Research – Bath Spa University
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Research – Bath Spa University
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Research in the School of Sciences
Explore research in the School of Sciences, including our research supervisors and their areas of expertise.
Academics and research topics for supervision
Dr Samantha Lane
Antibiotic resistance
Occupational lung disease
Infectious diseases
Tracey Lewarne
investigation of the activity of the superoxide dismutase protein in people with diabetes mellitus and the links with secondary complications
Andrea Neascu
Domestic violence and stalking
Dr Andrew Dunn
Poverty
Unemployment
Consumer culture
Crime rates around the world
Dr Faye Vanstone
Rape
Men convicted of sexual offences
Sexual consent
Pngosrisons research
Dr Luke Roach
Hate and counter speech
Computer mediated discourse analysis
Interactionism
Paul Thornbury
Organisation of coercive force by state (police and military) and non-state (private security/military, organised crime, insurgency) groups
Dr Rosa Whitecross
Prison writing
Narrative research
Participatory (arts-based) research methods
Gender and punishment/prison research
Social justice
Dr Sophie Pike
Homicide
Violence
Major crime investigation
Detective work
Policing
Qualitative research
Ailsa Winton
Urban geography
Migration and displacement
Global development
Gender and development
Dr David Simm
Fluvial geomorphology
Lowland river flooding
River restoration
Urban river regeneration
Dr Giovanna Gioli
Political ecology of development
Hazards
Disasters
Adaptation to climate change
Dr James Jeffers
Hazards
Disaster risk reduction
Climate change adaptation
Urban environments
Heather Winlow
Visual representations of race and ethnicity
Exploration of late 19th century and early 20th century mapping of race and racial categories by geographers and anthropologists
US state cartographies and the representation/exclusion of the indigenous population between 1850 and 1950
Photographic Representations of indigenous groups, past and present
Histories of Geography / Cartography
Research and invited publications in the history of geography and history of cartography, including influence of evolutionary theories on geography/geographers, race and ethnicity, and indigenous peoples and western mapping
Dr Lori Bystrom
Functional foods
Complementary and integrative medicine
Natural and sustainable product development
Dr Matthew Baker
New technologies that will enable us to measure and explore the relationship between time spent in nature and our physical, mental and social health
Matthew Law
Molluscs and quaternary palaeoecology
Prehistoric landscapes
Archaeology of south west Britain
Public perceptions of environmental change/climate change/ sustainability
Dr Miriam Thavarajah
Human-nature / wildlife interactions
Animal behaviour / behavioural ecology
Wildlife Conservation
Dr Ralph Thompson
Animal behaviour
Comparative and biological psychology
Anthrozoology
Dr Stephanie Greshon
Habitat enhancement and creation
Working in partnership with third parties to achieve biodiversity net gain of degraded habitats
Agata Vitale
Social determinants of health and minority groups, and on developing community interventions to recover from sociocultural trauma.
Dr Agnieszka Janik Mcerlean
Synaesthesia
Social perception
Interoceptive sensitivity
Alexithymia
ASMR and non-invasive brain stimulation
Dr Andrew Bengry
Youth and identity
How culture contextualises and shapes social identification and identity construction processes
Dr Charlotte Edmunds
Learning (especially associative and category learning)
Decision-making (both pure and applied)
Eye-tracking and formal modelling
Young people’s happiness and wellbeing and materialism.
Dr Eleni Anna Skoulikari
Educational and Developmental Psychology and more specifically on the ways young children use technologies, from tablets and mobile phones to robots and virtual reality (VR) equipment and the effects that use has to their development.
Dr Georgina Hughes
Research methods
Scale development and psychometrics
Wellbeing and quality of life
Dr Gerasimos Markopoulos
Cognitive psychology of memory with a focus on the relationship between encoding and retrieval processes, and the role of environmental context.
Dr Hannah Lewis
Broadly:
areas of developmental and educational psychology.
Specifically:
neurodevelopmental disorders
technology-based interventions/support (particularly using video games)
emotional regulation and escapism.
