Applied Social Forensic and Health Psychology Research Group
The group is comprised of 13 members at levels ranging from Professor to Research Assistant (please see individual staff pages for full details). Its members are health psychologists, forensic psychologists, psychotherapists and social psychologists. Their approaches to research include a wide range of quantitative, qualitative and mixed methods. Some of our current projects include:
• Ways in which radicalised/TACT offenders are supervised once released on licence (Adler)
• Impact of a small charity on bereaved victims of crime (Adler)
• Computer-tailored interventions for smoking cessation (Alexis-Garsee & van den Akker)
• Evaluating the counselling services of a women’s community centre (Ciclitira, Starr & Payne)
• Considering issues of diversity, ethnicity and racism in psychotherapy trainings (Ciclitira)
• Pluralism in Qualitative Research (PQR project) (Frost)
• Sounds Good- comparison of audio and written feedback (Frost, Shinebourne)
• Exploring situations inspiring narcissistic in-group identification related to intergroup hostility (Golec de Zavala)
• Exploring the effects of situationally manipulated disgust on prejudice towards stigmatised groups (Golec de Zavala)
• Exploring intergroup consequences of collective narcissism (Golec de Zavala)
• Beliefs about terrorism and counter-terrorism- developing scales to assess these, and to explore individual and cultural attitudes (Gray)
• Observation of trials and interviews with prosecution and defence counsel (Gray)
• Evaluating the strength of evidence in rape trials. - Beliefs about terrorism and counter-terrorism- developing scales to assess these, and to explore individual and cultural attitudes (Gray)
• Developing a project to explore the factors that are useful in predicting the demise of terrorist groups (Gray)
• Understandings of sexual consent, sexual coercion and sexual assault- in young people, sexual health professionals, police and sexual offenders (Hansen)
• Coercion, resistance and threats to use force in police stops (Hansen)
• Coercion in intimate relationships (Hansen)
• Multiple Perpetrator Rape (Horvath)
• the links between men’s use of lads mags, their attitudes towards women and paying for sex (Horvath)
• Participation, youth development and children’s rights’ (Nolas)
• Organising in contested and disrupted spaces (Nolas)
• ‘Combining employment and using assisted reproductive technology’ (van den Akker & Payne)
• Single embryo transfer, framing and fear (van den Akker & Purewal)
• Sexual and relationship health and attitudes of older people (Shiya & van den Akker)
• Teenage boys and current and future reproductive health (Khan, van den Akker, Purewal)
• Systematic review of IVF predictors (Purewal and van den Akker)
• Systematic review of fertility trauma (Daugirdaite, van den Akker & Purewal)
• A study of parental orders in relation to surrogacy in the UK (Crawshaw-York, Purewal & van den Akker)
• ‘The day-to-day influences of work on individual and family health behaviours: exploration and intervention’ (Payne)
• The work-life experience of people living with or affected by cancer (Payne)
• Qualitative analysis of human figure drawings by children in hospital and mainstream schools (Shinebourne)
• Evaluating clinical and counselling psychologists’ experiences of working in the public and private sectors (Starr & Ciclitira)
• Exploring commonalities and differences between psychoanalytic psychotherapy and cognitive behavioural therapy (Starr & Ciclitira)
Funding for these and other work has been received from a wide range of sources, amongst them 'Against Violence and Abuse' (£24,000 & £18,227.88), the British Academy (van den Akker & Purewal £7445; Golec de Zavala £ 7289, Hansen £6,200), Human Fertilization & Embryology Authority (van den Akker & Purewal £5000), The Forgiveness Project (Adler, £30,000), the Kings Fund (Ciclitira, £1,500), the London Probation Trust (Adler, £18,000), Nuffield Foundation (Gray, £17,700), the Richard Benjamin Trust for Social and Organizational Psychology (Golec de Zavala £ 9928) , and the UK Respiratory Research Foundation of the IPCRG (Alexis-Garsee & van den Akker £22,771). Full details of funding can be obtained from members’ individual pages.
