Academic staff
Below is a list of current Academic Staff in the Department of Psychology. Each person's name links through to their personal profile.
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| Name | Research Topic | Email/Phone/Room | Research Area |
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| Armitage, Dr Chris | Social psychology and health; predicting and changing health behaviour; attitudes and attitude change. | C.J.Armitage@sheffield.ac.uk 26626/Rm 2-26 |
SOCIAL AND HEALTH PSYCHOLOGY |
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| Barkham, Professor Michael | Outcome of Psychological therapies , in particular on practice based research as a compliment to trials methodology. | m.barkham@sheffield.ac.uk 26527 |
CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY |
| Beail, Professor Nigel A |
Psychodynamic theory & practice; intellectual disability. | N.Beail@sheffield.ac.uk 26575/WB C10 |
CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY |
| Berry, Dr Lisa-Marie | Cognitive processes of clinical disorders. | l.berry@sheffield.ac.uk 26577/WB C13 |
CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY |
| Blades, Dr Mark | Assessment of police interviews with abused children, children's eyewitness testimony and children's suggestibility during questioning. Children's understanding of media, in particular their understanding of advertising and marketing. | M.Blades@sheffield.ac.uk 26549/RM 2-18 |
DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY |
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| Carroll, Dr Dan | Executive function and inhibitory control in preschool children; Children's rule use and symbolic understanding; Conflict monitoring and conflict resolution. | d.carroll@sheffield.ac.uk 26603/Rm LG-5 |
DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY |
| Connolly, Professor Emeritus | K.J.Connolly@sheffield.ac.uk 26539 |
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| Dean, Professor Paul | Computational models of the cerebellum and its role in oculomotor function and classical conditioning. | P.Dean@sheffield.ac.uk 26521/Rm 2-14 |
COMPUTATIONAL NEUROSCIENCE |
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| Eiser, Professor Christine | The psychological effects of chronic and life-threatening illness on children and their families; interventions to improve compliance and quality of life in diabetes; children’s understanding of health and illness; men’s attitudes towards health and health care; quality of life and response shift. | C.Eiser@sheffield.ac.uk 26621/Rm 1-6 |
SOCIAL AND HEALTH PSYCHOLOGY |
| Eiser, Professor Richard | Attitude organisation and change. Social judgement. Perception of Risk. Health cognition and preventive health behaviour. Connectionist modelling of attitude processes and social interaction. Connectionist modelling of social cognition and behaviour. Categorisation. Applications of dynamical systems concepts. | J.R.Eiser@sheffield.ac.uk 26622/Rm 2-26 |
SOCIAL AND HEALTH PSYCHOLOGY |
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| Gurney, Professor Kevin N | Computational and robotic models of action selection in the brain working at multiple levels of description including: conductance-based neuronal models, large scale spiking neural models and systems-wide network models. | K.Gurney@sheffield.ac.uk 26566/Rm 2-21 |
COMPUTATIONAL NEUROSCIENCE |
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| Hardy, Professor Gillian |
Psychological treatments for depression: psychotherapy processes and outcomes; attachment theory; interpersonal processes. Psychological health in employment. | G.Hardy@sheffield.ac.uk 26571/Western Bank C5 |
CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY |
| Harris, Professor Peter | Self-affirmation and health, the defensive processing of health information, the Internet and health risk perception, optimistic bias, coping with chronic illness, predicting health behaviour (especially smoking, exercise). | P.Harris@sheffield.ac.uk 26627/Rm 2-23 |
SOCIAL AND HEALTH PSYCHOLOGY |
| Herbert, Dr Jane | Developmental changes in the retention of memories and the transfer of knowledge to new situations. The effectiveness of books and television as an information source for young children. | J.S.Herbert@sheffield.ac.uk 26512/Rm LG-6 |
DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY |
| Hockey, Professor Bob | Mental fatigue; human performance in complex tasks; brain markers of executive control and cognitive strain; adaptive automation. | G.R.J.Hockey@sheffield.ac.uk 26523 |
COGNITION AND COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCE |
| Hunkin, Dr Nikki | Human memory disorders; role of the hippocampus in recognition memory. | N.M.Hunkin@sheffield.ac.uk 26522/Rm 2-12; |
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| Jones , Dr Chris | Attitude formation through the exploration of novel environments. Public attitudes towards climate change and future energy choices (e.g. nuclear power and wind power). |
c.r.jones@sheffield.ac.uk 26592/Rm 2-25 |
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| Jones, Dr Myles | The coupling between neural activity and the changes in blood flow, volume and oxygenation. | M.Jones@sheffield.ac.uk 26551/Rm 2-45 |
NEUROSCIENCE AND PSYCHOBIOLOGY |
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| Kellett, Dr Stephen | s.kellett@sheffield.ac.uk 26537/Rm WB C18 |
CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY |
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| Matthews, Dr Danielle | Developmental Psychology & Language Development. Particularly development in the domains of pragmatics, grammar and bilingualism. | danielle.matthews@sheffield.ac.uk 26548/LG 10 |
DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY |
