Staff profile
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Job title: Senior Lecturer
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Dept: Applied Social Sciences
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Tel: 01227 767700 ext 3914
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Campus: Canterbury
Senior Lecturer in Psychology / Year 2 Coordinator
Teaching responsibilities
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MPSMD2CPY Cognitive Psychology (Convenor)
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MPSMD2QRM Quantitative Research Methods in Psychology (Convenor)
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MPSMD3PRP Psychology Research Project
Reviewer for:
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International Journal of Climate Change: Impacts and Responses.
Research interests
Cognition and Emotion, in particular the effects of negative emotion (threat) on visual attention. The Stroop task and automaticity. Face recognition, memory distortions and implications in the real world (e.g. eyewitness testimony).Environmental psychology and the development of religious belief.
Academic history
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BSc (Hons) in Psychology from the University of Kent, 2001
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PhD in Psychology from the University of Kent, 2007
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PGCLT(HE) from Canterbury Christ Church University, 2009
Recent publications
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Woods, R., Coen, S. & Fernández, A. (2009). An Analysis of the British Public's Concerns Regarding Climate Change Legislation, The International Journal of Climate Change: Impacts and responses, 1,1835-7156.
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Woods, R., Fernández, A. & Coen, S. (Accepted). The use of religious metaphors by UK newspapers to describe and denigrate climate change, Public Understanding of Science.
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Noor, M., Brown, R., Taggert, L., Fernández, A. & Coen, S. (In press). Intergroup identity perceptions and their implications for intergroup forgiveness: The Common Ingroup Identity Model and its efficacy in the field, Irish Journal of Psychology.
Recent conference presentations
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Woods, R., Coen, S. & Fernández, A. (2009). An analysis of the British public's concerns regarding climate change legislation. Virtual paper presented at the International Conference on Climate Change: Impacts and Responses, Bharati Vidyapeeth Institute of Environment Education and Research, Pune, India, 9th to 11th January 2009.