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Name and Contact Details	Research Interests
Dr Nicolas Argenti** Role: Senior Lecturer Phone: +44 (0)1895 265457 Email: nicolas.argenti@brunel.ac.uk Office: Marie Jahoda Room 138	Memory, commemoration, and embodiment Youth and childhood Performance and politics Political violence Materiality Anthropology and time Cameroon, Greece and the Balkans.
Dr Andrew Beatty** Role: Senior Lecturer in Anthropology Phone: +44 (0)1895 265943 Email: andrew.beatty@brunel.ac.uk Office: Marie Jahoda Room 141	Psychological and psychiatric anthropology Emotion Religion and ritual Indonesia and Mexico New approaches to ethnographic writing
Professor David Bunce** Role: Professor in Psychology Phone: +44 (0)1895 267242 Email: david.bunce@brunel.ac.uk Office: Gaskell Building Room 230	Cognitive ageing and dementia Early detection of age-related cognitive impairment Age, mental health and cognitive function Age and cognitive/skilled performance in work/applied contexts
Dr Survjit Cheeta** Role: Senior Lecturer in Psychology Phone: +44 (0)1895 266530 Email: survjit.cheeta@brunel.ac.uk Office: Gaskell Building Room 268	Psychopharmacology Neural systems underpinning depression Emotional processing, learning and memory Cognitive behavioural therapies
Dr Liana Chua Role: Lecturer Phone: +44 (0)1895 265429 Email: liana.chua@brunel.ac.uk Office: Marie Jahoda Room 140	Anthropology of religion Materiality and museology Development and conservation Human-animal relations
Dr Andrew Clark** Role: Lecturer in Psychology Phone: +44 (0)1895 265127 Email: andrew.clark@brunel.ac.uk Office: Gaskell Building Room 258	Evolutionary psychology Sexual selection Mate preferences Mating tactics and strategies
Dr Rachel Crockett** Role: Lecturer Phone: +44 (0)1895 267584 Email: rachel.crockett@brunel.ac.uk Office: Marie Jahoda Room 120	Healthy eating behaviour Population health interventions to change behaviour Communication of risk information
Dr Monica Degen** Role: Senior Lecturer Phone: +44 (0)1895 265940 Email: monica.degen@brunel.ac.uk Office: Marie Jahoda Room 149	Cities and space The senses and embodiment Material cultures Sociology of everyday life
Dr Amit Desai Role: Lecturer Phone: 01895266279 Email: amit.desai@brunel.ac.uk Office: MJ138	Anthropology of India Religion Art and creativity
Dr Bridget Dibb** Role: Lecturer Phone: +44 (0)1895 266564 Email: bridget.dibb@brunel.ac.uk Office: Marie Jahoda Room 122	Post-traumatic growth after the onset of illness Illness beliefs and adjustment to chronic illness Social comparison in chronic illness The role of stigma in adjustment to chronic illness
Dr Liory Fern-Pollak Role: Associate Research Fellow Phone: Email: liory.fern-pollak@brunel.ac.uk Office: Gaskell Building Room 262	Neural correlates of reading in multiple languages Dyslexia fMRI
Dr Peggy Froerer** Role: Senior Lecturer Phone: +44 (0)1895 265456 Email: peggy.froerer@brunel.ac.uk Office: Marie Jahoda Room 143	South Asia Anthropology of education, learning & schooling Children, childhood and youth International development Inequality and social mobility
Dr Stanley Gaines Jr** Role: Senior Lecturer in Psychology Phone: +44 (0)1895 265485 Email: stanley.gaines@brunel.ac.uk Office: Marie Jahoda Room 108	International development Personal relationships Cross-cultural psychology Ethnic studies
Professor Fernand Gobet** Role: Professor of Cognitive Psychology Phone: +44 (0)1895 265484 Email: fernand.gobet@brunel.ac.uk Office: Gaskell Building Room 263	Psychology of expertise CHREST cognitive architecture Acquisition of language Methodology of computational modelling
Professor Robin Goodwin** Role: Professor of Social Psychology Phone: +44 (0)1895 265470 Email: robin.goodwin@brunel.ac.uk Office: Gaskell Building Room 203	Cross-cultural psychology Psychological adaptation to social change Psychological responses to pandemic threat Societal threats (e.g. terrorism, earthquakes) Culture and relationships
Dr Lesley Henderson Role: Senior Lecturer in Sociology & Communications Phone: +44 (0)1895 265459 Email: lesley.henderson@brunel.ac.uk Office: Marie Jahoda Room 144	Sociology of media Media, health & science Public engagement Qualitative research
Dr Eric Hirsch** Role: Head of Department Phone: +44 (0)1895 265953 Email: eric.hirsch@brunel.ac.uk Office: Marie Jahoda Room 134	Historicity and landscape Myth, personhood and ritual Power and property relations Papua New Guinea, Britain
