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Third year project supervision (2016-2017)

General area of interest: Clinical and Health Psychology with a special interest in sleep, insomnia, pain, anxiety and depression.

The following questions serve to provide an example of the kind of research project that can be pursued under my supervision. Students are, however, strongly encouraged to come up with their own research ideas for discussion.

pain empathy1. Does sleep deprivation make people less sensitive to other people’s pain?
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0191886906002169
http://0-www.jstor.org.pugwash.lib.warwick.ac.uk/stable/29745572?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents




2._nap.jpeg2. Can a short nap reverse hyperalgesia induced by acute sleep deprivation?

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1087079205000754
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1877886016300532




defeat

3. What are the cognitive triggers and physiological correlates of mental defeat?
http://psycnet.apa.org/journals/bul/137/3/391/





suicide

4. Does insomnia aggravate suicidal thoughts and behaviour?
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/sltb.12003/full
http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11920-013-0389-9

 

 

 

Research approach: Can be qualitative or quantitative

Potential participants: Students of my lab has access to a pool of potential participants, who have given consent to be contacted for research projects. These participants may or may not have problems sleeping (e.g., insomnia or sleep apnea) and may or may not have chronic pain. If you have a research question highly specifically relevant to these conditions, you may utilise this participant pool if ethical approval is gained. Alternatively, you may also recruit your own participants through the university’s research participation system or conduct online survey using Qualtrics