Grants and Awards

Grants

BPS Research Undergraduate Assistantship ‘Perceptions and experiences of young children’s social media use: a scoping review’ (PI £2160, 2022)

SCoLPP Research Fund, Staffordshire University “An intervention to increase engagement with assessment feedback and address barriers to engagement” (PI £1000, 2021)

ESRC Festival of Social Science, ‘Psychology Comes to Town’, The Digital World and Me’ and  ‘Explore with us: Being a social scientist for the day’ (£1510, 2019)

BPS Research Undergraduate Assistantship ‘The effectiveness of a mindfulness-based colouring intervention to reduce anxiety in adolescents’ (PI £1600, 2019)

ESRC Festival of Social Science, ‘Explore with us: Teaching research the fun way’ and ‘Explore with us: Being a social scientist for the day’ (£1417, 2017)

BPS Research Undergraduate Assistantship ‘ Divergent thinking and pretend play in preschoolers: Is the relationship reciprocal? (PI £1600, 2017)

Ref 2020 Scheme, Staffordshire University to assess validity and reliability of a new measure of Divergent thinking (PI £1420, 2016)

Applied Psychology Centre temporary fund, Staffordshire University for a project assessing the immediate impact of TV on creativity (PI £2418, 2015)

Teaching Innovation Projects Scheme, Keele University for a project working with students as partners to develop digital resources for using feedback to feedforward (PI £2118, 2014)

Awards
Keele Excellence Award for Teaching Nominated, 2011-2012 & 2012-2013

Senior Lecturer in Psychology at Staffordshire University