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Individual Differences - Theory, Measurement & Application

In my current role I am investigating the associations between various brain imaging variables and cognitive ability/cognitive decline in later life as part of the Lothian Birth Cohort 1936.

My doctoral research focussed on structural and measurement issues in normal range human personality.

More generally I am interested in quantitative methods (particularly latent variable models and scaling methods), psychometrics, the structure, measurement and application of models of personality (normal/"abnormal") and intelligence, group differences, life course development and decay of individual difference constructs, education and evolutionary theory.

2008- Present - Teaching Assistant MSc. Organizational Psychology

Research Methods
- Multiple Regression
- Structural Equation Modeling 

2010-2011 -Course Leader & Lecturer - MSc. Organizational Psychology

Research Methods 1
- Basic Statistics & Correlations.
- Survey Methods.
- Reliability & Validity.
- Factor Analysis
- Multiple Regression
- Group Differences.

2009-2010 - Lecturer MSc. Organizational Psychology

Research Methods
- Factor Analysis
- Missing Data
- Revision Lectures 

2013-Present: Department of Psychology/Building First Aider (Training Pending).

2012-Present: Co-Organizer of Psychology Statistics Journal Club.

2011-Present: Attendance and presentations at Psychology Statistics Journal Club, Differential Psychology Journal Club and Cognitive Ageing Journal Club, Department of Psychology, University of Edinburgh.

2009-2010: Chair of Postgraduate Research Students Committee; Manchester Business School Doctoral Students.

2008-2009: People, Management and Organizations Student Representative.

2010: Discussant for the Manchester Business School Doctoral Conference.