Anke Görzig

Dr Anke Görzig BSc, MSc, Ph.D., FHEA

Associate Professor in Psychology

Dr. Anke Görzig is an Associate Professor in Psychology at the University of Greenwich. She is a child and youth care worker (certified, 1998), a psychologist (MSc, 2004; PhD, 2008) and a social science researcher who has worked and taught at a number of institutions, including the Institute of Psychiatry (King’s College), the London School of Economics, University College London, University of Birmingham, Northwestern University (USA) and University of Mannheim (Germany).

Her research interests include bullying, online aggression, well-being and disadvantaged groups as well as cross-national comparisons. Anke is also involved in health services research applying her expertise in quantitative methods. She primarily teaches modules in Social and Developmental Psychology as well as in Research Methods.

Posts held previously

  • 2021 - 2022 Senior Lecturer in Psychology University of Greenwich, London, UK
  • 2016 - 2021 Senior Lecturer in Psychology University of West London, London, UK
  • 2011 - 2021 Visiting Fellow, Department of Media and Communications London School of Economics and Political Science, UK
  • 2014 - 2016 Lecturer in Psychology University of West London, London, UK
  • 2013 - 2014 Post-doctoral Research Worker, Health Service and Population Research Institute of Psychiatry, South London & Maudsley NHS Trust, UK
  • 2011 - 2013 Honorary Senior Research Associate, Clinical, Educational & Health Psychology University College London, UK
  • 2011 - 2012 Research Fellow in Social Statistics, CAMHS Evidence Based Practice Unit Anna Freud Centre, UK
  • 2010 - 2011 Survey Research Officer, EU Kids Online London School of Economics and Political Science, UK
  • 2008 - 2010 Quantitative Research Officer, NRDC for Adult Literacy and Numeracy Institute of Education, UK
    2007 - 2008 Post-doctoral Research Fellow, School of Psychology University of Birmingham, UK
  • 2006 - 2007 Pre-doctoral Fellow, Department of Psychology Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA
  • 2004 - 2006 Doctoral Researcher and Associate Lecturer in Social Psychology, Department of Microsociology & Social Psychology University of Mannheim, Germany.

Recognition

    Peer  Reviewer
  • Child and Adolescent Mental Health, Child Development, Cyberpsychology, Journal of Media Psychology, New Media and Society, Scandinavian Journal of Psychology, UNICEF Innocenti and others
  • Content reviewer - Looking after your self-ie: A guide to finding your balance on and offline, Royal Society for Public Health.

    Membership and Affiliation 
  • EU Kids Online Network
  • Bullying Research Network – BRNET
  • Involvement in Online Hate among Adolescents from Eight Countries - INTERACT
  • Interdisciplinary Research Team on Internet and Society - IRTIS
  • Centre for Sustainable Cyber Security - CS2.

Research / Scholarly interests

Online aggression, internet use and well-being, stereotyping and discrimination, cross-national survey research, quantitative methods.