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Our people

Learn about our researchers and their expertise. Explore research interests, publications, contact details and more.

Dr Alessio Bellato Ph.D., MSc, BSc, FHEA, PGCHE

Lecturer

Research interests

  • Emotion regulation and dysregulation
  • Psycho-physiology (e.g., heart rate variability)
  • Neurodevelopmental conditions (e.g., ADHD, autism)

Accepting applications from PhD students

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Dr Anoop Kadan

Lecturer in Machine Learning

Research interests

  • Digital Mental Health
  • Machine Learning
  • Affective Computing

Accepting applications from PhD students

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Dr Becky Ward PGCE, PhD, FHEA, CPsychol

Research Fellow

Research interests

  • Psychological approaches to homelessness
  • Homeless prevention for young people
  • Developmental psychology
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Dr Catherine Brignell PhD

Senior Teaching Fellow

Research interests

  • Positive and negative drivers of behaviour
  • Cognitive processes in appetitive motivational states, especially addiction, overeating, tech…
  • Appetitive motivational disorders including addiction, obesity, and eating disorders
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Dr Charlotte Lee PhD

Research Fellow

Research interests

  • Cognitive and Affective Impact of Chronic Illness
  • Cognitive Interventions for Anxiety and Trauma e.g., Mental Imagery
  • Individual Differences in Cognition e.g., Reading Skills/Mental Imagery/Face Processing and M…
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Mr Christos Christogiannis

Senior Research Fellow

Research interests

  • Christos main research interests are in evidence synthesis and biostatistics in general, emph…
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Dr Cora Sargeant

Senior Teaching Fellow
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Mrs Emily Ellington

Research interests

  • Autism
  • Teaching and learning
  • Service development across education, health, and social care
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Professor Emily Holmes PhD, DClinPsy

Professor

Research interests

  • Mental health science and experimental psychopathology
  • Mental imagery, memory and emotion: mental imagery has a more powerful impact on emotion than…
  • Intrusive memories—imagery that springs to mind unbidden: treatment innovations for intrusive…
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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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