Gareth is a Lecturer in Psychology and Director of Admissions for the School of Psychology.

Gareth has a first class BSc Psychology (hons), an MSc (Distinction) in Psychological Research, and a PhD which focused on the cognitive and social underpinnings of human interaction. 

Gareth has held a postdoctoral position funded by the Leverhulme Trust, is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA), and a member of the Experimental Psychology Society (EPS). 

Gareth founded and leads the School of Psychology’s Scholarship Group.

Gareth teaches throughout our undergraduate degrees, with particular focus on Cognitive and Biological Psychology, as well as Research Methods. 

Gareth leads the 2nd year Cognitive and Biological Psychology module and contributes to the final year Educational Neuroscience module, as well as contributing to both 1st and 2nd year statistics and research methods training, as well as further guest lectures throughout first year, which align with Gareth research specialisms. 

Gareth’s research focuses on human interaction and the ways in which Experimental Psychology can explore and explain the processes that are involved therein. In particular, Gareth has investigated how our cognitive systems (e.g. attention, memory, perception) support the processing of other peoples social information, how we process other people’s responses to ourselves, and how we ‘feel like we are involved’ in interactions. 

Publications

Edwards, S. G., Stephenson, L. J., Dalmaso, M., & Bayliss, A. P. (2015). Social orienting in gaze leading: a mechanism for shared attention. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 282(1812), 20151141.

Dalmaso, M., Edwards, S. G., & Bayliss, A. P. (2016). Re-encountering individuals who previously engaged in joint gaze modulates subsequent gaze cueing. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 42(2), 271.

Howard, E. E., Edwards, S. G., & Bayliss, A. P. (2016). Physical and mental effort disrupts the implicit sense of agency. Cognition, 157, 114-125.

Stephenson, L. J., Edwards, S. G., & Bayliss, A. P. (2021). From gaze perception to social cognition: The shared-attention system. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 16(3), 553-576.