Psychology News - Sept 2012 - Anglia Ruskin University

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Psychology Psychology News News September September 2012
2012
Exciting times! Welcome to our new undergraduate and postgraduate students, and
welcome back to last year’s students! There has been a lot going on in the department in the past 6
months; our staff and students have been busy, and we have a lot of news to tell.
STAFF NEWS
We have new lecturers joining our growing
department. Four new lecturers joined us
during the end of the previous academic year,
and we have a further 3 lecturers joining us
this semester. We are also currently
advertising for a new lecturer to join us in
semester 1.
Dr Rachel Manning joined us in February, and
will be teaching social psychology, theoretical
foundations in psychology, and qualitative
methods. Dr Richard Piech will be teaching
biopsychology, cognitive neuroscience, and
emotion. Dr Fiona Richardson will be teaching
language and thought, cognitive psychology, and quantitative research methods. Dr Steven Stagg will be
teaching atypical development, diagnosis and treatment in clinical child psychology, and developmental
psychopathology. An additional 3 lecturers are joining us this semester: Dr Fiona Ashworth is a clinical
psychologist, and will be teaching psychopathology, psychological therapies and developmental
psychopathology. Dr Theodora Zarkadi will be teaching language and thought, cognitive psychology, learning
memory and perception, and forensic psychology. Dr Gisela Perez-Olivas is joining us for 6 months
(maternity cover), and will be teaching developmental psychology, theoretical foundations in psychology and
psychopathology. You can find out more about our lecturers by looking at their staff profiles on our website:
http://www.anglia.ac.uk/ruskin/en/home/faculties/fst/departments/psychology/staff.html
The following staff members will be on leave during this semester: Dr Cathrine Jansson-Boyd will be on
sabbatical; Dr Sarah Kuppen is on maternity leave; and Dr Bettina Mohr is on sabbatical.
Making a difference in teaching
In 2012, the Students’ Union, with the support of Anglia
Learning and Teaching, launched the student led 'Made a
Difference' Awards. Five psychology lecturers were
nominated by students for this award. Two of our lecturers,
Dr Helen Keyes and Dr Daragh McDermott won one of the
eight awards. Daragh and Helen were presented with their
awards at a ceremony held on the 11 th May (pictured left).
You can find out more about the awards here:
http://www.angliastudent.com/about/campaigns/madeadiff
erence/
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Publications
A number of staff members have had new publications out in the last 6 months:
Journal articles
• Aspell, J.E., Palluel, E. & Blanke, O. (2012) Early and late activity in somatosensory cortex reflects
changes in bodily self-consciousness: An evoked potential study. Neuroscience 216: 110-122
• Salmon, R., van Elk, M., Aspell, J.E. & Blanke, O. (2012) I feel who I see: Visual body identity affects
visual-tactile integration in peripersonal space. Consciousness and Cognition 21: 1355-1364
• Palluel, E., Aspell, J.E., Lavanchy, T. & Blanke, O. (2012) Experimental changes in bodily selfconsciousness
are tuned to the frequency sensitivity of proprioceptive fibres. Neuroreport 23: 354-359
• Notice, K., van der Linde, I., Pardhan, S., & Bright, P. (2012). Reduced oculomotor inhibition with
increased visual working memory load. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 24, H99. [published abstract]
• Finlay, W.M.L. & Antaki, C. (2012). How staff pursue questions to adults with intellectual disabilities.
Journal of Intellectual Disability Research, 56, 361-70
• Jingree, T. & Finlay, W.M.L. (2012) ‘It’s got so politically correct now’: an examination of parent talk about
empowering individuals with learning disabilities. Sociology of Health and Illness. 34, 412-428
• Gutierrez, R., Giner-Sorolla, R. & Vasiljevic, M. (2012). Just an anger synonym? Moral context influences
predictors of disgust word use. Cognition and Emotion, 26 (1), 53 - 64.
• Hills, P. J. (2012). A developmental study of the own-age face recognition bias in children.
Developmental Psychology, 48, 499 - 508.
• Rooney, B., Keyes, H., & Brady, N. (2012). Shared or separate mechanisms for self-face and other-face
processing? Evidence from adaptation. Frontiers in Perception Science, 3:66. DOI:
10.3389/fpsyg.2012.00066.
