Staff Areas of Interest
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Natural Sciences Academic Staff
Name: Professor Filippo Aureli
Areas of research interest:
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Primate social behaviour
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Regulation of social relationships in mammals
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Stress and tension-reduction mechanisms in mammals
Name: Dr Laura C Bishop
Areas of research interest:
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Palaeoanthropology
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Hominid palaeoecology
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African mammalian evolution and palaeoecology
Name: Dr Jerry Bird
Areas of research interest:
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Population, life history, ecophysiological, and developmental studies in insects.
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Intertidal and strandline ecology.
Name: Dr Richard Brown
Areas of research interest:
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Island evolution
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Lizard thermoregulation
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Ectotherm metabolic rates
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Animal geographic variation
Name: Dr Simon Dowell
Areas of research interest:
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Biogeography and changing distribution of endemic birds
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The effect of disturbance on wintering waders and wildfowl
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Wetland habitat creation and management
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Estate management
Name: Dr Mark Feltham
Areas of research interest:
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Fish eating birds
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Animal behaviour
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Ecology of Hen Harriers
Name: Dr. Jane Fisher
Areas of research interest:
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Freshwater ecology
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Use of plants and algae as indicators of current environmental conditions
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Lake, river and wetland restoration
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Water quality
Name: Professor Silvia Gonzalez
Areas of research interest:
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Igneous geology (volcanoes, magnetic properties of tephra)
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Quaternary geology, Heavy metals in soils
Name: Dr Alan Gunn
Areas of research interest:
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Forensic biology
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Effect of agrochemicals and other pollutants on invertebrates
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Invertebrates as sources of pharmaceutically active compounds
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Invertebrate biologyParasitology
Name: Dr Elaine Hemers
Areas of research interest :
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Embryonic/adult stem cells
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Links between diet/obesity and type II diabetes
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Muscle physiology
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Proteomics of human toxicariasis
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Signalling events involved in the maintenance of cellular structure in the stomach
Name: Dr. Jason Kirby
Areas of research interest:
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Holocene sea-level change and coastal evolution
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Reconstructing past environments using pollen, diatom and foraminiferal analysis
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Vegetation history
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Human impacts on the environment
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Applied research – Coastal and flood management, ecohydrology and floodplain wetlands
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Coastal environments
Name: Dr. Jenny Jones
Areas of research interest:
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Soil development in various environments
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Heavy metals in soils (Merseyside, N. Wales)
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Small-scale variation in heavy metal content of soil
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Urban bogs and environmental reconstruction.
Name: Dr Nicola Koyama
Areas of research interest:
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Primate social behaviour
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Conflict and aggression in primates
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Evolutionary psychology
Name: Mr.Eric McEvoy
Areas of research interest:
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Marine Biology
Name: Dr.Claudia Mettke-Hoffmann
Areas of research interest:
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Environmental assessment, learning, and memory in birds
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Personality traits in birds
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Environmental enrichment in birds
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Investigating the decline of the Rusty Blackbird
Name: Dr Anne-Marie Nuttall
Areas of research interest:
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Mass balance and dynamics of arctic glaciers
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Surging glaciers in Svalbard
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Remote sensing & GIS of glaciers
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Impact of arctic glaciers on sea level rise, and the effect of superimposed ice on glacier mass balance.
Name: Dr Penny Oakland
Student Project areas:
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Behaviour of captive wild, domestic or companion animals
Name: Dr. James C. Ohman
Areas of research interest:
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Palaeoanthropology
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Human and primate functional morphology
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Human and primate osteology
Name: Dr.Hannah O’Regan
Areas of research interest:
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Archaeology
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Quaternary vertebrate palaeontology
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Mammalian morphology
Name: Dr Denise Phillip
Areas of research interest:
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Plant biochemistry
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Plant pigments
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Carotenoids in plants and animals
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Carotenoids in health and disease
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Health-giving properties of plats
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Functional foods
Name: Dr. Siobhan Power
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Metamorphic and structural geology
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Mineralogy
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Caledonides of Scotland, Ireland and Greenland.
