- Senior leadership team
- Psychology academic staff
- Clinical Language Sciences academic staff
- Charlie Waller Institute staff
- Research staff
- Emeritus/visiting professors
- Professional, administrative and technical support
Senior leadership team
| Name | Leadership role | |
|---|---|---|
| Carmel Houston-Price | Head of School | hos-pcls@reading.ac.uk |
| Kai Li Chung |
Head of Psychology, University of Reading Malaysia |
k.chung@reading.edu.my |
| Barbara Evetts | Director of Clinical Governance and Partnerships | b.j.evetts@reading.ac.uk |
| David Field |
Deputy Head of School (Finances & Resources) |
d.t.field@reading.ac.uk |
| Gail Gilbert |
Executive Admin Manager |
g.gilbert@reading.ac.uk |
| Katie Gray |
Director of Recruitment and Admissions |
k.l.h.gray@reading.ac.uk |
| Kate Harvey |
Research Division Lead |
k.n.harvey@reading.ac.uk |
| Richard Levell | Head of Section & Director of Training, CWI |
r.levell@reading.ac.uk |
| Eugene McSorley | Head of Section, Psychology | e.mcsorley@reading.ac.uk |
| Christos Pliatsikas | School Director of Academic Tutoring | c.pliatsikas@reading.ac.uk |
| Rachel Pye |
School Director of Teaching & Learning |
rachel.pye@reading.ac.uk |
| Ludovica Serratrice |
Research Division Lead |
l.serratrice@reading.ac.uk |
| Vesna Stojanovik |
Head of Section, Clinical Language Sciences |
v.stojanovik@reading.ac.uk |
Psychology academic staff
| Name | Position | Areas of expertise |
|---|---|---|
| Samrah Ahmed | Lecturer | Dementia diagnostics, neuropsychological assessment and clinical neuroscience |
| Umit Aydin | Lecturer | |
| Katie Barfoot | Lecturer in Cognitive Psychology | Nutritional Psychology, cognition and mood, maternal mental health. |
| Philip Beaman |
Professor of Experimental Psychology | Cognitive science, auditory cognition, human factors, working memory |
| Lynne Bell | Lecturer in Psychology | |
| Ingo Bojak | Professor | Computational neuroscience, data analysis and method development, neuroimaging, computational psychology |
| Amanda Branson |
Associate Professor | Teaching and learning pedagogy, development of employability skills |
| Louisa Butler | Graduate Teaching Assistant | |
| Richard Carciofo | Foundation Lecturer in Psychology | |
| Bhismadev Chakrabarti |
Professor in Neuroscience and Mental Health | Empathy, autism, individual differences, mobile health technologies, social neuroscience |
| Stella Chan |
Charlie Waller Chair in Evidence-Based Psychological Treatments | |
| Rebecca Cheung | Associate Professor | |
| Anastasia Christakou |
Professor | Psychopathology and emotional disorders, affective neuroscience, personalised nutrition, motivation and behaviour change, perception and action, cognitive control, language and bilingualism |
| Nazanin Derakhshan | Professor of Experimental Psychopathology | |
| Zola Dean | Lecturer in Individual Differences | |
| Chris Dobson | Graduate Teaching Assistant | |
| Eva Feredoes | Lecturer | Human working memory, transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS), concurrent TMS-fMRI |
| David Field |
Associate Professor | Basis of visual perception in the brain, influence of dietary factors on the brain and behaviour |
| Katherine Finlay | Lecturer | |
| Jayne Freeman | Lecturer | Cognition and ageing, intention and action memory |
| Wiebke Gandhi | Lecturer | |
| Andrew Glennerster | Professor of Visual Neuroscience | Perception and action, 3D vision |
| Katie Gray |
Associate Professor | Visual perception, including faces, facial expressions, attention, awareness |
| Anthony Haffey | Lecturer in Psychology |
|
| Rich Harrison |
Lecturer in Psychology |
|
| Kate Harvey | Professor of Health Psychology | Children's eating, family mealtimes, food insecurity, child and adolescent mental health |
