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Personal profile
Personal Statement
I joined the University of Strathclyde as a Teaching Associate in 2022. I am the 1st Year Tutorial Leader and I teach Social Psychology and Cognitive Psychology across a range of Undergraduate classes in 2nd and 3rd year on the BA Hons Psychology Degree. I am also the Deputy Course Leader for the online MSc with a Specialisation in Psychology course.
I have a varied background in research, my PhD was based in the area of language and communication and assessed the influence of memory processes on the production of referring expressions in conversation. My Post-doc work was in evolutionary psychology (faces/voices) assessing how humans recognise kin.
In addition to my teaching role, I am a member of the Humanities and Social Sciences (HASS) Board of Study and also the HASS Online Committee.
Teaching Interests
I contribute to the following classes:
C8105 Psychology 1A (Tutorial Leader)
C8106 Psychology 1B (Tutorial Leader)
C8201 Cognition and Neuropsychology
C8202 Social and Health Psychology
C8307 Social Psychology
C8426 Psychology Dissertation
C8981 Social and Developmental Psychology (Class Leader)
C8923 Social and Developmental Psychology (Class Leader)
C8983 Empirical Project
C8986 Dissertation (MSc Research Methods in Psychology)
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Collaborations and top research areas from the last five years
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Developing a sense of community in online teaching
O'Shea, K. (Principal Investigator), Deakin, K. (Co-investigator) & Butler, S. (Co-investigator)
10/07/25 → 9/07/27
Project: Non-funded project
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Exploring student and graduate use of GenAI
O'Shea, K. (Principal Investigator) & Hamilton, D. (Principal Investigator)
1/05/25 → 30/04/27
Project: Non-funded project
Research output
- 13 Article
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Perspective conflict disrupts pragmatic inference in real-time language comprehension
Barr, D. J., Sirniö, H., Kovács, B., O'Shea, K. J., McNee, S., Beith, A., Britain, H. & Li, Q., 13 Feb 2025, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition .Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Open AccessFile11 Downloads (Pure) -
No increased inbreeding avoidance during the ovulatory phase of the menstrual cycle
Holzleitner, I. J., Driebe, J. C., Arslan, R. C., Hahn, A. C., Lee, A. J., O'Shea, K. J., Gerlach, T. M., Penke, L., Jones, B. C. & Debruine, L. M., 28 Sept 2022, In: Evolutionary Human Sciences. 4, 19 p., e47.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Open AccessFile2 Citations (Scopus)26 Downloads (Pure)
Datasets
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Data and code for: "Ordinary memory processes in the design of referring descriptions"
O'Shea, K. (Creator), Barr, D. J. (Creator) & Martin, C. R. (Contributor), 11 Dec 2019
https://github.com/dalejbarr/ordinary-memory
Dataset
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Further evidence for associations between short-term mating strategy and sexual disgust
O'Shea, K. (Creator), Jones, B. (Creator) & DeBruine, L. M. (Creator), Open Science Framework (OSF), 20 Apr 2018
Dataset
Prizes
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Associate Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (AFHEA)
O'Shea, K. (Recipient), 1 Aug 2025
Prize: Election to learned society
Activities
- 1 Organiser of major conference
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BPS Scottish Branch Undergraduate Conference 2026
O'Shea, K. (Organiser), CRAIG, J. (Organiser), March, J. (Organiser), Hamilton, D. (Organiser) & Deakin, K. (Organiser)
18 Apr 2026Activity: Presenting or Organising an Event › Organiser of major conference