Organization profile

Organisation profile

The School of Psychological Sciences and Health comprises four disciplines; psychology, speech and language therapy, counselling and physical activity for health. Within each discipline there are a number of research areas and themes as outlined below.

Psychology: Development

Educational psychology
Language development and language delay
Social and communicative development
Media use by young people
Development of stereotypes
Adolescent well-being
Parenting
Memory and executive function development in children
Developmental disability

Psychology: Cognition

Language production
Referential communication
Oculomotor control
Hemi-spatial neglect
Perceptual and attentional biases
Mood regulation
Neuropsychology of personality
Implicit learning and memory
Skill learning and motor control
Face perception
Working memory

Psychology: Health

Chronic illness
Disability
Behaviour change
Stroke rehabilitation
Healthy ageing
Brain injury rehabilitation
Suicide and self-harm
Traffic accidents, analysis and prevention

Physical Activity for Health

Developing and testing physical activity interventions
Physical activity across the lifespan
Sedentary behaviour patterns and health
Physical activity promotion in people with Type 2 diabetes
Prevention and treatment of childhood obesity in the developed and developing world
Physical activity and the aetiology of childhood obesity

Speech and Language Therapy

Motor speech disorders
Prosody
Neurological communication disorders
Language impairment and interventions
Child speech and language

Counselling

Counselling in schools
Existential therapy
Person-centred therapy
Counselling training

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Exercise Medicine & Life Sciences

Research Medicine & Life Sciences

Language Medicine & Life Sciences

Psychology Medicine & Life Sciences

Aptitude Medicine & Life Sciences

Short-Term Memory Medicine & Life Sciences

Walking Medicine & Life Sciences

Scotland Medicine & Life Sciences

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Profiles

Afnan Ahmed R Alhimaidi

Counselling

Person: Doctor of Philosophy

Zena Al-Sharbati

Psychology

Person: Doctor of Philosophy

Tony Anderson

tony.anderson@strath.ac.uk

Psychology - Senior Teaching Fellow

Person: Teaching Only

Projects 2003 2021

20 Not started
24 Active
167 Finished

Hearts & Minds Project

Morton, E.

1/11/18 → …

Project: Knowledge Exchange (Services/Consultancy)

Evaluation of in-home monitoring using the BrainWaveBank platform for people with Mild Cognitive Impairment

Parra Rodriguez, M.

Brainwavebank Ltd

1/11/18 → 31/05/19

Project: Research

Developing a behavioural intervention to augment and increase the effectiveness of CPR training

Dixon, D.

Chief Scientist's Office CSO

1/10/18 → 31/03/19

Project: Research

Research Output 1990 2019

Better movers and thinkers (BMT): an evaluation of how a novel approach to teaching physical education can impact children's physical activity, coordination and cognition

Dalziell, A., Booth, J. N., Boyle, J. & Mutrie, N., 16 Feb 2019, (Accepted/In press) In : British Educational Research Journal. 16 p.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

physical education

cognition

Teaching

evaluation

Group

Beyond "#endpjparalysis″, tackling sedentary behaviour in health care

Chastin, S. FM., Harvey, J. A., Dall, P. M., McInally, L., Mavroeidi, A. & Skelton, D. A., 2 Feb 2019, 6, 1, p. 67-75 9 p.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

Open Access

File

Delivery of Health Care

Immobilization

Hospitalization

Therapeutics

1 Citations

Measuring bulk density variations in a moving powder bed via terahertz in-line sensing

Stranzinger, S., Faulhammer, E., Li, J., Dong, R., Khinast, J. G., Zeitler, J. A. & Markl, D., 15 Feb 2019, In : Powder Technology. 344, p. 152-160 9 p.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

Powders

Containers

Compaction

Cellulose

Lactose