| Milne, Dr Elizabeth | Developmental cognitive neuroscience. Visual perception in individuals with autistic spectrum disorders (using techniques such as psychophysical threshold measurement & EEG). The relationship between perceptual abnormalities in autism and atypical cognitive profiles. | E.Milne@sheffield.ac.uk 26558/Rm2-8 |
COGNITION AND COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCE |
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| Nicolson, Professor Rod I | Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience including event related potential and modelling of developmental and its disorders. Cerebellum, cognition and skill. | R.Nicolson@sheffield.ac.uk 26546/Rm 1-12 |
COGNITION AND COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCE |
| Norman, Dr Paul | Social Psychology and health; predicting health behaviour; habit and health behaviour; binge drinking; illness representations and coping with chronic illness; stroke and PTSD. | P.Norman@sheffield.ac.uk 26505/Rm WB C15 |
SOCIAL AND HEALTH PSYCHOLOGY |
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| Overton, Professor Paul G | Deputy Head of Department Dopamine; Neuropharmacology; Drugs of abuse; Basal ganglia function and dysfunction; Neurobiology of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder |
P.G.Overton@sheffield.ac.uk 26624/Rm 2-15 |
NEUROSCIENCE AND PSYCHOBIOLOGY |
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| Parsons, Professor Lawrence | Functional brain organisation in humans | L.Parsons@sheffield.ac.uk 26645/Rm 1-14 |
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| Porrill, Dr John | Computational models of the cerebellum and its role in oculomotor function and classical conditioning. | J.Porrill@sheffield.ac.uk 26557/Rm G-15 |
COMPUTATIONAL NEUROSCIENCE |
| Prescott, Professor Tony | Computational and robotic models of the vertebrate brain emphasising layered control architectures and sensorimotor co-ordination in active touch. Behavioural, neural, and computational analyses of whisking behaviour in freely moving rats. | T.J.Prescott@sheffield.ac.uk 26547/Rm 2-16 |
NEUROSCIENCE AND PSYCHOBIOLOGY |
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| Redgrave, Professor Peter | Sensorimotor control; Visual systems; Basal ganglia; Dopamine; Reinforcement. | P.Redgrave@sheffield.ac.uk 26562/Rm 3-7 |
NEUROSCIENCE AND PSYCHOBIOLOGY |
| Rowe, Dr Richard | The development of antisocial behaviour. Unintentional injury: Psychological risk factors for accidents in children and adolescents, driver behaviour. | r.rowe@sheffield.ac.uk 26606/Rm 2.44 |
SOCIAL AND HEALTH PSYCHOLOGY |
| Rowse, Dr Georgina |
Psychosis: early intervention in psychosis, sleep, cultural/religious and spiritual explanations of experiences, role of early experience and the continuum model of experiences (through the lifespan). Substance use: relationship with mental health difficulties and psychosis, psychological autopsy methodology. | G.Rowse@sheffield.ac.uk 26640/WB B13 |
CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY |
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| Sheeran, Professor Paschal | Social psychology; determinants of intention-behaviour consistency; attitude theory; predicting health and social behaviours. | P.Sheeran@sheffield.ac.uk 26578/WB C14 |
SOCIAL AND HEALTH PSYCHOLOGY |
| Siegal, Professor Michael | Language and conceptual development; Memory and eyewitness testimony of children in legal and health settings; Development of language and communication; Autism; Deafness; Representation and theory of mind; Children's understanding of biology and cosmology; Spatial and mathematical ability in adults with aphasia | M.Siegal@sheffield.ac.uk 26506/Rm 2-9 |
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| Simpson, Dr Adrian | a.simpson@sheffield.ac.uk 26582 |
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| Slade, Professor Pauline |
Reproductive psychology; menstruation; menopause; pregnancy & the postpartum. Clinical psychology in physical health. | P.Slade@sheffield.ac.uk 26568/WB C17 |
CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY |
| Spencer, Professor Emeritus | Environmental Psychology specifically: children's environments; cognitive maps; and their implications for the mobility of the blind. | C.P.Spencer@sheffield.ac.uk 26556/Rm 2-17 |
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| Stafford, Dr Tom | Experimental and computational studies of attention, learning and response selection. | T.Stafford@sheffield.ac.uk 26620/Rm 2-27 |
COGNITION AND COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCE |
| Stone, Dr Jim V | Computational models of spontaneous recovery of memory. Bayesian models of visual perception. | J.V.Stone@sheffield.ac.uk 26522/Rm 2-12 |
COMPUTATIONAL NEUROSCIENCE |
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| Thompson, Dr Andrew |
Clinical Health Psychology particularly in relation to adaptation to conditions that affect appearance; Adaptation to chronic illness; Posttraumatic Stress Disorder | A.R.Thompson@sheffield.ac.uk 26637/WB B12a |
CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY |
| Totterdell, Professor Peter | Emotion regulation of others and self, especially in relation to work, social networks, well-being and performance |
p.totterdell@sheffield.ac.uk 23234 |
SOCIAL AND HEALTH PSYCHOLOGY |
| Turpin, Professor Graham |
Head of Department PTSD and responses to trauma, self-help interventions, imagery and psychotherapy, attention and anxiety. |
G.Turpin@sheffield.ac.uk 26569/rm 1-12 |
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| Webb, Dr Thomas | Goal striving (particularly the role of intentions and planning); emotion regulation (including social anxiety); attitudes, stereotypes, and prejudice. | T.Webb@sheffield.ac.uk 26516 |
SOCIAL AND HEALTH PSYCHOLOGY |
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| Zheng, Dr Ying | Identification and analysis of spatial temporal systems; biophysical modelling in brain imaging. | Ying.Zheng@sheffield.ac.uk 26511/Rm 2-19 |
NEUROSCIENCE AND PSYCHOBIOLOGY |