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Dr Margaret C. Jackson

Dr Margaret C. Jackson
Dr Margaret C. Jackson
Dr Margaret C. Jackson

Senior Lecturer

About
Email Address
m.jackson@abdn.ac.uk
Telephone Number
+44 (0)1224 272236
Office Address

School of Psychology William Guild Building Room G13 Kings College Old Aberdeen AB24 3FX

School/Department
School of Psychology

Biography

I graduated with a BSc (HONS) in Psychology from the University of Aberdeen, after which I achieved an MSc in Marketing from the University of Strathclyde. After a few years conducting qualitative research on health interventions and behaviours (Glasgow, Centre for Social Marketing - now Institute in Stirling) I joined the Psychology department at Bangor University in North Wales to help deliver and monitor a schools-based intervention designed to increase children's fruit and vegetable consumption ('Food Dudes' programme). I then returned to experimental Psychology and gained my PhD from Bangor University in 2005, which investigated the influence of familiarity on attention and working memory for faces. I completed two post-doc positions there before I moved back to where it all began to start my first lectureship in the School of Psychology in Aberdeen in 2012. My research areas are broadly situated within the field of social cognition, and more specifically focused on face, eye gaze, and emotional expression processing, predictive processing (emotion prediction), and the role of attention and working memory in social processing. More recently my interests have expanded to neurodiversity. 

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Memberships and Affiliations

Internal Memberships

Student Development Lead in the School of Psychology

Co-Chair of the University's Neurodiversity Network

 

Committee/Group membership:

- Equality, Diversity, & Inclusion Committee, School of Psychology

- Student Experience and Support Committee, University of Aberdeen

- Mental Health and Wellbeing Group, University of Aberdeen

- Employability and Entrepreneurship Committee, University of Aberdeen

 

 

 

 

 

 

External Memberships

External Examiner for MSc Social Cognition course at UCL (postgraduate)

Aurora women in leadership course completion, 2021-22

Latest Publications

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Research

Current Research

  • Main research areas:  Social Attention and Memory, Emotion Prediction, Emotion Processing, Gaze, Faces, Neurodiversity

Funding and Grants

ESRC Standard Grant (PI). March 2015 - March 2017. Remembering who was where: The influence of threatening emotional expressions on visuo-spatial working memory for faces. £279,258.

BBSRC (Co-App). 2009-2012. The neurobiology of human working memory for threat: a multi-method approach. £318,404.

Teaching

Teaching Responsibilities

Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (HEA)

Lectures

  • Level 1: Emotion
  • Level 3 / MSc: Developmental Psychology (social and emotional development): Course coordinator
  • Level 4: Emotion & Aging in Social Cognition: Course coordinator
  • MRes: Research Dissemination and Peer-review

 Group Work

  • Level 3 Methods research projects 
  • Level 3 Theory tutorials

Undergraduate and postgraduate Thesis Supervision

Publications

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