| Nick Hedger | Lecturer | |
| Piril Hepsomali | Lecturer | Nutritional psychiatry/neuroscience |
| Jonathan Hill | Professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry | |
| Aileen Ho | Professor | Mental health in young and older adults: psychological intervention, cognitive training, functional rehabilitation and health-related quality of life in neurodegenarative disorders |
| Juliane Honisch | Lecturer | Affective neuroscience, perception and action |
| Carmel Houston-Price | Professor of Language & Cognitive Development | Language acquisition, especially vocabulary development; learning and the formation of preferences in childhood, especially food preferences |
| Alana James | Associate Professor | Psychopathology and emotional disorders, educational psychology |
| Paul Jenkins | Associate Professor | Eating disorders, severe mental health, cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) |
| Dan Jones | Associate Professor |
Physiological illness and cognition, psychological wellbeing of clinical patients, neuropsychology, pedagogy in higher education |
| Associate Professor | Autism spectrum disorders, neurodevelopmental disabilities, including mental health, attitudes, employability | |
| Daniel Lamport |
Associate Professor in Biological Psychology | Nutritional neuroscience and metabolic influences on cognition |
| Allán Laville | Professor, Dean for Diversity and Inclusion | Diversity and inclusion |
| Beth Law | Associate Professor | |
| Fang Liu | Associate Professor | Music, language, pitch, perception, production, autism, amusia, cognitive neuroscience |
| Ciara McCabe | Professor | Adolescent depression and anhedonia research using behavioural and neural measures |
| Rachel McCloy | Associate Professor | Applied behavioural science, judgement and decision making |
| Eugene McSorley | Associate Professor | Perception and action |
| Abbi Newlands | Graduate Teaching Assistant | |
| Thomas J. Nyman | Lecturer in Forensic Psychology | Forensic Psychology, Eyewitness Identification, Face Recognition, Decision-making, Bias, Generative Artificial Intelligence, Large Language Models |
| Emma Pape | Lecturer in Social Psychology | Intergroup relations and prejudice, prejudice reduction, imagery, imagined contact, media effect |
| Rachel Pye | Associate Professor | Reading development and dyslexia, including in multilingual populations |
| Patricia Riddell | Professor of Applied Neuroscience | |
| Etienne Roesch | Professor | Perception, attention, consciousness, emotion, Bayesian statistical methods, machine learning |
| Peter Scarfe | Associate Professor | Virtual reality, haptics robotics, perception and motor control, computational modelling |
| Amy Shelford | Graduate Teaching Assistant | |
| Anantha Sivasubramaniam |
Research Technician, Psychology | |
| Sarah Snuggs | Lecturer in Psychology | |
| Teresa Tavassoli | Associate Professor | Autism, sensory perception, developmental psychology |
| Carien Van Reekum | Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience | Emotion regulation, affective neuroscience, emotional disposition and wellbeing, emotion across the lifespan |
| Julia Vogt | Associate Professor | Self-regulation, motivation, emotion, emotion regulation, attention, social cognition, social psychology, health-related behaviours, prosocial behaviour, self-control |
| Shannon Wake | Lecturer | |
| Netta Weinstein | Associate Professor | Human motivation, wellbeing, prejudice & stigma, close relationships, emotion regulation, technology use, mental health, listening |
| Claire Williams | Professor | Cannabinoids and behaviour, nutrition and cognition, epilepsy, reward, appetite, flavonoids |