Our teaching covers undergraduate to doctoral level and incorporates MSc Health Psychology (Programme Leaders), MSc Forensic Psychology (Programme Leaders), L3 Applied Social Psychology (Module Leaders), L3 Health, Exercise & Sports psychology (Module Leaders), L3 Lifespan Psychology (Module leader), L3 Mental Health, L1,2,3 Qualitative Research, , L1,2,3 Counselling Skills and Theory, Organisational Psychology
Key Research Areas
Field of Psychology Example Research Areas
Counselling and Psychotherapy
• Issues of diversity, (focusing on ethnicity and racism)
• Mental health
• Gender
• Discourses in counselling
• Clinical outcome research
• Psychoanalysis- theory and practice
• Cognitive behavioural therapy
• Sexualities
• Racism
• Eating disorders
• Pluralism in qualitative and mixed-methods approaches and its applications to clinical practice in psychotherapy and counselling
• Addiction and recovery
• Spirituality
Forensic Psychology
• Justice and how this is implemented
• Individual and social factors that influence the implementation of justice
• The prosecution of rape, including the operation of rape trials and sexual consent
• How terrorist groups come to an end
• Public understanding of terrorism, counter-terrorism and the factors that influence this
• How the criminal justice system works and the ramifications of that system, to society at large
• The interplay between fear, power and violence
Health Psychology
• Reproductive health psychology (teenage pregnancy, older people and sexual health, infertility, surrogacy, gamete donation etc.), reproductive trauma
• Genetics
• Applied health and issues of terminal illness, cancer, renal diseases, sickle cell disorders and, prenatal screening, hospitalization, pain,
• Occupational health psychology, including work-life balance and health (e.g. how users of assisted reproductive technology manage work-life issues, the work-life experience of people living with or affected by cancer),
• Work-life balance across the lifespan (e.g. older workers and transition to retirement),
• The impact of working life on individual and family health behaviours,
• Health behaviour change in the workplace (especially exercise and diet),
• Stress and health behaviours,
• Effectiveness of tailored interventions for smoking cessation
• Theories of health behaviour and theory-based health behaviour change interventions e.g. planning.
Social Psychology
• Social psychological aspects of mental health
• Feminist theory and research
• Masculinities
• Sexualities
• Pornography
• Language and social identity;
• Folk psychological beliefs
• The practices of inclusion and exclusion and especially how participation strategies are used in human services settings (e.g. health, social care etc).
• Motherhood (particularly second-time)
• Predictors of hostility in intergroup relations
• Embodiment of prejudice
• Genuine and ‘malignant’ forms of positive in-group identification
We also have interests in organisational psychology (e.g. dynamics of organising and change, the relationship between knowledge and action, and the ethics of (inter)action), in pedagogical research (e.g. effects of different forms of feedback on academic performance) and in a broad range of methodological concerns including pluralism, action research, Q-methodology and structural equation modelling, systematic and meta-analyses.
Recently Completed and Ongoing PhD Research
Abbasi M Lifestyle behaviours before, during and after pregnancy in Persian couples. (Supervisor: van den Akker & Bewley).
Bearchell, J. Have the Police successfully moved from a culture of ‘confession focused’ suspect interviewing to being ‘harvesters of facts’, through the use of the Investigative Interview Training Programme. (Supervisors: Kennison (Criminology) & Gray)
Carlton, C. Measures of Subjective Vitality in the British Sign Language (BSL) Community. (Supervisor: van den Akker & Westley)
Dalaker, R. Understanding and Measuring Mental Health Stigma (Supervisor: Frost, Barry & Le Boutillier).
Gekoski, A. Victims of crime and the Criminal Justice System (Supervisors: Gray and Adler)
Healy, J. An Inappropriate Victim? An analysis of victim representation in the news media. (Supervisors: Goodman (Criminology) & Gray).
