- Senior leadership team
- Psychology academic staff
- Clinical Language Sciences academic staff
- Charlie Waller Institute staff
- Research staff
- Emeritus/visiting professors
- Professional, administrative and technical support
Senior leadership team
| Name | Leadership role | |
|---|---|---|
| Head of School | hos-pcls@reading.ac.uk |
|
| David Field | Deputy Head of School (Finances & Resources) | d.t.field@reading.ac.uk |
| Kai Li Chung | Head of Psychology, University of Reading Malaysia | k.chung@reading.edu.my |
| Alana James | School Director of Academic Tutoring | a.i.james@reading.ac.uk |
| Beth Law | School Director of Teaching and Learning | b.d.law@reading.ac.uk |
| Carien van Reekum | Research Division Lead | c.vanreekum@reading.ac.uk |
| Claire Williams | Research Division Lead | claire.williams@reading.ac.uk |
| Katie Gray | Director of Recruitment and Admissions | k.l.h.gray@reading.ac.uk |
| Barbara Evetts | Director of Clinical Governance and Partnerships | b.j.evetts@reading.ac.uk |
| Gail Gilbert | Executive Admin Manager | g.gilbert@reading.ac.uk |
Psychology academic staff
| Name | Position | Areas of expertise |
|---|---|---|
| Samrah Ahmed | Lecturer | Dementia diagnostics, neuropsychological assessment and clinical neuroscience |
| Arlene Astell | Professor in Neurodegenerative Disease | |
| Katie Barfoot | Lecturer in Cognitive Psychology | Nutritional Psychology, cognition and mood, maternal mental health. |
| Philip Beaman |
Professor of Experimental Psychology | Cognitive science, auditory cognition, human factors, working memory |
| Lynne Bell | Lecturer in Psychology | |
| Ingo Bojak | Professor | Computational neuroscience, data analysis and method development, neuroimaging, computational psychology |
| Amanda Branson |
Associate Professor | Teaching and learning pedagogy, development of employability skills |
| Richard Carciofo | Foundation Lecturer in Psychology | |
| Bhismadev Chakrabarti |
Professor in Neuroscience and Mental Health | Empathy, autism, individual differences, mobile health technologies, social neuroscience |
| Stella Chan |
Charlie Waller Chair in Evidence-Based Psychological Treatments | |
| Rebecca Cheung | Associate Professor | |
| Anastasia Christakou |
Professor | Psychopathology and emotional disorders, affective neuroscience, personalised nutrition, motivation and behaviour change, perception and action, cognitive control, language and bilingualism |
| Rebecca Colombage | Associate Lecturer | |
| Nazanin Derakhshan | Professor of Experimental Psychopathology | |
| Zola Dean | Lecturer in Individual Differences | |
| Judi Ellis | Professor of Psychology | |
| Eva Feredoes | Lecturer | Human working memory, transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS), concurrent TMS-fMRI |
| David Field |
Associate Professor | Basis of visual perception in the brain, influence of dietary factors on the brain and behaviour |
| Katherine Finlay | Lecturer | |
| Jayne Freeman | Lecturer | Cognition and ageing, intention and action memory |
| Andrew Glennerster | Professor of Visual Neuroscience | Perception and action, 3D vision |
| Katie Gray |
Associate Professor | Visual perception, including faces, facial expressions, attention, awareness |
| Anthony Haffey | Lecturer in Psychology |
|
| Kate Harvey | Professor of Health Psychology | Children's eating, family mealtimes, food insecurity, child and adolescent mental health |