Methods:
replication research
visual methods
mixed methods.
Dr Jessica Padgett
Social identity
Sociopolitical attitudes
Stereotypes
Dr Kate Hughes
Special populations
Research in memory development
Executive function and sleep
Dr Kate Muir
Forensic linguistics
Autobiographical memory and emotions
Eyewitness testimony
Dr Mary Nikolaidou
Addiction
Addictive behaviours
Social media
Health psychology
Mental health
Dr Natasha Clarke
Developing and testing behaviour change interventions, specifically alcohol interventions.
Naomi Heffer
Broadly:
cognitive psychology, particularly focusing on multisensory processing and processing of emotion
Cognitive mechanisms underlying clinical conditions, such as mood and anxiety disorders
autism.
Methods:
psychophysics
psychophysiology
cognitive tasks
EEG.
Dr Norah El-Gohary
Neuropsychology
Clinical psychology
Islamophobia
Racial bias
Unconscious bias
Religious views
Developmental psychology
Political views
Ngosa Kambashi
Legislation and policy implications
Cultural and societal beliefs relating to perceptions of crime
Experiences of the LGBTQIA+ community in the criminal justice system
Intersectionality and perceptions relating to perceptions of crime
Support systems and services relating to survivors of crime
Educational interventions
Critical discourse analysis Nvivo
Thamatic analysis Nvivo
Advanced quantitative methods in R Studio
Peter Hills
Facial recognition
Reducing sexual violence and sexual harassment
Professor Peter Etchells
Short- and long-term behavioural effects of playing video games and using other forms of digital technology
Interested in the interaction between scientists and the media, particularly how scientific research (for example, about video games) gets picked up in the mainstream news
Dr Paulina Wegrzynek
Employee health and wellbeing, particularly when employees suffer with chronic pain and how that affects their work/return to work (RTW)
Dr Renata Bongiorno
General research areas:
stereotypes and discrimination
gender and its interaction with other social identities
collective action and social change
leadership and power.
Specific supervision topics:
examining the content and effects of gender stereotypes
how to improve bystander responding to support victims of gender-based violence
men's engagement with the gender-equality cause.
Staff in the School of Sciences
Clio
Spanou
Head of School of Sciences
Ralph
Thompson
Programme Leader for Wildlife Conservation
Sarah
Hodge
Academic Leader (Partnerships and Combined Awards)
Rosalchen
Whitecross
Senior Lecturer in Criminology
Hannah
Lewis
Lecturer in Educational Psychology
Kate
Muir
Senior Lecturer in Forensic Psychology
Paulina
Wegrzynek
Senior Lecturer in Psychology
Chen
Zhao
Lecturer in Psychology
Heather
Winlow
Senior Lecturer in Human Geography
Agnieszka
Janik McErlean
Senior Lecturer in Psychology
Peter
Hills
Academic Leader for Portfolio Review and Curriculum Development
Georgina
Hughes
Lecturer in Psychology
Kate
Petty
Lecturer in Plant Science
Sarah
Lyster
Mary
Nikolaidou
Teaching Fellow in Psychology
Sophia
Tkazky
Senior Lecturer in Forensic Psychology
Kate
Hughes
Lecturer
Matthew
Baker
Senior Lecturer in Human Biology and Human Nutrition
Cordelia
Sutton
Senior Lecturer in Psychology
Natasha
Clarke
Lecturer in Psychology
Yuhan
Wang
Lecturer in Sociology
Gerasimos
Markopoulos
Senior Lecturer in Psychology
Annelisa
Sadler
Lecturer in Biomedical Science
Peter
Etchells
Professor of Psychology and Science Communication
Adam
George
Senior Lecturer in Conservation and Environment
Lori
Bystrom
Lecturer in Food Enterprise and Plant Science
Elena
Paci
Senior Lecturer in Biological Sciences
Holly
Price
Lecturer in Psychology
Samantha
Lane
Academic Leader for the School of Sciences (Marketing and Student Recruitment)
Claire
Edwards-Evans
Senior Lecturer in Social Sciences
Eleni Anna
Skoulikari
Teaching Fellow in Psychology
Ngosa
Kambashi
Lecturer in Forensic Psychology
Sarah
Warbis
Lecturer in Psychology
Hartwig
Visser
Lecturer in Biomedical Science
Jessica
Padgett
Lecturer in Social Psychology
Miriam
Thavarajah
Lecturer in Wildlife Conservation and Ecology
Veni
Roshith
Teaching Fellow in Psychology
Andrew
Bengry
Senior Lecturer in Psychology
Georgina
Ives
Lecturer in Forensic Science
Jonathan
Duckett
Senior Lecturer in Human Geography
Centre for Research on Science and Society
Led by
Professor Pete Etchells
, the
Centre for Research on Science and Society
(CRoSS)
is the flagship Research Centre within the
School of Sciences.
