Meet The Team!
The Team!
Chris Dobson
Chris is a doctoral researcher and graduate teaching assistant in the School of Psychology. He holds a fully-funded four-year Magdalen Vernon studentship and is an associate fellow of the higher education academy. His research covers swearing, online disinhibition, and time perception, with a focus on the role of time in the effect of swearing on pain. He has taught on first- and second-year undergraduate modules covering advanced research methods and introductory neuroscience.
Phil is a cognitive psychologist and lecturer in the School of Psychology. His research focuses on memory (especially short-term and working memory), decision making, and how nonconscious, automatic cognitive processes interact with conscious control and metacognition. He also studies auditory distraction, musical imagery (including phenomena like “earworms”), and applies experimental and cognitive modelling methods.
Rich is a lecturer in the School of Psychology and co-leads the CINN Pain Lab and the Pain Research Reading group. His research explores how psychosensory and neurological assessment tools can predict pain outcomes, with applications to osteoarthritis, long COVID, women’s health and surgical pain. He also investigates neuroinflammation via novel magnetic resonance spectroscopy and the philosophical underpinnings of how individuals conceptualise pain.
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Did you know...?
Swearing is multilingual. Every known human language has taboo words. The specific words differ, but the function (to express strong emotion, taboo, or social boundaries) is universal.