| Jonathan Hill | Professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry | |
| Aileen Ho | Professor | Mental health in young and older adults: psychological intervention, cognitive training, functional rehabilitation and health-related quality of life in neurodegenarative disorders |
| Juliane Honisch | Lecturer | Affective neuroscience, perception and action |
| Carmel Houston-Price | Professor of Language & Cognitive Development | Language acquisition, especially vocabulary development; learning and the formation of preferences in childhood, especially food preferences |
| Alana James | Associate Professor | Psychopathology and emotional disorders, educational psychology |
| Paul Jenkins | Associate Professor | Eating disorders, severe mental health, cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) |
| Dan Jones | Lecturer | Physiological illness and cognition, psychological wellbeing of clinical patients, neuropsychology, pedagogy in higher education |
| Associate Professor | Autism spectrum disorders, neurodevelopmental disabilities, including mental health, attitudes, employability | |
| Daniel Lamport |
Associate Professor in Biological Psychology | Nutritional neuroscience and metabolic influences on cognition |
| Allán Laville | Associate Professor, Dean for Diversity and Inclusion | Diversity and inclusion |
| Beth Law | Associate Professor | |
| Fang Liu | Associate Professor | Music, language, pitch, perception, production, autism, amusia, cognitive neuroscience |
| Davina Ledermann | Teaching Fellow | |
| Lorella Lepore | Lecturer | Automatic processes in stereotyping and prejudice, intergroup relations, social-psychological implications of Brexit and COVID-19 |
| Catherine Manning | Lecturer | Developmental psychology, autism, visual perception and development. |
| Ciara McCabe | Professor | Adolescent depression and anhedonia research using behavioural and neural measures |
| Rachel McCloy | Associate Professor | Applied behavioural science, judgement and decision making |
| Eugene McSorley | Associate Professor | Perception and action |
| Kou Murayama | Professor | |
| Emma Pape | Lecturer in Social Psychology | Intergroup relations and prejudice, prejudice reduction, imagery, imagined contact, media effect |
| Beth Phillips | Associate Lecturers | |
| Rachel Pye | Associate Professor | Reading development and dyslexia, including in multilingual populations |
| Jessica Rae | Lecturer in Social Psychology | |
| Patricia Riddell | Professor of Applied Neuroscience | |
| Etienne Roesch | Associate Professor | Perception, attention, consciousness, emotion, Bayesian statistical methods, machine learning |
| Peter Scarfe | Associate Professor | Virtual reality, haptics robotics, perception and motor control, computational modelling |
| Sarah Snuggs | Lecturer in Psychology | |
| Teresa Tavassoli | Associate Professor | Autism, sensory perception, developmental psychology |
| Thalia Theodoraki | Lecturer in Developmental Psychology | |
| Hannah Thompson |
Lecturer in Cognitive Psychology | Stroke, Executive Function, Memory and Neuropsychology |
| Carien Van Reekum | Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience | Emotion regulation, affective neuroscience, emotional disposition and wellbeing, emotion across the lifespan |
