BIOGRAPHY
After obtaining a BSc in Psychosocial Sciences from the University of East Anglia (UEA) in 2009, I worked for a year or so in a Forensic Secure hospital. I then returned to the UEA to work as a Research Assistant on a project supervised by Bundy Mackintosh and Laura Hoppitt, which broadly involved examining cognitive biases related to anxiety, and a further project examining EEG alpha wave biofeedback with Neil Rutterford.
Immediately prior to coming to Essex, at the end of July 2012, I completed an MRes in Social Science Research Methods at the UEA. My dissertation for this examined subjective and behavioural outcomes after modification of alcohol related attentional biases in social drinkers.
RESEARCH OVERVIEW
My research interests are largely focused on Cognitive Biases and their modification (CBM). More specifically I am interested in the attentional biases that typically accompany anxiety, and (1) how these might operate in brain injured individuals, and (2) how modification of such biases may influence attentional control.
I am currently working on an ESRC funded project supervised by Bundy Mackintosh, Elaine Fox, and Andrew Mathews.
PRINCIPAL SUPERVISOR Bundy Mackintosh
RECENT PUBLICATIONS
Conference Presentations
Nunn, S., J., Hoppitt, L., Scaife,V. (2012, July). Does Modifying Alcohol-Related Attentional Biases modify Drinking Behaviour?: An Open Trial Study. In E. Davies (Chair), Psychological approaches to the study of alcohol misuse in the UK. Symposium conducted at the meeting of PsyPAG 2012 Postgraduate Student Conference, Northumbria University, Newcastle Upon Tyne.