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Mapping.
Name: Dr Graham Sherwood
Areas of research interest:
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Magnetic properties of rocks/palaeomagnetism
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Geological mapping
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Heavy metals in sediments
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beach processes
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Geoscience education (including web-based resources)
Name Dr Richard Small
Areas of research interest:
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Use of grazing animals in habitat management for conservation
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Evaluation and management of nature conservation sites
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Nematodes as biological control agents of slugs and insects
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Aspects of the evaluation and conservation of farm animal genetic resources
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Implementation of action points for Biodiversity Action Plans in Lancashire and Merseyside.
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Environmental policy, environmental audit and review
Name: Dr Jenny Sneddon
Areas in which Projects can be offered:
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Anything to do with horses?
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Suitable for the following Programmes: BLY ZOO
Name: Dr Dave Wilkinson
Areas in which Projects can be offered:
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Soil ecology (especially testate amoebae)
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Environmental archaeology
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Biogeography
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Most areas of Ecology!
Psychology Academic Staff
Name: Dr Anne-Marie Adams
General areas:
Cognitive development; memory and language development, literacy skills, theory of mind.
Name: Dr Simon Cooper
General areas:
The attitude-behaviour relationship, the theories of reasoned action and planned behaviour, equity and equality, and facet theory.
Specific areas for project work:
Attitudinal correlates of reckless driving; Self-identity and smoking; Distinguishing perceptions of control in the theory of planned behaviour; Understanding the ‘glass ceiling’ in women’s career development.
Name: Dr Stephen Fairclough
General areas:
Stress; psychophysiology; mental effort, human factors
Specific areas for project work:
Use of psychophysiology to measure emotional changes or emotional response to stimuli; psychophysiological measures of stress in the laboratory; interoception (self-awareness of physiological activity); measuring stress and health in the field; Influence of task incentives/task goals on motivational states; driving behaviour.
Name: Dr Susan Giles
Specific areas for project work:
Health and wellbeing
Criminal narratives*
Offender profiling and behavioural differentiation*
Decision making and negotiation*
Suicide and self harm*
Young offenders*
*Ethics and data permitting
Name: Prof. Sheila Glenn
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Name: Dr Yvonne Harrison
General areas:
Sleep studies; sleep deprivation effects on cognitive performance.
Specific areas for project work:
Determinants of risk taking behaviours; Sleep and ageing; Differences between long and short sleepers; Do we monitor time during sleep? ; High ‘sleepability’ – no sleepiness ? ; Precognition during dreaming – coincidence or genuine?
Name: Dr Alex Harrop
General area:
Educational Psychology; School-based studies.
Specific areas for project work:
Systematic observation of classroom processes; advantages and disadvantages of various methods of systematic observation; systematic analysis of teachers' talk; Student approaches to learning in higher education; Ways in which students learn in higher education.
Name: Prof. Pam James
Specific areas for project work:
Criminal psychology; victim support; effectiveness and styles of counselling psychology; learning strategies in higher education.
Name: Dr Andreas Kastenmueller
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Name: Prof. Les Lancaster
General areas:
Investigations of consciousness; religion and psychology; implicit processing — perception and memory.
Specific areas for project work:
Hallucinations and fantasy-proneness; Measures of dissociation and imagination; Self-reference effects in memory; Measures of spirituality; ‘Mindfulness’ and perceptual functions.
Name: Dr Paul Lattimore
General Areas:
Social & cognitive aspects of eating behaviour; Stress-induced eating; Obesity; Eating Disorders.
Specific areas for project work:
Effects of stress on eating behaviour; Effects of dieting on memory and attention; Causal attributions in eating disorders; Psychological factors involved in weight control; Causes of body dissatisfaction.
Name: Dr Anna Law
General areas:
Social attention; executive functions in working memory; multitasking; prospective memory
Specific areas for project work:
Attention capture by faces; eye-gaze cueing; mechanisms of social attention; the role of planning and prospective memory in multitasking.
Name: Dr David McIlroy
General areas:
Personality; Anxiety; Education; Psychometrics; Health.
