- 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 |
| Kinjal Doshi | Head of Psychology, University of Reading Malaysia |
k.doshi@reading.edu.my |
| 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 |
Deputy Head of School (Business and Development) |
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 |
| Beth Law | School Director of Recruitment & Admissions | b.d.law@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 | Neuroscience, Neuroimaging, ADHD, Autism, Epilepsy, Neurodegeneration |
| 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 | Nutritional Psychology, cognition and mood |
| Ingo Bojak | Professor | Computational neuroscience, data analysis and method development, neuroimaging, computational psychology |
| Amanda Branson |
Associate Professor | Organisational Psychology, Psychological Literacy & Employability, Pedagogy |
| 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 |
| Anastasia Christakou |
Professor | Cognitive and affective neuroscience, developmental cognitive neuroscience, multimodal imaging |
| Zola Dean | Lecturer | Individual differences, reward and aversion processing, depression, pedagogy and student wellbeing |
| Chris Dobson | Graduate Teaching Assistant |
|
| Steph Dodgers | Graduate Teaching Assistant | LGBTQ+, Gender and Sexuality, Social and Developmental Psychology, Qualitative Research |
| Eva Feredoes | Lecturer | Human working memory, transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS), concurrent TMS-fMRI |
| David Field |
Associate Professor | Nutritional Psychiatry, visual perception, brain imaging |
| Katherine Finlay | Lecturer | |
| Jayne Freeman | Lecturer | Memory and ageing |
| Wiebke Gandhi | Lecturer | Pain: Motivational & Emotional Influences on Pain and their underlying neurobiology |
| Andrew Glennerster | Professor of Visual Neuroscience | Perception and action, 3D vision |
| Katie Gray |
Associate Professor | Social perception, face processing, emotional expressions |
| Anthony Haffey | Lecturer in Psychology |
|
| Rich Harrison |
Lecturer in Psychology |
Neuropsychological mechanisms of acute and chronic pain |
| Kate Harvey | Professor of Health Psychology | Health Psychology (eating behaviour, food parenting, social eating); Qualitative Methodologies |
| Nick Hedger | Lecturer | |
| Piril Hepsomali | Lecturer | Nutritional psychiatry/neuroscience |
| 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 |
| Yaling Hsiao | Lecturer in Developmental Psychology |
Psycholinguistics, Language learning and processing, Literacy development, Sentence Processing, Corpus analysis, Natural Language Processing, Neural Network |
| Alana James | Associate Professor | Psychology of Education, student wellbeing and disability support, university transitions, research methods teaching and learning; peer support |
| Paul Jenkins | Associate Professor | Disordered eating, cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT), psychometrics |
| Dan Jones | Associate Professor |
Physiological illness and cognition; Psychological wellbeing of clinical patients |
| Associate Professor in Clinical Psychology | Autism and neurodiversity; mental health, clinical psychology | |
| Daniel Lamport |
Associate Professor in Biological Psychology | Biological and nutritional effects on cognitive function and mood |
| Dr Beth Law | Associate Professor | Developmental psychology; language development; Autism Spectrum Conditions; pedagogy in Higher Education |
| Mark Little | Professor of Radiology | |
| Fang Liu | Associate Professor | Speech processing, music cognition, cognitive neuroscience, pitch, autism, amusia, dyslexia, musicianship, tone language experience |
| Ciara McCabe | Professor of Neuroscience, Psychopharmacology and Mental Health | Youth Depression and Anhedonia, Psychopharmacology, Behavioural and Neural Reward Function, Digital Health, Hormones and Mood, Climate Change and Mental Health, Sustainability Action |
| 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 Reliability, Technology and Artificial Intelligence in Legal Applications |
| Emma Pape | Lecturer in Social Psychology | Intergroup relations and the psychology of prejudice |
| Rachel Pye | Associate Professor | Reading development and dyslexia, including in multilingual populations |
| Patricia Riddell | Professor of Applied Neuroscience | Development of Binocular Vision, Visual aspects of Reading and Dyslexia, Neuroscience of Leadership and Coaching. |
| Etienne Roesch | Professor | Perception, attention, consciousness, emotion, Bayesian statistical methods, machine learning |
| Peter Scarfe | Associate Professor | Virtual Reality, haptic robotics, multi-sensory integration, motion tracking, computational modelling and 3D scanning. |
| Amy Shelford | Graduate Teaching Assistant | |
| Anantha Sivasubramaniam |
Research Technician, Psychology | |
| Sarah Snuggs | Lecturer in Psychology | Health Psychology, Behaviour Change, Children's Eating, Family Mealtimes, Weight Management, Smoking Cessation |
| Teresa Tavassoli | Associate Professor | Autism, sensory perception, developmental psychology |
