Postgraduate Research Projects
Current PhD research projects in progress as of October 2008.
Probing the neural basis of visual awareness and consciousness using transcranial magnetic stimulation(TMS).
Supervisor - Dr Chris Chambers & Dr Petroc Sumner
Dr Liz Andrew
Command hallucinations and risk of violence and self-harm: What distinguishes compliers from non-compliers?
Supervisor - Professor Bob Snowden & Dr Nicola Gray
Maternal influences on early child emotional development.
Supervisor - Dr Stephanie VanGoozen & Dr Katherine Shelton
Fearful temperament and the development of social emotions in young children.
Supervisor - Dr Stephanie VanGoozen & Professor Dale Hay
TBA.
Supervisor: Professor Derek Jones & Mara Cercignani
Perception and performance.
Supervisor - Dr Simon Rushton
Individual differences in electrophysiological evidence of strategic episodic memory retrieval.
Supervisor - Dr Jane Herron, Dr Ed Wilding & Professor Krish Singh
Central-peripheral differences in visual and visual guided motor processes.
Supervisor - Dr Petroc Sumner
Linkages between auditory perception and action: Acoustic affordances for virtual auditory displays.
Supervisor - Dr Bill Macken, Professor Dylan Jones & Professor Krish Singh
Climate Risk Discourses: Longitudinal analyses of public perspectives on climate change over two decades.
Supervisor - Professor Nick Pidgeon & Dr Karen Henwood (Socsi)
The Impacts of Climate Change on Older Generations.
Supervisor - Professor Nick Pidgeon & Dr Jacky Boivin
Implicit value priming in relation to behavioural and lifestyle changes.
Supervisor - Professor Greg Maio
What is emotional intelligence and how is it assessed?
Supervisor - Professor Bob Snowden & Dr Nicola Gray
Electrophysiological studies of human memory.
Supervisor - Dr Ed Wilding
An intereaction of GluR1 and nitric oxide in working and reference memory.
Supervisor - Professor Kevin Fox (BIOSI) & Dr Mark Good
TBA.
Supervisor - Professor Andy Smith & Professor Mansel Aylward
Motion sensitivity and activity.
Supervisor - Dr Tom Freeman
Public perception of energy choices and climate change.
Supervisor - Professor Nick Pidgeon & Dr Wouter Poortinga
Effect of reverberation on speech perception.
Supervisor - Dr John Culling
Modulation of nonverbal behaviours as means of (subconscious) impression management in the context of mate-
attraction.
Supervisor - Professor Tony Manstead
A magnetoencephalographic study into the neural correlates of motion perception and extra retinal eye movement
signals.
Supervisor - Professor Krish Singh & Dr Tom Freeman
Facing amniocentesis for fetal cell chromosomal abnormality: A needs assessment, development and evaluation of
patient decision support.
Supervisor - Professor Glyn Elwyn (MEDIC) & Dr Jacky Boivin
Rachel Elward
The role of inhibiton in age-related changes in cognitive performance.
Supervisor - Dr Ed Wilding & Professor Krish Singh
Teaching reasoning skills.
Supervisor - Dr Marc Buehner
Novelty and familiarity in infant imitation.
Supervisor - Dr Merideth Gattis & Dr Ulrike Hahn
Causal learning with temporally distributed data.
Supervisor - Dr Marc Buehner
Katie Hall
Early dietary intervention for Alzheimer's disease in the Tg2576 mouse mode.
Supervisor - Professor Mark Good & Dr John Harwood (BIOSI)
Adam Harris
Consequentialist argument.
Supervisor - Dr Ulrike Hahn
Mother-infant interaction and imitation.
Supervisor - Dr Merideth Gattis and Dr Ulrike Hahn
An a priori account for relative similarity: In defenceof the transformational account.
Supervisor - Dr Ulrike Hahn
Kathryn Hudson
The development of irritability in children and its relationship with internalising and externalising disorders.
Supervisor - Professor Dale Hay
An evaluation of steric hindrance of APP by 2B12 and 2B3 as a treatment for amyloid-related pathology in a murine preclinical model of Alzheimer's Disease.
Supervisor - Professor Mark Good and Dr Emma Kidd
The rationality of cognition and preception.
Supervisor - Dr Ulrike Hahn & Dr Paul Warren
The effects of reverberation on conversation in rooms.
Supervisor - Dr Phil Jones (ARCHI) & Dr John Culling
Group dynamics and children's responses to bullying.
Supervisor - Professor Tony Manstead
Decision Making in Fertility.
Supervisor - Dr Jacky Boivin
Jonathan Kennedy
Temporal transformations of the noetic nexus.
