Psychology PhD/MPhil – (Ph.D.)

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Research interests of staff

Behavioural Neuroscience

* fMRI techniques, combining fMRI and EEG. Contact: Dr Andrew Bagshaw
Tel: +44 (0)121 414 3683
Email: a.p.bagshaw@bham.ac.uk
* fMRI of reading; creativity; plasticity. Contact: Dr Peter Hansen
Tel: +44 (0)121 414 3678
Email: p.c.hansen@bham.ac.uk
* Psychopharmacology of reward; effect of neurosteroids on feeding behaviour; sensory factors in thirst and learned food preferences in humans. Contact: Dr Suzanne Higgs
Tel: +44 (0)121 414 4907
Email: s.higgs.1@bham.ac.uk
* Predictive sensory-motor control; motor learning; co-ordination; EEG, fMRI and TMS. Contact: Professor Zoe Kourki
Tel: +44 (0)121 414 8509
Email: z.kourki@bham.ac.uk
* Drug-induced damage of the CNS, especially in relation to psychoses and Parkinson's disease. Contact: Dr Ian Mitchell
Tel: +44 (0)121 414 7197
Email: i.j.mitchell@bham.ac.uk
* Neuropsychology of language; language and deafness; spelling; dyslexia; computer models of cognition. Contact: Dr Andrew Olson
Tel: +44 (0)121 414 3328
Email: a.l.o.olson@bham.ac.uk
* Neurophysiology of movement disorders; basal ganglia diseases; event-and movement-related EEG potentials; visuospatial attention and motor control in Parkinson's disease; dementia. Contact: Dr Peter Praamstra
Tel: +44 (0)121 414 7206
Email: p.praamstra@bham.ac.uk
* Cognitive neuropsychology; visual and motor cognition; cognitive and motor rehabilitation. Contact: Professor Jane Riddoch
Tel: +44 (0)121 414 4912
Email: m.j.riddoch@bham.ac.uk
* Sensory-motor function; active touch, timing and rhythm. Contact: Professor Alan Wing
Tel: +44 (0)121 414 7954
Email: a.m.wing@bham.ac.uk
* The cognitive neuroscience (fMRI) of vision and ageing. Contact: Dr Harriet Allen
Tel: +44 (0)121 414 3601
Email: h.a.allen@bham.ac.uk
* The neural mechanisms of memory and addiction. Contact: Dr Joff Lee
Tel: +44 (0)121 414 2607
Email: j.lee@bham.ac.uk

Development, Social and Applied Psychology

* Language, cognition and perceptual systems. Cognitive development; theory of mind; executive functions. Contact: Dr Ian Apperly
Tel: +44 (0)121 414 3339
Email: i.a.apperly@bham.ac.uk
* Cognitive development; counter-factual and future thinking. Contact: Dr Sarah Beck
Tel: +44 (0)121 414 4902
Email: s.r.beck@bham.ac.uk
* Typologies of sex offenders; evaluation of treatment programmes for sex offenders. Contact: Professor Anthony Beech
Tel: +44 (0)121 414 7215
Email: a.r.beech@bham.ac.uk
* Psychosis: cognitive approaches; early detection and intervention; emotional dysfunction; cognitive therapy; community services. Contact: Professor Max Birchwood
Tel: +44 (0)121 414 7214
Email: m.j.birchwood.20@bham.ac.uk
* Feeding problems and eating disorders; parent-child interaction; growth disorders; child abuse. Contact: Dr Jackie Blissett
Tel: +44 (0)121 414 3340
Email: j.blissett@bham.ac.uk
* Social psychology of homelessness; attitudes; stereotyping. Contact: Dr Julie Christian
Tel: +44 (0)121 414 4927
Email: j.n.christian@bham.ac.uk
* Coping with addiction in the family; addiction treatment outcomes; dual diagnosis. Contact: Dr Alex Copello
Tel: +44 (0)121 414 7414
Email: a.g.copello@bham.ac.uk
* Psychology and neurophysiology of pain: fMRI. Contact: Dr Stuart Derbyshire
Tel: +44 (0)121 414 4659
Email: s.w.derbyshire@bham.ac.uk
* Prediction and prevention of family violence; typologies of domestic violent offenders; the inter-generational cycle of child maltreatment. Contact: Dr Louise Dixon
Tel: +44 (0)121 414 7218
Email: l.dixon.1@bham.ac.uk
* Applied criminology, offender profiling, prioritisation of suspects in police investigation. Contact: Dr Alasdair Goodwill
Tel: +44 (0)121 414 6937
Email: a.m.goodwill@bham.ac.uk
* Combined psychosis and substance abuse. Contact: Dr Hermine Graham
Tel: +44 (0)121 414 7204
Email: h.l.graham@bham.ac.uk
* Child maltreatment; family violence; early deprivation and institutionalisation of children; non-abusing parents. Contact: Dr Catherine Hamilton-Giachritsis
Tel: +44 (0)121 414 4925
Email: c.hamilton.1@bham.ac.uk
* Factors influencing the role of treatment effectiveness with sexual offenders, including the role of process issues and psychopathy, and assessment of risk in sexual offenders. Contact: Dr Leigh Harkins
Tel: +44 (0)121 414 3665
Email: l.harkins@bham.ac.uk
* Infant/child feeding and appetite regulation; childhood eating disorders; child abuse and attachment disorders. Contact: Dr Gillian Harris
Tel: +44 (0)121 414 4934
Email: g.harris@bham.ac.uk
* Health psychology; psychology of cancer and its treatment.
Contact: Dr Ruth Howard
Tel: +44 (0)121 414 7191
Email: r.a.howard.20@bham.ac.uk
* Processing of emotional material in schizophrenia. Contact: Dr Chris Jones
Tel: +44 (0)121 414 3341
Email: c.a.jones@bham.ac.uk
* Learning difficulties. Contact: Dr Biza Kroese
Tel: +44 (0)121 414 4919
Email: b.stenfert-kroese@bham.ac.uk
* Culture and experience in mental health settings; addiction; psychosis; consent; qualitative research. Contact: Dr Michael Larkin
Tel: +44 (0)121 414 6036
Email: m.larkin@bham.ac.uk
* Stigma of child mental health; child and family illness beliefs and adjustment to physical ill health; adolescent disorders. Contact: Dr Gary Law
Tel: +44 (0)121 414 6296
Email: g.law@bham.ac.uk
* Developmental neuroscience, autism, social and language development. Contact: Dr Joseph McCleery
Tel: +44 (0)121 414 9775
Email: j.p.mccleery@bham.ac.uk
* Health psychology, particularly applied to diabetes; psychology of pain. Contact: Dr Arie Nouwen
Tel: +44 (0)121 414 7203
Email: a.nouwen@bham.ac.uk
* Applied behaviour analysis; severe learning disability; behavioural phenotypes. Contact: Professor Chris Oliver
Tel: +44 (0)121 414 4909
Email: c.oliver@bham.ac.uk
* Addictive behaviour; family relations; community psychology. Contact: Professor Jim Orford
Tel: +44 (0)121 414 4918
Email: j.f.orford@bham.ac.uk
* Older adults; ageing; dementia; bereavement; caregiving. Contact: Dr Jan Oyebode
Tel: +44 (0)121 414 4904
Email: j.r.oyebode@bham.ac.uk
* Brain injury rehabilitation. Contact: Dr Theresa Powell
Tel: +44 (0)121 414 7207
Email: t.powell@bham.ac.uk
* Social cognition; identity and person; perception. Contact: Dr Kimberley Quinn
Tel: +44 (0)121 414 8327
Email: k.quinn@bham.ac.uk
* Behavioural teaching techniques; brain injury rehabilitation. Contact: Dr Gerry Riley
Tel: +44 (0)121 414 4923
Email: rileyga@bham.ac.uk
* Learning disabilities and carers Contact: Dr John Rose
Tel: +44 (0)121 414 3341
Email: j.l.rose@bham.ac.uk
* Mental health needs of young offenders; self-harm and loss/bereavement in childhood; facial disfigurement and social cognition; effects of separation and divorce on young children. Contact: Dr Helen Rostill
Tel: +44 (0)121 414 7191
Email: h.rostill@bham.ac.uk