Higgins, K. (Middlesex University Studentship) Morality and processes of prejudice (Kofman (social sciences) & Golec de Zavala)
Kassiram, A. East Indian women’s experiences of somatisation disorder and domestic violence (Supervisors: Horvath, Adler & Hansen)
Lambine, M. Multiple Perpetrator Rape(Supervisors: Horvath, Adler, Gray)
Marzano, L. (ESRC funded). Impact of self-harm on male prisoners and prison officers. (Supervisors: Adler and Ciclitira)
Mir, M. (Middlesex University Studentship) The Treatment of sex offenders within HM Prison Service, in-progress. (Supervisors: Adler and Ciclitira)
Murphy, A. (Middlesex University Studentship) The Development of an Assessment Tool for Parents with Personality Disorders (Frost, Barry & Baluch)
Purewal S, (2009) Psychological and Cultural Determinants of Women’s Intentions to Donate Oocytes. Completed (Supervisor: van den Akker).
Gunaratna, K. (2009). ‘The impact of occupational stress on psychological well-being in the fire services (Supervisor: Payne & Cockerton)
Ramachandran, P. ‘An Investigation of Occupational Stress and Coping Strategies among Staff in Higher Education: A Comparison between the UK and Malaysia (Supervisor: Payne & Cockerton)
Salleva, D. ‘How does evidence-based mediation affect occupational stress, the work-life balance and the job performance of employees? A longitudinal and qualitative study in Cyprus. (PhD awarded 2009) (Supervisor, Payne & Lewis)
Selected Peer Reviewed Publications since 2008 (for full details see individual staff pages)
Adler, J. R. & Hoy, A. (accepted subject to revisions, in process) Effects of Bullying in Prison. Psychology, Crime and Law.
Adler, J. R.; Burnside, J. P.; Loucks, N. & Viki, G. T. (2008). Measuring Religion in Prisons. Journal of Forensic Psychology Practice. 8(2) 130-149ISSN: 1522-8932.
van den Akker,O. B. A & Redshaw, M. (2008) Editorial: Beliefs and attitudes during pregnancy and post natally. Journal of Reproductive and Infant Psychology, 26, 3.
Redshaw, .M & van den Akker,O. B. A. (2008) Editorial: Understanding factors which can influence the experience of pregnancy and childbirth. Journal of Reproductive and Infant Psychology, 26, 2 71-73.
van den Akker,O. B. A. & Redshaw, M. (2008) Editorial: The contextual challenges of successfully becoming a parent – from inception to completion Journal of Reproductive and Infant Psychology, 26, 1,1-3.
Alexis-Garsee, C., Haslum, M., Murphy, S. &Bridle, C. (forthcoming). ‘Randomised trial of a tailored and targeted smoking cessation intervention. Psychology and Health
Alexis-Garsee, A., Hasmum, M., Murphy, S. & Bridle, C. (forthcoming). A prospective investigation of the predictors of intervention effects of the NHS Smoking Cessation Programme, Psychology and Health.
Batson, A., Gudjonsson, G. & Gray, J. M. (2010) Attribution of blame for criminal acts and its relationship with psychopathy as measured by the Hare Psychopathic Checklist (PCL-SV). Journal of Forensic Psychiatry and Psychology, 21(1), 91 - 101 (Impact factor 0.58).
Blyth, E., Crawshaw, M. & van den Akker, O. (2009) Disclosing donor information: A new code of silence.
BioNews, Commentaries http://www.bionews.org.uk/commentary.lasso?storyid=4233
Brown, J., Horvath, M. A. H., Kelly, L. & Westmarland, N. (2010). Connections and disconnections: Assessing evidence, knowledge and practice in responses to rape. London, Government Equalities Office. http://www.equalities.gov.uk/pdf/Connections%20and%20Disconnections.pdf
Brown, J., Horvath, M. A. H., Kelly, L. & Westmarland, N. (2010). Has anything changed? Results of a comparative study (1977–2010) on opinions on rape. London, Government Equalities Office. http://www.equalities.gov.uk/pdf/Has%20anything%20changed.pdf
O’Byrne, R. Hansen, S. & Rapley, M. (2008) ‘If a girl doesn’t say ‘no’ …’: Managing accountability for rape by claiming insufficient knowledge. Journal of Community & Applied Social Psychology, 18 (3): 168–193.