• Ludlow, A., Skelly, C., & Rohleder, P. (2012). Challenges faced by parents of children diagnosed with
autism spectrum disorder. Journal of Health Psychology, 17(5), 702-711.
• Matheson, K., Manning, R. & Williams, S. (2012). Examining a Typology of Fire Service Related Anti
Social Behaviour. Crime Prevention and Community Safety, 14, 182-195.
• Rohleder, P., Eide, A.H., Swartz, L., Ranchod, C., Schneider, M., & Schür, C. (2012). Gender differences
in HIV knowledge and unsafe sexual behaviour among disabled people in South Africa. Disability &
Rehabilitation, 34(7), 605-610.
• Rohleder, P., Swartz, L., Schneider, M., & Eide, A.H. (2012). Challenges to providing HIV prevention
education to youth with disabilities in South Africa. Disability & Rehabilitation, 34(8), 619-624.
Books
Peter Bright has edited a 3-volume text on
neuroimaging:
Bright, P. (Ed.). (2012). Neuroimaging I:
Methods. Rijeka, Croatia: InTech
Publishing.
Bright, P. (Ed.). (2012). Neuroimaging II:
Clinical Applications. Rijeka, Croatia:
InTech Publishing.
Bright, P. (Ed.). (2012). Neuroimaging III:
Cognitive and Clinical Neuroscience.
Rijeka, Croatia: InTech Publishing.
Book chapters
• Archer, T., & Bright, P. (2012): Functional and structural MRI studies of impulsivity in attention-deficit
hyperactivity disorder and borderline personality disorder. In P. Bright (Ed.). Neuroimaging III: Cognitive
Neuroscience (pp. 205-228). Rijeka, Croatia: InTech Publishing.
• Filippi, R., Karmiloff-Smith, A. (2012). What can developmental disorders teach us about typical
development? Invited chapter for Marshall, C. R. (Ed.) Current issues in developmental disorders.
London, UK.
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• Finlay, W.M.L., Walton, C. & Antaki, C. (2011). Giving feedback to staff about offering choices to people
with intellectual disabilities. In C. Antaki (Ed) Applied Conversation Analysis. Basingstoke: Palgrave
McMillan.
• Levine, M. & Manning, R. (2012). Prosocial Behaviour. In M. Hewstone, W. Stroebe & K. Jonas (Eds.).
Introduction to Social Psychology: A European Perspective. Oxford: Blackwell.
• Morrison, T.G., Ryan, T.A., Fox, L, & McDermott, D.T. (2012). Canadian University students’ perceptions
of the practices that constitute “normal” sexuality for men and women. In D. Naugler (Ed.), (2012).
Canadian perspectives in sexualities studies. Don Mills, ON: Oxford University Press.
• Rohleder, P., & Swartz, L. (2012). Disability, sexuality and sexual health. In P. Aggleton, P. Boyce, H.L.
Moore, & R. Parker (Eds.), Understanding global sexualities: New frontiers (pp. 138-152). London:
Routledge.
Conferences
• Aspell, J.E. (2012). Heartfelt empathy: Interoceptive signals modulate mental own-body transformation.
Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness
(ASSC) in Brighton, UK, July 2012.
• Aspell, J.E. (2012). Multisensory conflicts modulate spatial aspects of bodily self-consciousness. Paper
presented at the Fifth International Conference on Spatial Cognition in Rome, September 2012.
• Finlay, W.M.L. (2012). Intention, empowerment and identity in interactions with people with severe and
profound intellectual disabilities. Paper presented at the British Psychological Society Social Psychology
Section Conference, St. Andrews, August 2012.
• Lambie, J., & Lindberg, A. (PhD student) (2012). Emotional Awareness in Children. Paper presented at
the Consortium of European Research on Emotion Conference, University of Kent, Canterbury, 4 th May
2012.
• Gray, D. & Manning, R. (2012). Mapping Spaces of Participation: Young People, Citizenship and the
Negotiation of Identity in a Context of Spatial Regulation. Poster presented at the British Psychological
Society Social Section, St Andrews, August.
• Malesevic, V., & McDermott, D. T. (2012). Students’ Sexuality in Galway City: Preliminary Findings.
Paper presented at the Sociological Association of Ireland Maynooth, Ireland, May, 2012.
