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Lecturer
Institute of Education and Humanities
Tel: +44 (0) 1792 482017
Email: kate.williams@uwtsd.ac.uk
Role in the University
- Programme Manager:
- BSc Psychology
- BSc Psychology and Counselling
- Lecturer and Module Lead
- Academic Support tutor
- Undergraduate Dissertation Supervisor
- Masters Dissertation Supervisor
- PhD Supervisor
Background
From 2005–2014 I studied for my BSc in Psychology, MSc in Research Methods and Statistics in Psychology, and PhD in Cognitive Psychology at Swansea University.
Prior to joining the Psychology and Counselling department at UWTSD (Swansea) in September 2015, I worked in the College of Medicine at Swansea University as a database assistant.
Academic Interests
My primary teaching areas are in the fields of cognitive and biological psychology, at an experimental and applied level. From Level Four to Level Six delivery, this includes teaching the theoretical and empirical research linked to cognitive functioning and the biological substrates that support those cognitions and how they relate to understanding behaviour in the real-world. At Level Seven and Eight, my teaching focuses on research methods, design, and analysis and I would be available to take on research degree candidates.
Research Interests
My research interests are in the areas of object recognition and memory. I am specifically interested in theoretical representations underlying long-term explicit episodic object recognition memory. I am also interested in the Retrieval-Induced Forgetting (RIF) effect, with most of my research work focusing on a modified version of the paradigm that involves recognition to examine whether it can be used to probe feature-based properties and inform us of the micro-structure of object memory representations.
My other research interests focus on applied cognition, specifically in relation to learning in educational contexts and cognitive functioning while driving.
Expertise
My area of professional expertise focuses on quantitative experimental cognitive psychology, specifically, long-term episodic memory. I am also a fluent Welsh speaker and currently working on a project to develop a Welsh language learning course linked to psychology, counselling, and mental health.