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Tom Booth

Senior Lecturer

  • Psychology
  • School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences

Contact details

Address

Street

Room F17, Psychology Building

City
7 George Square, Edinburgh
Post code
EH8 9JZ

Availability

  • Office Hours
    Year 1 PTs: Tuesday 09:00-10:00
    RMS2/Multivariate (Sem1/Sem2): Tuesday 10:00-11:00
    Open office hour (all courses and PTs): Tuesday 11:00-12:00

    If you are unable to make these set hours, please email me to arrange an appointment.

Biography

Background

Publications

 

Qualifications

BSc Psychology - University of Bath 

MSc & PhD Organisational Psychology - Manchester Business School, University of Manchester

Responsibilities & affiliations

In my role here at Edinburgh I oversee the development of the research methods and statistics curriculum for all psychology degrees.

Undergraduate teaching

n 2018/19 academic year I will be teaching Research Methods & Statistics 2 in semester 1 (UG year 3).

Postgraduate teaching

In 2018/19 academic year I will be teaching Multivariate Statistics with R in semester 2 (MSc). 

Open to PhD supervision enquiries?

Yes

Areas of interest for supervision

I would be interested in supervising undergraduate, MSc and PhD projects related to any of the topics noted here. Please feel free to email me to discuss.

Current PhD students supervised

Research summary

Individual Differences, Health & Quantitative Methods

My research interests include quantitative methods (broadly defined under generalized latent variable models), psychometrics, individual differences (primarily personality) and health. I am interested in the development and decline of individual difference traits, group differences, and how traits influence life outcomes (e.g. psychological and physical health), particularly in the workplace. Before taking up a lectureship at Edinburgh, I worked with Prof. Ian Deary in the cognitive epidemiology group here (CCCACE), and thus also have an interest in ageing. 

Current research interests

Drawing all these influences together, I am very interested in the role our working life plays in our long term health, particularly the factors that influence whether retirement is a positive or a negative life event with respect to later life. A current focus with respect to understanding the interplay between environments, individuals and physical health, is the allostatic load framework.

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