Psychology

StaffResearch interests 
Prof. Vasudevi Reddy (Director) Socio-cognitive development in infancy; self-consciousness; humour
Prof Alan Costall (Deputy Director) Materiality; socialising affordances; mutuality; history of psychology
Dr Victoria Devonshire Literacy development; learning through meaning
Dr Matt Dicks

Visual cues, expectancies and  interpersonal interaction

Dr Amy Drahota Speech perception, Ageing
Dr Alessandra Fasulo Autobiographical narratives; language in the family; memory, objects and places
Dr Mark Haydon-Laurelut

Discursive analysis of service systems; family therapy; disablism

Dr Endre Kadar

Perceptual control of action; navigational skills; movement disorders

Dr Juliane Kaminski

Attentional engagements in infants and dogs, cross-cultural developmental research

Dr Beatriz Lopez

Developmental trajectories in autism; culture and cognition

Dr Paul Morris

Animal personality and emotions; perception of intentionality; ecological psychology

Dr Stefanie Sonnenberg

Identity construction and economics; the social psychology of money and ‘rational choice’; the marketisation of Higher Education

Dr Julie Udell

Balance and movement, ageing.

Dr Joerg Zinken

Universals and diversity across languages and cultures; figurative language; language and thought

 

PhD StudentsResearch interests 
Cristina Costantini Infant feeding across cultures, emotions, mother-infant interaction
Niko Kargas Autism, psychoacoustics, speech perception, language
Valentina Fantasia Processes of cooperation, developmental trajectories in autism, infant self awareness, motor coordination and shared actions
Nicole Rossmanith Modes of understanding and generation of meaning, engaging with objects and people, concept formation, history of psychology & cognitive science

 

Advisory Panel 
Prof Daniel Hutto University of Hertfordshire
Prof Cintia Rodriguez Univ Autonoma de Madrid
Prof Audrey van de Meer Dept of Psychology, NTNU, Trondheim
Prof Derek Edwards Dept of Social Sciences, University of Loughborough
Prof Dan Zahavi Centre for Subjectivity Research, University of Copenhagen

 

External Members

 
Dr Christina Becchio University Torino
Dr Mike Chase University of East London
Dr Jonathan Delafield-Butt University of Strathclyde
Dr Katja Liebal University of Berlin
Dr Hanne de Jaegher University of San Sebastian
Dr Gabriela Markova University of Vienna
Prof Ezequiel di Paolo University of San Sebastian
Dr Robert Piazza University of Sussex
Prof Corrado Sinigaglia University of Milano

 

Links with International Centres

  • Centre for Research in Life, Mind and Society (CLMS), University of the Basque Country, San Sebastian, Spain
  • Centre for Subjectivity Research (CSR), University of Copenhagen, Denmark
  • Institute for Advanced Study, University of Konstanz, Germany
  • Max Planck Instiute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, NL
  • Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology (Developmental Psychology), Leipzig, Gemany
  • Enactive Network (EN), Universite de Technologie de Compiegne, France
  • Wales Autism Research Centre, University of Cardiff, Wales
  • Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland
  • Klinik fuer Allgemeine Psychiatrie fuer Psychsoziale Medizin, Universitaet Heidelberg
  • Centre for Neural and Cognitive Sciences, University of Hyderabad, India
  • Aesthetics of Interaction in the Design of Intelligent Products and Systems, Technische Universiteit, Eindhoven, NL