Current Positions
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR
Dept of Psychological and Behavioural Science, London School of Economics & Political Science
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR
Psychology Program, Division of Science, New York University Abu Dhabi
ASSOCIATE EDITOR
European Journal of Social Psychology
Visiting Researcher
Dept of Psychology, University of Oslo; Dept of Political Science & Govt, Aarhus University
ASSOCIATE
LSE International Inequalities Institute; Community Engagement Centre, Indus Health Network
cAREER BREAKS
December 2016 - June 2017 Maternity Leave; February 2019 - August 2019 Maternity Leave; March 2020 - June 2020 Extraordinary Parental Leave (Covid-19 pandemic lockdown)
Download CV (January 2024)
Education
| PhD in Psychology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA | 2014 |
| Committee: Jim Sidanius (adviser), Mahzarin Banaji, Steven Pinker, Jennifer Hochschild. | |
| Dissertation: Society in Mind: The manifestation of intergroup and societal status differences in social, cognitive, and regulatory domains. | |
| Dissertation awarded the Harvard University 2014-2015 Richard J. Herrnstein Prize for 'excellent scholarship, originality and breadth of thought, and a commitment to intellectual independence'. | |
| MA in Psychology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA | 2012 |
| MSc in Social Psychology, London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK | 2006 |
| BA(Hons) in Psychology & Philosophy, Trinity College, University of Dublin, Dublin, Ireland | 2003 |
Grants & Awards
Research Grant (Academic Collaboration with Arab Universities Programme), Emirates Foundation (2020-2023, PI; Co-PIs PJ Henry, NYU-Abu Dhabi, & Christian Haerpfer, UAEU).
Research Grant (Conference on Inequality & Decision-Making), The Tobin Project (2016)
Research Grant (Evidence Review on Poverty & Decision-Making), The Joseph Rowntree Foundation (2016)
Research Visibility Award, Institute for Environment, Health & Societies, Brunel University (2015)
Honourable Mention, Dissertation Award, International Society of Political Psychology (2015)
Richard J. Herrnstein Dissertation Prize, Harvard University (2015)
Postdoctoral Fellowship, British Academy for the Humanities & Social Sciences (2015-2017)
Postdoctoral Fellowship, Department of Psychology, University of Oslo (2014)
Graduate Student Travel Award, Society for Personality and Social Psychology (2014)
Graduate Student Fellowship, Forum on Democracy & Markets, The Tobin Project (2013-2014)
Graduate Student Award, Harvard University Interfaculty Initiative in Mind, Brain, & Behaviour (2013)
Harvard University Certificate of Distinction in Teaching (2013)
Nominee, Star Family Prize for Excellence in Advising, Harvard College (2013, 2014)
Dissertation Completion Fellowship, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Harvard University (2013-2014)
Summer Conference Grant, Graduate Student Council, Harvard University (2012)
Norman Henry Anderson Graduate Psychology Fund Research Grant, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Harvard University (2011, 2012
Doctoral Fellowship, Multidisciplinary Program in Inequality & Social Policy, Harvard University (National Science Foundation & Harvard Kennedy School of Government, 2011-2014)
Edmond J. Safra Lab Fellowship (non-residential), Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics, Harvard Law School (Prof. Lawrence Lessig’s Lab Project on Institutional Corruption, 2010-2011)
Norman Henry Anderson Graduate Psychology Fund PhD Scholarship, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Harvard University (2009-2011)
Stimson Fund Research Grant, Department of Psychology, Harvard University (2010)
Fellowship Supplement, Center for Human Values, Princeton University (2009, declined)
Hilde T. Himmelweit Prize for Highest MSc Grade, LSE (2006)
Socrates Grant for Study Abroad, European Union (2002)
Entrance Exhibition Scholarship, Trinity College Dublin (1999, 2000)
Teaching & Advising
| Course Head, Psychology Program, New York University Abu Dhabi | 2023- |
Social Psychology (undergraduate elective) | |
| Introduction to Psychology (undergraduate core course) | |||
| Course Head, Department of Psychological & Behavioural Science, London School of Economics and Political Science | 2020- |
Political Psychology: Inequality and Intergroup Relations (MSc elective) | |
| Instructor & Seminar Leader, Department of Psychological & Behavioural Science, London School of Economics and Political Science | 2016- |
