Dr Oliver James Clark PhD, MRes, BSc
Lecturer
My profile
Biography
About Me
I joined Manchester Metropolitan University in 2015 as Technical Officer and completed my PhD in health-related behaviour change using videogame avatars in 2019 with Dr Jenny Cole. I have been lecturing since 2020 and specialise in psychometrics and assessment, statistics, cognitive psychology, and meta-science.
I have also conducted projects on rare variants of Alzheimer’s Disease, visual attention, picture naming in aphasia, and work-related stress
Interests and expertise
My research interests include the cognitive psychology of decision making, victim blaming in sexual assault cases, and I am also very interested in meta-science.
My skills include:
- Statistics
- Bayesian
- Frequentist
- Causal Modelling
- Programming
- R
- Python
- C#
- Research Design
- Unity
- PsychoPy
- Qualtrics
Teaching
I contribute towards the following modules:
- Undergraduate
- Quantitative Methods in Psychology (Level 4)
- Cognitive Psychology (Level 5)
- Critical and Social Psychology (Level 5)
- Difference and Diversity (Level 5)
- Postgraduate
- Research Methods and Principals
- Unit Lead for Psychological Measurement (MSc Forensic Route)
- Unit Lead for Dissertation (MSc Forensic Route)
I have supervised projects on the following topics:
- Body Image and Social Media
- Rape, Domestic Violence, and Sexual Harassment Myth Acceptance and Victim Blaming
- Personality and Rape Myth Acceptance
- Eyewitness Testimony
Research outputs
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Journal articles
Benn, Y., Ivanova, A.A., Clark, O., Mineroff, Z., Seikus, C., Silva, J.S., Varley, R., Fedorenko, E. (2023) 'The language network is not engaged in object categorization.' Cerebral Cortex, 33(19) pp. 10380-10400.
Terry, J., Ross, R., Nagy, T., Clark, O., et al, (2023) 'Data from an International Multi-Centre Study of Statistics and Mathematics Anxieties and Related Variables in University Students (the SMARVUS Dataset).' Journal of Open Psychology Data, 11(8) pp. 1-25.
Clark, O.J., Grogan, S., Cole, J., Ray, N. (2019) 'How might avatar appearance influence health-related outcomes? A systematic review and narrative meta-review.' PsyArXiv,