People

Meet current and past members of the research group.

Current Members

Tony Little

Tony Little is a Reader in the Department of Psychology at the University of Bath. He is interested in the social and biological information available from faces.
Tony’s lab website

PhD Students

Louise Heron

Louise Heron is a PhD student in the Department of Psychology at the University of Bath. She is interested in face and voice perception.
Louise’s lab website

Jennyfer

Jênnyfer Freitas is a PhD student in the Departamento de Educação e Psicologia at the Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal, supervised by Josefa Pandeirada. Tony is a co-supervisor. She is interested in face memory and colour information.
Jennyfer's website

MSc Students

2025-2026: Eden Richards.

Undergraduate Project Students

2025-2026: None, sabbitical.

Previous Members

Fuqun

Fuqun Liang was a visiting Chinese PhD student in the Department of Psychology at the University of Bath. He is interested in how changing your apperance is perceived by others.. He is now an acadmic at South China Normal University.
Fuqun's Google Scholar site

Bruna

Bruna Da Silva Nascimento was a PhD student in the Department of Psychology at the University of Bath. She is interested in romantic relationships and mate‑retention strategies.
Bruna’s Google Scholar site

Mary

Mary Cowan completed her PhD at the University of Stirling. She studied humour perception from an evolutionary perspective.
Mary’s lab website

Kristen

Kristen Knowles completed her PhD at the University of Stirling. She is interested in voice perception.
Kristen’s lab website

Viktoria

Viktoria Mileva completed her PhD at the University of Stirling. She studied dominance in humans.
Viktoria’s lab website

Jack

Jack Griffey completed his PhD at the University of Stirling. He worked on face perception in humans and non‑human primates. He is now training as a medical doctor.

Rob

Rob Burriss completed his PhD at the University of Liverpool. He is now a Research Fellow at Northumbria University.

Jean

Jean McPherson worked as a research assistant in 2007. She trained as an educational psychologist and now works in Surrey working on Lego based therapy. Jean's Linkedin profile. Article on Lego therapy.

 

MSc Students

2024–2025: None, sabbatical.

2023–2024: Amber Liu, Valerie Shum, Freddie Amestoy-Pritchard.

2022–2023: Imogen, Rae, Zain.

2021–2022: Matt Villaquiran, Omay, Supreet, Pallavi, Valerie.

2020–2021: Amber, Sam.

2019–2020:

2018–2019:

2017–2018: None.

2016–2017:

2015–2016:

2014–2015: Iva MacPherson

2014–2015: Louise Davids

2013–2014: Kerry Harcus

2012–2013: Anton Maeso, Niamh Graham.

 

Undergraduate Project Students

2024–2025:Devanshi, Grace, Holly, Jasmine, Naisha, Rebecca, Srujani.

2023–2024: Annabelle, harshita, Holly, Izzie, Liberty, Maja, Ria, Sofia.

2022–2023: Gabe, Kexuan, Meghna.

2021–2022: Jasmine Kenny, Jenny. Maya, Yehee, Yixi, Yu.

2020–2021: Julia, Leah, Nora, raabiya, Susanne.

2019–2020: James, Katie, Monica, patrycja, Vidyhaa, Yasmijn.

2018–2019: Audrey Yim, Irem Aksu, Kristina Urdova, Samantha Dodge, Tiegan Cormie.

2017–2018: Emma Hallows, Ilona Makhunova, Megan Couves, Noemi Rezi, Panna Farkas, Ria Talwar, Zoe.

2016–2017:

2015–2016:

2014–2015: Benjamin Snell, Hollie Gillies, Amy Hughes, Leeanne Darrien, Kiana Kalantar, Emily Parker. Summer Students:Robyn Yellowlees.