| Julia Vogt | Associate Professor | Self-regulation, motivation, emotion, emotion regulation, attention, social cognition, social psychology, health-related behaviours, prosocial behaviour, self-control |
| Shannon Wake | Lecturer | |
| Netta Weinstein | Associate Professor | Human motivation, wellbeing, prejudice & stigma, close relationships, emotion regulation, technology use, mental health, listening |
| Claire Williams | Professor | Cannabinoids and behaviour, nutrition and cognition, epilepsy, reward, appetite, flavonoids |
| Lydia Yee | Lecturer in Biological Psychology | |
| Yue Yue | Foundation Lecturer in Psychology |
University of Reading Malaysia campus staff
Clinical Language Sciences academic staff
| Name | Position | Areas of expertise |
|---|---|---|
| Fiona Baillie | Lecturer in Speech & Language Therapy | |
| Allie Biddle | Lecturer in Speech & Language Therapy | |
| Arpita Bose | Associate Professor | |
| Ian Cunnings | Associate Professor in Psycholinguistics | Psycholinguistics, multilingualism |
| Nika Dehghan | Lecturer in Speech & Language Therapy | |
| Carol Fairfield | Associate Professor | |
| Sara Fincham-Majumdar | Lecturer in Speech & Language Therapy |
Parent mediated intervention for preschool autistic children |
| Daniel Fryer | Lecturer in Clinical Language Sciences | |
| Melissa Loucas | Lecturer in Speech & Language Therapy | |
| Tom Loucas | Associate Professor | Early intervention for children with autism spectrum disorder, language and cognition in autism |
| Theo Marinis | Professor of Multilingualism & Language Development | Multilingualism, psycholinguistics, language impairment, morpho-syntax |
| Fatemeh Mollaei | Lecturer in Acquired Disorders of Language/Communication | |
| Catherine Munro | Lecturer in Speech & Language Therapy | |
| Vishnu Nair | Lecturer in Acquired Disorders of Language/Communication |
|
| Afshan O'Sullivan | Lecturer in Speech & Language Therapy | |
| Emma Pagnamenta | Lecturer | Developmental speech and language disorders, evidence-based practice, effectiveness of speech and language interventions |
| George Pontikas | Lecturer in Clinical Language Sciences | |
| Christos Pliatsikas | Associate Professor | Cognitive control, language and bilingualism, experience-based neuroplasticity |
| Katherine Pritchard | Lecturer in Speech & Language Therapy | |
| Doug Saddy | Professor | Computational models of language processes, cognitive dynamics and control, language and bilingualism, clinical language sciences, artificial grammar learning |
| Ludovica Serratrice | Professor of Bi-Multilingualism | |
| Mirjana Sokolovic-Perovic | Lecturer in Clinical Language Sciences | |
| Vesna Stojanovik | Professor | Language in genetic disorders, language acquisition |
| Joseph Spackman | Lecturer in Speech and Language Therapy |
Charlie Waller Institute staff
| Name | Position | |
|---|---|---|
| Fisayo Adunola | Clinical Teaching Fellow | f.adunola@reading.ac.uk |
| Faaizah Ahmed | faaizah.ahmed@reading.ac.uk | |
| Phillippa Burton | Lecturer in Clinical Psychology | phillippa.burton@reading.ac.uk |
| Stella Chan | Charlie Waller Chair in Evidence-Based Psychological Treatments | s.chan3@reading.ac.uk |
| Ting Chiu | Lecturer in Clinical Psychology | t.chiu@reading.ac.uk |
| Emma-Jayne Conway | Lecturer in Clinical Psychology | emma-jayne.conway@reading.ac.uk |
| Jodie Cave | Associate Lecturer | j.e.cave@reading.ac.uk |
