Psychology

James Ost

Dr. James Ost

Associate Head for Research, Fellow of the Higher Education Academy

Psychology

james.ost@port.ac.uk

Profile

Background

I joined the department as a lecturer in September 2001.  I am Associate Head for Research for the Department of Psychology.  I am also a Chartered Psychologist of the British Psychological Society (BPS) and a member of the Association for Psychological Science (APS).

Teaching responsibilities

I co-ordinate a Year 3 unit entitled The Psychology of False and Recovered Memory and the core Year 2 Cognitive Psychology unit.  I supervise dissertations at both undergraduate and postgraduate level on memory and suggestibility.

Winner- "Best Personal Tutor" in the 2011 UoP Students' Union Student Led Teaching Awards.

Research interests

My research interests fall mainly within what might loosely be called applied cognitive/social psychology and include:

•    False and recovered memory;
•    Social influences on remembering and suggestibility;
•    Bartlett's theory of reconstructive remembering.  

I am a member of the International Centre for Research in Forensic Psychology.

PhD Supervision

Ongoing: Gavin Oxburgh, Lucy Arnold (1st supervisor)
Successful completions: Jehanne Almerigogna (2008, 1st supervisor); Bridget Waller (2005, 3rd supervisor).

Recent Publications

 

More recent publications

 

Indicative publications

Note: The links at the end of each article or chapter below will take you to the ‘pre-print’ version of the manuscript, in line with publishers’  self-archiving policies.  As they are not the final proofs, they may contain small grammatical or typographical errors.  Clicking the title should take you directly to the online version via the DOI.  If you cannot access it that way then please email me for a copy of the PDF (james.ost@port.ac.uk)