Libby is an Associate Professor of Learning and Teaching, and Deputy Head of the Department of Psychology.

As a senior fellow of the Higher Education Academy, Libby primarily engages in research related to learning and teaching. She has a strong interest in student community and wellbeing, the use of technology in higher education and academic staff development. Libby is programme leader for the BSc Psychology programme at Kaplan in Singapore, runs the second year undergraduate quantitative laboratory skills module and teaches Individual Differences on the MSc Psychology via Distance Learning.

Her doctoral thesis investigated the integration of long-term and short-term visual memory. Since then, much of her research in psychology has focused on how novel visual information is grouped in memory to reduce information load, the cognitive processes involved and the ERP components associated with encoding and retrieval of such material. 

My research interests include

• The transition to higher education

• How we support teaching through the use of technology

• Student community and wellbeing

• Distance learning 

• Staff training and development in higher education