| Elizabeth Elliott | Lecturer in Clinical Psychology | |
| Barbara Evetts | CYP IAPT Clinical Lead | b.j.evetts@reading.ac.uk |
| Lindsay George | Senior Clinical Tutor | l.george@reading.ac.uk |
| Katherine Hindley | Lecturer in Clinical Psychology | k.l.hindley@reading.ac.uk |
| Sue Howson | Lecturer in Clinical Psychology | s.howson@reading.ac.uk |
| James Kachellek | Lecturer in Clinical Psychology | j.c.kachellek@reading.ac.uk |
| Jeevan Kang | CWP/EMHP Project Manager | j.k.kang@reading.ac.uk |
| Michelle Lee | Project Support Officer | m.j.lee@reading.ac.uk |
| Julia Limper-Menapace | Lecturer in Clinical Psychology | |
| Hayley Marwood | Senior Clinical Tutor CYP PWP | h.marwood@reading.ac.uk |
| Natalie Meek | Lecturer in Clinical Psychology | n.a.meek@reading.ac.uk |
| Anjali Mehta | Lecturer in Clinical Psychology | a.mehta2@reading.ac.uk |
| Emily Nobes | Senior Clinical Tutor | e.s.nobes@reading.ac.uk |
| Nakita Oldacre | Lecturer in Clinical Psychology | n.m.oldacre@reading.ac.uk |
| Sarah Roots | Lecturer in Clinical Psychology | sarah.roots@reading.ac.uk |
| Elliott Rose | Lecturer in Clinical Psychology | |
| Melissa Snaith | Lecturer in Clinical Psychology | m.h.snaith@reading.ac.uk |
| Katy Snitter | Assistant Psychologist | k.s.snitter@reading.ac.uk |
| Molly Trillow | Associate Lecturer | m.trillow@reading.ac.uk |
| Eleanor Vialls | Lecturer in Clinical Psychology | |
| Craig Ward | Associate Lecturer | craig.ward@reading.ac.uk |
| Charlene Wattley | Lecturer in Clinical Psychology | c.z.wattley@reading.ac.uk |
| Hannah Vickery | Director of Training for the Charlie Waller Institute | h.l.vickery@reading.ac.uk |
| Alison Wheeler | Associate Professor | alison.wheeler@reading.ac.uk |
| Tamara Wiehe | Lecturer in Clinical Psychology | t.wiehe@reading.ac.uk |
| Claire Willis | Lecturer in Clinical Psychology |
claire.willis@reading.ac.uk |
Research staff
| Name | Position | |
|---|---|---|
| Elena Anderloni | Honorary Researcher | e.anderloni@reading.ac.uk |
| Kirsten Bailkoski | Research and Administration Assistant | k.bailkoski@reading.ac.uk |
| Anamaria Bentea | Honorary Researcher | a.bentea@reading.ac.uk |
| Emily Breese | Postdoctoral Research Assistant | e.l.breese@reading.ac.uk |
| Raluca Briazu | Postdoctoral Research Fellow | r.briazu@reading.ac.uk |
| Nichaela Broyden | Honorary Research Assistant | nichaela.broyden@reading.ac.uk |
| Laura Burgess | Postdoctoral Research Fellow | laura.burgess@reading.ac.uk |
| Chloe Chessell | Honorary Researcher | chloe.chessell@reading.ac.uk |
| Kirsten Corden | Research Assistant | k.corden@reading.ac.uk |
| Emmanuel Daveau | Research Assistant | e.daveau@reading.ac.uk |
| Joshua Denness | Research Associate | j.denness@reading.ac.uk |
| Ed Donnellan | Postdoctoral Research Assistant in Education and Data Science | e.a.donnellan@reading.ac.uk |
| Evelyn Egger | Research Assistant | e.egger@reading.ac.uk |
| Valentina Fanti | Honorary Research Associate | v.fanti@reading.ac.uk |
| Katy Figus | Clinical Psychologist | k.figus@reading.ac.uk |
| Kathryn Francis | Postdoctoral Research Fellow | kathryn.francis@reading.ac.uk |
| Wiebke Gandhi | Postdoctoral Research Assistant | w.gandhi@reading.ac.uk |
| Stuart Gilson | Research Assistant | s.j.gilson@reading.ac.uk |
| Sarah Glyn | Research Assistant | s.glyn@pgr.reading.ac.uk |
| Luise Gootjes-Dreesbach | Postdoctoral Research Assistant | dreesbach@reading.ac.uk |
