Dr. Alyson Blanchard
School of Health and Society
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.
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
- Personality: Psychopathy
- Dark Triad
- Evolutionary psychology: Life History Theory
- Mate choice and preferences
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