Personal statement
I completed my degree in Psychology at the University of Glasgow in 2009. I gained my PhD from the UCL Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience in 2014, under the supervision of Professor Nilli Lavie (www.attention-focus.com), and funded by an MRC PhD Studentship. I then held a post-doctoral position in Professor Mike Burton's FaceVar Lab (www.facevar.com) at the University of Aberdeen and then the University of York (2013-2017). I moved to my current role at University of Strathclyde Psychology in 2017. I combine my lecturing responsibilities with ongoing research in attention, perception, and face recognition.
Teaching
My teaching duties extend across the BA degree and our MSc prgrammes:
Deputy Course Director - MSc in Research Methods
Topic Leader - 4th Year Course - The Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience of Face Recognition (PCNFR)
Topic Leader - 4th Year Course - Psychology Work Placement Class
Topic Contributor - 3rd Year Course - Cognition
Topic Contributor - 2nd Year Course - Cognition & Neuropsychology
Undergraduate Dissertation Supervisor
MSc Dissertation Supervisor
Professional activities
- Social media addiction?: An attentional bias approach
- Speaker
- 21/6/2022
- Super-recognisers: Hyper-realistic mask detection
- Speaker
- 4/5/2022
- Social media 'addiction'? An attentional bias study
- Speaker
- 26/5/2021
- Detecting Passport Morphs: An Individual Differences Approach
- Speaker
- 3/3/2021
- Setting up a successful departmental Twitter account (@UOSPsychology)
- Speaker
- 10/2/2021
- Psychology Lecture
- Participant
- 30/9/2020
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Projects
- Creating an interactive citizen science exhibit at the Glasgow Science Centre
- Robertson, David (Principal Investigator) McGeown, William (Co-investigator) Wodehouse, Andrew (Principal Investigator)
- Funded by the EPSRC Impact Accelerator Account
- 01-Jan-2022 - 01-Jan-2023
- Explorathon 2019: Are you a super-face-recogniser?
- Robertson, David (Principal Investigator)
- Public engagement workshop returned for the third year, held at the Glasgow Riverside Museum, as part of European Researchers Night
- 27-Jan-2019 - 28-Jan-2019
- Explorathon 2018: Are You A Super-Face-Recogniser?
- Robertson, David (Principal Investigator)
- 28-Jan-2018 - 29-Jan-2018
- Explorathon 2018: Are you a super-recogniser?
- Robertson, David (Principal Investigator)
- Public engagement event at the Glasgow Riverside Museum as part of European Researchers Night
- 28-Jan-2018 - 29-Jan-2018
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