Leadership Team
Professor Joanne Smith
Head of Department
Joanne is a Professor of Social Psychology. Her research focuses on the role of group memberships and social norms in shaping individual behaviour with application to health behaviours and pro-environmental behaviours.
Tom Stevenson
Professor Ciro Civile
Deputy Head of Department
I am an Associate Professor of Cognitive and Biological Psychology. My research explores the neurocognitive foundations of learning, with a focus on face recognition, perceptual learning, and perceptual bias.
Dr Gavin Price
Co-Director of Research and Impact
Gavin studies the neural bases of numerical cognition, investigating questions such as how does the brain understand a number is a number, how does the brain connect number symbols and their meanings, and how do differences in brain structure and function help us to understand maths learning difficulties.
Professor Gemma Sharp
Co-Director of Research and Impact
I trained as a reproductive biologist and epidemiologist and I conduct interdisciplinary research at the intersection of reproductive and mental health. I direct the Menarche Menstruation Menopause and Mental Health (4M) consortium.
Dr Hazel Mycroft
Co-Director of Education and Student Experience
Hazel is a Senior Lecturer in Psychology and Fellow of the HEA, special interest in qualitative methods, and psychology of eating. Research interests in body image and Instagram/TikTok, darker side of social media and negative body image.
Dr Anna Kapantai
Co Director of Education and Student Experience / Co-Director of Equality, Diversity and Inclusion
Ioanna Kapantai (Anna) is a Senior Lecturer, Co Director of Education and Student Experience, and co-lead for the Equality, Diversity and Inclusion team in Psychology. Anna focuses on both staff and student inclusion and leads on Neurodiversity work for the department as well as our Decolonising work. Anna also runs the Academic Peer Mentorship Scheme and the Mature Students Workshops (shared lead with Hazel Mycroft). She is also the chair of our Athena SWAN team.
Professor Celia Morgan
Director of Business, Engagement and Innovation
Celia is a Professor of Psychopharmacology, heading up the Psychopharmacology Research Lab she co-leads the transdisciplinary working group on psychedelics with Prof Christine Hauskeller and Dr Peter Sjostedt Hughes from Philosophy.
Professor Anke Karl
Co-Director of Global Engagement
As Associate Professor in Clinical Psychology and Director of the Biobehavioural Lab, my research focusses on the refinement of psychological therapies for trauma survivors with PTSD and depression through understanding biopsychosocial mechanisms.
Dr Jennifer Lay
Co Director of Global Engagement
My research examines the biopsychosocial mechanisms that drive social engagement and disengagement in daily life, with a focus on solitude, culture, and quantitative/engineering methods.
Dr Morgana Lizzio-Wilson
Co-Director of Equality, Diversity and Inclusion
Morgana Lizzio-Wilson (she/her) is a Lecturer in Social, Political, and Feminist Psychology. She joined the Department of Psychology in January 2023 after completing her PhD and postdoctoral training in Australia. Morgana's work is driven by a desire to understand how we can we achieve and maintain progressive social change. As such, she strives to use her role as an academic to create inclusive, equitable, and transformational educational environments for students/future change agents; identify evidence-based strategies to increase support for and overcome resistance to social change efforts; and work with organisations, community groups, and members of the general public to campaign for change.
Dr Tom Lewis
Co-Director of Equality, Diversity and Inclusion
I am interested in a range of topics in psychology that span across social, clinical, and health disciplines. My main interest is in marginalized populations focusing specifically on aspects of intersectionality and inequality. I am also interested in body image and eating disorders and am aiming to conduct research focusing specifically on these topics within LGBTQIA+ populations. My PhD focused on transgender (and gender-nonconforming) people and their relational partners (e.g., family, friends, spouses etc.). Through my thesis I developed a theoretical framework of the roles support and communication play in positive relationships for TGNC people.
Professor Catherine Gallop
Director of CEDAR
Catherine is the Director of Cedar and Clinical Training (PGT), overseeing the strategic direction and governance of Cedar and Cedar Create. She is also the Co-Chair of the Psychological Professions Network–South West (PPN-SW).
