Personal profile
Overview
- Email: [email protected]
- Telephone: +44 (0161) 306 0283
My office is room 110d on the first floor of the Zochonis Building.
Division of Psychology and Mental Health
The University of Manchester
Zochonis Building
Brunswick Street
Manchester
M13 9PL
My core activities are lecturing, advising and course development across a range of areas of the BSc programme in Psychology.
My background and specialism is in social psychology, though my work in teaching, learning and assessment has a broad reach across the undergraduate degree. I chair our BSc Psychology Teaching Board and co-ordinate the allocation of teaching work in the Division of Psychology and Mental Health. Previously, I oversaw the BSc Psychology with International Study degree route for a number of years from its launch and was responsible for Postgraduate Teaching Assistant training and development in Psychology.
My Higher Education research has been funded by the University's Centre for Higher Education Research, Innovation and Learning (CHERIL), the Manchester-Melbourne collaborative fund, and has also been supported by an SPS Education Innovation and Evaluation grant in the School.
Academic advisees should feel free to contact me in the first instance to discuss any academic matters or difficulties. A meeting can always easily be arranged.
Teaching
My undergraduate teaching is principally in social psychology, but spans Psychology as a discipline. For example, I have contributed to the courses PSYC10100 Research Methods and Statistics, PSYC11312 Sensation and Perception, PSYC10410 Psychology in Action, PSYC10711 Introduction to Social Psychology and PSYC21702 Topics and Issues in Social Psychology in recent years, among others.
In the Third Year unit Psychology of Politics, Identity, and Society (taught with Rachel Ashworth and Caitlin Monaghan), we draw upon concepts from politics and neuroscience to interpret a constantly shifting political, social and technological landscape. We examine evidence from psychological research to look deeper at our ever-changing social world.
- PSYC10460 Professional Development
- PSYC11312 Sensation and Perception
- PSYC21701 Topics and Issues in Social Psychology (unit lead)
- PSYC32242 Psychology of Politics, Identity and Society (unit lead)
- PSYC30920 Project
Membership of committees and professional bodies
Fellow, Higher Education Academy
Biography
After reading Social and Political Sciences at Cambridge I went on to do my PhD in Psychology at Birmingham. I held positions at the universities of Loughborough (in the Department of Social Sciences) and St Andrews (in the School of Psychology) before joining the School of Psychological Sciences here at Manchester in 2010.