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Overview
I am a lecturer in the School of Psychology at Cardiff University on a full time Teaching and Scholarship contract since September 2019, although I have been employed at the University since 1994 in various teaching support and research roles.
I am currently the module coordinator for the level 4 research and statistics module on which I lecture on the computing and statistics component. I teach practical classes at level 5 (Year 2) and I am a personal tutor to students at all years (1,2, placement and final) and an academic tutor at year 2. I supervise Final Year project students.
I am the school’s Digital Strategy Lead and have previously held the post of Virtual Learning Environment (VLE) Chair for the University.
I am also the Director of International for the School, with a remit for looking after incoming and outgoing international exchange students as their personal tutor, and liaising with our international partners.
I also support students on the Clinical Doctorate one day per week with their Small Service Review Project (SSRP) and Large Scale Research Project (LSRP). I have also supervised project and placement students on the MSc Social Science Research Methods (Psychology).
In addition to my dedicated teaching hours. I also provide training and assistance with programming and data collection software for all students and staff across the school.
In addition to my post at Cardiff I also provide lectures for the Introduction to Basic Psychology module at Beijing Normal University. Thge content covers the effect of technology on human behaviour. This collaboration is part of the University’s wider engagement with overseas institutions, and I set and assess a video presentation coursework component for this module.
Additional information
- I currently manage the Psychology 11-a-side Men's intramural football teams (Psycho Athletico and Psycho Dynamico).
- I also manage and play for the University's Staff Varsity 11-a-side football team.
- I am the Psychology Society's academic liason, including the netball, football and rugby teams.
Background summary
My previous roles within the School and industry have revolved around psychological research or research in new technology. I completed a four year applied psychology degree at Cardiff University (1 year placement in Mass, USA – investigating risk taking in Driving Behaviour) and then worked as researcher jointly between the Psychology and Engineering Schools investigating the design process and then worked for the School of Psychology on various research projects between 1994-2009 including:
- Human computer interaction in virtual environments:
- UAV searching patterns (Prof Roy Ruddle, Prof Dylan Jones, Prof Bob Snowden, Prof Andrew Howes)
- The Virtual Humans project – Investigating collaborative interactive over remote connections (Prof Roy Ruddle, Prof Dylan Jones)
- Categorisation research (Dr Mark Johansen)
- Aggressive behaviour in Young Offenders (Prof Stephanie van Goozen, Prof Simon Moore)
Between 2001-2002 I spent a brief period working outside the University for the Council in Museums in Wales as a project manager for a European framework 5 project "Memoria, Helping Memory Institutions meet the Future". This role involved managing the Welsh Museum Consortium's participation in the project and investigating the use of new technologies within the museum sector.
I continued to work as a researcher until 2009 when I was invited to work directly for the School to assist with its professional service's electronic processes. This role quickly developed to incorporate research and teaching and learning issues.
I completed my PhD from Cardiff Uni in 2003 "A Practical Approach to the Investigation of Object Design Behaviour: Methodological and Theoretical Considerations". Supervised by Dr Chris Miles.
Publication
2016
- Sully, K., Sonuga-Barke, E. J. S., Savage, J. C. D. and Fairchild, G. 2016. Investigating the familial basis of heightened risk-taking in adolescents with conduct disorder and their unaffected relatives. Developmental Neuropsychology 41(1-2), pp. 93-106. (10.1080/87565641.2016.1145223)
2015
- Johansen, M. K., Savage, J., Fouquet, N. and Shanks, D. R. 2015. Salience not status: how category labels influence feature inference. Cognitive Science 39(7), pp. 1594-1621. (10.1111/cogs.12206)
2014
- Morgan, J. E., Bowen, K. L., Moore, S. C., Savage, J. C. D. and Van Goozen, S. H. M. 2014. Executive functioning, reward processing, and antisocial behavior in adolescent males. In: DeLisi, M. and Vaughn, M. G. eds. The Routledge International Handbook of Biosocial Criminology. Routledge International Handbooks London: Routledge, pp. 315-327.
