Dr Amy Cook

Head of Psychology Department

School of Social Sciences

Email:: amy.cook@bcu.ac.uk
Phone:: +44 (0)121 331 5533

Amy's research interest is closely aligned to teaching and practice and is focused on the student experience including learning and wellbeing.

Amy is a key contributor to projects investigating the role of mindfulness in increasing academic performance and factors which impact on student satisfaction. Her current research is focused on embedding Mental Health First Aid in psychology curriculums and supporting local secondary schools to do this in their curriculum.

Amy's research interests also encompass visual attentional difficulties in children, which she investigates using behavioural and computational modelling studies.

Areas of Expertise

Qualifications

Teaching

Research

Postgraduate Supervision

Publications

Mantzios, M. Cook, A. & Egan, H. (in press). Mental Health First Aid in the United Kingdom: When distressed mental health services make ‘first aid’ insufficient. Comprehensive Clinical Medicine, 1-2.

Czerwinski, N., Egan, H., Cook, A. & Mantzios, M. (in press). Teachers and mindful colouring to tackle burnout, and increase mindfulness, resiliency and wellbeing. Contemporary School Psychology, 1-5.

Mantzios, M., Cook, A., Egan, H. (2019). Mental Health First Aid embedment within undergraduate psychology curriculums: An opportunity of applied experience for psychology students for enhancing mental health care in Higher Education institutions. Higher Education Pedagogies, 1-5.

Mantzios, M., Cook, A., Egan, H. (2019). Mental Health First Aid for students in the health professions: Exploring opportunities for experimental learning in Higher Education. Health Professions Education, 1-3. doi: 10.1016/j.hpe.2019.03.001

Mantzios, M., Egan, H., Cook, A., Jutley-Neilson, J. & O’Hara, M. (2018). The role of Mindfulness in increasing student satisfaction: implications for mindfulness-based practices in Higher Education and the National Student Survey. Journal of Further and Higher Education. doi: 10.1080/0309877X.2018.1541970

Iranzo-Bennett, R., Egan, H., Cook, A., & Mantzios, M. (2018). Mindfulness as an intervention for recalling information from a lecture as a measure of academic performance in Higher Education: A randomized Experiment. Higher Education for the Future, 5 (I), 75-88. doi: 10.1177/2347631117738649

Ali, Z., Wong, K.W., Egan, H., Cook, A., & Mantzios, M. (2017). All you can eat buffets, obesity, mindfulness, and mindful eating: An exploratory investigation. Journal of Psychology and Psychiatry, 1-7. doi: 10.15761/JPP.1000101

Mavritsaki E., Cook, A., & Humphreys, G. (2015). Towards grasping the underlying processes in ADHD using a visual search task: a computational modelling approach. Journal of Vision, 15 (12): 1258.

Cook, A., & Meyer, A.S. (2008). Capacity demands of word production: New evidence from dual-task experiments. Journal of Experimental Psychology, Learning, Memory, and Cognition. 34, 886-899. doi:10.1037/0278-7393.34.4.886.