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Thomas Baguley

Thom Baguley

Professor

School of Social Sciences

Staff Group(s)
Nottingham Civic Exchange Psychology

Role

Professor Baguley is presently Professor of Experimental Psychology and director of Psychological Research in the School of Social Sciences at NTU. He is a member of the NTU Psychology and NTU Athena SWAN Self-Assessment Team.

Career overview

Professor Baguley is a graduate of Nottingham University and obtained his PhD from the Open University in 1994. From 1997 to 2004 he was a lecturer in Psychology at Loughborough University, having previously held full-time posts at Coventry University and Cardiff University.

Research areas

Professor Thom Baguley has a record of research on human cognition with particular interests in spatial cognition, face and voice processing, models of human memory, and the relationship between high-level cognition and human memory. He also has an interest in psychological statistics - in particular best practice in using and reporting common statistical procedures and in statistical modelling of behavioural, social, educational and forensic data in psychology.

His work has been published in premier theoretical journals such as Psychological Review or Cognitive Psychology, as well as applied outlets such as Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied. He is a former editor of the British Journal of Mathematical and Statistical Psychology and the author of the 2012 Palgrave book Serious stats: A guide to advanced statistics for the behavioral sciences.

External activity

QAA

  • Former Member, Psychology Benchmarking Statement Review Group

British Psychological Society

  • Deputy Chair, Research Board (2016-2018)
  • Chair, Statistics and Research Methods Advisory Panel (2023-)

ESRC

  • Member, Peer Review College
  • Member, Grant Assessment Panel (2018-2020, 2024)

Editorial boards

  • Editor, British Journal of Mathematical and Statistical Psychology (2007-2012; Consultant Editor, 2013 -2018))
  • Board Member, Scientific Data
  • Senior Statistical Advisor, Cogent Psychology

Sponsors and collaborators

Thom collaborates widely and his work has been supported by a number of funders including ESRC, HEFCE, EPSRC, NIHR, BECTA and the European Commission.

Press expertise

  • Human memory
  • Spatial cognition
  • Person perception
  • Statistical modeling