Psychology staff
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Amy-Louise Simkiss
Psychology Technical Manager
Amy-Louise graduated from Psychology and completed her Masters in Applied Research at Staffordshire University. Whilst still very early on in her career within Psychology, she has previously worked with other institutions such as University of Leeds, Keele University and Staffordshire University on research projects .
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Dr Vasilena Stefanova
Lecturer in Psychology
Dr Vasilena Stefanova is a Lecturer in Psychology and a Chartered psychologist with expertise in social identity, social interaction and intergroup relations. Vasilena completed her PhD in social psychology at Queen’s University Belfast in 2022. Vasilena’s current projects investigate social issues such as stereotyping and...
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Dr Aris Terzopoulos
Lecturer in Psychology
Aris Terzopoulos started his career working with children in primary education and assessing and supporting children with special needs. In order to improve his impact on students he completed in 2009 an MA degree in Literacy Development at the Institute and Education in London.
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Kellie Thursfield
Assistant Lecturer
Kellie T hursfield is an accredited child and adolescent psychotherapist working as an associate psychotherapist with the MET school academy trust in Worcestershire. Kellie completed her training at Newman University in early 2021.
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Dr Deborah Wallis
Reader in Psychology
Dr Deborah Wallis joined BCU in September 2018 as a Senior Lecturer in Psychology after 14 years at other academic institutions.
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Dr Natalie Walsh
Lecturer
Natalie’s research interests focus on children’s reading development, with her doctoral research including topics such as word type reading, emerging reading difficulties and the impact of synthetic phonics teaching. She is interested in how children make the transition from novel readers to skilled adult readers and the...
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Dr Greg Westerman-Hughes
Course Lead for BSc Psychology and Counselling
Dr Greg Westerman-Hughes research focus and interest are on Addiction, specifically Behavioral addictions such as Gaming disorder and Gambling disorder. This also includes aspects of Clinical, Social and Individual psychology.
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Dr Rebecca Wheeler-Mundy
Senior Lecturer in Psychology
Becky research focuses on how psychology (particularly cognitive and social psychological principles) can be applied to real life issues. This work often focuses on eyewitness memory or investigative interviewing, but is also of value in other applied contexts (e.g. education).
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Dr Mona Wong
Lecturer in Psychology
Mona completed her PhD at University of New South Wales Sydney in Australia. Her doctorate study focused on the effectiveness of instruction video/animation based on the cognitive load theory. Before she pursued her PhD, she obtained her Bachelor of Cognitive Science and Master of Education at the University of Hong Kong. ...
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Dr Jeffrey Wood
Senior Lecturer in Psychology
As a lecturer in Psychology, Dr Jeff Wood is particularly interested in the way people understand language as they read. Specific interests include conditional language usage, implicit meaning , online processing, research techniques and methods of statistical analysis.