Publication news 🥽

The third study from my PhD has been published in Applied Cognitive Psychology.

For those of you who attended #Cyber25 this is the quantitative element of my talk

Next stop: thesis submission!

doi.org/10.1002/acp....

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Back from two incredible days at #cyber25. Hearing about all of the innovative research going on in the community is so motivating at the end of a long academic year. Great to catch up with everyone and meet new people. Hopefully see you all next year! @bpscyberpsychology.bsky.social

This is me 10 years ago, one of the first times I ever used VR, using an Oculus Rift Development Kit. Come see what I've been up to more recently at the @bpscyberpsychology.bsky.social conference where I will be talking about my final 2 PhD studies using VR in eyewitness memory research #Cyber25

If you are British Pakistani, Pakistani and living in the UK or Pakistani and living in Pakistan and are willing to take part in an anonymous survey about mental health, please help Aruba out with her dissertation here: bedshealthsciences.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

This. A thousand times this.

For any psych students (and lecturers) interested in cyber here’s a really cool FREE virtual event hosted by the BPS you can attend next week looking at @lindakkaye.bsky.social work on emojis 🤩🌟📖🎮

Link here: www.bps.org.uk/event/virtua...

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PhD alert!

Fully funded 4-year PhD studentship at Birmingham Uni to work on 'Virtual Reality intervention to address youth gang involvement' under the supervision of the brilliant Dr Stephanie Burnett Heyes 🌟

www.birmingham.ac.uk/research/centre-ub/projects/virtual-reality

Thanks Helen!

My first published article is now available, outlining the initial two studies from my PhD exploring the use of VR in eyewitness memory research. Full article here: rdcu.be/d8v6u

#Cyberpsychology #VR

I asked the X ai, Grok, to generate an image I would like. It gave me a man with a beard and lip ring, talking into a tiny dumbbell like a microphone. Also Nicolas Cage. Yes Grok, I do like this!

One of my favourite games of all time! Purple tentacle is on my tattoo wish list

I have also left the safety of my long-standing technical job and moved to academica, where I'm lucky enough to teach my research areas and work with fabulous students and staff

(I've also made some serious headway with powerlifting and got back into reading for fun)

Here's to 2025

Presented at conferences (and won the best work in progress presentation award at the BPS Cyberpsychology conference), given guest talks, finished my data collection and set a deadline for PhD submission

This time last year I was given advice not to set resolutions to keep, but goals to follow. Technically I have achieved none of my goals, but in the process of working towards them this year I have:

Definitely interested to hear a Cyberpsychology podcast!

For the next 10 weeks my teaching will focus mostly on #cyberpsychology and I'm excited to see how often I can steer the conversation toward #VR 😂

Welcome! Always happy to chat VR. David Fox gave some useful resources about VR and XR in his reply to this thread that might be useful 😊

Thanks David, this is really helpful! Also I'm a huge fan of your work - Return to Monkey Island and Thimbleweed Park were an absolute joy to play

Nice to see some familiar faces here. For everyone else I'm Andy. A PhD researcher investigating eyewitness memory and virtual reality. I'm also an assistant lecturer in Psychology. Avid reader, video game enthusiast and listener of punk/emo/metal.

I'm still finding my way around, but the vibe here is definitely better!

This is great, please add me 😊