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Summary

I am a Senior Lecturer in Psychology at the С����Ƶ.

My research focuses on pain, injury, rehabilitation, and frailty in a variety of contexts and populations. My work on factors that and on the have been discussed in the as well as the university's magazine and .

I teach Health Psychology and Research Methods in Psychology.

Biography

I graduated from Maastricht University, the Netherlands, in 2011 with an MSc degree in Cognitive and Clinical Neuroscience. In 2015 I completed a PhD in Psychology, which I divided evenly between KU Leuven in Belgium and McGill University in Canada.

I then took up a post-doctoral position at the School of Sport, Exercise and Health Sciences at Loughborough University for two years, and in 2018 I joined De Montfort University in Leicester as a Lecturer in Psychology until 2020.

I am now a Senior Lecturer in Psychology at the С����Ƶ.

Research interests

Broadly, I am interested in (chronic) pain and healthy ageing, in particular the following areas:

1. Biopsychosocial factors influencing different aspects of pain – e.g., fear of pain predicting anatomical spreading of pain
2. The interactions between pain and cognition – e.g., how pain affects cognitive performance and vice versa
3. Recovery from post-surgical pain – e.g., identifying predictors of and developing interventions to improve recovery
4. The interactions between pain and physical activity – e.g., how physical activity affects pain, especially in later life
5. Frailty and healthy ageing – specifically, developing interventions that improve healthy ageing, wellbeing, and reduce the risk of frailty

Teaching responsibilities

Aside from being year 2 tutor for Psychology, I am the module coordinator for the 3^rd year optional “Issues in Clinical and Health Psychology” module. I also teach on the 2^nd year “Psychological Research Methods” module and the MSc Health Psychology.

I supervise undergraduate and postgraduate dissertation students.