Holly Stokes is a lecturer in psychology at Arden University. Her research interests lie within developmental and educational psychology. She is particularly interested in how we can use play to facilitate both development and learning, and the barriers which prevent both teachers and parents from implementing play within the school and home. Her other main area of interest is in the lived experiences of those with developmental disorders, specifically Autism Spectrum Disorder.

Kieron Rooney is a lecturer at Arden University with a bachelor’s degree in psychology and a master’s in health psychology. He has a broad set of interests, but his real passion lies in mindfulness, stress and anxiety, and neuroscience. How can we better navigate to what is 'right' versus what is 'easy', and what stands in our way when we try to? Those are the questions that drive his interest in psychology from an academic and personal perspective, and form the basis of his research.

Charmaine Ricki-Lawrence is an associate lecturer with Arden University, and previously taught psychology for 21 years within a variety of educational settings. More recently, her teaching has focused on developmental psychology. Charmaine’s research interests centre on pedagogy, mental health, and well-being. As an early stage researcher, her work has specifically entailed investigations into the perceptions of self-harm in adolescents and the implementation of the special educational needs and disabilities code of practice in schools and colleges.

Dr. Sue Pattison is an academic supervisor for BSc and MSc research projects. Sue has a background in teaching and researching internationally, with an interest in the mental health and well-being of children and young people. She has worked with several governments and education departments including Wales, Northern Ireland, Turkey, Kenya, Hong Kong and the Gambia, and her research was instrumental in getting a counsellor into every school in Wales and Northern Ireland.

Emily Blakemore is the psychology experimental officer at Arden University. Her role is vast but includes being the editor of the school newsletter and managing the Arden Psychology Twitter page among other various engagement projects. Emily graduated with a BSc in Psychology with Criminology but has found that her interests lie firmly within the health aspect of psychology which motivated her to undertake an MSc in Health Psychology.

Since 2010, Dr James Au-Yeung has been a psychology lecturer at Arden University. His academic background is rooted in cognitive science, with degrees in computer science, language and linguistics - as well as in psychology. He has over 30 years of research experience in human language processing and speech production. His specialist area is in stuttering and he has developed a theory on stuttering, which has gained widespread interest across the world, and has been studied and tested on Dutch, Brazilian Portuguese, German. English and Korean speakers.

Dr Konstantinos Arfanis is a social psychologist who completed his PhD in Lancaster University. His thesis was entitled “Changing Men: The impact of training 'soft skills' on employees, the working environment and relationships” and was supported by an Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) Collaborative Award in Science and Engineering (CASE) award. His specialist interests lie in identity, emotions, work-life balance, patient safety, online misinformation, and gender and masculinity.

Dr Rachel Marchant is a lecturer at Arden University teaching on our MSc Psychology course. Before joining Arden, Rachel taught for several years in the Schools of Psychology and Medicine at Birmingham University. Rachel’s interests include neuroscience, psychology, cognition, perception and consciousness, hallucinations, mental health and psychiatry, brain imaging and stimulation methods, psychometrics, and qualitative and quantitative analysis. Rachel is also interested in pedagogy and andragogy, and is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.