Dr Lauren Kelly

Lecturer in Psychology

School of Social Sciences

Email:: Lauren.Kelly@bcu.ac.uk

Lauren is experienced in teaching a range of undergraduate and postgraduate psychology modules. Her favourite areas are cognition and psychopathology. She is pleased to now be part of the online MSc Psychology teaching team. She loves online teaching because it enables her to interact with and aid in the learning of many students from across the world.

Initially, Lauren chose to pursue academia because she discovered a passion for research during undergraduate studies that she wished to foster. She has investigated effects of anxiety on children’s attentional biases for emotional stimuli. Focus now is on interventions including modification of such biases. She has also recently enjoyed conducting more pedagogical research. Her research helps to inform teaching.

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Publications

Kelly, L. C., Maratos, F. A., Lipka, S., & Croker, S. (2016). Attentional bias towards threatening and neutral facial expressions in high trait anxious children. Journal of Experimental Psychopathology, 7(3), 343-359. https://doi.org/10.5127/jep.052915

Selected Invited Talks

Kelly, L. C., Maratos, F. A., Lipka, S., & Croker, S. (2016, May). Attentional bias towards threatening and neutral faces in anxious children. Undergraduate Psychology Students’ Dissertation Conference. University of West London, UK.

Kelly, L. C. & Iguchi, Y. (2014, September). Assessment and feedback. Academic Conference. University of Derby, UK.

Kelly, L. C., Maratos, F. A., & Lipka, S. (2014, July). The effects of anxiety on temporal attention for emotive and neutral faces in children. 35th International Conference of the Stress and Anxiety Research (STAR) Society. Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania.

Selected Conference Presentations

Kelly, L. C. (2019, July). The effects of Poll Everywhere on undergraduate psychology students’ lecture experience: A small-scale intervention. Festival of Learning and Teaching. University of West London, UK.

Kelly, L. C., Lipka, S., Croker, S., & Maratos, F. A. (2012, May). Anxiety, covert spatial attention and emotional face processing in children. CERE Fourth European Conference on Emotion. University of Kent, UK.

Kelly, L. C., Lipka, S., Croker, S., & Maratos, F. A. (2011, December). Attentional bias for threat faces in trait anxious children. BPS Clinical Psychology Section Annual Conference. Birmingham, UK.

Croker, S., Maratos, F. A. & Kelly, L. C. (2011, October). The effects of anxiety and emotion on temporal visual attention. Cognitive Development Society Seventh Biennial Meeting. Philadelphia, USA.

Kelly, L. C., Croker, S., Lipka, S., & Maratos, F. A. (2010, September). The effects of anxiety on the attentional blink in children. BPS Cognitive Psychology Section Annual Conference. University of Cardiff, UK.

Kelly, L. C., Croker, S., Lipka, S., & Maratos, F. A. (2010, April). The effects of anxiety and dysphoria on the attentional blink in children. CERE Third European Conference on Emotion. University of Lille, France.