Psychology Knowledge Exchange

This two-hour Continuing Professional Development (CPD) session is aimed at equipping coaches with practical, evidence-based strategies for assisting clients in exploring their personal values. Through this session, participants will gain insights into the theoretical underpinnings of values exploration and how it can be practically and effectively integrated into their coaching practice. This course is offered on a bespoke basis. If you need more information, please select the Enquire link below

We will introduce you to the principles of cyberpsychology and its relevance to understanding human behaviour. Specifically, the training will introduce you to the psychological evidence about what online behaviour can reveal about human psychology, and how this can be used to inform persona-based psychographic profiling in consumer marketing. This course is offered on a bespoke basis. If you would like more information, please select the Enquire link below

Cyberpsychology is the new frontier of psychology and presents a fascinating insight into what we can understand about each other from online behaviour. Within the context of online communications and marketing, this can be especially useful to help us know how to personalise our messaging to create the most impact. This course is offered on a bespoke basis. If you need more information, please select the Enquire link below

I have expertise in the field of Cognitive Science.  I am interested in advancing our understanding of human communication, where I address questions relating to how we learn, process and comprehend language. 

Key methods 

• Large and complex data sets 
• Data visualisation and dashboards 
• Online data collection and workflows 

How I can help you 

Every dataset is unique, especially those related to human behaviour. Building an efficient and comprehensible strategy to untangle the complexities of human data will help your organisation get clearer insights for your team and clients. By focussing on an informed approach to decision making, development and dissemination, my own research has been able to overcome difficult data challenges and can be seamlessly integrated into a tailored workflow to meet your organisation’s data goals. 

I am a mixed-methods researcher with expertise in substance use and mental health. I use a combination of large datasets and qualitative interviews and focus groups to understand the relationship between alcohol and mental health, and how existing health systems support people with co-occurring alcohol and mental health conditions. Most of my research is underpinned by patient and public involvement and stakeholder engagement.  

Key methods 

• Epidemiological analyses 
• Qualitative methodologies 

How I can help you 

My experience of using population-level datasets can help you to understand how common conditions are within existing datasets. While my experience with different qualitative methodologies and of working with members of the public and stakeholders can help you to gain an understanding of key issues relevant to you and your organisation. 

I am a cognitive psychologist with a focus upon sleep research. I have previously looked at how sleep can affect cognitive functioning, such as memory, visual processing, and learning. I also have experience looking at social media use in preadolescents. 

Key methods 

• Polysomnography sleep scoring & actigraphy-based sleep research 
• Quantitative Data analysis 
• Online data collection 

How I can help you 

With my extensive experience in research methods, I can guide you in designing a research process that is robust, efficient, and tailored to meet your specific objectives. I will help you identify and implement the most effective methodologies and support you in building this for online data collection and supporting analysis and interpretation. 

I am a cognitive neuroscientist by background and completed my PhD in biomedical sciences. My research investigates the changes occurring in the central nervous system in response to spinal and brain injury and how to use non-invasive stimulation for neurorehabilitation after injury. 

Key methods 

• Quantitative analysis 
• Non-invasive stimulation 
• Movement recording (electromyography and kinematics) 
• Clinical trials 

How I can help you 

I am experienced in protocol design, ethical approval and successful completion of clinical studies involving NHS organisations. I can advise you on Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) approval for studies involving clinical investigation devices.  

I specialise in the neuroscience of communication. My research examines how we speak, sing, and express emotions to understand each other’s minds. 

Key methods 

• Large and complex datasets 
• Neuroimaging data 
• Natural language processing 

How I can help you 

People are trying to tell you something through their data and I can help you understand them. This could include understanding what kind of information can be gleaned from data that you already hold, organising complex data so that you can get the most use out of them, or constructing data visualisations and dashboards to communicate business insights. 

I specialise in educational psychology, with a particular focus on school practices and provision for children and young people with special educational needs. My research has considered the role of educational technologies to support struggling readers and used digital tools to understand the cognitive processes underpinning writing. I have a keen interest in bridging the research-to-practice gap.  

Key methods 

• Administration and analysis of psychometrics  
• Quantitative data analysis 
• Qualitative methodologies 

How I can help you 

I can provide advice on suitable analytical approaches and how to interpret your findings. If your work requires psychometrics, I can advise on how to interpret performance against norms. I can also help you to think about how best to communicate your findings to be accessible to key stakeholders.  

My main expertise is in the field of perception, including vision, pain, time and the perception of fonts. I frequently combine behavioural tasks with recordings of physiological measures (e.g., ECG). 

Key methods 

• Study design 
• Handling of large datasets 
• Data analysis and visualisation  

How I can help you 

My expertise in research methods can assist you in designing effective studies and gathering the data needed to address your specific questions. Additionally, my skills in data analysis and visualization can help you interpret the data you already have, providing valuable insights and actionable conclusions. 

As a Chartered Coaching Psychologist, I’m especially interested in how professionals self-manage. This includes career planning; organising day-to-day tasks; and self-management of energy, stress, and burnout.  

Key methods 

• Development and testing of psychological measurement 
• Using psychological measures in practice 
• Data interpretation  

How I can help you 

My knowledge of personal and professional values, goal setting, and self-management can help your organisation meet various challenges to do with workplace culture and motivation. Psychological measurement can be applied even more widely, to help provide insights into everything from employee stress to customer engagement.  

I am a Registered Health Psychologist with a very long career to date helping us to understand how and why people react the way they do to illness, and how they make sense of their health.  I work across a broad range of mental and physical health conditions, collecting, processing and analysing relevant health data.   

Key methods 

• Systematic and scoping reviews 
• Study and intervention design 
• Developing and understanding the use of measures to understand what people think and feel.   

How I can help you 

I can talk you through key insights in understanding data you already have, or help you to maximise the value of research you intend to conduct in your organisation.  As a practitioner and a researcher, I bring together the technical aspects of research with the grass-roots appreciation of what people think and feel.   

I’m a Chartered Coaching Psychologist, with an interest in how people can live improved lives. I have extensive experience of evaluation work in the criminal justice settings (e.g., Prison and community orders), and have previously made use of large data sets to explore the relationship between specific variables (e.g., victimisation, demographics such as sexual orientation, and well-being).   

Key methods 

• Large data sets to explore specific questions 
• Data quality development 
• Psychological measures 

How I can help you 

I can help with setting up data monitoring, and improve data quality, so that an evaluation can be undertaken at a later stage. In cases where data already exists, I can provide analysis and interpretation to answer key questions.   

I have expertise are in the field of social and cognitive neuroscience. I do research using functional and structural Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Experimental tasks to understand the cognitive and neural underpinnings of social communication and behaviour in healthy and patient populations. This may, for instance, include social language such as pragmatics, or visual information coming from the social world around us. 

Key methods 

• Magnetic Resonance Imaging including functional and structural analysis  
• Experimental design 
• Research in Autism 

How I can help you 

My insights into cognitive and visual processing can help you understand how information from our social and sensory world, might affect behaviour and interaction with others, in different patient groups, including those from a neurodiverse population. 

I am a biological psychologist specialising in substance use and dietary supplementation. Although not a clinician, I have also co-authored research on some aspects of clinical psychology assessment, and have worked as a statistical consultant in the NHS on areas of orthopaedic medicine. I am bilingual in English and French.

Key methods

• Cognitive functioning data analysis

• Functional near-infra red spectroscopy (fNIRS) analysis

• Saliva and blood sample analysis

• Meta-analysis

How I can help you

I can advise about analytic strategies to pursue, either at the outset of data collection or once a data set exists. I can work with you to perform and report data analyses.