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Dr Emma Palmer-Cooper PhD, CPsychol, FHEA, AFBPsS

Lecturer B

Research interests

  • Metacognition in Psychosis and other serious mental health conditions
  • Creativity and Wellbeing
  • AI and Digital Mental Health
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Dr Gaby Pfeifer CPsychol, FHEA

Lecturer

Research interests

  • Interoception across the lifespan
  • Investigating how interoceptive sensitivity and psychophysiological processes change with age…
  • Coping with Life-Changing Health Events in Later Life

Accepting applications from PhD students

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Dr Hafiz Muhammad Shakeel BSc, MSc, PhD

Lecturer

Research interests

  • Artificial Intelligence in Mental Health
  • Explainable and Interpretable Machine Learning
  • Clinical Decision Support Systems

Accepting applications from PhD students

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Professor Hanna Kovshoff

Professor

Research interests

  • https://acorns-soton.org.uk
  • Developing and using novel and creative methodologies to access the views and voices of neuro…

Accepting applications from PhD students

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Dr James Hall CPsychol, AFBPsS, FHEA, FRSA

Associate Prof. Psychology of Education

Research interests

  • Early Childhood Education and Care
  • Developmental Psychopathology
  • Educational Effectiveness

Accepting applications from PhD students

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Professor Jana Kreppner

Professor

Research interests

  • Jana's work focusses on the impact of early experience on development. She is particularly in…
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Dr Jayne Morriss

Lecturer

Research interests

  • Transdiagnostic dimensions (e.g. intolerance of uncertainty, neuroticism)
  • Key processes in anxiety (e.g. safety learning, habituation, interpretation bias)
  • Multimethod approach (e.g. skin conductance, facial electromyography, self-report, action ten…
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Mrs Jennifer Tarabay

Research interests

  • Intergenerational trauma and coping, Family and systemic approaches 
  • Global mental health, Refugee mental health, Homelessness 
  • Culturally informed assessments and interventions
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Mr Juan Mertel Morillo

Senior Teaching Fellow
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