• McDermott, D. T., & Blair, K. L. (2012). “What’s it like on your side of the pond?”: A cross cultural
comparison of modern and old-fashioned homonegativity between North American and European
samples. Poster presented at the Annual Convention of the Canadian Psychological Association, Halifax,
Nova Scotia, June, 2012.
• Carey, R., McDermott, D. T., & Sarma, K. (2012). The impact of threat based road safety advertising
campaigns on risky driving behaviour: A meta-analysis. Paper presentation at the 5th International
Conference on Traffic and Transport Psychology, Gronginen [award for best presentation]
Upcoming Special talk: This year’s Cambridge Festival of Ideas, includes a talk by our very own Dr Jane
Aspell on the 31 st October 2012, entitled “Why I dreamed me: How brain science explains our peculiar
experience of the self in dreams”. You can find out more about this event and how to book, here:
http://www.cam.ac.uk/festivalofideas/events/?uid=12bdb895-98cf-4fe0-a317-81bf1d23afa8&date=2012-10-31
STUDENT NEWS
We have 3 new Graduate teaching assistants/PhD students who have joined the department:
Laura Jones, who is doing her research investigating the early sensory deficits in schizophrenia, specifically
attentional disinhibition
Charlotte Smith, who is doing her research investigating the process through which women disclose their HIV
positive status within an intimate partner relationship
Julia Ouzia, who is doing her research on ‘The effects of mood on executive function: A complex
investigation of the bilingual executive function advantage’.
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Graduation
• Two of our third year students are receiving awards at this year’s graduation: Cari-Lene Mul receives the
BPS prize, and Maggie Platts receives the Salimetrics prize.
• At this year’s graduation ceremony (to be held in October), one of our graduating psychology students,
Maggie Platts, has been invited to give the student talk.
Student publications and presentations
Our students have also been busy publishing and presenting at conferences! Three of our 2012 graduate
students presented their final year projects at conferences:
• Jones, L. A. & Hills, P. J. (2011). The behavioural and electrophysiological correlates of facial structure:
evidence from inversion, familiarity, and the removal of the eyes. Presented at the EPS Conference,
Nottingham, 7-9 th July 2011.
• Mileva, M., Hills, P. J. & Pake, J. M. (2012). Carryover of scanning behaviour in natural scenes: Vertical
carryover slows upright face identification but speeds up inverted face identification. Presented at the
EPS Conference, Hull 11-13 th April 2012
• Roberts, A. L., Hills, P. J., & van der Linde, I. (2012). The effect of interaction belief on recognition
memory for human faces. Presented at the EPS Conference, Hull 11-13 th April 2012
Three of our graduate MSc students have published articles for an online journal, the JEPS Bulletin, a journal
of the European Psychology Students:
• Lorna Rouse has written titled “Evaluating qualitative research: Are we judging by the wrong standards?”,
where she discussed evaluating the quality of qualitative studies, which is available here:
http://jeps.efpsa.org/blog/2012/07/01/evaluating-qualitative-research/
• Yee Row Liew, who is also the bulletin editor, published an article titled “What makes a good research
question?”, where she shares lessons that she has learnt from her own experiences. Read the article
here: http://jeps.efpsa.org/blog/2012/09/10/what-makes-a-good-research-question/#more-1312
• Julia Ouzia has written 2 articles about poster-making and peer-reviewing; one titled “How to be an
academic rock star via poster presentation” (http://jeps.efpsa.org/blog/2012/07/20/how-to-make-yourresearch-as-exciting-as-a-u2-concert-a-k-a-how-to-be-an-academic-rock-star/#more-1185)
and the other
titled “In the shoes of a peer-reviewer” (http://jeps.efpsa.org/blog/2012/03/01/in-the-shoes-of-a-peerreviewer/)
Ellen Carroll, a Graduate Teaching Assistant/PhD student presented a poster at the BPS Cognitive
Psychology Section conference, Glasgow, August 2012, entitled: Spearman's g reflects the efficiency with
which task requirements are represented in working memory.
MSc Student Conference
The MSc Conference held in June was a great success. The Master’s students presented their work in
presentation and poster format. Alumni, current students, and staff all came to discuss their work. There
were prizes for the best poster: Deniz Aktan won third prize for his poster “A study on perceived stress of the
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university students: Whether reed music affects perceived stress level”; Melissa McCrae won second prize
for her poster “People’s Understanding of The Recent Riots”; and Chloe Powell won the prize for the best
poster “The Relationship between the Self-Management Techniques and Hemispheric Lateralisation Used in
Individuals with Dyslexia.”
