Dr Amy Cook

• Student satisfaction and academic performance
• Mental health and wellbeing in students
• Mental Health First Aid instructor
• Visual attention in children 

• PhD
• MRes in Psychological Research Methods

Continuous Professional Development (CPD) Courses:

• Certified Trainer in Mental Health First Aid Training
• SEDA PhD Supervisor Community of Practice
• PhD VIVA VOCE Chair Training
• Exam Board Chair Training

• Member of the British Psychological Society
• Member of the Higher Education Academy

All UG Psychology courses:

• Quantitative Research Methods and Analysis

MSc Counselling, Children and Young People:

• Diversity, Cultural, Familial & Contextual Dynamics
• Research Project

• Mental Health First Aid embedment within undergraduate psychology curriculums
• Barriers and facilitators to help-seeking behaviours in students in Higher Education
• Factors negatively impacting on retention and progression in students in Higher Education
• Processes underlying visual attentional difficulties in children
• Experiences of racially and ethnically marginalised university students who withdraw from university
• Parental expectations of school counsellors and their role in supporting student mental health and wellbeing
  

• Co-supervisor of Grace Richards: Strategies for tackling mental health and wellbeing in education

Klein, J., Allen, H., Clibbens, J., Cook, A., Amanatidou, V. & Mavritsaki, E. (2025). Selective visual attention in ADHD: A narrative review. Current neurology and Neuroscience reports. 25, 51

Jutley-Neilson, J., Rodenhurst, N., Clarke-Jeffers, P., Gray, G., Von Muhlenen, A., Watson, D. G., Cook, A., Sataro, K., & Hodson, L. (2025). A co-produced mixed-methods study exploring Black, Asian, and Minority Ethnic psychology students’ experiences at two UK universities. Psychology Teaching Review.

Cook, A., Keyte, R., Sprawson, I., Matharu, A., Mantzios, M. (2024). Mental Health First Aid experiences: a qualitative investigation into the emotional impact of Mental Health First Aid responsibilities and the significance of self-compassion. SN Social Sciences, 4, 171, 1-16.

Cook, A., Wood, J., Egan, H., & Mantzios, M. (2023). Examining the relationship between academic entitlement and mental health with accessing the impact of mindfulness. Journal of Further and Higher Education, doi.org/10.1080/0309877X.2023.2241382.

* Bryant, A., Cook, A., Egan, H., Wood, J., & Mantzios, M. (2021) Help-seeking behaviours for mental health in higher education, Journal of Further and Higher Education , doi: 10.1080/0309877X.2021.1985983

* Kauser, S., * Yaqoob, S., Cook, A., O’Hara, M., Mantzios, M., & Egan, H (2021). Learning from the experiences of Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) university students who withdraw from their undergraduate degree. SN Social Sciences 1. doi.org/10.1007/s43545-021-00115-8

Egan, H., O’Hara, M., Cook, A., & Mantzios, M (2021). Mindfulness, self-compassion, resiliency and wellbeing in higher education: a recipe to increase academic performance, Journal of Further and Higher Education, doi: 10.1080/0309877X.2021.1912306

Keyte, R., * Mullis, L., Egan, H., Hussain, M., Cook, A., & Mantzios, M. (2020). Self-Compassion and Instagram Use Is Explained by the Relation to Anxiety, Depression, and Stress. Journal of technology in Behavioural Science. doi.org/10.1007/s41347-020-00186-z

* Rizal, F., Egan, H., Cook, A., Keyte, R., & Mantzios, M. (2020). Examining the impact of mindfulness and self-compassion on the relationship between mental health and resiliency. Current Issues in Personality Psychology. doi.org/10.5114/cipp.2020.100792

Mantzios, M., Egan, H., & Cook, A. (2020). Mental Health First Aid in the UK: how important is First Aid when Professional Mental Health Services are in dire straits? SN Comprehensive Clinical Medicine, 2(6), 759-760.

* Czerwinski, N., Egan, H., Cook, A. & Mantzios, M. (2020). Teachers and mindful colouring to tackle burnout, and increase mindfulness, resiliency and wellbeing. Contemporary School Psychology, 1-5.

Mantzios, M., Cook, A., Egan, H. (2020). 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.

(Note: * indicates BCU student author)