Personal statement

I am currently a Teaching Associate in Psychology at the University of Strathclyde. Prior to this I was the primary Research Fellow on the ESRC project “Self-referencing in the classroom: The influence of self-cues on children’s information processing and retention” (2020 – 2023) at Abertay University with Professor Sheila Cunningham. Between 2017 and 2020 I was a Lecturer in Psychology at the University of Dundee.

Research

My first research interest is cognitive development – more specifically I look at executive functions, self-referencing effects and social learning in children, and how these change with age. As part of this research I am a collaborator with the Self Lab in Dundee (https://www.selflab.co.uk/). 

My second main research interest is the psychology of learning in Higher Education. In this vein I conduct research on statistics anxiety, metacognition and the impact of Gen-AI on learning.

Teaching

I teach / have taught at the following levels for the BA Psychology course and PGT programmes: 

Year 1

• C8106 Psychology 1B Tutorials

Year 2

• Tutorials at Level 2

Year 3

• C8321 - Research Methods and Data Analysis
• C8305 / C8428 – Development / Honours Development
• C8304 / C8433 - Cognition / Honours Cognition (Class Lead)

Year 4

• C8426 / C8427 Dissertation supervision / Joint Hons Dissertation supervision

PGT

• C8983 Dissertation supervision
• C8981 / C8923 Social and Developmental Psychology

Academic Citizenship

• Year 3 Tutor
• Department Ethics Committee Member
• Departmental Gen-AI Working Group Member
• Assessment Review Guidance Project Group Member