Warwick Psychology

Associate Professor (111338-0226) at University of Warwick An opportunity for an academic position as a Associate Professor (111338-0226) is available, as advertised on jobs.ac.uk. Apply now and explore other academic job openings.

📢 We’re hiring!

The University of Warwick is recruiting for a full-time, permanent academic position in Psychology, available at either:

🔹 Assistant Professor
🔹 Associate Professor

📅 Application deadline: 5th April 2026

Project with Dr Alice Chen: warwick.ac.uk/fac/sc...

Project with Dr Matthew Mak: warwick.ac.uk/fac/sc...

Project with Dr Marina Mendonca: warwick.ac.uk/fac/sc...
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PhD Studentship: Three PhD Fellowships in Psychology at University of Warwick Explore a PhD Studentship: Three PhD Fellowships in Psychology on jobs.ac.uk. Discover more PhD opportunities and apply today!

We’re recruiting 3 fully funded PhD Fellowships in Psychology at the University of Warwick.

🌟 Projects supervised by Dr Alice Chan, Dr Matthew Mak & Dr Marina Mendonca
⏳ Deadline: 15 March 2026

🔗 Apply here: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/D...

#PhD #AcademicSky #Psychology
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Associate Professor (111338-0226) at University of Warwick Discover an exciting academic career path as a Associate Professor (111338-0226) at jobs.ac.uk. Don't miss out on this job opportunity - apply today!

📢 We’re hiring!

The University of Warwick is recruiting for a full-time, permanent academic position in Psychology, available at either:

🔹 Assistant Professor
🔹 Associate Professor

📅 Application deadline: 5th April 2026

A productive and energising afternoon at our termly Lifespan Health & Wellbeing Group meeting. Grateful to our @warwickpsych PGR students for their support, and to Jag Jutley-Nielson & Nick Thompson for sharing insights into the STREAM project and participatory research with the autistic community.

Bridging Perspectives: Clinician–Adolescent Agreement on Psychopathological Severity in the European MILESTONE Cohort Objectives Adolescents transitioning from child and adolescent mental health services (CAMHS) to adult mental health services (AMHS) may face challenges in accurately identifying and reporting their.....

MILESTONE consortium c @dieterwolke.bsky.social @warwickpsych.bsky.social Bridging Perspectives: Clinician–Adolescent Agreement on Psychopathological Severity in the European MILESTONE Cohort - Marcolini - 2026 - Journal of Clinical Psychology -Wiley Oline Lib onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Very insightful psychology seminar talk on pain in autism by Dr. Moore!

Our next Psychology/Health Spotlight seminar will be given by Dr David Moore from Liverpool John Moores University, who will be talking about Pain in Autism.

Date: Tuesday, 10 February 2026
Time: 12:00–13:00
Location: H0.43

All welcome!
#Pain #Autism #Neurodiversity #Primary care

Our next Psychology/Health Spotlight seminar will be given by Dr David Moore from Liverpool John Moores University, who will be talking about Pain in Autism.

Date: Tuesday, 10 February 2026
Time: 12:00–13:00
Location: H0.43

All welcome!
#Pain #Autism #Neurodiversity #Primary care

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Welcome back to Dr C. Stella Qian, who returns to Warwick to start an ESRC-funded postdoc with Prof. Adam Sanborn to investigate using statistical sampling algorithms as standard models of human behaviour in perceptual and cognitive tasks.

CWPT Talking Therapies Therapists and Professor Harbinder Sandhu for the PAINT for IAPT project.

What a pleasure to welcome Talking Therapies therapists from Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership NHS Trust to our advanced training on treating insomnia alongside chronic pain! Excited to see them put this treatment into practice & contribute real‑world data to our evaluation.🧪 #NHS #sleep #pain

Recruiting a #PhD student interested in cognitive psychology (language, memory) and AI. Come join me at
@warwickpsych.bsky.social. Overseas students are welcome.
Feel free to reach out to me to enquire. #PhD #Fellowship #academia #apply. Deadline in mid-March

warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/psyc...

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Congratulations to Michaela Pawley on passing her PhD viva!

Michaela’s PhD, supervised by Prof. Nicole Tang, showed that specific sleep behaviours in adolescence are meaningful risk factors for later self-harm and reported suicide attempts, making sleep health a potential target for prevention.

This week's department seminar featured Endowed Professor Robert Cramer from University of North Carolina, Charlotte. Prof. Cramer is on a visiting professorship hosted by Prof. Kim Wade through IAS, and presented on his research on sexual and gender minority identity and mental health.

We greatly enjoyed hearing about Skyler's PhD work, which led to a valuable group discussion on community-based research.

This week is a special department seminar for PGRs with guest speaker Skyler Prowten, a visiting PhD student working with Prof. Rob Cramer at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte Violence Prevention Center. Skyler's research focuses on areas of suicide prevention, gender, and health equity.