2013
- Johansen, M. K., Fouquet, N., Savage, J. C. D. and Shanks, D. R. 2013. Instance memorization and category influence: Challenging the evidence for multiple systems in category learning. The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology 66(6), pp. 1204-1226. (10.1080/17470218.2012.735679)
- Syngelaki, E., Fairchild, G., Van Goozen, S. H. M., Moore, S. C. and Savage, J. C. D. 2013. Fearlessness in juvenile offenders is associated with offending rate. Developmental Science 16(1), pp. 84-90. (10.1111/j.1467-7687.2012.01191.x)
- Syngelaki, E., Fairchild, G., Moore, S. C., Savage, J. C. D. and Van Goozen, S. H. M. 2013. Affective startle potentiation in juvenile offenders: The role of conduct problems and psychopathic traits. Social Neuroscience 8(2), pp. 112-121. (10.1080/17470919.2012.712549)
2009
- Fairchild, G., Van Goozen, S. H. M., Stollery, S. J., Aitken, M. R., Savage, J. C. D., Moore, S. C. and Goodyer, I. M. 2009. Decision making and executive function in male adolescents with early-onset or adolescence-onset conduct disorder and control subjects. Biological Psychiatry 66(2), pp. 162-168. (10.1016/j.biopsych.2009.02.024)
- Syngelaki, E., Moore, S. C., Savage, J. C. D., Fairchild, G. and Van Goozen, S. H. M. 2009. Executive Functioning and Risky Decision Making in Young Male Offenders. Criminal Justice and Behavior 36(11), pp. 1213-1227. (10.1177/0093854809343095)
2003
- Ruddle, R. A., Savage, J. C. D. and Jones, D. M. 2003. Levels of Control During a Collaborative Carrying Task. Presence: Teleoperators and Virtual Environments 12(2), pp. 140-155. (10.1162/105474603321640914)
2002
- Ruddle, R. A., Savage, J. C. D. and Jones, D. M. 2002. Evaluating Rules of Interaction for Object Manipulation in Cluttered Virtual Environments. Presence: Teleoperators and Virtual Environments 11(6), pp. 591-609. (10.1162/105474602321050721)
- Ruddle, R. A., Savage, J. C. D. and Jones, D. M. 2002. Implementing flexible rules of interaction for object manipulation in cluttered virtual environments. Presented at: ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology (VRST '02), Hong Kong, China, 11-13 November 2002VRST '02 Proceedings of the ACM symposium on Virtual reality software and technology, Shatin, NT, Hong Kong, 11-13 November, 2002. New York: ACM pp. 89-96., (10.1145/585740.585756)
- Ruddle, R. A., Savage, J. C. D. and Jones, D. M. 2002. Verbal communication during cooperative object manipulation. Presented at: 4th International Conference on Collaborative Virtual Environments, Bonn, Germany, 30 September - 2 October 2002CVE '02 Proceedings of the 4th international conference on Collaborative virtual environments, Bonn, Germany, 30 September - 2 October, 2002. New York: ACM pp. 120-127., (10.1145/571878.571897)
- Ruddle, R. A., Savage, J. C. D. and Jones, D. M. 2002. Symmetric and asymmetric action integration during cooperative object manipulation in virtual environments. ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction 9(4), pp. 285-308. (10.1145/586081.586084)
2001
- White, J. L., Ruddle, R. A., Howes, A., Snowden, R. J., Savage, J. C. D. and Jones, D. M. 2001. Eyes in the sky: Human factors and uninhabited air vehicles. Journal of Defence Science 6, pp. 88-94.
