Centre for Research on Self and Identity

Our people

Meet our experts and explore their diverse research interests.

Dr Kathy Carnelley

Associate Professor

Research interests

  • My research area is personal relationships. I investigate the ways in which attachment experi…
  • One stream of my research focuses on moving people toward felt security. Attachment security …
  • Other streams of research focus on attachment networks (e.g., who serves as attachment figure…

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Miss Mollie Ruler

Research interests

  • Criminal Justice 
  • Prison Reform
  • Public Opinion
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Dr Nicholas Kelley

Lecturer (A Prof) in Social Psychology

Research interests

  • Social and Affective Neuroscience
  • The Self
  • Self-Regulation

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Dr Pascal Burgmer

Lecturer

Research interests

  • Lay Beliefs and Theories (e.g., belief in mind-body dualism)
  • Trust and Distrust (e.g., trust in close relationships)
  • Morality (e.g., moral double standards)

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Dr Paul Conway

Associate Professor

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Miss Rhia Perks

Research interests

  • Attachment
  • Relationships
  • Social Psychology
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Serena Celeste Romanelli

Research interests

  • Group morality and moral injury
  • Misogynistic extremism
  • Social perceptions of misogynists
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Dr Stefan Leach

Lecturer in Psychology

Research interests

  • Political Identity and Engagement
  • Social Media and Virality
  • Big Data and Natural Language Processing

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Dr Sylwia Cisek PhD

Senior Teaching Fellow
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Professor Tim Wildschut FAcSS

Prfssr of Social & Personality Psycholog

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