Psychology

Professor Abigail Locke
Head of School, Professor of Social and Health Psychology

Expert in Parenting, pregnancy and reproductive health. Health communications and advice around pregnancy and parenting, mothers and fathers experiences, infant feeding, health behaviours during pregnancy.

• Dorothy Hodgkin Building 0.09
• +44 (0) 1782 733761
• a.j.locke@keele.ac.uk

Dr Masi Noor
Senior Lecturer in Social and Political Psychology; Faculty Research Integrity Lead

Expert in Forgiveness, social psychology, victimhood.

• Dorothy Hodgkin Building 1.73
• +44 (0) 1782 732946
• m.noor@keele.ac.uk

Dr Joseph Brooks
Senior Lecturer in Psychology, Dean of Research

Expert in Visual attention; Visual perception; Visual illusions; Visual ambiguity; Cognitive neuroscience; Neuropsychology; and Electroencephalography (EEG)

• Dorothy Hodgkin Building 1.74
• +44 (0) 1782 732963
• j.l.brooks@keele.ac.uk

Dr Jenny Cole
Lecturer in Psychology

Expert in gender, health, and the body; body image and weight stigma across a range of contexts; the impacts of weight stigma on health; body image in video games; body image in fashion; body image and 3D body scanners; the psychosocial impacts of endometriosis

Dr Richard Stephens
Senior Lecturer in Psychology

Expert in Swearing, stress, psychology of emotion.

• Dorothy Hodgkin Building 1.75
• +44 (0) 1782 733600
• r.stephens@keele.ac.uk

Dr Chris Stiff
Senior Lecturer in Psychology

Expert in Cyberpsychology, social media, psychology of gaming and community building, social psychology.

• Dorothy Hodgkin building 1.89
• +44 (0) 1782 733667
• c.stiff@keele.ac.uk

Dr Alexander Scott
Lecturer in Psychology

Expert in Sleep, impact of sleep on mental health and wider health, interventions to improve sleep and their impact on wider health problems.

• Dorothy Hodgkin Building 1.90
• +44 (0) 1782 733625
• a.scott@keele.ac.uk

Debbie Stevens-Gill
Lecturer in Work and Organisational Psychology

Expert in Occupational Stress, Work-Life Balance and Work-Family Conflict, Teamwork and communication within teams, Compassion in leadership

Dr Mike McGreary
Programme Lead and Senior Lecturer in Sport and Exercise Psychology

Expert in Sport psychology, the cognitions of both athletes/exercisers during sporting performance, the psychology of athlete career transitions

Dr Darren Rhodes
Lecture in Cognitive Psychology

Expert in Perception of time, impact of time perception and changes on physiology and wellbeing, consciousness

Katie Sambrooks
Lecturer in Forensic Psychology

Expert in Psychology of arson, the assessment and treatment of deliberate firesetting in adults.

Professor Clifford Stott
Professor of Social Psychology

Expert in Crowd psychology, policing, protests, riots, "hooliganism", public order policing, football policing

Dr Chris Street
Senior Lecturer in Cognitive Psychology

Expert in Cognition of truth or lie detection, how people form judgements on truth or lies, how people decide when and why to trust or distrust information

Dr Katie Wright-Bevans
Lecturer in Psychology

Expert in Health promotion, inclusion, justice and equality, community-based and participant-led health promotion, understanding processes of social change and the health promotion of vulnerable or marginalised groups, loneliness, social isolation.

• Dorothy Hodgkin Building 1.81
• +44 (0) 1782 732947
• k.wright.bevans@keele.ac.uk