Cassar, S. & Shinebourne, P. (submitted). What does spirituality mean to you? Interpretative phenomenological analysis of experiences of spirituality. Psychology of Religion and Spirituality
Ciclitira, K., Starr, F., Marzano, L., Brunswick, N., & Costa, A. (2010). Clinicians Talking: A thematic analysis of female clinicians’ experiences of personal therapy. Submitted to British Journal of Guidance & Counselling.
Chambers, J. C., Horvath, M. A. H. & Kelly, L. (2010). An offender based typology of multiple perpetrator rape. Criminal Justice and Behavior, 37(10), 1114-1139.
Coy, M. & Horvath, M. A. H. (in press). ‘Lads mags’, young men’s attitudes towards women and acceptance of myths about sexual aggression. Feminism & Psychology.
Donnelly, L., Shaw, R. & van den Akker, O. (2008). "eHealth as a challenge to 'expert' power: a focus group study of Internet use for health information and management." Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine,. 101, 501-6.
Elander, J., Pittam, G., Lusher, J., Fox, P. & Payne, N. (2010). Evaluation of an intervention to help students avoid unintentional plagiarism by improving their authorial identity. Assessment and Evaluation in Higher Education, 35, 2, 157 - 171.
Frost, N. A. (2008) ‘Taking the other out of mother: an exploration of maternal narratives’, in The Narrative Practitioner: Developing Excellence in Research, Education and Practice, NEWI.
Frost, N. A. (2009). ‘Do you know what I mean?’: the use of a pluralistic narrative analysis interpretation of an interview, Qualitative Research (9, (1) 9-29.
Frost, N. A. (In press) ‘Exploring Space: using mothers’ narratives of space to develop a maternocentric perspective of becoming a mother to a second child’, Radical Psychology, Special Issue: Mothering on the Margins.
Frost, N.A. & Bowen, C., (In press). New Pluralistic Strategies for Research in Clinical Practice Qualitative Research in Psychology, Special Issue: Clinical Psychology and Qualitative Research.
Frost, N., Nolas, S-M., Brooks-Gordon, B., Esin, C., Holt, A., Shinebourne, P., & Mehdizadeh, L. (2010). “Pluralism in Qualitative Research: the impact of different researchers and qualitative approaches on the analysis of qualitative data”, Qualitative Research 10(4), 441-460.
Frost, N. A., Nolas, S., Esin, C., Holt, A., Mehdizadeh, L. & Shinebourne, P. (In press). Pluralism in Qualitative Research: Consensual Findings Individual Interpretations, Qualitative Research in Psychology.
Frost, N.A., Eatough, V.E., Shaw, R., Weille, K-L., Baraitser, L., Tzemou, E. (In press). Memory-work: Early Encounters, Qualitative Research in Psychology.
Garcia-Lorenzo, L., Nolas, S-M. & De Zeeuw, G. (2008). “Telling stories and the practice of collaboration”, International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy Vol. 28 (1&2), pp. 9-19.
Gekoski, A., Gray, J. M. & Adler, J. R. (in press). Interviewing Women Bereaved by Homicide: Assessing the impact of trauma-focused research. Psychology, Crime and Law.
Gilbert, H., Leurent, B., Sutton, S., Morris, R., Alexis-Garsee, C., Nazareth, I. (Submitted). Factors predicting recruitment to a UK wide primary care smoking cessation study (The ESCAPE trial). Family Practice
Gilbert, H., Sutton, S., Leurent, B., Alexis-Garsee, C., Morris, R., Nazareth, I. (Submitted). The characteristics of a population wide sample of smokers recruited proactively for the ESCAPE trial. European Journal of Public Health.
Golec de Zavala, A., Cisłak, A. & Wesołowska, E. (2010). Need for Cognitive Closure, Political Conservatism and aggressiveness in inter-group conflict and under collective threat. Political Psychology, 31, 521-541.
Golec de Zavala, A., Cichocka, A., Eidelson, R., & Jayawickreme, N.(2009). Collective Narcissism and Its Social Consequences. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 97, 1074-1096.