| Jennifer Tong | Lecturer of Psychology and Neuroscience | Growth mindset in education, implicit theories and person perception, intergroup dynamics and social identification |
| Carien Van Reekum |
Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience |
Brain, body and emotion, emotion (in)flexibility including threat extinction, adult lifespan brain changes and mental health |
| Julia Vogt | Associate Professor | Self-regulation, emotion, and attention; social cognition; behaviour change |
| Shannon Wake | Lecturer in Psychology | Experimental Psychopathology, Anxiety, Fear, Avoidance, Intolerance of Uncertainty |
| 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 |
Emotion, facial expressions, facial mimicry, facial electromyography, experimental clinical psychology, autism |
| Gloria Wong | Associate Professor |
Dementia, psychosis, mental health and ageing |
| Lydia Yee | Lecturer in Biological Psychology | Hippocampus and its role in human long-term memory; amnesia; cognitive psychology; biological psychology |
| Yue Yue | Foundation Lecturer in Psychology | |
| Ignazio Puzzo | Lecturer in Forensic Mental Health |
Development of aggressive and antisocial behaviours across the lifespan and its impact on mental health and wellbeing in both general and forensic mental health populations. |
| Dr Tiffany Bell | Lecturer in Psychology | Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) and Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy (MRS), Cognition |
| Dr. Melis Yavuz-Muren | Lecturer | Developmental psychology, parenting, child social-emotional development, childhood obesity, cross-cultural research |
| Jo Billington | Lecturer | Autism and neurodevelopmental differences |
| Sarah Vestergren | Lecturer in Psychology |
University of Reading Malaysia Psychology academic staff
| Name | Position | Areas of expertise |
|---|---|---|
| Kinjal Doshi |
Head of Section, Psychology, University of Reading Malaysia Campus |
|
| 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 | Paediatric specialist Speech and Language Therapist , with specific interests in speech sounds disorders, including cleft palate and disorders of resonance. Practice Placements is an area of expertise |
| Arpita Bose | Associate Professor | The interplay between cognitive, linguistic and speech motor processes during language production in monolingual and bilingual populations. |
| Paola Calabrese | Graduate Teaching Assistant | |
| Ian Cunnings | Associate Professor in Psycholinguistics | Psycholinguistics, bi-/multilingualism, working memory |
| Carol Fairfield | Associate Professor | |
| Sara Fincham-Majumdar | Lecturer in Speech & Language Therapy |
Speech, language and communication support for autistic children and families |
| Daniel Fryer | Lecturer in Clinical Language Sciences | |
| Alice Grogan | Lecturer | |
| Milly Heelan | Lecturer in Speech and Language Therapy | Stroke, aphasia, dysphagia |
| Tom Loucas | Associate Professor | Communication development, early intervention, autism. |
| Fatemeh Mollaei | Lecturer in Acquired Disorders of Language/ Communication |
Neuroscience of speech production and sensorimotor control, Motor speech disorders |
| Lotte Meteyard | Lecturer | |
| Vishnu Nair | Lecturer in Acquired Disorders of Language/Communication |
|
| Afshan O'Sullivan | Lecturer in Speech & Language Therapy | Acquired and progressive neurological disorders for speech; dysphagia, stuttering and cluttering, and voice difficulties in the adult population. |
| Emma Pagnamenta | Associate Professor | Speech and Language Therapy, children and young people with communication disabilities and interventions, clinical research methods |
| George Pontikas | Lecturer in Clinical Language Sciences | Psycholinguistics: language acquisition and processing; bi/multilingualism; language impairment |
| Christos Pliatsikas | Associate Professor | Neuroplasticity, bi-/multilingualism, cognition, ageing |
| Katherine Pritchard | Lecturer in Speech & Language Therapy | Paediatric speech and language therapy, speech sound disorder. |
| 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 |
Language development in monolingual and bilingual children, inferential processes, narrative development, language processing |
| Lena Sakure | Lecturer in Speech and Language Therapy | Social interaction in clinical and non-clinical contexts |
| Mirjana Sokolovic-Perovic | Lecturer in Clinical Language Sciences | Phonetics and Phonology, Linguistics |
| Vesna Stojanovik | Professor | Language in genetic disorders, language acquisition |
| Joe Spackman | Lecturer in Speech and Language Therapy | Paediatric speech and language therapy (school age) |
| Gillian Townend | Lecturer | Augmentative and alternative communication (AAC); learning and physical disabilities; rare genetic conditions (especially Rett syndrome) |
| Lucy Hughes | Lecturer in Speech and Language Therapy | Developmental Language Disorder, School-aged Children, Conversation Therapy, Word-finding Difficulties, Co-production |
| Sarah Wagstaff | Lecturer in Speech and Language Therapy | Acquired adult speech, language, communication and eating drinking swallowing needs |
Charlie Waller Institute staff
| Name | Position | Areas of Expertise |
|---|---|---|
