I joined the University of St Andrews in 2022 as an Associate Lecturer. I teach statistics and developmental psychology, and supervise undergraduate and masters research projects. I sit on the school ethics and Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI) committees and am a member of the Primate Society of Great Britain's EDI subcommittee.

Before joining St Andrews I worked as a Lecturer in Psychology in the at the University of Dundee. I completed my PhD in Developmental and Comparative Psychology at the University of York. I completed both my BSc in Psychology with Biology and my MSc in Evolutionary and Comparative Psychology, at the University of St Andrews.

My research interests lay in developmental and comparative psychology.

I conduct research on variation in human experience and perceptions of the world in parents, infants, and people with neurodevelopmental conditions. I am particularly interested in lived experience, social cognition, and social emotional development in real-world contexts, especially in diverse participants, such as across varied cultural and socio-demographic contexts and across neurodiversity.

In non-human primates, I am interested in using observational methods to understand communication and social behaviour, and mother-offspring relations.

My PhD thesis looked at early experience and joint attention in human infants from the UK and Uganda, as well as infant chimpanzees and macaques. I have first-hand experience with a wide variety of research methods including using observational methods, questionnaires, interviews, and behavioural experiments with humans in the UK and Uganda. I also have experience with observational vocal and behavioural data collection with wild non-human primates (vervet monkeys and chimpanzees).

Selected ongoing projects:

• Factors affecting parental attitudes and parenting approaches (e.g. parenting during Covid-19 lockdowns, and socio-demographic variables)
• Relationships between childhood experience, ADHD, SES, and social support on parenting stress and parenting self-efficacy
• Experiences of women with late ADHD diagnoses
• Social behaviour in crested macaques and chimpanzees
• Chimpanzee vocal communication
• Cross cultural development of social cognition in infants
• Techniques teachers can apply to enhance university student learning 

• PS2001 Advanced Principles of Psychology 1: Statistics lectures, statistics labs, and tutorials
• PS2002 Advanced Principles of Psychology 2: Statistics lectures, statistics labs, and tutorials
• PS3023 Psychological Statistics and Research Methods 3A: Workshops
• PS4040 Psychology Review: Supervisor

• PS3033/ PS5233 Developmental Psychology: Module organiser, lectures, labs, and tutorials
• PS4299/PS4050 Psychology Project: Supervisor 
• PS5013 Origins of Mind: Psychology Master's Research Project: Supervisor

Examples of project supervision topics:

• Parenting and infant/child social experiences (in humans) and how this might be impacted by aspects such as socio-demographic background and/or neurodiversity
• Beliefs about animal minds & attribution of emotion to animals
• Social relationships in non-human primates and mother-offspring experience and relationships
• Non-human primate mother behaviour
• Other topics of interest include communication, cooperation/prosociality, joint attention, and social learning