Dr Jason Hughes** Role: Senior Lecturer Phone: +44 (0)1895 265633 Email: jason.hughes@brunel.ac.uk Office: Gaskell Building Room 177	Figurational sociology Sociology of emotions Organisational/industrial sociology Sociology of health and illness Sociology of addiction
Dr Toshie Imada** Role: Lecturer Phone: +44 (0)1895 267684 Email: toshie.imada@brunel.ac.uk Office: Marie Jahoda Room 116	Cross-cultural psychology Culture and social cognition, emotion and motivation Cognitive development Cultural products Intercultural competence
Dr Sharon Lockyer** Role: Lecturer in Sociology and Communications Phone: +44 (0)1895 267373 Email: sharon.lockyer@brunel.ac.uk Office: Marie Jahoda Room 146	Sociology of mediated culture Critical comedy studies Media controversies Gender, class and disability
Dr Sarita Malik** Role: Lecturer in Media and Communications Phone: +44 (0)1895 266874 Email: sarita.malik@brunel.ac.uk Office: Marie Jahoda Room 152	Race and representation Media genres Media policy and institutions Diasporic media
Dr Tara Marshall** Role: Lecturer Phone: +44 (0)1895 267096 Email: tara.marshall@brunel.ac.uk Office: Marie Jahoda Room 114	Cross-cultural psychology Close relationships Gender and sexuality
Dr Chris McMillan Role: Temporary Lecturer Phone: +44 (0) 1895 267541 Email: chris.mcmillan@brunel.ac.uk Office: Gaskell Building Room 152	Sociological theory Lacanian psychoanalysis and Marxism Slavoj Žižek Global capitalism, climate change, migration and labour / poverty
Professor Lynn Myers** Role: Professor of Health Psychology Phone: +44 (0)1895 265879 Email: lynn.myers@brunel.ac.uk Office: Marie Jahoda Room 143	Health psychology Coping styles Adherence/ compliance with treatment Risk perception
Dr Isak Niehaus** Role: Lecturer Phone: +44 (0)1895 267413 Email: isak.niehaus@brunel.ac.uk Office: Marie Jahoda Room 139	Southern Africa Political anthropology Witchcraft and cosmology HIV / AIDS Masculinity and sexuality History of anthropology
Professor Dany Nobus** Role: Pro-Vice-Chancellor Phone: +44 (0)1895 265944 Email: dany.nobus@brunel.ac.uk Office: Wilfred Brown Room A117	Psychoanalysis History of psychiatry Epistemology
Dr Justin O’Brien** Role: Lecturer Phone: +44 (0)1895 265475 Email: justin.obrien@brunel.ac.uk Office: Marie Jahoda Room 124	Visual development Neuroimaging Developmental disorders Visual psychophysics
Dr Melissa Parker** Role: Senior Lecturer Phone: +44 (0)1895 266049 Email: melissa.parker@brunel.ac.uk Office: Marie Jahoda Room 136	Anthropology of global health Neglected tropical diseases HIV/AIDS Anthropology of war Anthropology of international development
Dr Andrew Parton** Role: Lecturer Phone: +44 (0)1895 267326 Email: andrew.parton@brunel.ac.uk Office: Gaskell Building Room 256	Cognitive neuropsychology and impaired cognition Visual cognition Visuo-motor control Implicit/explicit memory
Dr Nicholas Pound** Role: Senior Lecturer in Psychology Phone: +44 (0)1895 266311 Email: nicholas.pound@brunel.ac.uk Office: Gaskell Building Room 103	Male competitiveness, risk-sensitivity, impulsiveness and violence Facial morphology, health and endocrine status Perception of personality in faces Social and psychological influences on male reproductive physiology and sexual behaviour
Dr Michael Price** Role: Lecturer in Psychology Phone: +44 (0)1895 266974 Email: michael.price@brunel.ac.uk Office: Gaskell Building Room 158	Evolutionary psychology Evolution of moral beliefs Cooperation in groups Organizational behaviour
Dr Martina Reynolds** Role: Senior Lecturer Phone: +44 (0)1895 265482 Email: martina.reynolds@brunel.ac.uk Office: Marie Jahoda Room 110	Interdisciplinary research on performance, media and social science Creating media for dementia sufferers Media for mobile and other platforms Ageing /mental illness in television drama Qualitative research
Dr Hauke Riesch Role: Lecturer Phone: +44 (0) 1895 267541 Email: hauke.riesch@brunel.ac.uk Office: Gaskell Building Room 152	Sociology of science Public understanding of science Risk and environment Philosophy of science
Dr John Roberts** Role: Senior Lecturer in Sociology and Communications Phone: +44 (0)1895 266377 Email: john.roberts@brunel.ac.uk Office: Marie Jahoda Room 155	Public sphere, urban space, and free speech New media Global political economy and management Social theory
Dr Toby Robertson** Role: Lecturer Phone: +44 (0)1895 265945 Email: toby.robertson@brunel.ac.uk Office: Marie Jahoda Room 113	Intergroup relations Social identity Attitudes and social influence
Professor Chris Rojek** Role: Professor of Sociology and Culture Phone: +44 (0)1895 266599 Email: chris.rojek@brunel.ac.uk Office: Marie Jahoda Room 147	Culture Celebrity Leisure; Recreation; Tourism; Event management Invisible government