| Brynjar Halldorsson | Honorary Researcher | b.halldorsson@reading.ac.uk |
| Rich Harrison | Postdoctoral Research Assistant | rich.harrison@reading.ac.uk |
| Nicholas Hedger | Postdoctoral Research Assistant | n.hedger@reading.ac.uk |
| Claire Hill | Clinical Psychologist, Postdoctoral Research Fellow | claire.hill@reading.ac.uk |
| Johnny King-lam Lau | Postdoctoral Research Fellow | johnny.lau@reading.ac.uk |
| Melissa Knight | Paediatric Speech and Language Therapist and Researcher | m.knight2@reading.ac.uk |
| Vanessa Kurdi | Postdoctoral Research Fellow | v.kurdi@reading.ac.uk |
| Pete Lawrence | Research Training Fellow | p.j.p.lawrence@reading.ac.uk |
| Ying Lee | Postdoctoral Research Fellow | ying.lee@reading.ac.uk |
| Zoe Maiden | Honorary Clinical Psychology - Placement Student | z.maiden@reading.ac.uk |
| Carolyn McNabb | Postdoctoral Research Fellow | c.b.mcnabb@reading.ac.uk |
| Stefanie Meliss | Research Assistant | s.meliss@reading.ac.uk |
| Ronan Miller | Postdoctoral Research Assistant | r.l.miller@reading.ac.uk |
| Daisuke Nakanaishi | Honorary Research Fellow | d.nakanaishi@reading.ac.uk |
| Rachel Nesbit | Postdoctoral Research Fellow | r.j.nesbit@reading.ac.uk |
| Rui Nouchi | Honorary Researcher | r.nouchi@reading.ac.uk |
| Jia Hoong Ong | Marie Curie Fellow | jiahoong.ong@reading.ac.uk |
| Monika Parkinson | Research Fellow | m.b.parkinson@reading.ac.uk |
| Abhijeet Patra | Research Assistant | a.patr@reading.ac.uk |
| Jasmine Raw | Research Assistant | j.raw@reading.ac.uk |
| Teresa Reardon |
Honorary Researcher | t.reardon@reading.ac.uk |
| Stella Rendall | Postdoctoral Research Fellow | s.rendall@pgr.reading.ac.uk |
| Gabriella Rossetti | Postdoctoral Research Fellow | g.m.rossetti@reading.ac.uk |
| Sarah Sampson | Research Assistant | s.l.sampson@reading.ac.uk |
| Julie Skevik | Postdoctoral Research Assistant (RAIN Project) | julie.skevik@reading.ac.uk |
| Aamir Sohail | Research Assistant | a.sohail@reading.ac.uk |
| Aikaterini Spanou | Research Assistant | aikaternin.spanou@pgr.reading.ac.uk |
| Maria-Elena Stefanou | Postdoctoral Research Fellow | m.e.stefanou@reading.ac.uk |
| Nick Thompson | Postdoctoral Research Assistant | n.thompson@reading.ac.uk |
| Raul Ungureanu | Research Assistant | r.r.ungureanu@reading.ac.uk |
| Andreja Varjacic | Research Assistant | a.varjacic@pgr.reading.ac.uk |
| Elin Harding Williams | Postdoctoral Research Fellow | e.h.williams@reading.ac.uk |
| Chen Zhao | Postdoctoral Research Assistant | c.zhao5@reading.ac.uk |
Emeritus/visiting professors
| Name | Position | |
|---|---|---|
| Ellen Bialystok | Albert Wolters Distinguished Visiting Professor 2015 | |
| Sonia Bishop | Visiting Professor | |
| Laurie Butler | Visiting Professor | l.t.butler@reading.ac.uk |
| Helen Dodd | Visiting Professor | |
| Noam Chomsky | Albert Wolters Distinguished Visiting Professor 2017 | |
| Peter Cooper |
Emeritus Professor |
p.j.cooper@reading.ac.uk |
| Cathy Creswell | Visiting Professor | c.s.creswell@reading.ac.uk |
| Daniel Dennett | Albert Wolters Distinguished Visiting Professor 2019 | |
| Susan Edwards | Emeritus Professor | s.i.edwards@reading.ac.uk |
| John Harris |
Emeritus Professor | j.p.harris@reading.ac.uk |
| Anna Horwood | Emeritus Professor | |
| Atul Kapila | Visiting Professor | |
| Mark Little | Visiting Professor | |
| Elizabeth Loftus | Albert Wolters Distinguished Visiting Professor 2018 | |
