Research Supervisors
Research supervision is offered in the following research areas; click on the links to find out more about the individual academic staff members
Concepts, categorisation, word meaning, word learning, philosophical psychology and cognitive science.
Media influence on behaviour, specifically, ’parasocial’ relationships with celebrities and other media figures; ’framing’ in news media and its reception by the audience and mental health representations on the Internet. Also psychology and the arts, particularly music.
Human memory, specifically memory structures and processes and eyewitness memory; the learning and teaching of statistics and quantitative research methods.
Eyewitness identification accuracy; facial distinctiveness and decision strategies and statement validity assessment.
Dr Russell Luyt, Senior Lecturer in Psychology
Psychology of gender and masculinities and qualitative methods.
The psychology of language, child psychology, individual differences and learning and teaching.
Development of face perception, spatial cognition, use of metaphor, collaborative problem-solving, placebo psychology, learning and teaching of statistics.
Social psychology of gender and consumer behaviour, in particular the effectiveness and effects of (non)traditionally gendered advertisements (also cross-culturally) in relation to implicit and explicit measures of attitudes, stereotypes and self-concept, as well as persuasion processes.