Supervisor - Dr Marc Buehner & Dr Simon Rushton
Cognitive effects of Sry Knockdown in Brain.
Supervisor - Dr Will Davies & Professor Lawrence Wilkinson
Short term memory: Modification and elaboration on existing modes.
Supervisor - Dr Rob Hughes & Professor Dylan Jones
Visual, tactile, and multisensory mechanisms of spatial and feature-based attention in the human brain.
Supervisor - Dr Chris Chambers & Dr Jane Klemen
Associative change in simple conditioning and configural learning.
Supervisor - Professor Rob Honey & Professor Simon Killcross
Palatability and Rat Models of Psychosis.
Supervisor - Dr Dominic Dwyer
Imprinted genes and behaviour.
Supervisor - Professor Lawrence Wilkinson & Dr William Davies (Psych Med)
Katie Marsh
Management of Common Mental Health in Primary Care.
Supervisor - Professor Mansel Aylward & Dr Melody Rhydderch
Individual differences in neonate attention disengagement abilities and their relation to individual differences
in imitiation abilities.
Supervisor - Dr Merideth Gattis
The neurocognitive basis of emotion regulation.
Supervisor - Dr Natalia Lawrence & Dr Chris Chambers
Mikael Mikaelsson
The effects of imprinted genes and fetal programming on brain development and behavior.
Supervisor - Dr Trevor Humby & Professor Lawrence Wilkinson
Reflect-then-act' versus 'act-then-reflect': Cognitive strategies for contextually appropriate action.
Supervisor - Dr Bill Macken
Event-related potential detection and localization using statistical signal processing.
Supervisor - Dr Saeid Sanei (ENGIN) & Dr Ed Wilding
The adolescent offender: The interaction between biological and social factors in the prediction of neuropsychological deficit, psychopathy and offending.
Supervisor - Professor Bob Snowden & Professor Nicola Gray
Lisa Mundy (née Donaldson)
Maternal emotions and biological assessment of infant temperament.
Supervisor - Dr Stephanie VanGoozen & Professor Dale Hay
Age, eye movement and motion perception.
Supervisor - Dr Tom Freeman
The cognitive mechanisms underlying imitation.
Supervisor - Dr Merideth Gattis
Rachel Pechey
The nature of delusions and delusion-like belief.
Supervisor - Professor Peter Halligan
The Development and precursors of anger in infancy.
Supervisor - Professor Dale Hay & Dr Stephanie van Goozen
Nicholas Puts
TBA
Supervisors - Dr David McGonigle and Richard Edden
Behavioural neuroscience.
Supervisor - Professor Simon Killcross & Dr Mark Good
Face recognition.
Supervisor - Dr Michael Lewis & Professor Rob Honey
Social psychology: Identity.
Supervisor - Professor Russell Spears
Factors moderating embodiment in status perception.
Supervisor - Dr Ulrich von Hecker
Psychological distance and health intervention outcomes.
Supervisor - Professor Andy Smith
The Effect of Anticipated Group-Based Emotions on Discrimination.
Supervisor - Professor Russell Spears & Professor Tony Manstead
Embryo disposition: assessing psychosocial factors of decision avoidance and development of a patient decision
support tool.
Supervisor - Dr Jacky Boivin & Professor Glyn Elwyn (MEDIC)
Intergroup solidarity and collective action.
Supervisor - Professor Russell Spears
Family Factors and Children’s Transition from Primary to Secondary School: A Longitudinal Analysis.
Supervisor - Dr Katherine Shelton & Dr Stephanie van Goozen
Promoting family and school based support programmes aimed at improving outcomes for families and children in
Wales.
Supervisor - Professor Simon Killcross & Professor Mike Owen (PsychMed)
Recognition memory and MTL organisation: evidence from lesion research and neuroimaging.
Supervisor - Professor Kim Graham, Dr Ed Wilding & Professor John Aggleton
Effectiveness of psychological indicators of deception.
Supervisor - Dr Lewis Bott & Dr Michael Lewis
Emotional stress in the NHS: Effects on health, stress levels and safety.
Supervisor - Professor Andy Smith
Natalie Williams
Mechanisms of selective attention in animals.
Supervisor - Professor John Pearce
Social and Cognitive Development in Preterm Infants.
Supervisor - Dr Merideth Gattis
Yee Yick
Electrophysiological studies of face and word memory.
Supervisor - Dr Ed Wilding
Wen Zhang
The Effect of crossmodal attentional lord on sensory processing and the control of attentional resources.
Supervisor - Dr Chris chambers & Dr Jane Klemen