University of West London welcomes new Professor of Psychology
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UWL is delighted to announce the appointment of Mark Coulson as Professor of Psychology to the University’s School of Human and Social Sciences (SHSS). He joins UWL from the University of East Anglia where he was Director of Employability, Director of Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI), Placement Director, and Director of Masters programmes.
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Mark gained his first degree in Psychology from Nottingham University, his PhD in Biological Sciences from Cambridge University (where he specialised in experimental psycholinguistics) and a postgraduate diploma in Sports Science from Loughborough University.
He has a wide range of research interests, spanning forensic and criminal psychology, homesickness, misophonia, emotional expression and communication, video gaming and online behaviour, systematic review and meta-analysis and positive psychology and mindfulness.
Mark said:
I am thrilled to join London’s best modern university*. Guiding my teaching and research is a passion for applying rigorous quantitative methods. I am a scientist committed to processes and systems.”
Additionally, Mark has delivered training and provided expert consultation to the World Health Assembly, the UK Government’s Home Office, Ministry of Justice, Ministry of Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy and the Charted Institute of Personnel and Development, among others.
Mark’s public facing work includes high profile television. He was the expert psychologist on Channel 4’s ‘Married at First Sight’. In the programme, single people, matched by experts, marry total strangers who they meet for the very first time on their wedding day. This expertise has seen him recently interviewed by Sky News about viral dating trends.
Head of SHSS Dr Jen Mayer said:
I am pleased to welcome Mark to the University of West London’s School of Human and Social Sciences. Attracting a quantitative psychologist of Mark’s calibre and range of expertise offers numerous opportunities for partnerships and collaborations and demonstrates why UWL is an ideal career choice whether you are a prospective Psychology student or researcher.”
Mark has had his work published across a wide variety of outlets and journals including The Conversation,where he talks about losing access to much-loved digital worlds, In Sage Journals about the real and the aggressive in video gaming and on Wiley about self-harm.
* Best modern London university (non-specialist) in the Complete University Guide 2024. Modern universities are defined as higher education institutions that were granted university status in, and subsequent to, 1992.
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