Joanne Cummings

Joanne is Programme Lead for the BA Psychology degree, is a Chartered Member of the British Psychological Society, and a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. Joanne is class leader for several classes across Psychology's undergraduate degree programme. She designs and delivers high quality research-led teaching materials, undertakes learning, assessment, and feedback activities, and supervises undergraduate and postgraduate student dissertations. A compassionate pedagogy underlies her approach, valuing each student with consideration of background. She recognises the importance of widening access mentoring care experienced students and providing support throughout their academic journey. Joanne values education and supports students in realizing their potential. She is recognised as being a supportive teacher receiving annual nominations for Teaching Excellence Awards for 'Engagement with Students' and 'Going the Extra Mile' in 2021, and 'Outstanding Feedback on Assessment' in 2020. Joanne also received the Humanities and Social Sciences Faculty Teaching Excellence Award in 2021 recognising her contribution within the School of Psychological Sciences and Health. Joanne engages in both domain-specific and pedagogical research via the supervisory role. She sits on several internal committees and working groups at School, Faculty and University level, and has external roles with professional organisations. 

BA Undergraduate Psychology

Programme Leader, BA Psychology

C8422 Psychology of Physical Activity 

C8472 Critical Thinking and Common-Sense Reasoning 

C8426 & C8427 Single and Joint Honours Dissertation Supervision

Online MSc Psychology with a specialisation in *Business

C8980 & C8925 Conceptual and Historical Issues in Psychology & Individual Differences: Modularity of Mind

C8924 & C8984 Psychobiology and Cognitive Psychology: Mapping Brain Structure to Function

C8983 MSc Empirical Project Supervision 

C8982 Research Design and Analyses in Psychology: Null Hypothesis Testing, Multiple Regression, and Questionnaire and Survey Design

Joanne is passionate about the psychology of physical activity. She has been involved in a number of research projects that aimed to improve psychological and physical health outcomes in stroke survivors by increasing levels of physical activity. Joanne is also interested in imposter phenomenon and its relationship with other constructs such as perceived belonging, academc stress, perfectionsim and psychological distress. Other interests of Joanne's include cognitive measurement in those who have sustained brain trauma and methodologies such as the N-of-1 approach and time-series analyses. 

C.Psychol and AFBPsS of the British Psychological Society

Higher Education Academy Fellow

PhD. University of Strathclyde

Postgraduate Certificate in Learning and Teaching in Higher Education. University of Strathclyde

MRes In Psychology. University of Strathclyde

BSc Honours in Psychology. Glasgow Caledonian University

Membership

Division of Sport and Exercise Psychology

Division of Academics, Researchers and Teachers in Psychology 

Associate Member of the International Society for Science and Religion