Centre for Research in Psychology and Sports
The Centre for Research in Psychology and Sports coordinates work in diverse research areas. The Centre’s research lies primarily within the University’s Health and Wellbeing research theme, where psychological/mental health and sports-related interventions are significant sub-themes. The Centre also contributes psychological expertise to Cyber Security within the Information and Security Theme, to sustainability within the Global Economy theme and to several strands of the Food theme.
The Centre brings together the work of approximately 45 members of academic and research staff, as well as around 75 doctoral-level students, several of whom are supported by Centre studentships. The Centre enjoys collaborative research links with the NHS, universities, businesses and charities.
The Centre is committed to Open Science. We are members of the and actively promote the use of online preregistration services
- Applied Psychology Research Group
Applications of psychology to the workplace; policy; law; crime; applied social and cognitive psychology; scientific and educational uses of magic. - Clinical Psychology Research Group
Clinically focused research, applied to people's real lives and contexts, and committed to ensuring our health and care services meet the needs of those we serve. - Cognitive neuropsychology
Dementia and cognitive decline, obsessive compulsive disorder, schizophrenia, body consciousness, attention, space. - Exercise, Health and Wellbeing Research Group
Improving health and wellbeing through exercise, nutritional supplementation, and general wellbeing activities. - High Performance Sport Research Group
Research in high performance sport such as fencing, judo, genetics and the female athlete. - Learning, memory and thinking
Memory: autobiographic, mind-pops, immediate recall , word learning. Problems and decisions: language and space, cyber, paranormal, magical thinking, embodied cognition. - Movement Psychology: Mind and Body Research Group
Research in movement as it relates to psychology, including mindful expressive movement, nonverbal behaviour, perception-action coupling, spatial representation, body representation, and Parkinson's research. - Public Health and Applied Behaviour Change Laboratory (PHAB Lab)
Application of behaviour change science to real-world public health challenges. Expertise spanning a diverse range of public health issues. - Sport and Social Inclusion Research Group
Social inclusion in and through sport: disability sport information, gender equity and sport, physical activity for adults living with dementia.
Dr Lindsay Bottoms
Reader in Exercise and Health Physiology
Dr Lindsay Bottoms is the Head of Centre for Research in Psychology and Sports. She is also a Reader in Exercise and Health Physiology, with an interest in two principal areas.
The first is implementing physical activity interventions for health benefits in special populations such as Inflammatory Bowel Disease. She is currently designing exercise interventions for a few projects looking at alcohol addiction and depression. The second is sports performance, in particular within the sport of fencing as Lindsay is a retired International Fencer.