Golec de Zavala, A. Federico, C., Cisłak, A. & Sigger J. (2008). Need for closure and coercion in inter-group conflicts: Experimental Evidence for the Mitigating Effect of Accessible Conflict Schemas. European Journal of Social Psychology, 38, 84-105.
Kruglanski, A.W., Golec , A. & Chen, X. (2008). Individual motivations, the group process and organizational strategies in suicide terrorism. Journal of Policing, Intelligence and Counter Terrorism, 3, 70-85.
Radkiewicz, P., Golec de Zavala, A. & Skarzynska, K. (2009). Pro-social basic human values and civic involvement. The modrating role of survival vs self-expression cultural context. Polish Psychological Bulletin, 39. 226-235.
Cypryanska, M. & Golec de Zavala, A. (2009). The Under– and Overestimation Effects in Comparative Judgments – Assimilation and Contrast Mechanisms Polish Psychological Bulletin, 39, 217-225.
Gray, J.M. & Wilson, M.A. (2009). The Relative Risk Perception of Travel Hazards. Environment and Behavior, 41(2), 185 - 204 (Impact factor 1.00).
Gray, J. M. & Wilson, M. A. (2006). Understanding the ‘War on Terrorism’: Responses to 11th September 2001. Journal of Peace Research, 43(1), 23 – 36 (Impact factor 0.892).
Gray, J. M. (2006). Rape Myth Beliefs and Prejudiced Decision Guidance: Effects on Decisions of Guilt in a Case of Date Rape. Journal of Legal and Criminological Psychology, 11(1), 75 – 80.
Gray, J.M. & Wilson, M.A. (2007). A detailed reliability analysis of the Sensation Seeking Scale in a UK sample. Personality and Individual Differences, 42(4), 641 – 651..
Hansen, S., O’Byrne, R. & Rapley, M. & Hansen, S., (2010). Young heterosexual men’s use of the miscommunication model in explaining acquaintance rape’, Sexuality Research and Social Policy, 7(1): 45-50.
Hansen, S. & Rapley, M. (2008) Teaching Qualitative Research in Psychology. Special Issue of Qualitative Research in Psychology, 5 (3).
Horvath, M. A. H., Tong, S. & Williams, E. (in press). Critical issues in rape investigation: an overview of reform in England and Wales. The Journal of Criminal Justice Research.
Horvath, M.A.H. & Brown, J. (2010). Between a rock and a hard place: The vicious cycle for rape victims. The Psychologist, 23(7), 556-559.
Horvath, M.A.H. & Kelly, L. (2009). Gang/Group/Multiple Perpetrator rape: Naming an offence and initial research findings. Journal of Sexual Aggression, 15(1), 83-97.
Kelly, A. & Ciclitira, K. (under review). Young Irish men living in London: Their views and experiences of healthy eating. Journal of Gender Studies.
Marzano, L., Ciclitira, K., & Adler, J. (in press). The Impact of Staff Responses on Self Harming Behaviours: Prisoners’ Perspectives. Submitted to British Journal of Clinical Psychology.
Murdoch, M., Payne, N., Samani-Radia, D., Rosen-Webb, J., Walker, L., Howe, M. & Lewis, P. (submitted). Family Based Behavioural Management of childhood obesity: Service evaluation of a group programme run in a community setting in the UK. European Journal of Clinical Nutrition.
Newman, M. & Nolas, S-M. (2008). “Innovation in therapeutic practice with ’violent youth’: a discourse analysis of the Non-Violent Resistance approach” for Counselling and Psychotherapy Research, Vol. 8, No. 3, pp. 141-150.
Nolas, S-M. (2006). “Learning as support for organizational innovation: possibilities and limitations” in World Future. Journal of General Evolution Vol. 62 (3), pp. 240-260.
Nolas, S-M. (2009). “Between the ideal and the real: using ethnography as a way of extending our language of change” in Qualitative Research in Psychology, Vol. 6(1), pp.105-128.
Nolas, S-M. (2008). “Navigating the labyrinth of change: supporting a post-merger organization through the practice of research” in Journal of Decision Systems, Vol. 17, No. 4, pp. 79-96.