| Tan Wingenbach | Lecturer in Psychology |
|
| Gloria Wong | Associate Professor |
Dementia, psychosis, mental health and ageing |
| Lydia Yee | Lecturer in Biological Psychology | |
| Yue Yue | Foundation Lecturer in Psychology |
University of Reading Malaysia Psychology academic staff
| Name | Position | Areas of expertise |
|---|---|---|
| Kai Li Chung |
Head of Section, Psychology, University of Reading Malaysia Campus |
Forensic psychology, socially aversive psychopathology, personality |
| Vashnarekha Kumarasuriar |
Lecturer |
Nutrition, cognition and mental health |
| Putri Nurain Shazana |
Teaching Fellow |
|
| Shumetha Sidhu |
Lecturer | Vision science – texture perception and eye movements, Cognition |
| Kok Wei Tan |
Lecturer |
Face perception, lifestyle (e.g., diet, exercise, gaming, exposure to nature) and cognition |
| Marat Zagidullin |
Lecturer |
Applied social psychology, attitudes, communication, risk perceptions |
Clinical Language Sciences academic staff
| Name | Position | Areas of expertise |
|---|---|---|
| Allie Biddle | Lecturer in Speech & Language Therapy | |
| Arpita Bose | Associate Professor | |
| Paola Calabrese | Graduate Teaching Assistant | |
| Ian Cunnings | Associate Professor in Psycholinguistics | Psycholinguistics, multilingualism |
| Carol Fairfield | Associate Professor | |
| Sara Fincham-Majumdar | Lecturer in Speech & Language Therapy |
Parent mediated intervention for preschool autistic children |
| Daniel Fryer | Lecturer in Clinical Language Sciences | |
| Alice Grogan | Lecturer | |
| Amelia Heelan | Lecturer | |
| Tom Loucas | Associate Professor | Early intervention for children with autism spectrum disorder, language and cognition in autism |
| Fatemeh Mollaei | Lecturer in Acquired Disorders of Language/Communication | |
| Catherine Munro | Lecturer in Speech & Language Therapy | |
| Vishnu Nair | Lecturer in Acquired Disorders of Language/Communication |
|
| Afshan O'Sullivan | Lecturer in Speech & Language Therapy | |
| Emma Pagnamenta | Associate Professor | Developmental speech and language disorders, evidence-based practice, effectiveness of speech and language interventions |
| George Pontikas | Lecturer in Clinical Language Sciences | |
| Christos Pliatsikas | Associate Professor | Cognitive control, language and bilingualism, experience-based neuroplasticity |
| Katherine Pritchard | Lecturer in Speech & Language Therapy | |
| Doug Saddy | Professor | Computational models of language processes, cognitive dynamics and control, language and bilingualism, clinical language sciences, artificial grammar learning |
| Ludovica Serratrice | Professor of Bi-Multilingualism | |
| Mirjana Sokolovic-Perovic | Lecturer in Clinical Language Sciences | |
| Vesna Stojanovik | Professor | Language in genetic disorders, language acquisition |
| Joe Spackman | Lecturer in Speech and Language Therapy | |
| Gillian Townend | Lecturer |
Charlie Waller Institute staff
| Name | Position | |
|---|---|---|
| Fisayo Adunola | Clinical Teaching Fellow | f.adunola@reading.ac.uk |
| Phillippa Burton | Lecturer in Clinical Psychology | phillippa.burton@reading.ac.uk |
| Kerry Cawte | Lecturer | kerry.cawte@reading.ac.uk |
| Stella Chan | Charlie Waller Chair in Evidence-Based Psychological Treatments | s.chan3@reading.ac.uk |
| Anjali Chandar | Lecturer | a.m.chandar@reading.ac.uk |
| Tom Coates | Lecturer | t.a.coates@reading.ac.uk |
| Emma-Jayne Conway | Lecturer in Clinical Psychology | emma-jayne.conway@reading.ac.uk |
| Elizabeth Elliott | Lecturer in Clinical Psychology | |
| Barbara Evetts | CYP IAPT Clinical Lead | b.j.evetts@reading.ac.uk |
| Robert Finch | Lecturer | r.finch@reading.ac.uk |