Social Psychology of Communication (MSc core course) | |
| Contemporary Social & Cultural Psychology (MSc core course) | |||
| Course Head, Department of Psychological & Behavioural Science, London School of Economics and Political Science | 2016 |
-2020 |
Health Communication (MSc elective) |
| Visiting Faculty, Department of Community Health Sciences, Agha Khan University | 2015 |
Psychological Consequences of Poverty in Community Health Contexts (continuing education short course) | |
| Instructor, Department of Psychology, University of Oslo | 2014 |
Social Psychology Project (MSc research methods) | |
| Research Superviser, Sidanius Intergroup Relations Lab, Harvard University | 2010 |
-2014 |
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| Sophomore Adviser, John Winthrop House, Harvard College | 2012 |
-2014 |
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| Teaching Fellow, Department of Psychology, Harvard University | 2013 |
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| Multivariate Analysis in Psychology (PhD core course led by Jim Sidanius) | Teaching Fellow, Department of Psychology, Harvard University | 2012 |
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| Psychological Science (undergraduate core course led by Dan Gilbert) | Concentration Adviser, Department of Psychology & Lowell House, Harvard College | 2011 |
-2012 |
| Teaching Assistant, Irish Centre for Talented Youth, Dublin City University, Ireland | 2002 |
-2005 |
Policy & Consulting Experience
| Expert Contributor, The Fairness Foundation | 2022- |
Present |
| Steering Group, Psychology of Social Class - UK Policy Implications (POSCUPI), British Psychological Society | 2021- |
Present |
| Poverty Expert Reference Group, British Psychological Society | 2020- |
2021 |
| Steering Group, Media & Social Norms Collaborator | 2017- |
2020 |
| Research Steering Group, Syria Peace Education Project, International Alert | 2015- |
2016 |
| Senior Strategic Analyst, Defence Science & Technology Laboratory, Ministry of Defence, UK | 2007- |
2009 |
| Policy Intern, Women for Women International, London, UK | 2007 |
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| Researcher, HOST UK, London, UK | 2006- |
2007 |
| Research Intern, The Constitution Unit, Dept of Political Science, University College London, UK | 2006 |
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| Social Science Researcher, Embassy of the Replubic of Korea, Dublin, Ireland | 2005 |
Invited Talks
| Invited Speaker, Postgraudate Research Seminar, Institute for Social Sciences, Lisbon, Portugal | Dec |
2024 |
| Invited Plenary Speaker, Political Psychology Pre-conference, Society for Personality and Social Psychology Annual Convention, Denver, CO | Feb |
2025 |
| Keynote Speaker, Psychology and Economics of Poverty Convening, Center for Effective Global Action, University of California, Berkeley | April |
2024 |
| Keynote Speaker, European Consortium for Sociological Research thematic conference on “Effort and Social Inequality”, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid | June |
2023 |
| Invited Speaker , Online Panel on "Populism and Electoral Politics Around the World", European Center for Populism Studies | October |
2023 |
| Keynote Speaker, European Consortium for Sociological Research thematic conference on “Effort and Social Inequality”, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid | June |
2023 |
| Invited Speaker, British Psychological Society Seminar on “Psychology of Social Class – Troubling ‘Employability’”, Aberystwyth University, Wales | May |
2023 |
| Colloquium Speaker, Mansueto Institute for Urban Innovation, University of Chicago | March |
2023 |
| Seminar Series, Laboratoire de Psychologie Sociale et Cognitive (LAPSCO), University of Clermont-Auvergne | March |
2023 |
| Colloquium Speaker, College of Humanities & Social Sciences, United Arab Emirates University | Feb |
2023 |
| Keynote Speaker, International Conference of the Centre for the Experimental Philosophical Study of Discrimination, Aarhus University | Oct |
2022 |
| Seminar Series, Centre for Social Norms and Behavioural Dynamics, U Penn | April |
2022 |
| Social Lunch, Department of Psychology, Harvard University | March |
2022 |
| An Idea of Equality for Troubled Times, International Inequalities Institute, LSE | February |
2022 |
| Research Seminar, Institute for Advanced Study, Toulouse | March |
2021 |
| Changemakers Speaker Series, Dept of Psychology & Language Sciences, UCL | Sept |
