Dr. Alyson Blanchard

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.