and social world. Andrew’s work mainly focuses on person perception (processing faces, voice, bodies (movement and shape), and smell), the evolved mechanism underlying it, and the effect context has upon it. He is also interested in developmental psychology, space and location processing, visual motor action, and perceptual illusions. His work contributes to both the theoretical and the applied psychology literature.
External activity
Professional and committee membership:
Applied Vision Association (AVA): Ordinary Life Member
Behavioural & Brain Sciences (BBS): Associate Member
British Psychological Society (BPS): Graduate Member
Cognitive Section member (2008/ current)
Cognitive Section: Co-Opted committee member (2009/10)
Cognitive Section: Full committee member (2010/ current)
Cognitive Section: Annual conference organiser (2014)
Maths, Statistics and Computing Section: Section member (2011/ current)
International Society for Human Ethnology (ISHE): Ordinary Member
Association for Psychological Science: Ordinary Member
Fellow of Higher Education Academy (since 2011)
External Examining and Course Validation
Examiner
The University of Sheffield MSc Psychology and Education (2018/ current),
Northampton University BSc Psychology (2016/ current), MSc Psychology (2019/ current)
University of Strathclyde University MSc Research Methods Psychology (2014/18)
Southampton Solent University BSc Psychology (2013/17)
University of Lincoln MSC Developmental Psychology (2013/14)
Belfast Metropolitan College for Further and Higher Education (University of Ulster), Certificate HE Social Sciences (2012/16)
University of Lincoln BSc Psychology (2010/14)
Course Validator
Institute of Education, University of London: Level 6 Module Consultant (Nov 2014)
Cambridge Access Validating Agency external validation of Access courses (June 2012)
Southampton Solent University - Graduate Diploma in Psychology (March 2011): validation panel member
Editorial:
Editor: Journal of Evolutionary Psychology (2013/15)
Editor: Evolution, Mind and Behaviour (2015/2020)
Editor: Culture and Evolution (2021/current)
Review Editor: Frontiers in Developmental Psychology (2015/2018)
Associate Editor: BMC Psychology (2016/current)
Assistant Editor: The Cognitive Psychology Bulletin (2015/2017)
Editor: The Cognitive Psychology Bulletin (2017/2021)
He has also reviewed for a wide range of journals and book publishers, and grant awarding bodies.
Sponsors and collaborators
Consultancy work:
2005 - Boots the Chemist – developmental guides
2008 - Procter & Gamble UK - research project on the effects of colouring hair on psychological well-being and behaviour
2015 - NTU Future Factories Report for HOFFs restaurant: Psychology of food and stress reduction
Funding:
2002 - Visual Sciences Society Travel Grant
2010 - Psychology REF award for attachment diagnostic tests
2011 - School REF award for fMRI scanning bid
2013 - School REF open access funds
2013 - School REF software & equipment funds
2014 - School REF Image generation and subject support funds
2016 - 2 X Departmental summer internships
2016 - BPS Annual Conference Symposium fund
2018 - QR Ref Funding: SPUR (Creating a database of face, voice, and audio-visual materials)
2018 - BPS Summer Student Bursary ((Liam Cahill - Development of an experimental process for assessing male body image and body dissatisfaction, using an Implicit Relational Assessment Procedure -IRAP)
2019 – School QR Ref Funding with Alison Hardy (PI): Tool Development for measuring, comparing and evaluating the values attributed to D&T education)
2021 – School QR funding with Alison Hardy (PI) Pilot intervention study for the Nuffield grant
Collaborators:
Dr Benjamin Dyson (University of Alberta, Canada)
Dr Daniel Clark (Liverpool Hope University, UK)
Professor Thomas Baguley
Dr Paula Stacey
Dr Joost Leunissen
Dr Sally Andrews
Dr Harriet Smith
Dr Victoria Kroll
Dr Gareth Williams
Dr Rebecca Larkin
Dr Mike Marriott
Dr Alison Hardy (Education NTU)
Dr Katherine Whitehouse-Tedd (Animal Rural & Environmental Sciences NTU)
PhD supervision
Current PhD
Director of Studies
Liam Cahill (Body shape preferences)
Current Prof Doc
2nd supervisor
Samantha Chufungleung (decision making )
Past PhD
Director of studies
Daniel Clark PhD 2006/10 (Viva Voce 2010)
- Clark, D. P. D. (2010). Exclusivity and memory for object location. PhD. Nottingham Trent University
Timothy Wells PhD 2007/10 (Viva Voce 2011)
- Wells, T, J. (2011). Modality related effects of face and voice information and the perception of human attractiveness. PhD. Nottingham Trent University
Karima Susi PhD 2011/15 (Viva Voce 2015)
- Susi, K (2015). Examining the evidence for a pitch centre in human auditory cortex: A multi-method approach. PhD. Nottingham Trent University
Victoria Kroll MSc Psychology Res Methods 2010; PhD 2011/16 (Viva Voce 2016)
- Kroll, V. (2016). The Visual Processing of Human Faces and Bodies as Visual Stimuli in Natural Scenes. PhD. Nottingham Trent University
Harriet Smith PhD 2013/16 (Viva Voce 2016)
- Smith, H. M. J. (2016). Matching novel face and voice identity using static and dynamic facial images PhD. Nottingham Trent University
Gabriella Mutale 2009 Psychology Res Methods; PhD (PT) 2011/16 Self Funded (Viva Voce 2016)
- Mutale, G. J. (2016). Examining perceived pathogen threat and body weight preferences using experimental priming. PhD. Nottingham Trent.
Georgina Gous PhD 2013/17 (Viva Voce 2018)
- Gous, G. J. (2018). Manipulation of fundamental frequency (F0) and speech rate on (synthetic) voice recognition performance and perceived speaker identity, sex and age.
2nd supervisor
Gayle Dillon 2003/07 (Viva Voce 2007)
- Dillon, G. V. (2008). Exploring the nature of the imagination deficit in children with high functioning autism: A new approach. PhD. Nottingham Trent University
Guy Birkin 2007/10 (Viva Voce 2010)
- Birkin, G. (2010). The art and psychology of judgments of aesthetics on pictorial art. PhD. Nottingham Trent University
Ibiyemi Oluwatosin Arowolo 2015/17 (Viva Voce 2017)
- Arowolo, I. O. (2017) A Study of Emotional Intelligence in Patients with Bipolar Disorder.
Joshua Baker PhD 2015/2020 (submitted)
- Motor-Cognitive Interference - Insights From Electrophysiology, Transcranial Stimulation And Motion Analysis.
Caroline Ford MSc Project supervisor 2016; PhD 2016/2021 (submitted)
- What's the Contribution of Maths Anxiety, Metacognition, Strategy Use & Attitudes to maths on the Mathematical Performance of Primary Children.
Press expertise
- Psychology
- Perception
- Memory
- Attention
- Cognition
- Evolution
- Haman mate choice, attractiveness and health
- Face perception
- Voice perception
- Body shape perception
- Developmental Psychology
- Visual illusions