2020 |
| Psychology Seminar, Northumbria University | July |
2020 |
| 10th International Symposium on Biology of Decision-making, Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris | May |
2020 |
| Social Psychology Colloquium, University of Amsterdam | March |
2020 |
| Keynote Lecture, PIREN retreat, Institute for Advanced Study, Toulouse | January |
2020 |
| Centre for Culture & Evolution Seminar Series, Brunel University | January |
2020 |
| Political Cognition Seminar, University College London | August |
2019 |
| Psychology Society, University College London | December |
2018 |
| Behavioural Economics Society, London School of Economics & Political Science | December |
2018 |
| Student-led Seminar Series, Department of Psychology and Language Sciences, University College London | March |
2018 |
| Applying Behavioural Economics Within Organisations, Said Business School (Harvard Business School behavioural insights immersive field course), University of Oxford | January |
2018 |
| Keynote Lecture, Irish Policy, Economics, & Psychology Conference, UCD | December |
2017 |
| Who Belongs?, The Wonder Foundation | November |
2017 |
| Research Dialogue, Department of Media & Communications, LSE | November |
2017 |
| Political Behaviour Seminar, Department of Government, LSE | November |
2016 |
| Evolutionary Demography Group, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine | November |
2016 |
| Social. Environmental, and Organisational Research Group, Department of Psychology, University of Exeter | October |
2016 |
| The Psychology of Equality, Security & Human Rights, SPSSI - UK | July |
2016 |
| Perceptions of Inequality: An Interdisciplinary Dialogue, TORCH, University of Oxford | June |
2016 |
| Psychology Research Talk, New York University - Abu Dhabi | April |
2016 |
| Psychology Department Research Seminar, University of Kent | February |
2016 |
| Designing a Better Organization, London Business School & Harvard Business School (postgraduate behavioural insights course) | January |
2016 |
| Psychology Seminar, Department of Psychology, University of Portsmouth | November |
2015 |
Contemporary Social Psychology (guest lecture on intergroup relations and power), London School of Economics | November |
2015 |
International Academy for Intercultural Research, 9th Biennial Conference, University of Bergen | June |
2015 |
| Evolutionary Psychology (guest lecture on evolutionary political psychology), Brunel University | March |
2015 |
| Psychology Seminar, Department of Life Sciences, Brunel University | February |
2015 |
| Conference on Behavioural Economics in International Development, Association for Development Economics Research Funding (KfW), Montabaur, Germany | January |
2015 |
Wednesday Education Sessions, Department of Psychiatry, Agha Khan University | October |
2014 |
Work in Progress Forum, Department of Community Health Sciences, Agha Khan University | October |
2014 |
| Social Psychology Research Group, Department of Psychology, University of Oslo | September |
2014 |
| Graduate Proseminar, Department of African & African American Studies, Harvard University | February |
2014 |
| Graduate Forum on Democracy & Markets, The Tobin Project | February |
2014 |
| Centre for Global Health, Trinity College Dublin | January |
2014 |
| Behavioural Insights Team (Nudge Unit), UK Cabinet Office | June |
2013 |
| Graduate Proseminar, Department of African & African American Studies, Harvard University | February |
2013 |
| Working Group in Political Psychology, Department of Government, Harvard University | November |
2012 |
| Intergroup Relations Lab, Department of Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles | October |
2012 |
| Human Factors Branch, UK Ministry of Defence | June |
2012 |
| Social Psychology Research Workshop, Department of Psychology, Harvard University | April |
2012 |
| Decision-Making Workshop, Harvard Decision Science Laboratory, Harvard University | February |
2012 |
| Political Psychology & Behaviour Workshop, Department of Government, Harvard University | February |
2012 |
| Strategic Analysis Group, Defence Science & Technology Laboratory, UK Ministry of Defence | June |
2011 |
| Project in Psychiatry and the Law, Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital & Harvard Law School | May |
2011 |
| Social Psychology Research Workshop, Department of Psychology, Harvard University | April |
2010 |
| Introductory Psychology (guest lecture on evolutionary psychology), Dorset College Dublin | March |
2005 |