Current Research Students

Student’s Name	Title of Research	Supervisors
Booth, Paula	The effects of water consumption on schoolchildren’s cognitive function and mood.	Caroline Edmonds (DoS) Lynne Dawkins Derek Moore
Colahan, Matthew	Understanding relationship satisfaction in long-term heterosexual intimacy: a phenomenological exploration into the interplay between discourse and experience.	Aneta Tunariu (DoS) Pippa Dell Esme Burton
Edwards, Ceris	An investigation into the effect of teacher mood and stress levels on the well-being and performance of school children	Irvine Gersch (DoS) Sharon Cahill
Elston, Francesca	Doing well by doing good: a mixed methods inquiry into the theory, phenomenology, predictors and correlates of Eudaimonic well-being.	Caroline Edmonds (DoS)
Gokcen, Nesrin	The conceptualisation, measurement, and modelling of ‘flourishing’ in Higher Education students.	Elizabeth Attree (DoS) Christine Dancey Kate Hefferon
Hubbeling, Allerdienke	Exploring differences in processing between conventional, moral, prudential and disgust problems.	Tom Dickins (DoS)
Johnson, Barbara	Consideration of the future and health behaviours: young adults’ adherence to treatment regime for Type 1 diabetes.	James Walsh (DoS) Ken Gannon
Lee-Wilson, Pia	The social constructedness of child neglect and multi-agency responses.	Pippa Dell (DoS) Aneta Tunariu Ian Tucker
Lynch, Stephanie	Further Research investigating the Cannabis-Psychosis link.	John Turner (DoS) Kirstie Soar Lynne Dawkins
McKeown, Patrick	How does ethnicity affect the treatment of people with mental health issues in police detention?	Dave Harper (DoS) Bipasha Ahmed Corinne Squire
O’Reilly, Anna	Word reading and object naming: phonological encoding in English language production.	Melanie Vitkovitch (DoS) Mark McDermott
Rundle, Kirshen	People who hear voices: their lived experiences of person-centred counselling.	Rowan Bayne (DoS) Gordon Jinks David Harper
Wakui, Elley	The role of perceptual load and attention on formats of representations in object recognition.	Volker Thoma (DoS) Melanie Vitkovitch Ashok Jansari
Wells, Ian	Towards a cognitive model of critical thinking.	Tom Dickins (DoS) James Walsh Andy and Esme Burton
Recent Completions
Adams, Eike	Making sense of infertility after breast cancer treatment: a feminist materialist discourse analysis.	Pippa Dell (DoS) Ken Gannon Mark McDermott
Coogan, Joy	Children’s accounts of mathematics.	Sharon Cahill (DoS) Christine Dancey Elizabeth Attree Esme Burton
Cooper, Elisa	Semantic activation and single word reading.	Melanie Vitkovitch (DoS) Volker Thoma Tom Dickins
Gamage, Gayani	The importance of using reward appeals in health communication messages.	Mark McDermott (DoS) Ken Gannon James Walsh
Garib-Penna, Sara	What cognitive factors predict emotion recognition in children with autism?	Derek Moore (DoS) Rachel George
Gibbes, Carla	An exploration of the experience of stress in the police service: a mixed methods approach.	Aneta Tunariu (DoS) Brian Clifford
Leeming, Dawn	Managing shame: a contextual analysis.	Mary Boyle (DoS) Ken Gannon
Pawson, Chris	Peer relations and children’s moral understanding.	Derek Moore (DoS) Brian Clifford Gavin Nobes
Sandhu, Sima	Understanding health and social care giving from an evolutionary perspective: implications for social policy and the future care workforce.	Tom Dickins (DoS) Matthew Jones Chesters Ken Gannon
Spiller, Mary	Mental imagery in synaesthesia.	Ashok Jansari (DoS) Matthew Jones Chesters Andy Burton
Yeager, Jennifer	A qualitative analysis of the emerging role of the Internet as source of support for survivors of sexual violence.	Irina Anderson (DoS) Mark Rapley