1999
- Ruddle, R. A., Savage, J. C. D. and Jones, D. M. 1999. Effects of camera configurations on target observation that is performed from an uninhabited air vehicle. Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting 43(1), pp. 81-85. (10.1177/154193129904300117)
1998
- Savage, J. C. D., Moore, C. J., Miles, J. C. and Miles, C. 1998. The interaction of time and cost constraints on the design process. Design Studies 19(2), pp. 217-233. (10.1016/S0142-694X(98)00004-0)
1996
- Savage, J. C. D., Miles, J. C., Moore, C. J. and Miles, C. 1996. Influence of cognitive overload and bias on engineering design. In: Kumar, B. and Retik, A. eds. Information Representation and Delivery in Civil and Structural Engineering Design. Civil-Comp Proceedings Vol. 36. Edinburgh: Civil Comp Press, pp. 77-83., (10.4203/ccp.36.4.2)
Articles
- Sully, K., Sonuga-Barke, E. J. S., Savage, J. C. D. and Fairchild, G. 2016. Investigating the familial basis of heightened risk-taking in adolescents with conduct disorder and their unaffected relatives. Developmental Neuropsychology 41(1-2), pp. 93-106. (10.1080/87565641.2016.1145223)
- Johansen, M. K., Savage, J., Fouquet, N. and Shanks, D. R. 2015. Salience not status: how category labels influence feature inference. Cognitive Science 39(7), pp. 1594-1621. (10.1111/cogs.12206)
- Johansen, M. K., Fouquet, N., Savage, J. C. D. and Shanks, D. R. 2013. Instance memorization and category influence: Challenging the evidence for multiple systems in category learning. The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology 66(6), pp. 1204-1226. (10.1080/17470218.2012.735679)
- Syngelaki, E., Fairchild, G., Van Goozen, S. H. M., Moore, S. C. and Savage, J. C. D. 2013. Fearlessness in juvenile offenders is associated with offending rate. Developmental Science 16(1), pp. 84-90. (10.1111/j.1467-7687.2012.01191.x)
- Syngelaki, E., Fairchild, G., Moore, S. C., Savage, J. C. D. and Van Goozen, S. H. M. 2013. Affective startle potentiation in juvenile offenders: The role of conduct problems and psychopathic traits. Social Neuroscience 8(2), pp. 112-121. (10.1080/17470919.2012.712549)
- Fairchild, G., Van Goozen, S. H. M., Stollery, S. J., Aitken, M. R., Savage, J. C. D., Moore, S. C. and Goodyer, I. M. 2009. Decision making and executive function in male adolescents with early-onset or adolescence-onset conduct disorder and control subjects. Biological Psychiatry 66(2), pp. 162-168. (10.1016/j.biopsych.2009.02.024)
- Syngelaki, E., Moore, S. C., Savage, J. C. D., Fairchild, G. and Van Goozen, S. H. M. 2009. Executive Functioning and Risky Decision Making in Young Male Offenders. Criminal Justice and Behavior 36(11), pp. 1213-1227. (10.1177/0093854809343095)
- Ruddle, R. A., Savage, J. C. D. and Jones, D. M. 2003. Levels of Control During a Collaborative Carrying Task. Presence: Teleoperators and Virtual Environments 12(2), pp. 140-155. (10.1162/105474603321640914)
- Ruddle, R. A., Savage, J. C. D. and Jones, D. M. 2002. Evaluating Rules of Interaction for Object Manipulation in Cluttered Virtual Environments. Presence: Teleoperators and Virtual Environments 11(6), pp. 591-609. (10.1162/105474602321050721)
- Ruddle, R. A., Savage, J. C. D. and Jones, D. M. 2002. Symmetric and asymmetric action integration during cooperative object manipulation in virtual environments. ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction 9(4), pp. 285-308. (10.1145/586081.586084)
- White, J. L., Ruddle, R. A., Howes, A., Snowden, R. J., Savage, J. C. D. and Jones, D. M. 2001. Eyes in the sky: Human factors and uninhabited air vehicles. Journal of Defence Science 6, pp. 88-94.
- Ruddle, R. A., Savage, J. C. D. and Jones, D. M. 1999. Effects of camera configurations on target observation that is performed from an uninhabited air vehicle. Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting 43(1), pp. 81-85. (10.1177/154193129904300117)
- Savage, J. C. D., Moore, C. J., Miles, J. C. and Miles, C. 1998. The interaction of time and cost constraints on the design process. Design Studies 19(2), pp. 217-233. (10.1016/S0142-694X(98)00004-0)
Book sections
- Morgan, J. E., Bowen, K. L., Moore, S. C., Savage, J. C. D. and Van Goozen, S. H. M. 2014. Executive functioning, reward processing, and antisocial behavior in adolescent males. In: DeLisi, M. and Vaughn, M. G. eds. The Routledge International Handbook of Biosocial Criminology. Routledge International Handbooks London: Routledge, pp. 315-327.
