Your Psychology MSc teaching team

The Psychology teaching team are specialists not only in their area of psychology, but also in online learning delivery, so you can be assured of a supportive and structured learning experience.

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Dr Alice Doherty
Academic Lead for Psychology and Course Director

Dr Alice Doherty, Academic lead for psychology, is a multidisciplinary teacher with varied teaching experience in a range of subjects including Psychology and English as a Foreign Language.

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Dr Dean Fido
Lecturer in Psychology

Lecturer in Psychology, Dr Dean Fido, joined the University of Derby Online Learning in January 2018 as a Lecturer in Psychology. After completing his PhD at Nottingham Trent University, he completed post-doctoral research at the Wellcome Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging (University of Oxford).

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Dr Gulcan Garip
Academic Lead in Psychology

Dr Gülcan Garip is the Academic Lead for the MSc and PG Diploma Psychology programmes and teaches on the MSc Health Psychology programme. Gülcan is a registered Chartered Psychologist with the British Psychological Society (BPS), a registered Health Psychologist with the Health and Care Professions Council, and a member of the BPS Division of Health Psychology.

Dr Claire Hampson
Lecturer in Psychology

Melanie Haughton
Lecturer in Psychology

Lecturer in Psychology, Melanie Haughton, has worked in education since 2000. Melanie has worked as a Higher Education Learning Mentor as well as a Graduate Teaching Assistant at Lancaster University and originally worked as an Associate Academic at the University of Derby.

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Dr Daniel Herron
Lecturer in Psychology

Lecturer in Psychology, Dr Dan Herron, joined the University of Derby Online Learning in August 2019. During his PhD at Keele University, he worked as a teaching fellow for 4 years and taught on a range of undergraduate and postgraduate taught modules.  

Dr Ryan Lumber

Lecturer for Psychology, Dr Ryan Lumber, was awarded a full scholarship for a PhD at Derby in 2013, after which Ryan worked as a Lecturer in Psychology at De Montfort University before returning to the University of Derby in 2019.