Dr Jo Saunders

Senior Lecturer

Psychology

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Personal statement

I joined the School in 2012 after spending 8 years at Swansea University as a Lecturer and, before then, as an ESRC Research Fellow at St. Andrews.

My research focuses on why we forget. Some of this research has been theory driven examining the underlying processes of why we forget some memories but not others. Research has also focused on the practical applications including the accuracy and completeness of eyewitness memory and memory in sub-clinical disorders.

I am also interested in the mechanisms of change underlying third-wave therapies, such as Mindfulness and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, and examining whether distress predicts the development, and maintenance, of psychological difficulties.

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Qualifications

PhD in Psychology, University of St. Andrews

BSc (Hons) Psychology, University of St. Andrews

 

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Research Interests

Theories of forgetting

Intentional and unintentional forgetting

Odour memory

Eyewitness memory

Psychogenic amnesia/fugue, trauma memory and dissociation

Recovered memories and repression

Amnesia in offenders

Psychopathology (depression, anxiety, OCD, psychosis and schizotypy, personality disorders, repressive coping)

Self-protective memory (i.e., mnemic neglect)

Third-wave therapies

Social psychiatry

Professional Activities

Applied Cognitive Psychology (Journal)
Peer reviewer
22/12/2017
External Examiner of Doctoral Thesis
Examiner
2017
Applied Cognitive Psychology (Journal)
Guest editor
11/2015
Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland (External organisation)
Member
1/6/2014
The Carnegie Trust (External organisation)
Member
1/6/2014
Journal of Experimental Psychopathology (Journal)
Editorial board member
1/8/2013

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Projects

The development of emotional regulation in adolescence
Saunders, Jo (Academic)
01-Jan-2014 - 30-Jan-2017
Can we improve eyewitness memory?
Saunders, Jo (Academic)
Carnegie Trust Internship to Adele Ahmet
17-Jan-2013 - 20-Jan-2013
Aromachology: Interactions between odour and verbal memory
Saunders, Jo (Principal Investigator)
Leverhulme Trust
01-Jan-2010 - 30-Jan-2012
British Academy Travel Grant
Saunders, Jo (Academic)
Travel grant to attend SARMAC in Japan
20-Jan-2009 - 25-Jan-2009
Memory for objects: Retrieval competition in memory between visual object properties
Reppa, Irene (Principal Investigator) Saunders, Jo (Principal Investigator)
Leverhulme Trust
01-Jan-2007 - 31-Jan-2010
Imagery and forgetting: The role of images in retrieval-induced forgetting
Saunders, Jo (Principal Investigator)
Leverhulme Trust
01-Jan-2006 - 31-Jan-2007

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Contact

Dr Jo Saunders
Senior Lecturer
Psychology

Email: j.saunders@strath.ac.uk
Tel: 548 2576