Nyman, K. Baluch, B. & Duffy, L. (2010). Human figure drawings by children in hospital and mainstream schools. International Journal of Health Promotion and Education.
Payne, N., Jones, F. & Harris, P.R. (submitted). A qualitative investigation of employees’ perceptions of the impact of work on health behaviours. Journal of Occupational and Organisational Psychology.
Payne, N., Jones, F. & Harris, P. R. (2010). A daily diary investigation of the effects of work stress on exercise intention implementation. Can planning overcome the disruptive effects of work? Psychology and Health. 25, (1) 111-129.
Payne, N. (2008). Learning, teaching and assessment of Health Psychology MSc courses: Results from a survey. Health Psychology Update, 17, 2, 34-40.
Pittam, G., Elander, J., Lusher, J., Fox, P. & Payne, N. (2009). Student beliefs and attitudes about authorial identity in academic writing. Studies in Higher Education 34, 2, 153-170.
Purewal, S., & van den Akker, O. B. A. (2010). Attitudes and Intentions to Donate Oocytes for Research. Fertility and Sterility. 93,4, 1080-7.
Purewal, S., & van den Akker, O. B. A. (2009). Systematic review of oocyte donation: investigating attitudes, motivations and experiences. Human Reproduction Update. 15 (5). 499-515.
Purewal, S., & van den Akker, O. B. A. (2009). A study of the effect of message framing on oocyte donation. Human Reproduction. 24(12), 3136-3143.
Purewal, S., & van den Akker, O. B. A. (2009). A qualitative study on women’s perceptions of oocyte donation. Journal of psychosomatic obstetrics and gynaecology, 30, No. 4, 215-222.
Purewal, S., & van den Akker, O. B. A. (2009). Attitudes and Intentions towards Volunteer Oocyte Donation. Reproductive Biomedicine Online, Vol 19, Supp. 1. pp 19-26. http://www.rbmonline.com/4DCGI/Article/Detail?38%091%09=%204173%09
Poote, A & van den Akker,O. B. A. (2009). British women’s attitudes to surrogacy. Human Reproduction, 24,1,139-145. http://humrep.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/den338v1
Rapley, M., Hansen, S. & O’Byrne, R. (2008) Venus and Mars, the 'miscommunication model' and other rape myths. Clinical Psychology Forum. Special Issue on Sexual Assault, 192, 37-42.
Schubert, S., Hansen, S., Dyer, K.. & Rapley, M. (2009). ‘ADHD sufferer’ or ‘illicit drug user’? The management of medico-moral membership categories by users of drug dependence services. Discourse & Society, 20 (4), 499-516.
Shinebourne, P. & Smith, J. A. (2010). The communicative power of metaphors: an analysis and interpretation of metaphors in accounts of the experience of addiction. Psychology and Psychotherapy: Theory, Research and Practice, 83, 59-73.
Shinebourne, P. & Smith, J. A. (2009). Alcohol and the self: An interpretative phenomenological analysis of the experience of addiction and its impact on the sense of self and identity. Addiction Research & Theory, 17, 152-167.
Shinebourne, P. (2009). Using Q-Methodology in Qualitative Research. International Journal of Qualitative Methods, 8, 93-97.
Shinebourne, P. & Smith, J. A. (submitted). Making sense through making art: an interpretative phenomenological analysis of images of recovery from addiction.
Westland, S. & Shinebourne, P. (2009). Self-deception and the therapist: An interpretative phenomenological analysis of the experiences and understandings of therapists working with clients they describe as self-deceptive. Psychology and Psychotherapy: Theory, Research and Practice, 82, 385-401.
Starr, F., Ciclitira, L, Brunswick, N., Costa A., & Marzano, L., (2010). Comfort and challenge: A qualitative analysis of counsellor’s experiences on supervision. Submitted to Psychology and Psychotherapy: Theory Research and Practice.
