Key details
Dr Timothy Matthews
Lecturer in Psychology
Dr. Timothy Matthews joined Greenwich in February 2022 as a lecturer in psychology. He completed his PhD at King’s College London in 2017, having developed a programme of research into loneliness in young people. In 2019, he was awarded a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship to continue his work in this area. He currently teaches modules on research methods and child and adolescent psychology. He also supervises PhD students investigating childhood social isolation and mental health, and loneliness in the workplace.
Responsibilities within the university
- Module co-lead, Psychological Research Methods
- Module lead, Clinical Child & Adolescent Psychology
- Psychology link tutor for Criminology and Sociology
Research / Scholarly interests
Tim’s research focuses on loneliness and its impacts on health across the lifespan, with a particular focus on adolescence and emerging adulthood. His work integrates longitudinal, epidemiological and behavioural genetic methods to study the implications of loneliness for mental health, employment, technology use, sleep, inflammation and other markers of health and functioning. He is particularly interested in the mechanisms through which loneliness can develop from a temporary experience to a chronic problem that persists for months or years. Most recently, he is interested in researching how novel technology can be leveraged to advance ways of understanding, measuring and combatting loneliness.