Dr William Rollason** Role: Lecturer Phone: +44 (0)1895 265041 Email: william.rollason@brunel.ac.uk Office: Marie Jahoda Room 135	Papua New Guinea Rwanda Development and the post-colony The future
Dr Charlotte Russell** Role: Lecturer Phone: +44 (0)1895 266366 Email: charlotte.russell@brunel.ac.uk Office: Gaskell Building Room 259	Neuropsychology of attention and episodic memory Lifespan changes in attention and episodic memory Monetary and social reward in attention and memory
Dr Noam Sagiv** Role: Lecturer in Psychology Phone: +44 (0)1895 265341 Email: noam.sagiv@brunel.ac.uk Office: Gaskell Building Room 260	Synaesthesia Cross-modal interactions Neural correlates of consciousness Face perception
Dr Ana Margarida Sousa Santos Role: Leach-RAI Research Fellow Phone: +44 (0)1895 266049 Email: ana.santos@brunel.ac.uk Office: Marie Jahoda Room 152	East and Southern Africa Anthropological perspectives on ethnicity, violence and history Understanding the structure and processes of political and ethnic violence
Dr Marvin Schiller Role: Research Fellow Phone: +44 (0)1895 267487 Email: marvin.schiller@brunel.ac.uk Office: Gaskell Building Room 259	Cognitive modelling Problem gambling Artificial intelligence AI in education
Dr Achim Schuetzwohl** Role: Lecturer in Psychology Phone: +44 (0)1895 266327 Email: achim.schuetzwohl@brunel.ac.uk Office: Gaskell Building Room 211	Surprise Jealousy Facial expression
Dr Isabel Scott** Role: Lecturer Phone: +44 (0)1895 265907 Email: isabel.scott@brunel.ac.uk Office: Gaskell Building Room 257	Facial perception Mate choice Moral psychology Economic psychology Evolutionary perspectives
Professor Clive Seale** Role: Professor of Sociology Phone: +44 (0) 1895 267139 Email: clive.seale@brunel.ac.uk Office: Marie Jahoda Room 148	Sociology of health and illness Communication in health care Health and mass media End-of-life care
Dr Sanjay Sharma** Role: Senior Lecturer in Sociology and Communications Phone: +44 (0)18952 65835 Email: sanjay.sharma@brunel.ac.uk Office: Marie Jahoda Room 156	Critical multiculturalism & anti-racism New media & internet politics Digital methods Radical pedagogy
Dr Janine Spencer** Role: Lecturer Phone: +44 (0)1895 265474 Email: janine.spencer@brunel.ac.uk Office: Gaskell Building Room 206	Visual development Developmental disorders Biological motion perception Infant development
Dr James Staples** Role: Senior Lecturer Phone: +44 (0)1895 267412 Email: james.staples@brunel.ac.uk Office: Marie Jahoda Room 137	South Asia Medical anthropology (leprosy, disability, the body and pain) Suicide Anthropology of food Biography and life history
Professor Steven Wainwright** Role: Head of Department, Professor of Sociology Phone: +44 (0)7793 056589 Email: steven.wainwright@brunel.ac.uk Office: Marie Jahoda Room 150	Science & Technology Studies Medical Sociology Sociology of the Arts History & Philosophy of Social Science Russian Culture & Identity
Dr Simon Weaver** Role: Lecturer in Media and Communications Phone: +44 (0)1895 265029 Email: simon.weaver@brunel.ac.uk Office: Marie Jahoda Room 145	Social & cultural theory, the work of Zygmunt Bauman, semiotics Representations of disability & ‘deformity’ in media Rhetoric in discourses of health Racist & offensive humour, humour & rhetoric Sociology of race, ethnicity & racism
Dr Adrian Williams** Role: Lecturer Phone: +44 (0)1895 265452 Email: adrian.williams@brunel.ac.uk Office: Gaskell Building Room 269	Visual (and more broadly, sensory) perception Visual coding and representation in the brain Cortical organisation Neuroimaging - functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI)
Professor Clare Williams** Role: Professor of Medical Sociology Phone: +44 (0)1895 267720 Email: clare.williams@brunel.ac.uk Office: Marie Jahoda Room 151	Sociology of health and illness Sociology of bioethics Gender Qualitative research
Dr Barlow Wright** Role: Senior Lecturer in Psychology Phone: +44 (0)1895 267327 Email: barlow.wright@brunel.ac.uk Office: Gaskell Building Room 163	Topics in developmental psychology Psychology of reasoning Disorders and disability psychology Psychology of ethnicity
Professor Taeko Wydell** Role: Head of Psychology Department, Professor of Cognitive Neurospychology / Neuroscience Phone: +44 (0)1895 265473 Email: taeko.wydell@brunel.ac.uk Office: Gaskell Building Room 205	Cognitive neuroscience of language & reading in different languages Language and literacy impairments (dyslexia, SLI, etc) Research using fMRI, EEG, MEG & TMS Bilingualism / trilingualism