Ralph Pawling
I am a second year PhD student in the psychology department here in Bangor, north Wales. My PhD focuses on the embodiment of emotion and arousal. Our experiences, and understanding of both emotional and arousal states, are centred around the associated bodily activations that accompany them ( i.e increased heart rate or sweat response, muscular activations in the face). I’m interested in the role of partial reactivation of these bodily states, during interactions with other people. Specifically, the role of embodiment of other people’s emotions or arousal, during social interaction.
In the past I have also been involved in research into the use of measures of reaction time variability in diagnosing ADHD, the role of working memory in revising text, and the development of a measure of emotional intelligence.
My first involvement with PsyPAG was as part of the organising committee for the 2011 PsyPAG conference. As divisional representative, I look forward to promoting networking between postgraduate students in the area.
Neuropsychology is such a rapidly developing field, keeping up can feel quite intimidating from a graduate student’s perspective. Here in Bangor we are lucky to have numerous opportunities to share ideas, present our work, and train in techniques that will augment our research profiles. I am well aware of how important it is for graduate students across the UK to feel they have access to similar opportunities to keep abreast of new research, and to add to their CVs.
You can contact me on pss825@bangor.ac.uk.