Emma O'Dwyer

Dr Emma O'Dwyer BA, MSc, PhD, SFHEA

Senior Lecturer in Psychology

Dr Emma O’Dwyer joined the School of Human Sciences as a senior lecturer in May 2022. She received her PhD in political psychology from Queen’s University, Belfast, in 2013. After this, she joined Kingston University, London as a post-doctoral researcher and subsequently progressed to senior lecturer. Emma is a political psychologist with specific research interests including how people understand and orient towards issues like foreign policy and military intervention, and political participation, citizenship, and social change.

Emma has significant experience of teaching social psychology and research methods at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels. She also supervises undergraduate, Master’s and doctoral research in social and political psychology.