The Psychology in Education Research Centre (PERC) conducts innovative and applied psychological research relevant to education and educational settings. Our goal is to explore these factors in a manner that is both rigorous and broadly accessible to the psychology and educational communities.
We employ a range of methodologies to explore six related themes underlying psychology in education.
Interested PhD students and potential collaborators may wish to contact researcher indicated in parenthese after each sub-theme.
Supporting teachers and teaching
- Predicting teacher effectiveness (Professor Rob Klassen, Dr Lisa Kim)
- Alternative approaches to behaviour management (Dr Poppy Nash)
- Teacher retention and valuing the teaching profession (Dr Lisa Kim)
Mental health and wellbeing in education
- Supporting troubled-pupils (Dr Poppy Nash)
- Child and adolescent mental health (Dr Umar Toseeb)
- Teacher mental health and wellbeing (Dr Lisa Kim)
Innovative methods in educational research
- Neuroscience: static eye-tracking; EEG/ERP; fMRI (Dr Elpida Pavlidou)
- Mobile eye-tracking in classrooms (Professor Rob Klassen)
- Developing tools for selection in education (Professor Rob Klassen, Dr Lisa Kim)
- Latent class analysis and longitudinal modelling (Dr Umar Toseeb)
- Multilevel Structural Equation Modelling (Dr Lisa Kim)
Language, literacy and numeracy
- Specific learning difficulties (including dyslexia): understanding and developing interventions (Dr Elpida Pavlidou)
- Implicit / statistical learning and reading: development and individual differences (Dr Elpida Pavlidou)
- Developmental language disorder (DLD) (Dr Umar Toseeb)
Motivation, emotions, and personality in education
- Motivation and emotions in education (Professor Rob Klassen, Dr Poppy Nash)
- Individual differences in student and teacher personalities (Dr Lisa Kim)
- Personality and individual differences in students and teachers (Dr Lisa Kim)
Genetics in education
- Teacher beliefs about genetics (Dr Kathryn Asbury)
- Genetic and environmental influences on achievement and behaviour (Dr Kathryn Asbury)
- GenOmics And Life Stories (GOALS)