| Fisayo Adunola | Lecturer in Clinical Psychology | |
| Phillippa Burton |
Lecturer in Clinical Psychology |
|
| Gina Airey | Lecturer in Clinical Psychology | |
| Kerry Cawte | Lecturer in Clinical Psychology | |
| Stella Chan | Charlie Waller Chair in Evidence-Based Psychological Treatments | |
| Anjali Mehta Chandar | Lecturer in Clinical Psychology | Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), adolescent depression, adolescent autism |
| Emma-Jayne Conway | Lecturer in Clinical Psychology | |
| Liz Deacon | Research Assistant | |
| Lizzie Elliott | Lecturer in Clinical Psychology | Low-intensity mental health support for children, young people and families. |
| Barbara Evetts | CYP IAPT Clinical Lead | |
| Bertie Finch | Lecturer in Clinical Psychology | Child and adolescent mental health |
| Lindsay George | Senior Clinical Tutor | |
| Michelle Grice | Lecturer in Clinical Psychology | Cognitive Behavioural Therapy |
| Eleanor Haddock | Lecturer in Clinical Psychology | |
| Katherine Hindley | Lecturer in Clinical Psychology | |
| Sue Howson | Lecturer in Clinical Psychology | |
| James Kachellek | Lecturer in Clinical Psychology | |
| Jeevan Kang | CWP/EMHP Project Manager | |
| Michelle Lee | Lecturer in Clinical Psychology | |
| Richard Levell | Director of Clinical Training | Strategic Director | Skilled in Strategic Systemic Leadership, Programme Management, Service & Workforce Transformation, Cultural Humility and Stakeholder Engagement |
| Julia Limper |
Lecturer in Clinical Psychology | Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, Lived Experience, OCD and trauma |
| Lucy Malyon | Lecturer in Clinical Psychology | |
| Hayley Marwood | Senior Clinical Tutor | |
| Natalie Meek | Lecturer in Clinical Psychology | Mental health, gender diversity, disability, neurodivergence, diversity & inclusion. |
| Sian Melville | Lecturer in Clinical Psychology | |
| Lucy Miller | Lecturer in Clinical Psychology | Delivering assessment and LI interventions, particularly parent working for children and young people with anxiety. |
| Nakita Oldacre | Lecturer in Clinical Psychology | Low Intensity Cognitive Behaviour Interventions, Intersectional Identity factors in Clinical Practice |
| Sian Roxburgh |
Lecturer in Clinical Psychology |
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy |
| Kate Purdy | Lecturer in Clinical Psychology | |
| Katherine Simons | Associate Professor | |
| Melissa Snaith | Lecturer in Clinical Psychology | |
| Katy Snitter | Research Assistant | |
| Levi Spence | Lecturer in Clinical Psychology | Low Intensity Cognitive Behavioural Interventions |
| Molly Trillow | Lecturer in Clinical Psychology | Clinical Psychology, evidence-based low-intensity interventions for common mental health problems |
| Eleanor Vialls | Lecturer in Clinical Psychology | Assessment and treatment of common mental health disorders within primary care settings. Equity, diversity and inclusion within healthcare and therapeutic provisions |
| Charlene Wattley | Lecturer in Clinical Psychology | Mental health in educational settings (whole school approaches, staff training), Social determinants of mental health |
| Alison Wheeler | Associate Professor | Child and adolescent mental health; Cognitive Behaviour Therapy; Low-intensity practice |
| Lucy Green | Associate Lecturer | CBT for CYP, Self-Compassion |
Research staff
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 | |
| Nazanin Derakhshan | Visiting Professor | n.derakhshan@reading.ac.uk |
| 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 | |
| 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 |
|
| 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 |
| Dr Hannah Vickery | Senior Visiting Fellow | hannah.vickery@reading.ac.uk |
Professional, administrative and technical support
|
Name |
Position |
|
|---|---|---|
| Melina Aston | Postgraduate Research Administrator |
m.aston@reading.ac.uk |
| Sharon Brown | Executive Support Administrator-CWI | sharon.brown@reading.ac.uk |
| Eadaoin Connolly | Placement Coordinator- Undergraduate Psychology Programme | e.connolly@reading.ac.uk |
| Assunta Da Silva Roberts | Receptionist | a.dasilvaroberts@reading.ac.uk |
| Kath De Wilde | Executive Administration Officer- Research | k.dewilde@reading.ac.uk |
| Gideon Dmello | Clinic Administrative Assistant-AnDY | gideon.dmello@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 |
| Paul Heaton | Specialist Training and Research Support Analyst | p.m.heaton@reading.ac.uk |
| Rez Jaigirdar | Building Support Officer |
r.r.jaigirdar@reading.ac.uk |
| Renuka Jakkal | Executive Support Administrator -Student Experience |
r.s.jakkal@reading.ac.uk |
| Meldy Joy | School Global Recruitment Officer | m.joy@reading.ac.uk |
| Gemma Mould | Executive Administration Officer- Charlie Waller Institute |
g.e.mould@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 |
| Mohua Saha | Executive Administration Officer-Research |
m.saha@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 |
| 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 |
| Shelley Burgess | Clinical Placement Administrator - Speech and Language Therapy | s.burgess@reading.ac.uk |
