Environment
Social environments or nature environment.
Connectedness
Connections to people or connection to nature.
Health
Mental health, loneliness, and wellbeing.
Online-Offline
In person or on social media.
Our Team
Professor
Dawn Watling
Professor in Psychology
Co-director
Dr. Beatrice Hayes
Teaching Fellow
Co-director
Gemma Rides
PhD Candidate
Lab Member
Zain Khan
PhD Candidate
Lab Member
Anete Poriete (2022-present)
Babette van Gerwen (2025-present)
Gemma Rides (2022-present)
Gurveen Randhawa (2025-present)
Laura Tierney (2024-present)
Rabia Farooq (2025-present)
Rebecca Ferdinand (2023-present)
Ria Spooner (2022-present)
Zain Khan (2022-present)
Sarah Sampson (2024)
Katy Chiiachenko (2024)
Aiman Suleiman (2024)
Isabelle Verhulst (2021-2025)
Tai Durojaiye (2019- 2024)
Lara Carr (2019-2023)
Beatrice Hayes (2017- 2021)
Callum Woods (2017- 2021)
Harriet Norcott (2019- 2021)
Rachel Nesbit (2015-2019)
Debbie Jagger (2016-2019)
Becca Lewis (2016-2018)
Eli Doris (2016-2018)
Hannah Cox (2016-2018)
Sophia Seltzer-Eade (2015-2017)
Mandy Dimmer (2014-2016)
Christine Longinotti (2014-2015)
Nikoleta Damaskinou (2008-2013)
Dr Aysha Bellamy (2022 – 2023)
Ryan Jefferies (2022-2023)
Abigail Keizner (2022 Student Skills Development Programme)
Dr Adam Levent (2022 – 2023)
Karen Ly (2022-present)
Lottie Netherwood (2022)
Philip Moynihan (2022 BPS Undergraduate Research Assistantship)
Aiman Suleiman (2022 Student Skills Development Programme)
Tiffany Dashtizadeh (2022 Student Skills Development Programme)
Nusayba Saeed (2022 Student Skills Development Programme)
Lily Sidnick (2022 Undergraduate Research Bursary student)
Sania Fatima (2022)
Leila Warmann (2022 Student Skills Development Programme)
Annie Yang (2021- 2022)
Pavan Bains (2019-2021 Undergraduate Research Bursary student)
Hot off the Press!
Find out what we have been up to recently!
Recent Publications!
We have had a number of recent publications. Check out a recent from Gemma’s PhD work: Adolescents’ perceptions of using likes, comments, and other reactions – a qualitative investigation.
EARA 2024
In Sept 2024, Zain, Gemma, and Dawn headed to Cyprus to present at the European Association for Research on Adolescence. We presented work on loneliness (Zain), social media (Gemma) and nature connection (Dawn).