Current and Forthcoming Books and Chapters include:
Adler, J. R. & Gray, J. M. (2010) (Eds) Forensic Psychology: Concepts, debates and practice.(2nd edition). Cullompton: Willan.
van den Akker (2008) Fathers not Included A response to the HFEA Bill. A report by the Family Law Review of the Centre for Social Justice.
http://www.centreforsocialjustice.org.uk/client/images/csj%20fathers%20web%20FINAL.pdf (Consultant)
van den Akker, O.B.A. (in press) The Menstrual Cycle: Psychological, hehavioural, physiological and nutritional factors. In Martin,C. (Ed) International Habdbook of Behaviour, diet and Nutrition.
van den Akker,O.B.A (in press) The Maternity Blues. In: Martin,C (Ed) Perinatal Mental Health.
van den Akker,O.B.A (in press) Sexual Dysfunction. In: Martin,C (Ed) Perinatal Mental Health
van den Akker,O.B.A (in press). Premature labour and delivery. In: Martin,C (Ed) Perinatal Mental Health.
van den Akker,O.B.A (2008) 'Alcohol and fertility' In: Martin,C. (Ed) 'Identification and treatment of alcohol dependency'. M&K Publishers, Keswick, UK. Chapter 6, 349-363.
van den Akker,O.B.A (2010) The Nature Nurture Debate. What can theory and research tell us about families formed where there is genetic difference. In: Crawshaw,M & Balen,R (Eds) Adoption after infertility: Messages from Practice, Research and personal experience. Jessica Kingsley Publishers Ltd. Chapter 11, pp164-179.
van den Akker,O.B.A (2010). Surrogate Mothers. PP39-49. In: Tyano,S Keren,M Herrman,H & Cox,J.(Eds) Parenthood and Mental Health: A bridge between Infant and Adult Psychiatry. Wiley-Blackwell. Chapter 4, pp39-49.ISBN 978-0-470-74722-3
van den Akker, (forthcoming) Reproductive Health Psychology. Wiley, London.
Adler, J. & Golec de Zavala, A. (2009). Genocide. In J. Brown (Ed). Cambridge Handbook of Forensic Psychology. Cambridge University Press. (pp. 502-510).
Forshaw, M., & Hansen, S. (2010) The undergraduate research project. In Upton, D and Trapp, A (Eds.) Teaching Psychology in Higher Education. Oxford: Blackwell.
Frost, N.A (Ed) (2011) Qualitative Research: Combining Core Approaches, Open University Press.
Frost, N.A (2012) Lifespan Development Psychology, Sage Publications
Frost N.A & Kinmond, K. (2011) ‘Quality Issues and Reflexivity’ in Qualitative Psychology Projects: How To Do Excellent Undergraduate Research, Palgrave Macmillan.
Golec de Zavala, A. (Ed) (forthcoming). Social Psychology of Social Problems. Palgrave.
Golec de Zavala, A. (in press). Collective narcissism. In D. Chrisite (Ed.). Encyclopedia of Peace Psychology. Wiley-Blackwell
Golec de Zavala, A. (in press). Cognitive skills and motivation to adapt to social change among polish politicians after systemic change. In A. Weinberg (Ed.). The psychology of politicians. Cambridge University Press
Golec de Zavala, A. & Adler, J. (2010). Psychological aspects of genocide. In J. Adler & J. Gray (Eds). Forensic Psychology: Concepts, Debates and Practice. Willian Publishing. (pp. 264-283)
Kossowska, K., Golec de Zavala, A. & Kubik, T. (2010). Psychological Determinants And Consequences Of Terrorist Threat Perception. In D. Antonius, A. Brown, T. Walters, J. Martin Ramirez, & S. Sinclair (Eds.) Interdisciplinary Analyses of Terrorism and Aggression. Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing. (pp. 71-101).
Hansen, S. Bysouth, D. & Wicoxson, P. (2010) Within group behaviour.
In P. Banyard, M. Davies, C. Norman & B. Winder (Eds.) Essential Psychology: A Concise Introduction. London: Sage.
Horvath, M.A.H. & Brown, J. (eds) (2009). Rape: Challenging contemporary thinking. Willan Publishing: Cullompton, pp. 353.
Horvath, M.A.H. & Yexley, M. (in press). Developments in investigative approaches to sexual violence: The investigative heritage. In J. Brown & S. Walklate (eds) Handbook of Sexual Violence. Willan Publishing: Cullompton.