Language, Cognition and Perceptual Systems

* Individual motivation and cognition; nutritional psychology and its socio-economic and physiological aspects. Contact: Professor David Booth
Tel: +44 (0)121 414 4938
Email: d.a.booth@bham.ac.uk
* Visual perception; computer simulation of visual coding mechanisms. Contact: Dr Mike Harris
Tel: +44 (0)121 414 4913
Email: m.w.g.harris@bham.ac.uk
* Computational modelling of cognitive processes. Contact: Dr Dietmar Heinke
Tel: +44 (0)121 414 4920
Email: d.g.heinke@bham.ac.uk
* Visual cognition; cognitive neuropsychology; computational modelling of cognition; imaging of visual attention; TMS and ERP studies of attention and action. Contact: Professor Glyn Humphreys
Tel: +44 (0)121 414 4930
Email: g.w.humphreys@bham.ac.uk
* Visual search; memory. Contact: Dr Jason Braithwaite
Tel: +44 (0)121 414 2862
Email: j.i.braithwaite@bham.ac.uk
* Binocular vision; cue-combination. Contact: Dr Andrew Welchman
Tel: +44 (0)121 414 2863
Email: a.e.welchman@bham.ac.uk
* Psycholinguistic processes in reading.
Contact: Dr Steven Frisson
Tel: +44 (0)121 414 8202
Email: s.frisson@bham.ac.uk
* Gestures and language in adults and children. Contact: Dr Sotaro Kita
Tel: 44 (0)121 414 6203
Email: s.kita@bham.ac.uk
* Object and motion perception; neural bases of perceptual learning; fMRI. Contact: Professor Zoe Kourtzi
Tel: +44 (0)121 414 8509
Email: z.kourtzi@bham.ac.uk
* Production and comprehension of morphologically complex words; computational modelling of language. Contact: Dr Andrea Krott
Tel: +44 (0)121 414 4903
Email: a.krott@bham.ac.uk
* Phonological encoding in language production; co-ordination of planning processes in sentence production. Contact: Professor Antje Meyer
Tel: +44 (0)121 414 2861
Email: a.s.meyer@bham.ac.uk
* Visual perception; psychophysics and computational modelling of visual texture perception. Contact: Dr Andrew Schofield
Tel: +44 (0)121 414 5644
Email: a.j.schofield@bham.ac.uk
* Cognitive/linguistic processes; speech production; prosodic processing. Contact: Dr Linda Wheeldon
Tel: +44 (0)121 414 7048
Email: l.r.wheeldon@bham.ac.uk