Find an expert in Psychology

Contact our experts for comment on their areas of research and knowledge via our press office at news@keele.ac.uk or by calling +44 (0)1782 733857 / 734925 / 734161.

Professor Abigail Locke

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.

Dr Masi Noor

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

Expert in Forgiveness, social psychology, victimhood.

Dr Joseph Brooks

Dr Joseph Brooks
Senior Lecturer in Psychology, Dean of Research

Expert in Visual perception, attention, visual illusions

Dr Jenny Cole

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

Dr Richard Stephens
Senior Lecturer in Psychology

Expert in Swearing, stress, psychology of emotion.

Dr Kathryn Francis

Dr Kathryn Francis
Lecturer in Psychology

Expert in moral psychology; moral judgements; moral inconsistency; morality and medicine; morality and food choice

Dr Chris Stiff

Dr Chris Stiff
Senior Lecturer in Psychology

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

Dr Alexander Scott

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.

Debbie Stevens-Gill

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

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

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

Katie Sambrooks
Lecturer in Forensic Psychology

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

Professor Clifford Stott

Professor Clifford Stott
Professor of Social Psychology

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

Dr Chris Street

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

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.

Dr Sara Vestergren

Dr Sara Vestergren
Lecturer in Psychology

Expert in political/environmental psychology, human rights, protests, activism, collective action, the climate crisis, sustainability, how participation in activism may affect participants over time