Research output per year
Research output per year
Associate Professor of Psychology
Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (Teaching)
Member of the Vitae Mental Health and Wellbeing Working Group
I enjoy teaching in:
Research interests:
My research interests are in clinical, critical, and transpersonal psychology.
My PhD research explored the conceptual and theoretical understanding of social anxiety with regards to its overlap with paranoia. I am also interested in the role of negative, intrusive mental imagery in mental health and its potential as a target for intervention, as well as critical and transpersonal psychologies and their overlap with clinical psychology.
My grant-funded projects have been on the topic of student mental health. Following my PhD, I developed an award-winning intervention for postgraduate research student wellbeing. More recently, I have led and been part of several projects seeking to better understand, and reduce, student loneliness.
I am also involved in projects seeking to understand experiences of menstruation within higher education.
I like to take a mixed-methods approach to research, employing both qualitative and quantitative methods to collect and analyse data. Methods I use include interviews, surveys, experiments, and psychometric scale construction and validation.
Grants awarded:
Office for Students / Research England CATALYST funding: £139,000 - March 2018. Peer Support for Postgraduate Research Student Wellbeing.
UKRI / SMaRteN Student Mental Health Research Network: £10,000 - May 2020. Social Connectedness and Wellbeing in Students.
PIHR Arts & Health Collaboration fund: £2,000 - November 2021. Public health messaging during the COVID-19 pandemic.
04 Psychology, Doctorate, Social anxiety and paranoia: A mixed-methods investigation, University of Plymouth
1 Sept 2015 → 1 Nov 2018
Award Date: 23 Sept 2019
22 Education and teaching, Other postgraduate qualification (e.g. PGCE, Postgraduate Certificate, Postgraduate Diploma), Postgraduate Certificate in Academic Practice (Distinction), University of Plymouth
1 Jan 2016 → 1 Jan 2017
Award Date: 1 Sept 2017
04 Psychology, Other higher degree (e.g. Masters degree), MPsych Advanced Psychology: Foundations of Clinical Psychology (First Class), University of Plymouth
1 Sept 2011 → 1 Jul 2015
Award Date: 15 Sept 2015
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Research output: Working paper › Preprint
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Research output: Working paper › Preprint
Student thesis: PhD