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- Qualifications:PhD (Psychology and Neuroscience), FHEA
- Position:Senior Lecturer in Cognitive Neuroscience
- Department:HAS - Health and Social Sciences
- Telephone:+4411732 83117
- Email:Kait.Clark@uwe.ac.uk
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I'm an experimental psychologist and cognitive neuroscientist with a research focus in human visual cognition. I received my PhD from Duke University in 2014, at which time I was also serving as a Scientific Consultant for the United States Department of Homeland Security. I moved to the UK for a position as a Research Associate at Cardiff University in 2014, joined UWE as a Lecturer in 2017, and was promoted to Senior Lecturer in 2018.
At UWE, I am the Theme Lead for the Applied Cognition and Neuroscience Theme of the Psychological Sciences Research Group (PSRG) and maintain the PSRG Blog and Twitter. I am also UWE's Local Network Lead for the UK Reproducibility Network and the Athena Swan lead for the for the Department of Social Sciences. Additionally, I am a member of the Programme Leadership Team (Level 3) for the Psychology BSc (Hons) programme, and I serve as Module Leader for the Psychology Project (undergraduate dissertation) module. Finally, I deliver lectures on topics related to sensation, perception, and attention on various modules across the programme and supervise both undergraduate and postgraduate research. My PhD student Kayley Birch-Hurst is funded by the ESRC SWDTP and is investigating psychological approaches to radiological training.
My research explores two main areas: 1) human visual perception in applied and translational settings and 2) open science practices and pedagogy. Using experimental paradigms designed to assess abilities from low-level motion perception to higher-level visual search, I investigate how environmental influences, individual differences, and expertise can improve or inhibit visual processing. I also conduct meta-research around research practices and reproducibility and, specifically, how responsible research practices can be applied within student research.
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