| Frank McKenna |
Emeritus Professor |
f.p.mckenna@reading.ac.uk |
| Lotte Meteyard | Visiting Fellow | lotte.meteyard@reading.ac.uk |
| Lynne Murray | Emeritus Professor | lynne.murray@reading.ac.uk |
| Laura Pass | Visiting Research Fellow | l.s.pass@reading.ac.uk |
| Steven Pinker | Albert Wolters Distinguished Visiting Professor 2016 | |
| Shirley Reynolds | Visiting Professor | s.a.reynolds@reading.ac.uk |
| Michiko Sakaki |
Senior Visiting Research Fellow | m.sakaki@reading.ac.uk |
| Tim Salomons | Senior Visiting Research Fellow | |
| Graham Schafer | Honorary Fellow |
|
| Craig Steel | Visiting Professor | craig.steel@reading.ac.uk |
| Yvonne Taylor | Visiting Professor | |
| David Warburton | Emeritus Professor | d.m.warburton@reading.ac.uk |
| Tim Williams | Senior Visiting Research Fellow | timothy.williams@reading.ac.uk |
| Lucy Willetts | Visiting Professor | |
| Monika Parkinson | Visiting Research Fellow | |
| Greta Fastrich | Visiting Research Fellow |
|
| Suzanna Rose | Visiting Professor |
|
| Niladri Dash |
Visiting Fellow | |
| Lily Fitzgibbon |
Visiting Research Fellow |
|
| Natalie Masento | Visiting Research Fellow | n.a.masento@reading.ac.uk |
| Louise Dye | Visiting Professor | |
| Polly Waite | Senior Visiting Research Fellow | p.l.waite@reading.ac.uk |
Professional, administrative and technical support
| Name | Position | |
|---|---|---|
| Lesley Young | Placement Administrator - Speech & Language Therapy | l.a.young@reading.ac.uk |
| Melina Aston | Postgraduate Research Administrator | m.aston@reading.ac.uk |
| Gemma Birch | Executive Administration Officer- Charlie Waller Institute | g.e.birch@reading.ac.uk |
| Daniel Brady | Research Technician | d.brady@reading.ac.uk |
| Megha Dewli | School Global Recruitment Officer | m.dewli@reading.ac.uk |
| Julie Hankinson | Executive Administration Officer - Student Experience | j.hankinson@reading.ac.uk |
| Gail Gilbert | Executive Admin Manager | g.gilbert@reading.ac.uk |
| Carol Griggs | Executive Administration Officer - Student Experience / Executive Support Administrator - CWI | c.j.griggs@reading.ac.uk |
| Rez Jaigirdar | Building Support Officer | r.r.jaigirdar@reading.ac.uk |
| Vacant | Placement Administrator - Speech & Language Therapy | |
| Paul Heaton | Specialist Teaching and Research Support Analyst | p.m.heaton@reading.ac.uk |
| Robin Hunter | Health & Safety Co-ordinator (SPCLS/APD) | r.d.hunter@reading.ac.uk |
| Amy Lomas | AnDY Clinic Manager | a.r.lomas@reading.ac.uk |
| Sharon Freemantle | Receptionist | s.freemantle@reading.ac.uk |
| Kath De Wilde | Executive Administration Officer - Research | k.dewilde@reading.ac.uk |
| Eadaoin Connolly | Placement Coordinator - Undergraduate Psychology Programmes | e.connolly@reading.ac.uk |
| Raj Parmar | Executive Administration Officer - Recruitment & Admissions | r.parmar@reading.ac.uk |
| Ray Percy | AnDY Clinic Director | r.s.percy@reading.ac.uk |
| Shan Shen | MRI Operations Office | shan.shen@reading.ac.uk |
| Jaswant Sidhu | Executive Administration Officer - Finance | jaswant.sidhu@reading.ac.uk |
| Nadia Sadiq-Qadeer | Executive Administration Officer - Finance | n.sadiq-qadeer@reading.ac.uk |
| Kelly Watcham | Programme Manager - Student Support Centre | k.e.watcham@reading.ac.uk |
| Liz White | Executive Administration Officer - Clinical Governance and Clinics | e.m.white@reading.ac.uk |