It explores the interplay between scientific advances and their broader societal implications and impacts, and consists of six core Research Clusters:
Climate, Hazards and Environmental Change
Criminal Justice
Ecology, Biodiversity and Conservation
Identities and Equalities
Social Justice
Wellbeing, Health and Cognition
Research degrees
Postgraduate research is one of the most demanding and rewarding experiences in higher education. Curious about doing a research degree with us, but not sure where to start? Get in touch with our
Graduate College
.
Questions?
If you have any questions about securing a research supervisor, you can contact our Higher Degrees Tutor for Sciences,
Dr Luke Roach
(
l.roach@bathspa.ac.uk
).
Featured projects
Digital Climate Futures
Political afterlife of rubble
National Newt Day
Troubled Waters, Stormy Futures
Disrupted Histories, Recovered Pasts
Enduring Connections
The Art of Healing in Kashmir
Historical perspectives on wildfires in Ireland
The Last Hurrah: exploring climate change through theatre
HiFlo-DAT Hazard Database
Himalayan Flood Reconstruction
Towards Hydrocitizenship
Pathways to Resilience
You might be interested in...
Research on Science and Society
Research and Enterprise
Our Research Excellence
Research Strategy
Skip to main content
Research in the School of Sciences
Explore research in the School of Sciences, including our research supervisors and their areas of expertise.
Academics and research topics for supervision
Dr Samantha Lane
Antibiotic resistance
Occupational lung disease
Infectious diseases
Tracey Lewarne
investigation of the activity of the superoxide dismutase protein in people with diabetes mellitus and the links with secondary complications
Andrea Neascu
Domestic violence and stalking
Dr Andrew Dunn
Poverty
Unemployment
Consumer culture
Crime rates around the world
Dr Faye Vanstone
Rape
Men convicted of sexual offences
Sexual consent
Pngosrisons research
Dr Luke Roach
Hate and counter speech
Computer mediated discourse analysis
Interactionism
Paul Thornbury
Organisation of coercive force by state (police and military) and non-state (private security/military, organised crime, insurgency) groups
Dr Rosa Whitecross
Prison writing
Narrative research
Participatory (arts-based) research methods
Gender and punishment/prison research
Social justice
Dr Sophie Pike
Homicide
Violence
Major crime investigation
Detective work
Policing
Qualitative research
Ailsa Winton
Urban geography
Migration and displacement
Global development
Gender and development
Dr David Simm
Fluvial geomorphology
Lowland river flooding
River restoration
Urban river regeneration
Dr Giovanna Gioli
Political ecology of development
Hazards
Disasters
Adaptation to climate change
Dr James Jeffers
Hazards
Disaster risk reduction
Climate change adaptation
Urban environments
Heather Winlow
Visual representations of race and ethnicity
Exploration of late 19th century and early 20th century mapping of race and racial categories by geographers and anthropologists
US state cartographies and the representation/exclusion of the indigenous population between 1850 and 1950
Photographic Representations of indigenous groups, past and present
Histories of Geography / Cartography
Research and invited publications in the history of geography and history of cartography, including influence of evolutionary theories on geography/geographers, race and ethnicity, and indigenous peoples and western mapping
Dr Lori Bystrom
Functional foods
Complementary and integrative medicine
Natural and sustainable product development
Dr Matthew Baker
New technologies that will enable us to measure and explore the relationship between time spent in nature and our physical, mental and social health
Matthew Law
Molluscs and quaternary palaeoecology
Prehistoric landscapes
Archaeology of south west Britain
Public perceptions of environmental change/climate change/ sustainability
Dr Miriam Thavarajah
Human-nature / wildlife interactions
Animal behaviour / behavioural ecology
Wildlife Conservation
Dr Ralph Thompson
Animal behaviour
Comparative and biological psychology
Anthrozoology
Dr Stephanie Greshon
Habitat enhancement and creation
Working in partnership with third parties to achieve biodiversity net gain of degraded habitats
Agata Vitale
Social determinants of health and minority groups, and on developing community interventions to recover from sociocultural trauma.
