Leeds Beckett University - City Campus,
Woodhouse Lane,
LS1 3HE
In this seminar, we will discuss the nature of the project, as well as its challenges and benefits, including tips for supervisors considering this type of project.
We conclude that multi-institution dissertation collaborations are exciting ways of teaching students how research works in ‘the real world’, and can be excellent stepping stones for students’ future academic careers.
The Centre of Psychological Research (PsyCen), within School of Humanities and Social Sciences, supports research projects dedicated to improving psychological wellbeing for different communities in conjunction with a range of external collaborators and funders.
Our work showcases diverse methodologies, from psychometric and experimental designs to qualitative and critical psychology approaches, to advance knowledge across different branches of psychological science, from social and community psychology to cognitive neuroscience and biological psychology.
Dr Trish Holch is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and leader for the BSc (Hons) Final Year Project module and the quantitative strand of the Advanced Research Methods and Applied Health Psychology in Medical Practice modules. She also lectures on the Health Psychology and Behavioural Neuroscience modules on the BSc (Hons) Psychology course.
Prior to joining Leeds Beckett in 2016, Trish worked as a Research Fellow in the Patient Reported Outcomes Group at the University of Leeds, and she continues as an Honorary Research Fellow there. Trish was awarded her PhD in Psychology from the University of Leeds in 2009, and a BSc (Hons) Psychology degree from the same institution in 2003.
Trish is the co-lead of the Centre for Psychological Research (PsyCen) Health & Clinical Psychology group at Leeds Beckett devoted to achieving the objectives and meeting the research needs specific to the REF2021. She is an executive committee member of the British Psychosocial Oncology Society (BPOS) and a member of the International Psycho-Oncology Society (IPOS), the ISOQOL (International Society for Quality of Life Research) and their Best Practices for PROs- Reporting Taskforce (Patient Reported Outcomes).
Trish regularly sits on the scientific committees of ISOQOL, BPOS and the National PROMs Research Conference and peer reviews manuscripts for Psycho-Oncology and the International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics. In 2017 Trish co-edited a special section on digital technologies in the Journal of Cancer Survivorship Research and Practice and the accompanying editorial, ‘Introduction to special section on digital technology and cancer survivorship’
Dr Sofia Persson is a Psychology lecturer at Leeds Beckett University, a Chartered Psychologist with the British Psychological Society, and a fellow of the Higher Education Academy. Her main research interests are blame attributions in rape cases (including Rape Myth Acceptance), sexism, and anti-feminism. She's particularly interested in open research methodologies, and data visualisation.
Sofia has previously worked as a Research Associate at Manchester Metropolitan University, where she also completed her PhD. She has an MSc in Forensic Psychology. Sofia is the Methods & Open Practices section editor for Social and Personality Psychology Compass, and she also reviews for a number of journals. Sofia is an Open Science advocate, and she is the programme lead for the Open Research and Scholarship (ORES) initiative within the Centre for Psychological Research (PsyCen).
