Psychology
To contact any of the Psychology experts below please speak to the University of Sunderland press office in the first instance: 0191 515 3276 or 0191 515 3265 / pressoffice@sunderland.ac.uk
| Name | Prof Bridget Cooper |
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| Job title | Professor of Education |
| Faculty | Education and Society |
| Areas of expertise | Emotions/empathy in teaching and learning |
| Name | Dr Daniel Farrelly |
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| Job title | Lecturer in Psychology |
| Faculty | Applied Sciences |
| Areas of expertise | Evolutionary psychology, co-operation and altruism, male competition, mate choice, emotional intelligence and empathy |
| Name | Kevin Paton |
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| Job title | Principal Lecturer in Psychology |
| Faculty | Applied Sciences |
| Areas of expertise | Managing change in organisations, personality and emotional intelligence in the workplace, healthy organisations - respect and dignity at work, trust in the workplace, fairness at work, leadership at work - what makes people 'good' or 'bad' leaders |
| Name | Dr Dave Sanders |
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| Job title | Head of Department |
| Faculty | Applied Sciences |
| Areas of expertise | General psychology |
| Name | Dr Matthew Watson |
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| Job title | Lecturer in Psychology |
| Faculty | Applied Sciences |
| Areas of expertise | Psycholinguistics, the psychology of language, self control, how people influence each other, free will, paranormal, pseudoscience, psychology of religion |
| Name | Stephanie Wilkie |
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| Job title | Senior Lecturer |
| Faculty | Applied Sciences |
| Areas of expertise | The characteristics of home and other important places, designing environments for wellbeing, atmosphere of place and space, urban regeneration and wellbeing, environmental psychology including environmental stressors, navigation, pro-environmental behaviours such as recycling/wind farms, building design. |