Horvath, M.A.H. (2010). Child victims of sexual abuse. In J. Brown & E. Campbell, Handbook of Forensic Psychology. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK, pp.143-152.
Horvath, M.A.H. (2010). Treatment of child victims of sexual abuse. In J. Brown & E. Campbell, Handbook of Forensic Psychology. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK, pp.345-353.
Horvath, M.A.H. (2010). Sexual Assault. In J. Brown & E. Campbell, Handbook of Forensic Psychology. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, pp.543-551.
Horvath, M.A.H. & Brown, J. (2009). Setting the scene; Introduction to understanding rape. In M.A.H.
Horvath & J. Brown (Eds.) Rape: Challenging contemporary thinking. Willan Publishing: Cullompton, pp.1-16.
Lovett, J. & Horvath, M.A.H. (2009). Alcohol and drugs in rape. In M.A.H. Horvath & J. Brown (Eds.) Rape: Challenging contemporary thinking. Willan Publishing: Cullompton, pp.125-160.
Brown, J. & Horvath, M.A.H. (2009). Is it real rape and do you believe her? In M.A.H. Horvath & J. Brown (Eds.) Rape: Challenging contemporary thinking. Willan Publishing: Cullompton, pp.325-342.
Loucks, N.; Holt, S. & Adler, J. R. (Eds.) (2010). Why We Kill: Killing as a study of human behaviour and moral relativism. Cullompton: Willan.
Tong, S., Bryant, R. & Horvath, M.A.H. (2009). Understanding Criminal Investigation. Wiley: West Sussex, UK, pp. 273.
Journal Editorships include
Annual Review of Critical Psychology 2006-present
Biomed Central RBM Online 2008-present
Expert review of Obstetrics & Gynaecology 2008-present
Editor in Chief Journal of Reproductive & Infant Psychology 2003- 2008
European Journal of Social Psychology 2008-present
Health Psychology Update 2006-2009
Journal of Reproductive & Infant Psychology 2008-present
Journal of Sexual Aggression 2009- present
Psychology of Women Review 2003-present
Qualitative Research in Psychology, Special Issue: Pluralism in Qualitative Research
Contact Details
| Dr Jackie Gray, Chartered Member of the British Psychological Society (Chair) | j.gray@mdx.ac.uk |
| Dr Joanna R. Adler, Health Professions Council Registered Practitioner, Forensic Psychologist, Chartered Member of the BPS, Fellow of the Higher Education Academy | j.adler@mdx.ac.uk |
| Professor Olga van den Akker, Health Professions Council Registered Practitioner, Health Psychologist, Associate Fellow of the BPS | o.vandenakker@mdx.ac.uk |
| Dr Camille Alexis-Garsee | c.alexis-garsee@mdx.ac.uk |
| Dr Karen Ciclitira, Chartered Member of the British Psychological Society, member of the British Association of Psychotherapists | k.ciclitira@mdx.ac.uk |
| Dr Linda Duffy, Chartered Sport and Exercise Psychologist | l.duffy@mdx.ac.uk |
| Dr Nollaig Frost, Chartered Member of the British Psychological Society | n.frost@mdx.ac.uk |
| Dr Fiona Starr, Chartered Member of the British Psychological Society | |
| Dr Agnieszka Golec de Zavala | a.golec@mdx.ac.uk |
| Dr Susan Hansen | s.hansen@mdx.ac.uk |
| Dr Miranda Horvath Chartered Member of the British Psychological Society | |
| Dr Nicola Payne, Chartered Member of the British Psychological Society, Health Professions Council Registered, Practitioner, Health Psychologist | n.payne@mdx.ac.uk |
| Dr Satvinder Purewal | s.purewal@mdx.ac.uk |
| Pnina Shinebourne, UKCP Registered Psychotherapist | p.shinebourne@mdx.ac.uk |
| Jonathan Sigger | j.sigger@mdx.ac.uk |
| Pete Sneddon | p.sneddon@mdx.ac.uk |