| Lindsay George | Senior Clinical Tutor | l.george@reading.ac.uk |
| Jodie Grosvenor | Associate Lecturer | jodie.grosvenor@reading.ac.uk |
| Eleanor Haddock | Lecturer | e.haddock@reading.ac.uk |
| Aoife Healy | Diversion and Inclusion Support Officer | a.c.healy@reading.ac.uk |
| Katherine Hindley | Lecturer in Clinical Psychology | k.l.hindley@reading.ac.uk |
| Sue Howson | Lecturer in Clinical Psychology | s.howson@reading.ac.uk |
| James Kachellek | Lecturer in Clinical Psychology | j.c.kachellek@reading.ac.uk |
| Jeevan Kang | CWP/EMHP Project Manager | j.k.kang@reading.ac.uk |
| Michelle Lee | Project Support Officer | m.j.lee@reading.ac.uk |
| Julia Limper |
Lecturer in Clinical Psychology | j.limper@reading.ac.uk |
| Lucy Malyon | Associate Lecturer | l.malyon@reading.ac.uk |
| Hayley Marwood | Senior Clinical Tutor CYP PWP | h.marwood@reading.ac.uk |
| Natalie Meek | Lecturer in Clinical Psychology | n.a.meek@reading.ac.uk |
| Sian Melville | Lecturer | s.melville@reading.ac.uk |
| Sophie Meyer | Research Assistant | sophie.meyer@reading.ac.uk |
| Lucy Miller | Associate Lecturer | l.miller2@reading.ac.uk |
| Tara Nadi | Diversity and Inclusion Support Officer | o.nadi@reading.ac.uk |
| Melanie Neville | Associate Lecturer | m.neville@reading.ac.uk |
| Nakita Oldacre | Lecturer in Clinical Psychology | n.m.oldacre@reading.ac.uk |
| Sian Roxburgh | Lecturer | sian.roxburgh@reading.ac.uk |
| Katherine Simons | Associate Professor | katherine.simons@reading.ac.uk |
| Melissa Snaith | Lecturer in Clinical Psychology | m.h.snaith@reading.ac.uk |
| Katy Snitter | Assistant Psychologist | k.s.snitter@reading.ac.uk |
| Levi Spence | Lecturer | l.spence@reading.ac.uk |
| Molly Trillow | Associate Lecturer | m.trillow@reading.ac.uk |
| Eleanor Vialls | Lecturer in Clinical Psychology | |
| Charlene Wattley | Lecturer in Clinical Psychology | c.z.wattley@reading.ac.uk |
| Hannah Vickery | Director of Training for the Charlie Waller Institute | h.l.vickery@reading.ac.uk |
| Alison Wheeler | Associate Professor | alison.wheeler@reading.ac.uk |
Research staff
| Position | |
|---|---|
| Clinical Research Fellow | g.r.adams@reading.ac.uk |
| Postdoctoral Research Assistant | m.a.adams@reading.ac.uk |
| Research Assistant |
r.baxter@reading.ac.uk |
| Postdoctoral Researcher |
l.bell@reading.ac.uk |
| Centre for Autism Research | jo.billington@reading.ac.uk |
|
Research Assistant |
b.chapman@reading.ac.uk |
| Postdoctoral Research Assistant |
f.m.cinotti@reading.ac.uk |
| Postdoctoral Research Assistant |
c.desebrock@reading.ac.uk |
| Postdoctoral Researcher |
jessica.eastwood@reading.ac.uk |
| Research Assistant |
natalie.ellison@reading.ac.uk |
| Postdoctoral Research Assistant |
c.m.g.foad@reading.ac.uk |
| UKRN Open Research Coordinator |
e.gowie@reading.ac.uk |
| Postdoctoral Research Assistant |
h.ko@reading.ac.uk |
| Research Assistant |
s.martinvega@reading.ac.uk |
| Postdoctoral Research Fellow |
a.monteagudo@reading.ac.uk |
| Research Fellow | g.m.rossetti@reading.ac.uk |
| Senior Research Technician |
a.k.sivasubramaniam@reading.ac.uk |
| Postdoctoral Research Assistant |
asnea.tariq@reading.ac.uk |
| Postdoctoral Research Assistant | n.thompson@reading.ac.uk |
| Research Assistant |
a.tovmasyan@reading.ac.uk |
| Research Fellow |
b.williams3@reading.ac.uk |
| Research Assistant |
h.yusuf@reading.ac.uk |
Emeritus/visiting professors
| Name | Position | |
|---|---|---|
| Arlene Astell | Visiting Professor | |
| Ellen Bialystok | Albert Wolters Distinguished Visiting Professor 2015 | |
| Noam Chomsky | Albert Wolters Distinguished Visiting Professor 2017 | |
| Peter Cooper |
Emeritus Professor |
p.j.cooper@reading.ac.uk |
| Cathy Creswell | Visiting Professor | c.s.creswell@reading.ac.uk |
