Staff profile

Paul Staples


Senior Lecturer in Psychology

Subject

Psychology

College

College of Health, Psychology and Social Care

Department

School of Psychology

Research centre

Human Sciences Research Centre

ORCiD ID

0000-0002-3915-7676

Campus

Kedleston Road, Derby Campus

Email

p.staples@derby.ac.uk

About

I am currently a Senior Lecturer in Psychology. I have been teaching psychology for the past 27 years, initially at the University of Manchester, then at Staffordshire University and from 2006 here at the University of Derby.

Research interests

My current (personal) research interests are in the area of eating behaviours. Specifically developmental food neophobia, stigma consciousness, weight stigma and weight bias. 

Recent publications

Teaching responsibilities

I teach across all levels of the UG Psychology curriculum. My teaching areas are Cognitive Psychology (Memory and Visual Perception), Parapsychology (Anomalous Cognition) and Research Methods and Statistics. As well as supervising final year undergraduate research projects I am also a supervisor on a range of doctoral research packages. 

Courses