Specific areas for project work:
Personality factors in academic achievement; The role of test anxiety in academic performance; Computer phobia – its measurement and implications; Computer phobia in teachers / students; Construction and validation of measurement instruments; Subjective Well Being and Health; Subjective Well Being and Ageing; Subjective Well Being and Menopause; Any new applications of Subjective Well Being; Intelligence.
Name: Dr Peter Malinowski
General areas:
Cognitive Neuroscience; Cognitive Psychology; Electrophysiology (EEG); Consciousness; Meditation; Buddhist Psychology.
Specific areas for project work:
Computer-based behavioural studies into:Functional brain asymmetries; Cognitive effects of meditation; Mechanisms of visual attention; Functions and interactions of the visual pathways. Electrophysiological (EEG) studies into:The effects of meditation on the brain; Functional brain asymmetries.
Name: Dr Cathy Montgomery
General areas:
Effect of recreational drugs on cognition; specifically on the use of ecstasy and ecstasy-related memory and reasoning deficits. Everyday memory and cognitive failures in drug users. Social aspects of drug use e.g. parenting style in polydrug users (cocaine, cannabis and ecstasy users).
Specific areas for project work:
I am happy to supervise projects in the area of drug use and cognition (learning, memory, reasoning, verbal fluency), but would also be willing to take students with an interest in working memory in other populations, and the social aspects of drug use.
Name: Dr Angela Nananidou
General areas:
Work and industrial psychology; social psychology of tourism; environmental psychology; cross-cultural psychology.
Specific areas for project work:
Organisational climate and culture; Safety attitudes, climate and culture; Work Attitudes (e.g., job satisfaction, commitment etc.); Cross-cultural contact or comparisons; Attitudes to immigration (e.g., young people's attitudes asylum seekers).
Name: Dr Ruth Ogden
General areas:
Human temporal perception with particular focus on the effects of emotional change, aging and substance use on timing ability. Time-based prospective memory. Context effects in decision making.
Specific areas for project work:
I am willing to supervise projects in the area of cognition but particularly those looking at variables which affect human timing and memory.
Name: Dr Helen Poole
General areas:
Health psychology; pain; depression; psychometrics.
Specific areas for project work:
Psychological factors and chronic pain (depression, catastrophising, acceptance, coping); Cognitive biases in pain; Development and validation of health status measures; Psychometric evaluation of mental health in different clinical populations; Post natal depression (assessment, womens’ views).
Name: Dr Juliet Reid
General areas:
Occupational Psychology and Equal Opportunities at work.
Specific areas for project work:
Psychometric testing; Disability in the workplace; Selection; Vocational Guidance.
Name: Prof. Andy Tattersall
General areas:
Occupational psychology; applied cognitive psychology; well-being and health.
Specific areas for project work:
Multiple-task performance; Occupational stress; Workload and complex task performance.
Name: Dr Fiona Simmons
General areas:
Dyslexia; Dyscalculia; Cognitive influences on children's reading, writing and mathematics development.
Specific areas for project work:
Cognitive influences on reading, writing and mathematics development
Name: Dr Kanayo Umeh
General areas:
Health psychology; health behaviour models; coping styles; health persuasion.
Specific areas for project work:
Impact of communication, communicator and audience variables in health persuasion; health behaviour models (e.g., protection motivation theory, health belief model and person-relative-to-event theory); effects of fear, past behaviour, and health cognitions on past behaviour; main and interaction effects of above variables on health behaviour/persuasion.
Name: Dr Catherine Willis
General areas:
Working memory; applications of cognitive psychology to education; developmental psychology.
Specific areas for project work:
The relationship between working memory and children’s language comprehension; The development of inference generation ability.
Name: Dr Sally Woods
General areas:
Drug use and misuse; harm reduction and education/training in the drugs field; health and social psychology.
Specific areas for project work:
Multidisciplinary service provision and evaluation in the area of addiction; HIV prevention; Multidisciplinary teaching and curriculum application in drug related education; Psychosocial effects of drug use: prevalence and consumption.
