Our research group contains leading researchers in several areas of applied psychology including health, emotion, developmental disorders, psychoneuroimmunology, consumer psychology, sexual health, and social psychology. Some of our research was recently rated as world-leading by the Research Assessment Exercise 2008, and we have published widely in high impact journals such as Psychological Review, Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, Emotion, Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, and Consciousness & Cognition. We continue to publish and offer PhDs in the areas listed below.

Members of the Applied, Social and Health Psychology Research Group are as follows:

1. Dr Matt Bristow (Senior Lecturer)
Psycho-neuro-immunology. The relationship between psychosocial factors, mucosal immunity and health; the temporal relationship between acute stress and secretory immunoglobulin A secretion; the validity of sIgA as an immune measure for use in psychoimmunology. Advancing methodology in the psychophysiology of stress: capturing the complexity of immunity.

2. Dr Rachel Cook (Principal Lecturer)
Psychological implications of reproduction, infertility and medical technologies; stress and health.

3. Carol Farley (PhD Student)
The role of appraised control as a potential mediator of salivary IgA

4. Dr Roberto Gutierrez (Lecturer)
Emotions: their individual characteristics such as automaticity and elicitation, and the way they affect our judgment and behaviour. Group processes: specifically, social identity and intergroup relations.

5. Dr Cathrine Jansson-Boyd (Senior Lecturer)
Tactile influences on consumer evaluation and decision making. Aesthetic concepts and their applicability to consumer evaluations of products and consumer environments. Interrelationship between happiness, consumption and self-esteem.

6. Dr John Lambie (Reader)
Consciousness and emotional experience; the role of emotional awareness in rational action; the role of self-awareness in mental health and moral action; the development of emotional awareness.

7. Anja Lindberg (Graduate Teaching Assistant and PhD student)
The development of emotional awareness in children; parenting styles and emotional development.

8. Zoe Maka (PhD Student)
Relational and emotional dynamics in methadone patients and their partners

9. Katy Parker (Senior Lab Technician)

10. Dr Poul Rohleder (Senior Lecturer)
Psychosocial and public health aspects of HIV/AIDS and sexual health; disease, ill-health and stigma; marginalised identities; critical health psychology; mental health; qualitative research.