Dr. Alyson Blanchard

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Contact Details

Allerton Building, Room L820.

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Current positions

Lecturer in Psychology

Biography 

Dr Alyson E Blanchard is Lecturer at the University of Salford and a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. She is a personality and individual differences researcher with a specialism in evolutionary psychology and gained her PhD in Psychology from the University of Liverpool (2017) which examined psychopathy from an evolutionary perspective. She also holds a BA in Archaeology and Prehistory from the University of Sheffield and spent ten-years outside of academia working as a freelance editorial photographer based in Manchester.

Dr Alyson E Blanchard’s research been featured in local, national and international media, including QI. She is the Secretary Treasurer for the International Society for the Study of Individual Differences, a member of the British Society for the Study of Individual Differences and is on the Editorial Board for the journal, Personality and Individual Differences.

Teaching

Module Co-Leader

  • Introduction to Individual Differences
  • Individual Differences
  • Further Research Methods

Module Leader

  • Level 5 Personal Tutor Groups

Teaching

  • The Science of Psychology

Other responsibilities

  • Dissertation Supervisor
  • Level 4 Personal Tutor

Research Interests

  • Personality: Psychopathy
  • Dark Triad
  • Evolutionary psychology: Life History Theory
  • Mate choice and preferences

Qualifications and Memberships

Qualifications

  • PhD (University of Liverpool)
  • BA Archaeology and Prehistory (University of Sheffield)

Memberships

  • Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
  • International Society for the Study of Individual Differences
  • British Society for the Study of Individual Differences