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
Rebecca Ferdinand (2023-present)
Warren Horrod-Wilson (2022-present)
Zain Khan (2022-present)
Anete Poriete (2022-present)
Gemma Rides (2022-present)
Ria Spooner (2022-present)
Laura Tierney (2024-present)
Isabelle Verhulst (2021-present)
Sarah Sampson (2024)
Katy Chiiachenko (2024)
Aiman Suleiman (2024)
Lara Carr (2019-2023)
Hannah Cox (2016-2018)
Nikoleta Damaskinou (2008-2013)
Mandy Dimmer (2014-2016)
Eli Doris (2016-2018)
Tai Durojaiye (2019- 2024)
Beatrice Hayes (2017- 2021)
Debbie Jagger (2016-2019)
Becca Lewis (2016-2018)
Christine Longinotti (2014-2015)
Rachel Nesbit (2015-2019)
Harriet Norcott (2019- 2021)
Sophia Seltzer-Eade (2015-2017)
Callum Woods (2017- 2021)
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!
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).
Recent Publications!
We have had a number of recent publications. Check out the most recent from Beatrice, Aiman, and Dawn: Students’ impression management and self-presentation behaviours via online educational platforms: An archival review.
Festival of Social Science
Our lab is hosting an event series discussing Smart Socials and the Digital Youth, with four online events between 21st Oct and 4 Nov and an in person event on the 6th Nov, 2024. Prof Watling is also involved in the event Tackling the Emotionally-based School Non-Attendance (EBSNA) Conundrum Together in person event on the 6th Nov, 2024.