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
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 perception, attention, visual illusions
- 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 Kathryn Francis
Lecturer in Psychology
Expert in moral psychology; moral judgements; moral inconsistency; morality and medicine; morality and food choice
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
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