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

    dapR2: Monday 12:00-13:00 (all year)
    dapR3: Tuesday 13:00-14:00 (semester 1)
    Applied Psychometrics: Tuesday 13:00-14:00 (semester 2)

    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

Undergraduate Teaching Director

Statistics Curriculum Co-ordinator

Undergraduate teaching

In 2019/20 academic year I will be teaching Research Methods & Statistics 2 in semester 1 (UG year 3), and Data Analysis for Psychology in R 1 (dapR1) in semester 1 and 2 (UG year 1).

Postgraduate teaching

I will not be teaching on MSc courses in the coming academic year.

Open to PhD supervision enquiries?

No

Areas of interest for supervision

Due to the workload relating to COVID, I will not be accepting further enquiries about PhD study for 2021-22. 

Current PhD students supervised

Research summary

Individual Differences, Organizational Psychology, Health & Quantitative Methods

My research interests include quantitative methods (broadly defined under generalized latent variable models), psychometrics, individual differences (primarily personality), organizational psychology 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. I am interested in understanding how these processes play out over time, and have a strong interest in longitudinal methodologies such as experience sampling.

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