Bahar Tuncgenc

Role

Senior Lecturer, Nottingham Trent University, Department of Psychology
Research affiliate, Social Body Lab, University of Oxford
NTU research groups: Groups, Identities, and Health, Evolution and Social Interaction

Career overview

Before moving to NTU in 2021, Bahar conducted a research fellowship at the University of Nottingham, and a postdoctoral fellowship at the Johns Hopkins University. Bahar completed her PhD in the University of Oxford, and her BSc (Psychology with Biology) and MSc (Cognitive Science) in the Middle East Technical University, Turkey.

External activity

Bahar regularly works with non-academic partners, features on the media and makes policy recommendations on topics of:

• Social connections and loneliness
• Social-cognitive development in childhood
• Behavioural change and social norms
• Health and climate behaviours
• Fostering young people's mental health and wellbeing

Bahar is an Associate Editor at Acta Psychologica, and regularly contributes to the broader academic community via peer reviews of journal articles and grants.

Sponsors and collaborators

Bahar's research has been funded by the Laureus Sport for Good Foundation, Oxford University, Child Mind Institute and Simons Foundation Autism Research Initiative. Bahar works extensively with researchers around the globe. Some of her most recent external collaborators include (in alphabetical order):

Freedom Foundation Ltd. (Nottingham)
Ophelia Deroy (Ludwig Maximillian University of Munich)
Adam Eggebrecht (Washington University)
Stefanie Hoehl (University of Vienna)
Stewart Mostofsky (Kennedy Krieger Institute)
Katie Slocombe (University of York)
René Vidal (University of Pennsylvania)
Sobana Wijeakumar (University of Nottingham)