Staff profile

Dr Ian Baker


Assistant Head of Discipline for Psychological and Behavioural Sciences

Ian standing outside, smiling.

Subject

Psychology

College

College of Health, Psychology and Social Care

Department

School of Psychology

Research centre

Health and Social Care Research Centre

ORCiD ID

0000-0002-4692-7202

Campus

Kedleston Road, Derby Campus

Email

i.s.baker@derby.ac.uk

About

I am the Assistant Head of Discipline for Psychological and Behavioural Sciences in the School of Psychology.

Research interests

I am the Lead of the Transformational Learning Research Group at the University of Derby.

I have a research interest in parapsychology, paranormal belief, religious belief, and the use of electrophysiology measures (EEG, ERP, Skin Conductance, etc).

I have supervised several students to the successful completion of their MRes projects, and I have supervised three students to the successful completion of their PhDs:

I am also currently supervising the following PhD student with other colleagues:

Recent publications

Membership of professional bodies

Qualifications

I am qualified in psychometric test use, and I hold the following qualifications that are awarded by the British Psychological Society (BPS):

Recent conferences

Experience in industry

Teaching responsibilities

I am the Programme Leader for our BSc (Hons) in Psychology degree (including the with Foundation Year variant). I am also the Module Leader for Anomalistic Psychology and Parapsychology. Whilst most of my teaching focuses on quantitative research methods, I teach across a range of modules at undergraduate and postgraduate levels.

Additional interests and activities

I am a reviewer for the following journals:

In addition, I am an Article Editor for SAGE Open.

I have been on the conference committee (and one of the reviewers) for the annual convention of the Parapsychological Association (PA) for several years. I was the Editor of the European Journal of Parapsychology (EJP).

I have acted as an Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) Rapporteur.

In 2004, I received the Eileen J. Garrett Scholarship Award from the Parapsychology Foundation, New York.

I have received over £200,000 of internal and external funding to date, and I have been a BIAL Foundation Research Fellow on several occasions.

Courses