Research summary
I am interested in what makes parents parent the way they do, and in particular, what determines their emotion socialisation behaviours, and the beliefs they hold about children's emotions, focusing particularly on dispositional mindfulness and adult attachment style.
Current research interests
In my current project, I am looking at the relationships between dispositional mindfulness (that is, an individual's tendency to be aware and accepting of their internal experiences, such as their thoughts and feelings) and parents' beliefs about their children's emotions (such as that children can control their emotions, or that they use emotional displays to manipulate others), and how these beliefs, in turn, may be related to the ways parents respond their children's emotions.
Past research interests
I have a varied research background, having previously done a PhD in Computer Science (modelling the emergence of case-like behaviour in artificial languages) and two post-doctoral positions, one creating neural network models of how children acquire the English past tense, and another working on a project to port these types of models onto a new neuromorphic computer architecture developed at the University of Manchester.