| Daniel Dennett | Albert Wolters Distinguished Visiting Professor 2019 | |
| Helen Dodd |
Visiting Professor |
|
| Louise Dye | Visiting Professor | |
| Susan Edwards | Emeritus Professor | s.i.edwards@reading.ac.uk |
| Judi Ellis | Emeritus Professor |
j.a.ellis@reading.ac.uk |
| Greta Fastrich | Visiting Research Fellow | |
| John Harris |
Emeritus Professor | j.p.harris@reading.ac.uk |
| Anna Horwood | Emeritus Professor | |
| Atul Kapila | Visiting Professor | |
| Mark Little | Visiting Professor | |
| Elizabeth Loftus | Albert Wolters Distinguished Visiting Professor 2018 | |
| Natalie Masento |
Visiting Research Fellow |
n.a.masento@reading.ac.uk |
| Frank McKenna |
Emeritus Professor |
f.p.mckenna@reading.ac.uk |
| Lotte Meteyard | Visiting Fellow | lotte.meteyard@reading.ac.uk |
| Lynne Murray | Emeritus Professor | lynne.murray@reading.ac.uk |
| Monika Parkinson |
Visiting Research Fellow |
|
| Steven Pinker | Albert Wolters Distinguished Visiting Professor 2016 | |
| Shirley Reynolds | Visiting Professor | s.a.reynolds@reading.ac.uk |
| Suzanna Rose |
Visiting Professor |
|
| Michiko Sakaki |
Senior Visiting Research Fellow | m.sakaki@reading.ac.uk |
| Graham Schafer | Honorary Fellow |
|
| Craig Steel | Visiting Professor | craig.steel@reading.ac.uk |
| Polly Waite |
Senior Visiting Research Fellow |
p.l.waite@reading.ac.uk |
| Tim Williams | Senior Visiting Research Fellow | timothy.williams@reading.ac.uk |
Professional, administrative and technical support
| Name | Position | |
|---|---|---|
| Melina Aston | Postgraduate Research Administrator | m.aston@reading.ac.uk |
| Gemma Mould | Executive Administration Officer- Charlie Waller Institute | g.e.mould@reading.ac.uk |
| Eadaoin Connolly |
Placement Coordinator - Undergraduate Psychology Programmes |
e.connolly@reading.ac.uk |
| Assunta Da Silva Roberts |
Receptionist | a.dasilvaroberts@reading.ac.uk |
| Liz Deacon | Executive Administration Administrator – CWI |
e.deacon@reading.ac.uk |
| Kath De Wilde |
Executive Administration Officer - Research |
k.dewilde@reading.ac.uk |
| Meldy Joy | School Global Recruitment Officer | m.joy@reading.ac.uk |
| Louise Forrest |
Executive Administration Officer – Facilities |
l.a.forrest@reading.ac.uk |
| Gail Gilbert | Executive Administration Manager | g.gilbert@reading.ac.uk |
| Carol Griggs | Executive Support Administrator - CWI | c.j.griggs@reading.ac.uk |
| Julie Hankinson |
Executive Administration Officer - Student Experience |
j.hankinson@reading.ac.uk |
| Paul Heaton |
Specialist Teaching and Research Support Analyst |
p.m.heaton@reading.ac.uk |
| Rez Jaigirdar | Building Support Officer | r.r.jaigirdar@reading.ac.uk |
| Roop Khangoora | PCLS Marketing Officer | r.k.khangoora@reading.ac.uk |
| Amy Lomas | AnDY Clinic Manager | a.r.lomas@reading.ac.uk |
| Raj Parmar | Executive Administration Officer - Recruitment & Admissions | r.parmar@reading.ac.uk |
| Ray Percy | AnDY Clinic Director | r.s.percy@reading.ac.uk |
| Lucy Sayer | Placement Administrator - Speech & Language Therapy |
l.sayer@reading.ac.uk |
| Shan Shen | MRI Operations Office | shan.shen@reading.ac.uk |
| Jaswant Sidhu | Executive Administration Officer - Finance | jaswant.sidhu@reading.ac.uk |
| Nadia Sadiq-Qadeer | Executive Administration Officer - Finance | n.sadiq-qadeer@reading.ac.uk |
| Kelly Watcham | Programme Manager - Student Support Centre | k.e.watcham@reading.ac.uk |
| Liz White | Executive Administration Officer - Clinical Governance and Clinics | e.m.white@reading.ac.uk |
| Bilge Yerdelen |
Health & Safety Co-ordinator (SPCLS/APD) |
b.yerdelen@reading.ac.uk |
| Lesley Young | Placement Administrator- Speech and Language Therapy | l.a.young@reading.ac.uk |