Dr Agnieszka Janik Mcerlean
Synaesthesia
Social perception
Interoceptive sensitivity
Alexithymia
ASMR and non-invasive brain stimulation
Dr Andrew Bengry
Youth and identity
How culture contextualises and shapes social identification and identity construction processes
Dr Charlotte Edmunds
Learning (especially associative and category learning)
Decision-making (both pure and applied)
Eye-tracking and formal modelling
Young people’s happiness and wellbeing and materialism.
Dr Eleni Anna Skoulikari
Educational and Developmental Psychology and more specifically on the ways young children use technologies, from tablets and mobile phones to robots and virtual reality (VR) equipment and the effects that use has to their development.
Dr Georgina Hughes
Research methods
Scale development and psychometrics
Wellbeing and quality of life
Dr Gerasimos Markopoulos
Cognitive psychology of memory with a focus on the relationship between encoding and retrieval processes, and the role of environmental context.
Dr Hannah Lewis
Broadly:
areas of developmental and educational psychology.
Specifically:
neurodevelopmental disorders
technology-based interventions/support (particularly using video games)
emotional regulation and escapism.
Methods:
replication research
visual methods
mixed methods.
Dr Jessica Padgett
Social identity
Sociopolitical attitudes
Stereotypes
Dr Kate Hughes
Special populations
Research in memory development
Executive function and sleep
Dr Kate Muir
Forensic linguistics
Autobiographical memory and emotions
Eyewitness testimony
Dr Mary Nikolaidou
Addiction
Addictive behaviours
Social media
Health psychology
Mental health
Dr Natasha Clarke
Developing and testing behaviour change interventions, specifically alcohol interventions.
Naomi Heffer
Broadly:
cognitive psychology, particularly focusing on multisensory processing and processing of emotion
Cognitive mechanisms underlying clinical conditions, such as mood and anxiety disorders
autism.
Methods:
psychophysics
psychophysiology
cognitive tasks
EEG.
Dr Norah El-Gohary
Neuropsychology
Clinical psychology
Islamophobia
Racial bias
Unconscious bias
Religious views
Developmental psychology
Political views
Ngosa Kambashi
Legislation and policy implications
Cultural and societal beliefs relating to perceptions of crime
Experiences of the LGBTQIA+ community in the criminal justice system
Intersectionality and perceptions relating to perceptions of crime
Support systems and services relating to survivors of crime
Educational interventions
Critical discourse analysis Nvivo
Thamatic analysis Nvivo
Advanced quantitative methods in R Studio
Peter Hills
Facial recognition
Reducing sexual violence and sexual harassment
Professor Peter Etchells
Short- and long-term behavioural effects of playing video games and using other forms of digital technology
Interested in the interaction between scientists and the media, particularly how scientific research (for example, about video games) gets picked up in the mainstream news
Dr Paulina Wegrzynek
Employee health and wellbeing, particularly when employees suffer with chronic pain and how that affects their work/return to work (RTW)
Dr Renata Bongiorno
General research areas:
stereotypes and discrimination
gender and its interaction with other social identities
collective action and social change
leadership and power.
