Having always had an interest in applied psychology, my research has predominately examined psychological factors that impact health or the legal system. During my undergraduate studies I worked as a research assistant in a health and well-being centre while also completing a thesis focused on racial bias in juror decision-making. I then continued to conduct research on topics in both health and forensic psychology during my postgraduate training while also examining the impact of personality traits and cognitive biases in relation to social psychological concepts. More recently, my research has primarily focused on examining health or methodological issues. 

• Introductory Psychology
• Social Psychology
• Developmental Psychology
• Research Methods

Regarding student dissertation projects, I am most interested in supervising projects examining the link between individual differences/personality traits and mental health variables, such as depression, anxiety, and self-esteem. Not only is this area of interest to me, but I also view it as beneficial to students as it covers both individual differences and mental health while using data collection and analysis methodologies that are commonly used in social and cognitive psychological research. Moreover, there are useful and established scales for all variables involved, which results in a straightforward methodological process. Altogether, this leads to a low-stress dissertation process that sets students up nicely for a variety of future career paths. 

Likely Methodologies Involved:

Dissertation projects I supervise typically use quantitative surveys and are cross-sectional in nature. Data is typically examined using a combination of descriptive statistics, correlation, and hierarchical regression.