Dr Heather Wilkinson

Heather is the module leader for the Secrets of the Brain Module (PS4018) and she also supervises students on the following Undergraduate module: the Research Dissertation (PS6001). Heather also supervises Masters Dissertations on the Masters Conversion Course and the Family and Child Masters Course.

Heather’s main research interests focus upon both the areas of mental health and cognitive psychology namely; student attitudes towards mental health, the cognitive processes involved in emotion and also the long-term forgetting of verbal and information in patients with Temporal Lobe Epilepsy. Heather is also a member of the Experimental Psychology Society.

Journal Articles

Vaughan, S., Holt, G. A., Scudds, A., Wilkinson, H., & Lasikiewicz, N. (2022). Moving to remote working: a guide for traditional lab-based experiments.  SAGE Research Methods: Doing Research Online. https://methods.sagepub.com/case/remote-working-guide-traditional-lab-ba...

Clucas, C., Corr, P., Wilkinson, H. Schepman, A. (2022). Appraisal self‑respect: Scale validation and construct implication. Current Psychology, https://doi.org/10.1007/s12144-022-03093-z

Damjanovic, L., Wilkinson, H., Lloyd, J. (2018). Sweet Emotion: The role of odor-induced context in the search advantage for happy facial expressions, Chemical Senses, 43(3), 139 -150. https://doi.org/10.1093/chemse/bjx081

Flynn, S., Hulbert-Williams, N., Tytherleigh, M., Roberts, S., Wilkinson, H., & Taylor, E. (2013). Living life after cancer treatment: A support group evaluation study. Asia-Pacific Journal of Clinical Oncology, 8. 283.

Wilkinson, H., Holdstock, J. S., Baker, G., Herbert, A., Clague, F., & Downes, J. J. (2012). Long-term accelerated forgetting of verbal and non-verbal information in temporal lobe epilepsy. Cortex; a journal devoted to the study of the nervous system and behavior, 48(3), 317–332. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cortex.2011.01.002

Oral Presentations

2010 - Wilkinson, H., Holdstock, J.H., Baker, G., Herbert, A., Clague, F., Downes, J.J. (2010). Long-term forgetting of verbal and non–verbal recall in temporal lobe epilepsy patients. Presented at the Thematic Session 8th Spanish Experimental Society (SEPEX) and Experimental Psychological Society (EPS) Conference in Granada Spain, April 15 -17th 20101C: Memory Disorders. Abstracts p.201.

2005 - O’Carroll, P., Taylor, H. (2005). Dual emotional processing in PTSD: Treatment specificity and emotion change, Symposia Presentation at the 5th International Congress of Cognitive Psychotherapy, Gothenburg, Sweden 13-17th June. Abstracts p.32.

Poster Presentations

2010: Damjanovic, L., Wilkinson, H., Lloyd, J. (2010). Top–down modulations of the happiness advantage in emotional visual search. 8th Spanish Experimental Society (SEPEX) and Experimental Psychological Society (EPS) Conference in Granada Spain. Poster Session (2-71).

2004 – Taylor, H., Downes, J.J., Holdstock, J. (2004). Developmental amnesia and long-term forgetting: A case study. The British Psychological Society Conference in London. Abstracts p.186 - 7.

2003 – Taylor, H., Downes, J.J., Baker, G. (2003). Long term forgetting in epilepsy, The British Psychological Society Conference in Bournemouth. Abstracts p.74.

Heather studied for her PhD at the University of Liverpool and conducted research into the long-term forgetting of verbal and non-verbal information in patients with Temporal Lobe Epilepsy. She has also completed her Postgraduate Certificate in Learning and Teaching in the Context of Higher Education.