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Staff Profiles

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Name and Contact Details	Research Interests
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 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 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 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 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 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
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
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 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 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
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 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
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 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)
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

Emeritus and Visiting Staff

Name and Contact Details	Research Interests
Dr Nicola Start Role: Lecturer Phone: +44 (0)7533 164997 Email: nicola.start@brunel.ac.uk Office: MJ153	Clinical Psychology
Professor Michael Wright Role: Emeritus Professor Phone: +44 (0)1895 265957 Email: michael.wright@brunel.ac.uk Office: Gaskell Building Room 204	Functional neuroimaging (fMRI, EEG) Perceptual skills in sport Mirror neuron system Perceptions of actions and emotional expressions