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Rebecca Dyer
(they/them)
BSc, MSc
Teams and roles for Rebecca Dyer
Lecturer
PhD Student
Overview
Lecturer in mental health psychology with Cardiff University's School of Psychology.
I am in the final stages of completing a PhD investigating the potential for sensory rooms to support the wellbeing of autistic pupils and pupils in the missing middle.
Trained in psychology, neuroscience, and linguistics, I bring an interdiscplinary perspective to research aimed at supporting neurodivergent people within their self-identified research priorities.
Publication
2025
- Trujillo, J. P., Dyer, R. M. K. and Holler, J. 2025. Dyadic differences in empathy scores are associated with kinematic similarity during conversational question–answer pairs. Discourse Processes 62(3), pp. 195-213. (10.1080/0163853x.2025.2467605)
Articles
- Trujillo, J. P., Dyer, R. M. K. and Holler, J. 2025. Dyadic differences in empathy scores are associated with kinematic similarity during conversational question–answer pairs. Discourse Processes 62(3), pp. 195-213. (10.1080/0163853x.2025.2467605)
Research
My PhD focuses on the use of sensory rooms with two populations: autistic young people, and children in the missing middle. As this is an exploratory area, this research used mixed-methods, including reflexive thematic analysis, network analysis, and community detection.
I want to conduct further research to support the broader neurodivergent community, focusing on areas they have identified as priorities.
Teaching
For undergraduate students, I supervise practicals and dissertation projects.
For postgraduate students, I teach lectures on mental health psychology, develop exam questions, and mark assignments.
I am also a personal tutor.
Biography
Current Education
- 2022-2025: PhD Student: Cardiff University's School of Psychology and the Wales Autism Research Centre
Previous Education
- 2020-2022: MSc (Cum Laude) Brain and Cognitive Sciences: Cognitive Neuroscience Track, University of Amsterdam
- 2017-2020: BSc (Hons) Psychology and Language Sciences, University College London
Academic positions
- 2025 - Present: Lecturer, Cardiff University, School of Psychology
- 2022 - 2025: Graduate Teaching Assistant, Cardiff University School of Psychology
- 2021 - 2022: Research Intern investigating multimodal communication with the CoSI Lab, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics in conjunction with the Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition, and Behaviour
- 2022 - 2022: Research Intern investigating pragmatic language in autism with the LiA Lab, University of Amsterdam
- 2021 - 2021: Teaching Assistant, University of Amsterdam
Speaking engagements
- 2025: Panelist, Cardiff University Interdisciplinary Research Event for Disability and Neurodiversity: Intersectionality
- 2025: Speaker, Cardiff University, SPARK Research Showcase for Disability
- 2024: Speaker, Cardiff University ,Research Skills Workshops
- 2024: Poster Presentation, Sheffield Autism Research Lab Conference
- 2024: Speaker, Cardiff University Interdisciplinary Research Event for Disability and Neurodiversity
- 2024: Poster Presenter, INSAR 2024 Annual Meeting, Melbourne, Australia
- 2024: Poster Presenter, Cardiff University Mental Health for Future Generations Event
- 2024: Speaker, Cardiff University Year Two PhD Conference
- 2023: Speaker, Wales Autism Research Centre Sensory Guide Launch
- 2023: Poster Presenter, Cardiff University Year One Poster Conference
Committees and reviewing
- 2023-2025: Research Skills Workshops Committee Member
- 2021-2022: Amsterdam Brain and Cognition Journal Board Member
- 2020-2021: Amsterdam Brain and Cognition Journal Member
Contact Details
Research themes
Specialisms
- Autism
- Neurodiversity
- Inclusive Design
- Qualitative