Our research interests cover the broad field of clinical psychology. Examples of current projects are listed below, with links to personal research pages for additional details.

Our research interests include:

·         studying the development of cognitive and empathic abilities in school aged children

·         clarifying and treating learning difficulties in children with behavioural problems such as attention deficit and hyperactivity disorder

·         investigating the reliability and validity of assessing early maladaptive schemas in clinical populations

·         developing more effective treatments for post-traumatic stress disorder and social anxiety

·         investigation of the role of alexithymia in rehabilitation from traumatic brain injury

·         clarifying mechanisms of pain in complex regional pain syndrome and migraine headache

·         using cognitive behavioural techniques to treat addictive behaviours, relationship difficulties and other clinical problems

Name

Main Research Interests

Peter Drummond

Psychophysiological investigation of social anxiety, anger and fear.
Mechanisms of pain in complex regional pain syndrome and migraine headache.

Marjorie Collins

Linguistic and emotional processing in the cerebral hemispheres; implicit memory in the hemispheres; conscious and non-conscious cognitive processes associated with anxiety and depression; neurocognitive effects of methamphetamine dependence; alexithymia and traumatic brain injury.

Cognitive mechanisms underlying the treatment of Anxiety Disorders; risk factors and early intervention for Eating Disorders; Body Dysmorphic Disorder and plastic surgery; risk factors and treatment of adolescent Depression

David Leach

Chris Lee

Effectiveness and mechanisms of action in EMDR, treatments and psychophysiological responses in PTSD, assessment and key processes in Schema Focused Therapy, Dialectical Behaviour Therapy.

Simon Davies