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Sarah Buglass

Sarah Buglass

Principal Lecturer

School of Social Sciences

Role

Sarah is a Principal Lecturer within the Department of Psychology where she leads on the digital enhancement of teaching and learning.

Sarah teaches on both undergraduate and postgraduate modules, and supervises undergraduate and postgraduate projects. Her current teaching includes:

  • Year 1 UG Tutorials (Developing Academic Skills in Psychology)
  • Social Development of Children and Adolescents
  • Cyberpsychology
  • Research Methods in Cyberpsychology (PG)
  • Applied Psychology of Digital Technology (PG)

Career overview

Having gained a degree in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence and Psychology (University of Nottingham, 2001) followed by a PGCE in Secondary ICT (Kings College London, 2004), Sarah began her career as a teacher of secondary education specialising in ICT and Computing and, in that role, rose to Head of Department. Her experience and interests in the domain of digital technology use and online behaviour led her to retrain in Psychology at Nottingham Trent. Sarah completed her MSc in Psychology in 2013 and her PhD, which explored online risks and behaviours associated with social network site use, in 2018. Sarah joined NTU Psychology as a full-time member of lecturing staff in 2016.

Research areas

Sarah’s research interests primarily involve the use of digital technology and problematic/risky online behaviour. She is particularly interested in how people engage with and interact on social media sites and FOMO (Fear of Missing Out). Sarah is also interested in how digital technology can be applied in an educational context. Recently Sarah has been working on research into the use of banter in online and offline contexts. Sarah is an active member of the Bullying and Aggressive Behaviour research group at NTU.

External activity

Sarah is on the editorial staff of QWERTY an international interdisciplinary journal of technology, culture and education.

Press expertise

  • Cyber Psychology
  • Social media use (by adolescents and adults)
  • 'FOMO'
  • Motivations for digital technology use
  • Online vulnerability / risk / safety