- Savage, J. C. D., Miles, J. C., Moore, C. J. and Miles, C. 1996. Influence of cognitive overload and bias on engineering design. In: Kumar, B. and Retik, A. eds. Information Representation and Delivery in Civil and Structural Engineering Design. Civil-Comp Proceedings Vol. 36. Edinburgh: Civil Comp Press, pp. 77-83., (10.4203/ccp.36.4.2)
Conferences
- Ruddle, R. A., Savage, J. C. D. and Jones, D. M. 2002. Implementing flexible rules of interaction for object manipulation in cluttered virtual environments. Presented at: ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology (VRST '02), Hong Kong, China, 11-13 November 2002VRST '02 Proceedings of the ACM symposium on Virtual reality software and technology, Shatin, NT, Hong Kong, 11-13 November, 2002. New York: ACM pp. 89-96., (10.1145/585740.585756)
- Ruddle, R. A., Savage, J. C. D. and Jones, D. M. 2002. Verbal communication during cooperative object manipulation. Presented at: 4th International Conference on Collaborative Virtual Environments, Bonn, Germany, 30 September - 2 October 2002CVE '02 Proceedings of the 4th international conference on Collaborative virtual environments, Bonn, Germany, 30 September - 2 October, 2002. New York: ACM pp. 120-127., (10.1145/571878.571897)
Biography
Higher Education
Ph.D, Psychology (2001) - 'A Practical Approach to the Investigation of Object Design Behaviour: Methodological and Theoretical Considerations'.
School of Psychology, Cardiff University
Higher Education Module (2003) - Network Security.
Centre for Lifelong Learning, Cardiff University
Higher Education Modules (1998) C and C++ programming.
Centre for Lifelong Learning, Cardiff University
Psychology B.Sc. (1990 – 1994) - Applied Psychology B.Sc.
School of Psychology, Cardiff University
B.Sc. Final year modules included:
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Training Courses
AdvanceHE Fellowship. Awarded January 2023 https://www.advance-he.ac.uk/fellowship
Practical Leadership For University Management (PLUM). Awarded Oct 2016.
Accredited by the Institute of Leadership and Management (ILM) it is aimed at academic and administrative staff with significant responsibility for leading people, managing resources, budgets and projects, and is spread over a 6 month period.
Leading and Managing Teams - 26th September 2012 - 25th October 2012
This 6-day workshop arranged over a 6-week period has been accredited by the Institute of Leadership and Management (the ILM). It is aimed specifically at first line managers and team leaders, working in Academic roles or the Professional Services, who manage others formally or informally.
Attended the following short workshops:
- The Way Forward - Making It Happen 2 day workshop. - 4th-5th March 2015
- Progressing Skills of Line Managers - 27th January 2015
- Equality and Diversity for Team Leaders and Managers - 22nd April 2013
- Equality and Diversity (Online Module) 6th February 2013
Work Experience
School Projects Manager / Research Associate 2009 (October) – Present
Investigating IT related processes within the School of Psychology to enable paperless and efficient methodologies in the provision of administrative and teaching duties. This post requires the identification of existing technologies and the development of bespoke software to enable best practice. The technical elements are wide ranging and include designing and developing software, programming, defining data management processes, database development and implementing new technologies for eliciting feedback. The research elements involve identifying and recording existing processes, designing and implementing newer and leaner processes. In conjunction with the IT Projects Manager role I also continue to collaborate on various research projects.
Research Associate, 2009 (May) – 2009 (October)
Investigating the impact of parental lifestyle on infant well being - funded by the Waterloo Foundation.
School of Psychology, Cardiff University, Tower Building, Park Place Cardiff, CF10 3AT
This post required detailed analysis of a set of longitudinal data collected by the Cardiff Child Development Studies (CCDS) group at Cardiff University. This data contained detailed information about lifestyle, health and wellbeing information from over 300 sets of parents and their first born children. My role was to prepare and analyse the data in order to produce a final report for the Waterloo foundation examining the links between parental health and lifestyle and their children's behaviour, with reference to antisocial tendencies.