The abstracts of the students’ presentations or posters can all be viewed here:
http://www.anglia.ac.uk/ruskin/en/home/faculties/fst/departments/psychology/psychology_masters.html
Psychology Student Summer Placements
The department was able to fund a number of summer student research placements in 2012. Funds were
awarded to staff members’ for the employment of undergraduate psychology students to work as research
assistants on research projects over the summer. The various projects were:
• Project 1: Cortisol analysis in hair (Dr Matt Bristow & Katy Parker)
• Project 2: Volunteerism, charity and civic engagement (Dr Rachel Manning)
• Project 3: Here I am: Does the location of the self-face affect its attention capture? (Dr Helen Keyes)
• Project 4: Pay attention to me: How the presence of the self-face affects attention (Dr Helen Keyes)
• Project 5: An Assessment of Prejudice towards Trans men and women: A mixed methods analysis (Dr
Daragh McDermott & Dr Poul Rohleder)
• Project 6: An Assessment of Pupillometry and Galvanic Skin Response as a measure of Affective
Prejudice towards Gay Men (Dr Daragh McDermott & Antony Whitmore)
• Project 7: Economic decisions and caring about others (Dr Richard Piech)
In addition to the above, funding was also received by the Faculty of Science & Technology to employ a
psychology undergraduate student to work on the following research project:
• Project Title: Exploring sex education for young people with learning disabilities (Dr Poul Rohleder & Dr
Mick Finlay)
Two staff members also won funding from The Wellcome Trust to fund a summer student research
placement for the following projects:
• Project title: The effect of interoceptive (heartbeat) signals on self-face recognition. (Dr Jane Aspell)
• Project title: Saccadic Eye Movements and the Recognition Abilities of Children with and Without
Dyslexia for Upright and Inverted Faces (Dr Peter Hills)
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Psychology Department Research Talks
The research talks for semester 1 will be held on Wednesdays 2-3pm in LAB 026. All students are welcome
to attend. We have a series of excellent talks by psychology staff and visiting lecturers:
Week Date Speaker Title
2 3 rd Oct Prof. Annette Karmiloff-Smith,
Birkbeck, London.
3 10 th Oct Dr. Matt Longo, Birkbeck,
London.
4 17 th Oct Rachel Moseley, MRC Cognition
& Brain Sciences Unit,
Cambridge
5 24 th Oct Dr. Fiona Richardson, Anglia
Ruskin University.
6 31st Oct Dr. Chloe Marshall, Institute of
Education (London)
7 7 th Nov NO TALK
8 14 th Nov Prof. Naz Derakshan, Birkbeck,
London.
9 21 st Nov Dr Steven Stagg, Anglia Ruskin
University.
10 28 th Nov Prof. Anthony Dickinson,
University of Cambridge.
11 5 th Dec Prof. Tony Marcel, University of
Hertford/University of
Cambridge/Visiting Prof. ARU.
Challenging the use of adult neuropsychological
models for explaining neurodevelopmental
disorders: Developed versus developing brains
Mental representation of the body (TBC)
Action semantic deficits in autism
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TBC
Investigating the comorbidity between
developmental disorders of language.
READING WEEK
TBC
TBC
Control processes in goal-directed behaviour:
Reflections on the castaways's dilemma
First-person data in psychology (TBC)
IMPORTANT DATES
Semester 1 teaching starts: Monday 24th September 2012
Semester 1 teaching finishes: Friday 14th December 2012
Christmas Vacation: Monday 17th December 2012 – Friday 4th January 2013
Semester 1 Exams: Monday 7th January 2013 – Friday 11th January 2013
Semester 2 teaching starts: Monday 28th January 2013
Semester 2 teaching finishes: Friday 10th May 2013
Easter Vacation: Monday 25th March 2013 - Friday 12th April 2013
Semester 1 Re-sit Examinations: Tuesday 2nd April 2013 - Friday 5th April 2013
Semester 2 Exams: Monday 20th May 2013 - Friday 31st May 2013
Academic Year finishes: Friday 28th June 2013
Semester 2 re-sit Exams: Monday 15th July 2013 - Friday 19th July 2013
Enjoy Enjoy your your first first semester semester semester with with us! us!
us!
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