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I started my lectureship here in January 2024. Prior to this, I completed my Psychology BSc at Aston University including a placement year working at the University of Birmingham as a research assistant in a developmental social cognition lab. During this placement year, I decided to pursue a career in academia. I secured a 1+3 ESRC grant to complete my MSc Psychology and PhD at the University of Birmingham. I am currently writing my thesis exploring the relationships between counterfactual thinking, alexithymia, autism, and risky decision-making. I conduct studies with children and adults.
Alongside my MSc and PhD studies, I worked as a teaching associate at the University of Birmingham for 5 years where I taught on a range of modules in the Schools of: Psychology, Education, Medicine. I was also a Research Assistant for the Central European University (Budapest).
My teaching area is largely developmental, with a focus on child psychology.
I am Module Tutor for NS6113 Child and Educational Psychology. I also contribute to a substantial amount of teaching on the second year BSc Psychology NS5110 module, ‘Development across the lifespan’, MSc Psychology conversion NS7015 module, ‘Human development’, and Forensic Psychology/Criminology and Psychology second year NS5151 module, ‘Risk and Protective Factors in Psychological Development’. I supervise dissertation students and am a personal tutor.
My PhD thesis aims to expand on the very limited literature exploring counterfactual reasoning and emotion in autism. The majority of experimental work has focused on children and adults from the typically developing population. I have explored how autistic traits and emotional awareness are implicated in risky decision-making and counterfactual reasoning. One of the studies also tests adults with a diagnosis of autism.
I research both typically developing children and adults, and adults with autism. I have tested at the University of Nottingham’s ‘Summer Scientist’ event and at the ThinkTank Science Museum, in Birmingham.
I am interested in counterfactual thinking, which involves thinking about how things could have been different, and the related emotions of regret and relief. My research involves gambling tasks to assess risky decision-making. I am also interested in exploring the links between counterfactual thinking and studying behaviour and well-being.
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