Dr Alyson Blanchard
School of Health & Society
Current positions
Lecturer in Psychology
Biography
Dr Alyson Blanchard started her academic career at The University of Sheffield, graduating in 2000 with a BA in Archaeology and Prehistory (2.1). She then pursued a successful self-employed career as an Editorial Photographer based in the North West, and worked for a range of prestigious publications and clients. During this time, she returned to academia and achieved a Graduate Diploma in Psychology (equivalent 1st) from Liverpool Hope University and then completed a self-funded part-time PhD in Psychology from the University of Liverpool in 2017. Her lecturing career started as an Associate Lecturer in 2011, and subsequently worked at Nottingham Trent University as a Lecturer/Senior Lecturer and then at Bishop Grosseteste University as a Senior Lecturer.
Alyson's research specialisms focus around personality traits such as psychopathy and narcissism from an evolutionary psychological perspective, which also informs her research on mate preferences and social and political behaviour.
Areas of Research
Personality and Individual Differences
Psychopathy
Narcissism
Dark Triad
Evolutionary Psychology/Life history theory
Anti-social personality
Mate preference and mate choice
Intelligence
Environmental/social influences on behaviour
Programme Leader - Psychology of Human and Animal Behaviour
Module Leader: Individual Differences; Further Individual Differences; Further Research Methods (Quantitative strand)
Co-Module Leader: Philosophical Roots, Research Approaches & Academic Skills in Psychology; Animal Assisted Therapy
Qualifications
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Personality and Evolutionary Psychology
2011 - 2017 -
Graduate Diploma in Psychology
2008 - 2009 -
Learning Conversion Entry Award in Psychology
2005 - 2006 -
Archaeology and Prehistory
1997 - 2000