Specific supervision topics:
examining the content and effects of gender stereotypes
how to improve bystander responding to support victims of gender-based violence
men's engagement with the gender-equality cause.
Staff in the School of Sciences
Clio
Spanou
Head of School of Sciences
Ralph
Thompson
Programme Leader for Wildlife Conservation
Sarah
Hodge
Academic Leader (Partnerships and Combined Awards)
Rosalchen
Whitecross
Senior Lecturer in Criminology
Hannah
Lewis
Lecturer in Educational Psychology
Kate
Muir
Senior Lecturer in Forensic Psychology
Paulina
Wegrzynek
Senior Lecturer in Psychology
Chen
Zhao
Lecturer in Psychology
Heather
Winlow
Senior Lecturer in Human Geography
Agnieszka
Janik McErlean
Senior Lecturer in Psychology
Peter
Hills
Academic Leader for Portfolio Review and Curriculum Development
Georgina
Hughes
Lecturer in Psychology
Kate
Petty
Lecturer in Plant Science
Sarah
Lyster
Mary
Nikolaidou
Teaching Fellow in Psychology
Sophia
Tkazky
Senior Lecturer in Forensic Psychology
Kate
Hughes
Lecturer
Matthew
Baker
Senior Lecturer in Human Biology and Human Nutrition
Cordelia
Sutton
Senior Lecturer in Psychology
Natasha
Clarke
Lecturer in Psychology
Yuhan
Wang
Lecturer in Sociology
Gerasimos
Markopoulos
Senior Lecturer in Psychology
Annelisa
Sadler
Lecturer in Biomedical Science
Peter
Etchells
Professor of Psychology and Science Communication
Adam
George
Senior Lecturer in Conservation and Environment
Lori
Bystrom
Lecturer in Food Enterprise and Plant Science
Elena
Paci
Senior Lecturer in Biological Sciences
Holly
Price
Lecturer in Psychology
Samantha
Lane
Academic Leader for the School of Sciences (Marketing and Student Recruitment)
Claire
Edwards-Evans
Senior Lecturer in Social Sciences
Eleni Anna
Skoulikari
Teaching Fellow in Psychology
Ngosa
Kambashi
Lecturer in Forensic Psychology
Sarah
Warbis
Lecturer in Psychology
Hartwig
Visser
Lecturer in Biomedical Science
Jessica
Padgett
Lecturer in Social Psychology
Miriam
Thavarajah
Lecturer in Wildlife Conservation and Ecology
Veni
Roshith
Teaching Fellow in Psychology
Andrew
Bengry
Senior Lecturer in Psychology
Georgina
Ives
Lecturer in Forensic Science
Jonathan
Duckett
Senior Lecturer in Human Geography
Centre for Research on Science and Society
Led by
Professor Pete Etchells
, the
Centre for Research on Science and Society
(CRoSS)
is the flagship Research Centre within the
School of Sciences.
It explores the interplay between scientific advances and their broader societal implications and impacts, and consists of six core Research Clusters:
Climate, Hazards and Environmental Change
Criminal Justice
Ecology, Biodiversity and Conservation
Identities and Equalities
Social Justice
Wellbeing, Health and Cognition
Research degrees
Postgraduate research is one of the most demanding and rewarding experiences in higher education. Curious about doing a research degree with us, but not sure where to start? Get in touch with our
Graduate College
.
Questions?
If you have any questions about securing a research supervisor, you can contact our Higher Degrees Tutor for Sciences,
Dr Luke Roach
(
l.roach@bathspa.ac.uk
).
Featured projects
Digital Climate Futures
Political afterlife of rubble
National Newt Day
Troubled Waters, Stormy Futures
Disrupted Histories, Recovered Pasts
Enduring Connections
The Art of Healing in Kashmir
Historical perspectives on wildfires in Ireland
The Last Hurrah: exploring climate change through theatre
HiFlo-DAT Hazard Database
Himalayan Flood Reconstruction
Towards Hydrocitizenship
Pathways to Resilience
You might be interested in...
Research on Science and Society
Research and Enterprise
Our Research Excellence
Research Strategy