Style, sentiment, and quality of undergraduate writing in the AI era: A cross-sectional and longitudinal analysis of 4,820 authentic empirical reports As generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) becomes widespread in education, its influence on students' academic practice raises concern. We conduct…

Are students losing their voice to AI? A Warwick study analysed 10 years of submitted work to find out:
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

This week's department seminar speaker is Dr. Talar Moukhtarian from the Warwick Psychology Department and Medical School. Dr. Moukhtarian presented on her latest research on Women in Academia.

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Congratulations to Yuqi Ye on her successful PhD viva! Drawing on large-scale behavioural and health data, her work links income inequality, concentrated at the top of the income distribution, to people’s pursuit of status and long-term well-being, through psychological mechanisms.

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Welcome back to Dr Lucas Castillo, who is starting an ESRC-funded postdoc with Prof. Adam Sanborn using statistical sampling algorithms as standard models of human perceptual and cognitive behaviour. Lucas recently gained his PhD in the department exploring why people are not able to act randomly.

Read a RECAP consortium (including @dieterwolke.bsky.social @warwickpsych.bsky.social ) article by Hanifer Pilvar on the Outcomes in Early Adulthood for Individuals Born Very Preterm and/or w... here 👇 doi.org/10.1016/j.jp...

Happy New Year! I am deligthed to announce that I will be serving as Associate Editor for Psychonomic Bulletin & Review in the new year. @psychonomicsociety.bsky.social

New paper out! 👉 doi.org/10.1002/ajp....

Indri lemurs are Critically Endangered and have never survived nor reproduced in captivity. Understanding how infants develop behaviour and diet may be a key piece for their conservation in the wild. @marcogamba.bsky.social

A co-produced mixed-methods study exploring Black, Asian, and Minority Ethnic psychology students’ experiences at two UK universities We present the first mixed-method study to explore the experiences of Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) students studying psychology in the UK. We co-created a survey with undergraduate student research assistants, which was completed by 195 students, of which 106 were from BAME backgrounds and 89 were from White backgrounds. All students were studying psychology as undergraduate or postgraduate students at two UK universities. Using the survey, we compared BAME and White students’ experiences and views about their curriculum, delivery of teaching, personal tutoring support, course resources, peer relationships, representation, course community, approaches to study, and their engagement. We found differences in how well represented students felt in the curriculum and amongst their peers according to university and ethnicity. Following the survey, 27 BAME students took part in focus group interviews. Using a thematic content analysis approach, these students reported category themes of issues with representation within the curriculum, pedagogy, and staff representation. Challenges in their sense of belonging to the department and university were also reported. The study indicates that all psychology students are calling for psychology departments to enhance their curriculum’s ethnic representation and anti-racist pedagogy. Meanwhile, BAME students are calling for efforts to enhance a sense of belonging and awareness of BAME-related issues amongst staff and their peers. This bolsters the importance of work to diversify the psychology curriculum and highlights the implications of a lack of diversity in future psychology careers and mental health support.

A co-produced study on Black, Asian, and Minority Ethnic psychology student experiences in two UK universities. Findings highlight the importance of diversifying the curriculum, implementing anti-racist pedagogy, and fostering a sense of belonging among diverse populations.

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Congratulations to Kirsty Green on passing her viva! Kirsty’s PhD, supervised by Prof. Sotaro Kita, explored how iconicity - when a word or gesture resembles what it means - supports early communication. She found caregivers using iconic words sparked greater engagement from infants.

ChatGPT brought ‘delve’ to life, but students have now killed it.

A large-scale analysis of students' writing from the past 10 years on how GenAI is shaping undergraduate writing: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

#AI #GenAI #ChatGPT #studentwriting #delve #intricate #academia

Dr Yun-Xiao Li presenting a poster at a conference

Welcome to Dr Yun-Xiao Li, who will be investigating how we make choices about risk and the future in his ESRC-funded postdoc with Dr. Manos Konstantinidis. Yun-Xiao has not travelled far: he did his PhD in our department on discreteness in mental sampling and decision making.

Tomorrow's department seminar speaker is Dr. Stefano Perna (@stefanoperna.bsky.social), from Warwick's Lifecourse and Neonatal Group! He will present his work on the relationship between very pre-term birth and epigenetic age.

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Congratulations to Mingtong Li on a successful PhD viva! Her work, supervised by Dr. Suzanne Aussems and Prof. Sotaro Kita, examined how iconic temporal modulations in gesture and speech help learners interpret new verbs across development and what this reveals about iconicity comprehension.

<em>British Journal of Health Psychology</em> | Wiley Online Library Introduction Sleep and mental health problems are common across the working adult population. This process evaluation provides insight into the experiences of employees who took part in a digital in.....

Ever wonder how digital CBT-I treatments work?🧪
Our process evaluation of the SLEEP trial offers answers:
✨ Better sleep boosts wellbeing.
For treatment to work, three things matter:
1️⃣ Human connection
2️⃣ Right context
3️⃣ Smart mechanisms
Read more: doi.org/10.1111/bjhp...
#SleepHealth #DigitalTherapy