Chris Pawson is the school Leader in Learning and Teaching and a senior lecturer within the School of Psychology. Chris teaches advanced developmental psychology at undergraduate and postgraduate level and leads modules on introductory and political psychology in the schools of health and bioscience and psychology. Chris is also a UEL teaching fellow and teaches on the MA in Learning and Teaching programme in the School of Education at UEL.

• Member of the school management team.
• Leading the development and implementation of the school of psychology learning and teaching strategy.
• Leading the engagement of colleagues with the UEL professional standards framework.
• Module leader for introductory psychology, political psychology and psychology work placements.

Chris is a member of the Institute for Research in Child Development, within which his main foci of research are children’s peer relations, moral development and antisocial behaviour.

• BSc Extended Science
• BSc (Hons) Psychololgy
• MSc Psychology
• MA Learning and Teaching

• Level 0 Approaches to Psychology (module leader)
• Level 0 Applications of Psychology (module leader)
• Level 0 Skills for Psychologists
• Level 2 Psychology work placements (module leader)
• Level 3 Political Psychology (module leader)
• Level 3 Advanced Developmental Psychology
• Level 3 Professional Studies
• MSc Developmental Psychology and Individual Differences
• MA Pedagogy in Context

Peer-reviewed Journal Articles

1. Nobes, G., Panagiotaki, G., & Pawson, C.J. (2009). The influence of negligence, intention, and outcome on children’s moral judgments. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 104, 382–397. doi:10.1016/j.jecp.2009.08.001
2. Pawson, C.J., & Cherniavsky, K.I. (2009). Weapons of mass deception: an active learning demonstration of attitudes, persuasion and the value of critical thinking skills. Psychology Teaching Review, 15(2), 62–73.
3. Coogan, J., & Pawson, C.J. (2008). The use of debating as an aid to effective widening particpation in psychology. Psychology Learning and Teaching, 7(1), 23–27. doi:10.2304/plat.2008.7.1.23
4. Pawson, C.J., & Tanner, R.E.S. (2008). Cognition and social development: some reflections on factors affecting attitudes to planned progress. Journal of Human Ecology, 24(4), 279–285.

Peer-reviewed Journal Articles

1. Pawson, C.J., & Tanner, R.E.S. (2005). The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child: implementation in the 21st century. Global Bioethics, 18, 1–15.
2. Tanner, R.E.S., & Pawson, C.J. (2004). Contemporary religious violence and the environment: some tentative observations and assessments. Journal of Human Ecology, 15(2), 119–127.
3. Nobes, G., & Pawson, C. J. (2003). Children’s understanding of social rules and social status. Merrill Palmer Quarterly, 49(1), 77–99. doi:10.1353/mpq.2003.0005

Non-peer-reviewed Journal Articles

1. Pawson, C.J., & Tanner, R.E.S. (2001). The moral understandings of urban children in sub-Saharan Africa. Some preliminary observations. The International Journal of Anthropology, 16(2–3), 171–181.

Book Chapters

1. Pawson, C.J., Adams, E., & Tanner, R.E.S. (2006). Cyberspace: a contemporary social space. In K. Malone (Ed.), Children’s use of space. India: Concept.
2. Pawson, C. J., & Gibbes, C.L. (2004). Mentoring recidivist youth offenders. In S.K. Ng, C.T. Chiu & C. Candlin (Eds.), Modern perspectives in language and social psychology: Hong Kong: City University Press.
3. Pawson, C.J., & Tanner, R.E.S. (2002). Methodological issues in the cross-cultural study of children’s moral development. In M.Trawick & D.K.Behera (Eds.), Children and youth in the global metropole: ethnographic approaches: New Delhi: Manak Publications.

Conference Papers

1. Pawson, C., & Nobes, G. (2004). Peer relations and child moral development: a longitudinal analysis. Paper presented at the American Psychological Society 16th Annual Convention, Chicago, USA.
2. Nobes, G., Pawson, C.J., French, A., & Farmer, A. (2003). Parenting styles and the moral development of the child. Paper presented at the Association for Moral Education 29th Annual conference, Krakow, Poland.
3. Pawson, C.J., & Nobes, G. (2003). Friendship, peer-group status, and the moral understandings of the child. Paper presented at the 11th European Conference on Developmental Psychology, Milan, Italy.
4. Pawson, C., Nobes, G., Moore, D.G., & Clifford, B. (2002). Friendship, peer-group acceptance, and the moral understanding of the child. Paper presented at the American Psychological Society 14th Annual Convention, New Orleans.
5. Pawson, C.J., & Gibbes, C.L. (2002). Bridging the gap: an investigation of a through-care mentoring intervention for young offenders. Paper presented at the 8th International Conference on Language and Social Psychology, Hong Kong.
6. Pawson, C.J., & Tanner, R.E.S. (2002). A Socio-evolutionary approach to explaining mob behaviour: symptomatic of modernity or an evolutionary relic? Paper presented at the Hawaii International Conference on Social Sciences, Honolulu, USA.
7. Pawson, C.J., Nobes, G., Moore, D.G., & Clifford, B. (2002). Friendship, peer-group acceptance, and the moral understanding of the child. Paper presented at the Hawaii International Conference on Social Sciences, Honolulu, USA.
8. Pawson, C.J., Nobes, G., Moore, D.G., & Clifford, B. (2002). The development of moral understanding in the social world of the child. Paper presented at the 8th International Conference on Language and Social Psychology, Hong Kong.
9. Pawson, C., Nobes, G., Moore, D.G., & Clifford, B. (2001). Peer interaction and the moral development of the child. Paper presented at the British Psychological Society Developmental Section conference, Worcester.
10. Pawson, C.J., & Tanner, R.E.S. (2001). The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child: implementation in the 21st century. Paper presented at the International Union of Anthropologists and Ethnographers, Agrigento, Italy.
11. Nobes, G., & Pawson, C.J. (1999). Children’s reasoning about morals and conventions: does it matter who makes, breaks or changes social rules? Paper presented at the IXth European Conference on Developmental Psychology, Spetses, Greece.

Poster Sessions

1. Gibbes, C.L., Pawson, C., & Coogan, J. (2004). Black British women’s perception of their hair. Poster session presented at the American Psychological Society 16th Annual Convention, Chicago, USA.

Reports

1. Pawson, C. J. (2002). Mentoring of young adult offenders at HMYOI Dover. Report commissioned and published by Research Development and Statistics Directorate, Home Office: HM Prison Service England and Wales, and The National Mentoring Consortium.

1. Member of the Higher Education Academy
2. Member of American Psychological Society
3. Associate Member of American Psychological Association
4. Member of the Institute for Research in Child Development at UEL

• “Children’s Friends Help Them Develop Sound Morals”