Research Associate, 2006 (March) – 2009 (February)
Assessment of Cognitive Models that Inform Deterring Young Vulnerable Gamblers
ESRC Grant: RES-164-25-0017
School of Psychology, Cardiff University, Tower Building, Park Place Cardiff, CF10 3AT
This project examined decision making and gambling behaviour in a community-based sample of juveniles who exhibited problem behaviours such as aggression, offending and substance misuse. The study focused on the relationship between individual differences in behavioural inhibition (e.g., risk taking, decision making, sensitivity to reward and punishment, capacity for self-regulation) and problem gambling, as known from official records and as assessed under experimental conditions. The empirical research was informed by analysis of national surveys that hold information on youngsters' gambling, leisure activities and disorderly behaviour, as well as socio-economic and demographic circumstances. My role in this project was to contribute to the research through the development and implementation of the experimental processes, data analysis and dissemination of results via academic publication and conferences. In addition to my research role I assisted psychology and medical students in undergraduate and postgraduate psychology related projects and programmed, ran and analysed studies performed using the CUBRIC fMRI scanner.
Research Associate, Human Category Learning 2004 (June) – 2006 (March)
School of Psychology, Cardiff University, Tower Building, Park Place Cardiff, CF10 3AT
In collaboration with Dr Mark Johansen, the purpose of my appointment was to collaborate in the investigation of human category learning. My contribution to the research involved academic input, experiment development and implementation, data analysis and seminars. In addition to my research role I assisted the school in technical tasks such as the setting up of the online participant sign-up scheme and the investigation of real-time interactive teaching and research feedback mechanisms (voting systems).
Senior Researcher/ Project Manager to 'Memoria' Project. 2002 (Jan) – 2004 (May)
The Council of Museums in Wales The Courtyard, Letty Street, Cardiff, CF24 4EL
The Memoria project was an EU funded consortium of 8 European institutions which aimed to enhance the profile of regional networks of small museums (in Wales and Tuscany). The project aimed to improve the socio-economic role of such institutions within the local economy by empowering existing collection-management tools with advanced interactive multimedia solutions from the media and publishing sectors; enabling a new generation of museum networks based on advanced ICT services. My role was to manage the project at the test-bed level within Wales coordinating the participation of eight museums within Newport and Monmouthshire. The post involved managing the project and staff on a daily basis, reporting and analysing statistical information, liaising with the individual museums involved, managing and advising budgetary implications, facilitating communication between the technology providers and the technology recipients, producing detailed reports to EU standards, disseminating information, giving seminars and coordinating and participating in consortium meetings.
Research Assistant to Virtual Humans Project. 2000 (Mar) - 2001 (Aug)
School of Psychology, Cardiff University, Tower Building, Park Place Cardiff, CF10 3AT
Running experiments using Virtual Reality (VR) Equipment on a Unix operating system, programming data analysis software in C++, data analysis via software packages such as SPSS and Statview, report writing, presenting data, scheduling participants and developing and maintaining a web booking system using HTML and CGI.
Research Assistant to Unmanned Air Vehicle (UAV) Project. 1998 (Aug) - 2000 (Mar).
Funded by the Defence Evaluation and Research Agency (DERA).
School of Psychology, Cardiff University, Tower Building, Park Place Cardiff, CF10 3AT and DERA, Ively Road,Farnborough, Hants GU14 0LX.
Similar job description to Virtual Humans Project. Additional responsibilities involved assisting postgraduates and undergraduates in the VR lab with the equipment. Produced interim reports regarding research findings and progress culminating in a detailed final project report.
Research Assistant to 'Cognition in Design' project. 1994 (Nov) - 1996 (March)
School of Psychology, Cardiff University, Tower Building, Park Place Cardiff, CF10 3AT and School of Engineering Cardiff University Queen's Buildings, The Parade CARDIFF CF24 3AA
Designing and running experiments, programming data analysis software in BASIC, data analysis, report writing, presenting data at conferences and research meetings.
Research Assistant Automotive Safety and Driving Behaviour. 1992 (Jul) - 1993 (Sep)
Liberty Mutual Research Center, Hopkinton, Mass, USA
Running experiments, programming data analysis software in BASIC, SAS and MEL, data analysis and report writing.