Dr Sophie Cormack

My main teaching is in Cognitive Psychology and Research Methods (particularly Quantitative Research Methods: Experimental Design and Statistics), which I have taught from first year undergraduate to masters level. I am module leader for PSYM61 Experimental Design and Analysis in Psychology and PSYM66 Everyday Motivations and Biases (both on the MSc Psychology masters conversion course) and I also teach into undergraduate second year statistics and cognitive psychology, and supervise projects.

I also teach some additional topics which cut across different areas of the discipline such as topics in cognitive forensic psychology (e.g. lie detection, eye-witness testimony, false confessions), perception of time, and academic procrastination, and supervise projects in these areas on the modules Empirical Project and Research Project.

In 2018/19, I was a Vice-Chancellor's Teaching Fellow, working with students as partners and co-creators to develop immersive and interactive audiovisual learning materials.

I am able to supervise projects in academic procrastination, lie detection through verbal cues, perception of time over short time-intervals, and pedagogical projects.

My main current area of research is in the use of learning analytics to detect student motivation and time-management patterns and their relationship with academic performance. I am also working on a project comparing the effects of emotive auditory and visual images on the perception of time.

I also carry out pedagogical action research when I can, to evaluate the impact of changes I make in my teaching.

I am on a 0.8 contract (4 days a week)
I am a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy