About
A brief description of who you are and what you do.
This section will only display on your public profile if you’ve added content.
You can update this in Pure (opens in a new tab). Select ‘Edit profile’. Under the heading and then ‘Curriculum and research description’, select ‘Add profile information’. In the dropdown menu, select - ‘About’.
Write about yourself in the third person. Aim for 100 to 150 words covering the main points about who you are and what you currently do. Clear, simple language is best. You can include specialist or technical terms.
You’ll be able to add details about your research, publications, career and academic history to other sections of your staff profile.
Research
Current research
Spatial Cognition
Examining the relationship between nostalgia and spatial anxiety to facilitate wayfinding. Currently running a series of studies with Prof. Tim Wildschut in Psychology at University of Southampton that manipulate spatial anxiety and nostalgia.
Facilitation of Spatial orientation within a virtual reality. Currently using Oculus Rift and desk top technology to examine how people stay oriented within a computer generated nested environment and whether this will facilitate orientation in the real world.
Cognitive decline in spatial memory in humans and zebra fish in collaboration with Dr Matthew Parker in University of Portsmouth.
Examining relationship between spatial and mathematical ability. Currently running studies in local schools with Dr Christian Bokhove in Department of Education in University of Southampton to investigate whether simple video games which enhance Mental Rotation can facilitate maths ability.
Role of Neurogenesis in spatial learning in collaboration with Prof. Tim Bussey in University of Western Ontario.
Associative Learning
Implications of attentional processes for configural connectionist networks. Currently running studies examining associative phenomena in the spatial domain such as conditioned inhibition and super conditioning and how what the implications are for how we process spatial arrays.
Animal Cognition and Welfare
Development of operant conditioning techniques to aid care of Zoo animals in collaboration with Dr Anne McBride, School of Psychology, University of Southampton and Ms. Danielle Free, Marwell Zoo, Southampton, and in the training of assistance animals in collaboration with Prof. Lewis Bizo, University of Technology Sydney, Australia
You can update the information for this section in Pure (opens in a new tab).
Research groups
Any research groups you belong to will automatically appear on your profile. Speak to your line manager if these are incorrect. Please do not raise a ticket in Ask HR.
Research interests
Add up to 5 research interests. The first 3 will appear in your staff profile next to your name. The full list will appear on your research page. Keep these brief and focus on the keywords people may use when searching for your work. Use a different line for each one.
In Pure (opens in a new tab), select ‘Edit profile’. Under the heading 'Curriculum and research description', select 'Add profile information'. In the dropdown menu, select 'Research interests: use separate lines'.
Current research
Update this in Pure (opens in a new tab). Select ‘Edit profile’ and then ‘Curriculum and research description - Current research’.
Describe your current research in 100 to 200 words. Write in the third person. Include broad key terms to help people discover your work, for example, “sustainability” or “fashion textiles”.
Research projects
Research Council funded projects will automatically appear here. The active project name is taken from the finance system.
Publications
Public outputs that list you as an author will appear here, once they’re validated by the ePrints Team. If you’re missing any outputs that you’ve added to Pure, they may be waiting for validation.
Supervision
Current PhD Students
Contact your Faculty Operating Service team to update PhD students you supervise and any you’ve previously supervised. Making this information available will help potential PhD applicants to find you.
Teaching
Current Teaching
BSc Psychology
Year 1 Psyc 1005 Thinking Psychologically Personal Academic Tutor (10 students)
Year 1 Psyc 1017 Behavioural Neuroscience Core Module Coordinator (240 students)
Year 3 Project supervisor (1 student)
MSc Psychology Supervision (1 student)
Previous Teaching
Year 1 Psyc 1012 Empircal Studies Core Module Coordinator (150 students)
Year 2 Psyc 2023 Animal Behaviour and Cognition Optional Module Coordinator (120 students)
Year 2 Psyc 2021 Language and Memory (240 students)
Year 2 Psyc 2025 Cognitive Neuroscience Optional (60 students)
Year 3 Psyc 3054 Spatial Cognition Optional Module Coordinator (34 students)
MSc Research Methods Psyc 6012 Concepts and Debates (15 students)
MSc Research Methods Supervision of thesis (10 students)
MSc Foundations in Clinical Psychology Thesis supervision (2 students)
Supervised to completion
5 PhD’s in Psychology, 1 PhD in Medicine and 1 Doctorate in Educational Psychology
Teaching awards
VC award for Teaching 2007 and 2011
You can update your teaching description in Pure (opens in a new tab). Select ‘Edit profile’. Under the heading and then ‘Curriculum and research description’ , select ‘Add profile information’. In the dropdown menu, select – ‘Teaching Interests’. Describe your teaching interests and your current responsibilities. Aim for 200 words maximum.
Courses and modules
Contact the Curriculum and Quality Assurance (CQA) team for your faculty to update this section.
External roles and responsibilities
These are the public-facing activities you’d like people to know about.
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You can update your external roles and responsibilities in Pure (opens in a new tab). Select ‘+ Add content’ and then ‘Activity’, your ‘Personal’ tab and then ‘Activities’. Choose which activities you want to show on your public profile.
You can hide activities from your public profile. Set the visibility as 'Backend' to only show this information within Pure, or 'Confidential' to make it visible only to you.
Biography
A chance to go into more detail about your work and interests.
This section will only display on your public profile if you’ve added content.
You can update your biography section in Pure (opens in a new tab). Select your ‘Personal’ tab then ‘Edit profile’. Under the heading, and ‘Curriculum and research description’, select ‘Add profile information’. In the dropdown menu, select - ‘Biography’. Aim for no more than 400 words.
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Prizes
You can update this section in Pure (opens in a new tab). Select ‘+Add content’ and then ‘Prize’. using the ‘Prizes’ section.
You can choose to hide prizes from your public profile. Set the visibility as ‘Backend’ to only show this information within Pure, or ‘Confidential’ to make it visible only to you.